Barbara Brownie is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, where she leads online postgraduate study in graphic design and illustration, and lectures in fashion theory. She has edited two collections of contemporary typographic work, "Type Image" (2011) and "Type Object" (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).