About me

I explore how graphic and typographic design function as catalysts within collaborative or participatory social systems.

I am interested in how typographic practices create communities and enable political expression, from historical movements like Esperanto to contemporary digital and participatory research. Through this, I explore ways in which visual and material languages empower collective identity formation and facilitate meaningful discourse across diverse social contexts. One aim for this work is to reveal how designed communication systems can simultaneously document, inspire, and legitimise collective efforts toward social transformation.

My work is anchored within - and moves between - histories and contemporary design practices of typography and graphic design. I consistently approach social and cultural questions through a typographic lens. This perspective allows me to untangle visual systems from the past while simultaneously crafting new frameworks that leverage typography’s unique capacity to materialise abstract concepts, structure information and social hierarchies, and visually articulate collective identities.

I publish on subjects ranging from Mark E. Smith’s handwriting to the material cultures of Esperanto and am committed to exploring how design can foster community engagement and amplify marginalised voices, bringing a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to both my teaching and through my research.

I am a Lecturer in the School of Design at the University of Leeds.


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