Barbara Brownie is a Lecturer in Visual Communication and the Online Co-Ordinator in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. She has edited two collections of contemporary typographic work, 'Type Image', Gingko Press (2011) and, 'Type Object', Art Power (2013). She has published articles in 'The Journal of Media Practice' and 'Fusion' and contributed to 'Writing Design', edited by Grace Lees-Maffei, Berg 2011.