Typographer, editor and writer. He has contributed regularly to magazines such as Information Design Journal, Blueprint, Journal of Design History, and Eye. In 1980 he started the publishing imprint Hyphen Press with a new edition of Norman Potter’s What is a designer. Hyphen Press now publishes a range of titles on typography and design, recently The Stroke (2005), the theory of writing by Gerrit Noordzij, and the second edition of Modern Typography (2004).