Professor Michael Twyman

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Issue 59.3

Word | Image | Space | Materiality | Experience

Beyond (Type)Face Value: A Systematic Literature Review Examining Design Factors Influencing the Legibility and Readability of Typography

Scripts in Dialogue: Reinterpreting Visible Language Covers through Bilingual Design Workshops in Kuwait

Constructing the Hypertangible Novel: Writing and Design as Process

Sensational Design: Layout and Display Typography in the Visual Rhetoric of Information Disorder

The Visual Language of Textile Tickets in 20th-Century British India: A Collection from B. Taylor and Co.

Augmented Reality for Campus Wayfinding: Enhancing Navigation Efficiency and Student Social Engagement — A Case Study of Leeds University Union

Professor James Mosley, a Memoir

Professor Michael Twyman

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Professor Michael Twyman

Sue Walker

Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading, UK (s.f.walker[at]reading.ac.uk)

Excerpt: Professor Michael Twyman, who has died aged 91, pioneered the study of typography as an academic discipline in a British university. His vision for the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading intertwined history, theory and practice in graphic design, typeface design, information design and book design. It was innovative in its interdisciplinarity, drawing on linguistics, psychology, social and economic history and other social sciences and humanities to address ‘design for reading’.

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Sue Walker is Professor of Typography at the University of Reading. She became Head of the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication when Michael retired in 1998 before assuming other leadership roles at Reading. She undertakes research in information design and health communication, and Marie Neurath’s Isotype books for children.