Emily King
Emily King is a London-based design historian. She completed an MA at the Royal College of Art in 1993 with a thesis on the design of film title sequences, a topic that encouraged her to specialise in the field of graphics. For the next five years she combined studying for a PhD at Kingston University with writing and teaching. She was awarded her PhD in 1999 with a thesis on the design of typefaces during the first decade of device-independent digital technology. Since 2000 she has concentrated on writing and more recently curating. Her books include Restart: New Systems in Graphic Design (Thames and Hudson, 2001), Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography (Laurence King, 2005) and C/ID: Visual Identity and Branding for the Arts (Laurence King, 2006). In 2003 she edited the Peter Saville monograph Designed by Peter Saville (Frieze). She has curated a number of exhibitions including ‘The Book Corner’, a British Council touring exhibition on book design, and a monographic show on Robert Brownjohn for London’s Design Museum. She is Design Editor of Frieze magazine and also contributes to an eclectic selection of international magazines and journals including 032C, Fantastic Man, Print and the Journal of Design History. Her most recent project was curating a retrospective of the work of Alan Fletcher that opened at the Design Museum in November 2006.