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Stephen Banham is an Australian typographer, type designer, writer, lecturer and founder of Letterbox, a typographic studio. Banham was born in Melbourne in 1968. He completed a BA in Visual Communication at RMIT University from 1986–88. In 2003 he completed a Master of Design in design research from RMIT. 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 experimental spiral-bound issues. His work on the ''Qwerty'' series (1991–95) was published in ''Eye'' magazine (no. 46, vol. 12, Winter 2002) along with an interview of Banham. () Here is a passage from that interview: Banham has also been a contributor to, or featured in, countless design publications including 'Baseline'' magazine, ''Emigre'', ''Adbusters'', ''Face'', ''Typo'', ''Eye'', ''Monument'', ''Desktop'', ''Grafik'', ''Comma'' amongst many others. Perhaps more importantly, Banham has brought discussion of the cultural and social aspects of typography to a wider public, arguing these points in daily broadsheets such as the ''Age'' and ''The Australian'' newspapers. 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 (ISTD). ==Professional Research== In 1996 he produced ''Ampersand'' the first of a five-part series by the same name. These featured extended texts on the social significance of typography not possible in the small A7 format of ''Qwerty''. This was then followed by ''Rentfont'' (1997) featuring an experimental typeface Futures, made entirely from logotypes. In 1998 Banham produced ''Convoy'', a comment on the commodification of graphic design. ''Assembly'' (1999) was an exploration of the visual memory of a child in relation to corporate identity. This involved the individual interviewing over 600 schoolchildren. ''Grand'' (2001) investigated the relationship between typefaces and socio-economic environments by noting and analysing every instance of typography across a 1000 metre area of the Melbourne central business district. In 2005 Banham began a series of forum events discussing the social role of typography and graphic design. Known as ''Character'' these events were held alongside the State of Design Festivals attracting up to 500 people at a time. These events took a different form each year. First appearing as an open discussion format looking into the branding of cities (2005), The politics of graphic design (2005), The role of accident in design (2006) and 26 Letters a Second – typography and the moving image (2007) which featured the Australian premiere of ''Helvetica'', including a discussion with Gary Hustwit who was brought out for the event. In 2008 The fifth Character event saw the publishing of ''Characters and Spaces'' in partnership with the State of Design Festival. This free booklet, bound within the festival program, featured one city block of Melbourne's design secrets from the stories behind corporate identities through to art and architecture. Character 6 (2010) saw the Australian premiere of the documentary film ''TypeFace'' from Chicago, along with a discussion on the 'slow design' movement in graphic design and the resurgence in craft. A series of typographically thematic publications called Obliques began in 2008. ''Orbit Oblique'' (2008) was a typographic tribute to the animals lost in space research (1949–1990) during the space race. The second ''Utopia Oblique'' (2009) was based around the utopians who have used language and/or typography to express their ideal notion of society. After three years or writing and research, Thames and Hudson published 'Characters: Revealing cultural stories through typography' in 2011, Stephen Banham's extensive look into the cultural significance of typography with an emphasis on the most public of typographic forms, signage. Although the book uses Melbourne as its case study, the idea of viewing a city through a 'typographic lens' is a universal one. The book was co-published by the State Library of Victoria. In 2011 Banham was made a Creative Fellow at the State Library of Victoria. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephen Banham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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