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Roger Black

Roger Black (New York and Saint Petersburg, FL) is a media guru extraordinaire, and professional content brander. Black was chief art director of Newsweek, The New York Times, New York Magazine and Rolling Stone. He was a major partner in The Font Bureau, Inc., which he started with David Berlow in 1989. In 1989, with Eduardo Danilo, he set up Danilo Black, a publication consulting firm. Roger Black redesigned the Houston Chronicle, Popular Mechanics and the Los Angeles Times. In 2013, Roger took a new position as group creative director of Edipresse Media in Hong Kong. Cofounder in 2016 of Type Network.

In 2013, David Jonathan Ross and Roger Black revived Nebiolo's Forma for the redesign of Hong Kong Tatler, a fashion mag, supervised and commissioned by Roger Black, who was then based in Hong Kong. Read about the whole process in this piece by Indra Kupferschmid. Page specially dedicated to DJR Forma.

Frequent speaker at type meetings, including, for example, ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, ATypI 2009 in Mexico City (as co-organizer and session chair) and ATypI 2017 Montreal (keynote). Home page. His current interests include web typography, typeface delivery for the web and small portable devices, newspaper design, and newspaper web design.

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