Speakers

Alan Marshall
After fifteen years spent in various branches of the printing industry Alan Marshall obtained a Ph.D. in History from Grenoble University for a study of the development of early commercial phototypesetting. Recent editorial activities include an interactive educational computer game about Gutenberg and the invention of printing for the French multimedia producer Infogames, the translation of Claude Mediavilla's major study Calligraphy, and contributions to the forthcoming Dictionnaire encyclopedique du livre. He has also written extensively for various European graphic arts magazines and has organized several exhibitions (L' Imprimerie a l' ere de l' informatique; Marius Audin, un imprimeur-erudit de l'entre-deux-guerres) and conferences (Rene Higonnet, Louis Moyroud et l'invention de la photocomposition moderne). He has recently been appointed director of the Lyon Printing Museum and is an active member of the Lyon-based Institut d' histoire du livre.
Typographical aspects of phototypesetting and the Lumitype