Speaker Sahar Afshar

Sahar Afshar is an independent type designer and researcher based in London. She holds a PhD in Printing History from Birmingham City University, and is part of the Advisory Boards of the Centre for Printing History and Culture in Birmingham and the Type Director’s Club in New York. Sahar divides her time between her practice as a type designer, with over a decade of experience working on various retail and custom fonts, and her research—investigating the technological, cultural, and political dimensions of typography and printing and how these facets converge through different historical contexts. She is the Lead Instructor for Type West Online, helping students expand their creative potential to make their own typefaces from anywhere in the world.