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Formal & informal typography & lettering in print and online
typospitfest

I have designed publicity and the programme book for Spitalfields Festival since the mid 1990s - the lettering for the logo is also mine. The current style is more image-based (see introduction). 1 2

Typography is at the core of most of my work, and I take great pleasure in organising words on the page or screen. I started professional life using hot metal typesetting and paste-up, frequently designing in two colours. Working with printers, I learned how important it is to know about production methods, a lesson which applies to any medium.

I bought my first Mac system many years ago, a 4/40 with monochrome monitor and a laser printer. I was lucky to be teaching at Middlesex University at the time, where I could pick brains and begin to work out how to make the computer do what I wanted, rather than what its defaults dictated.

I now use QuarkXPress, InDesign (when I have to), FreeHand, Photoshop, PageSpinner and other, less standard, applications.

Pink numbers will open larger versions and/or more examples in a viewer window.

WandsworthPCT annual report

Annual report for Wandsworth PCT. Spiral bound at the top, it opened one way to the report itself, from the other side to a calendar which included profiles of staff and PCT initiatives.
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