Roger Black reflects on ‘design equity’, his work on the Baltimore Sun, the importance of verbal skills in graphic design, the ‘intellectualisation’ of design and recent developments in typography.
‘Technological progress can make you insane.’ Roger Black talks about his first newspaper ‘My Fun Reader’, printed on the Ditto machine, the role of design in the newspaper business, his career in typography and newspaper design, his favourite magazine and his favourite newspapers.
Roger Black is more religious in terms of typography than religion. ‘Anything goes in typography.’ Newspapers are his passion. He talks about reading newspapers and reading in general. The differences between reading print on paper and reading on the web.