Education
2005 – 2009 (June)
PhD at the Royal College of Art, London
Subject: 'Typeface Legibility: towards defining familiarity'
Funded by grants from ‘Microsoft Advanced Reading Technologies’ and the ‘Rootstein Hopkins Foundation’

1995 – 2000
Visual Communication at The Danish Design School, graduated June 2000

Work
October 2009 – present
Lecturer and Research Assistant Professor at The Danish Design School

August 2008 – September 2009
Part time lecturer at The Danish Design School
 
2000 – 2005
Graphic designer at the Danish design studio Gul Stue

Many type designers, and many perception psychology researchers, have shown interest in typeface legibility. Unfortunately, relatively few of these have made use of the knowledge provided by the other field. With an outset in the disciplines of vision research and type design, the aim of my current research project is to assemble the existing knowledge on typeface legibility. My forthcoming book publication will on one hand enlighten type designers on theoretical and practical oriented method to improve legibility, and on the other hand, inform perception psychologists on methods to improve the test material in future legible studies.

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