Speaker Lauren Johnson

Lauren Johnson received her BA in Art History and French from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon and her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied the history of typography. Devoted to the typographic materiality of books in her editorial work within Getty Research Institute Publications, Lauren’s current research focuses predominantly on typographic production in France and the United States. With a particular affinity for the study of historical type specimen pages, Lauren believes that the history of typography is a history that breathes life into all other disciplines.