Speakers

Richard Southall 
Richard Southall graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1960 with a degree in natural sciences. After five years in book production he joined Crosfield Electronics Ltd in London, where he was responsible for producing photomatrices for the Photon-Lumitype direct- photography photocomposing machines sold by Crosfields in Europe and Scandinavia. Between 1971 and 1974 he was part of the team developing the Magnaset 226, Crosfields' scanned-matrix machine, for which he designed a novel matrix-making system. From 1974 to 1983 he was a lecturer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. Between then and the end of the decade he worked in California and France, at Stanford University, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and the Universite Louis-Pasteur in Strasbourg. Since then he has been a consultant typographer with the American Mathematical Society, BT, the Civil Aviation Authority, National Air Traffic Services and US West Dex (now Qwest Dex) among his clients. At present he is working on a book about the design and manifacture of printer's type in the twentieth century. 
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