Emily King

is a London-based writer and curator with an interest in graphic design. She wrote an MA thesis on film title sequences and a PhD on typeface design of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Recent projects include the book Restart: New Systems of Graphic Design and the British Council exhibition The Book Corner. She is design editor of Frieze magazine. In 2009, she was the curator of Quick, quick, slow exhibition at the Experimenta, in Lisbon.

• Articles (27)

  • New Faces (abstract): type design in the first decade of device-independent digital typesetting (1987-1997)
  • New Faces (Introduction)
  • New Faces (Historiography)
  • New Faces (Typographic History in the Context of Broader Design Historical Models)
  • New Faces (Chapter One: Technological and Industrial Change: Setting the Scene)
  • New Faces (Mapping Contemporary Type Design)
  • New Faces (Chapter Two: The West Coast)
  • New Faces (Chapter Three: The East Coast)
  • New Faces (Chapter Four: London)
  • New Faces (Chapter Five: The Netherlands)
  • New Faces (Conclusion)
  • New Faces (Bibliography)
  • New Faces (List of Interviews)
  • Spot the difference
  • The Last Supper
  • Thirty-six point Gorilla
  • Taking Credit: Film title sequences, 1955-1965 / 1 Contents
  • Taking Credit: Film title sequences, 1955-1965 / Acknowledgements
  • Taking Credit: Film title sequences, 1955-1965 / 4 Abstracting the Essence
  • Taking Credit: Film title sequences, 1955-1965 / 2 Introduction
  • Taking Credit: Film title sequences, 1955-1965 / 3 Visions in Motion
  • Taking Credit: Film title sequences, 1955-1965 / 5 Spiralling Aspirations: Vertigo, 1958
  • Taking Credit: Film title sequences, 1955-1965 / 6: Musical Statues: Spartacus, 1960
  • Taking Credit: Film title sequences, 1955-1965 / 7: Sex and Typography: From Russia With Love, 1963
  • Taking Credit: Film title sequences, 1955-1965 / 8 Popcorn and Pop graphics, What’s New Pussycat?, 1965
  • Taking Credit: Film title sequences, 1955-1965 / 9 Conclusion
  • Taking Credit: Film title sequences, 1955-1965 / 10 Bibliography