Stephen Banham is an Australian typographer, type designer, writer, lecturer and founder of Letterbox, a typographic studio.
Biography
Banham was born in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ...
in 1968. In 2003 he completed a Master of Design (Research) and in 2019 was awarded a PhD for his work on the proposition of the 'typographic lens'. Banham has been lecturing in the field of typography since 1990.
In 1991 he printed the first small issue of ''Qwerty'', the first in a series of six spiral-bound issues.
Banham has also been a contributor to, or featured in, design publications including ''Baseline'' magazine, ''Emigre'', ''Adbusters'', ''Face'', ''Typo'', ''Eye'', ''Monument'', ''Desktop'', ''Grafik'', ''Comma'' amongst others. He has spoken at design events in New York, Lebanon, Qatar, New Zealand, England, Spain and Australia. In 2011 he was inducted into the
International Society of Typographic Designers
The International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) is a professional body run by and for typographers, graphic designers, and educators. The society has an international membership and its aims are to establish and maintain standards of typ ...
(ISTD).
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External links
Letterbox website
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1968 births
Writers from Melbourne
Living people