Speaker Jon Melton

Jon Melton of the Cambridge School of Art and emfoundry.com explores the empty spaces of typographic evolution within the presentation and production of new letterforms and typefaces to further our understanding of display and ornamented typography. His historical and practice-based research is particularly concerned with Britain’s influential historical figures, and their pursuits and practices that helped determine the commercial typography of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. He is a type designer and senior lecturer in Graphic Design at the Cambridge School of Art, part of the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He regularly speaks at conferences about his research, and his type specimens have been published by industry magazines, books and journals, and exhibited throughout Europe.