The Idea of the Letter: Multiplicity and Fluidity in Type Design

Event Date: Apr 24, 2017
Posted: April 19, 2017

Will Hill is a typographer, educator and visual artist whose work is concerned with type, letters and the visual properties of language. He is the author of The Complete Typographer, co-author of Art and Text, and contributor to the Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System and the Phaidon Compendium of Graphic Design.

Before taking an academic post in 1993 he worked in London as a designer, illustrator and typographer, for many of the city’s major publishers, journals and design agencies. He is Deputy Head of the School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University where he leads the MA in Graphic Design and Typography, and where he recently co-curated the exhibition Graphic Constellations: visual poetry and the properties of space (Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge 2015). He holds an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading.

Learn more about a Summer Letterpress Course in Cambridge

After his lecture, Will will provide information about a four-week Summer course in letterpress printing in the very beautiful English university town of Cambridge. The Anglia Ruskin School of Art has 270 cases of metal and wood type (proper full sets, in good condition, mainly English Monotype) plus masses of fleurons and miscellanea, one Farley proofing press, a Swiss FAG flatbed press (pretty much the European equivalent of the Vandercook) and Two Hopkinson Cope Albion presses.