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Contributors

Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès is the founding director
of the Khatt Foundation. Author of Arabic Typography:
A Comprehensive Sourcebook (Saqi Books, London, 2001),
Typographic Matchmaking (BIS Publishers, Amsterdam,
2007) and she is well published internationally. She
holds degrees from Yale University School of Art and
Rhode Island School of Design. She teaches, consults on
design projects, curates exhibitions, organizes collab-
orative design research projects, and is editor of the
Khatt Foundation online network (www.khtt.net). She
is currently pursuing a PhD at Leiden University.

Saad D. Abulhab, type designer, librarian, and systems
engineer, was born in 1958 in Sacramento, California,
and grew up in Iraq. Residing in the U.S. since 1979, he is
currently Director of Technology of the Newman Library
of Baruch College, the City University of New York. Lui
holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from
Polytechnic University, and a Master of Science in library
and information sciences from Pratt Institute, both in
Brooklyn. Involved since 1992 in the field of Arabetic
computing and typography, he is most noted for his
non-traditional type designs and the Mutamathil type
style which was awarded a U.S. Utility Patent in 2003.

Eric Benson is currently an assistant professor of graphic
design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He has lectured internationally on the topic of sustainable
design and his work has appeared in galleries from
Portland, OR, to Beirut, Lebanon. Benson received his
BFA in graphic and industrial design from the University
of Michigan in 1998. In 2006 Benson received his MFA
from the University of Texas at Austin with a concen-
tration in design and social responsibility. His sustainable
research is available at www.re-nourish.com.

Paula Cardellino is a Research Fellow in the Innovative
Construction Research Centre at the School of
Construction Management and Engineering, Università
of Reading. Her research explores design quality
in schools. She is the author of three refereed journal
articles and 5 conference papers.

Leon Cruickshank is a Senior Lecturer in Design within
ImaginationLancaster (Lancaster University). He has
over ten years experience in design methods applied
to product, graphic, and new media design. In working
with industrial partners current research projects address
innovation and design and the design of knowledge
exchange approaches.

J. W . Drukker was Associate Professor of Economic
History at the University of Groningen (1972–2005) E
Professor of Industrial Design and Design History at
Delft University of Technology (1987–2007). His current
affiliation is Professor of Design History at the University
of Twente (since 2007). He works and publishes in the
fields of economic history, anthropometric history, E
design history.

Arthur O. Eger studied Industrial Design Engineering
at the TU Delft. In 1979 he was co-founder of the design
bureau Van Dijk/Eger/Associates (now known as
WeLL Design). In 1996 he left the bureau to become the
director of Space Expo, a space museum, and the Official
Visitors Center of ESA, the European Space Agency. In
2003 he became Professor at the University of Twente,
chair: product design. Since 2009 he has been Chairman
of the Board of the Department of Industrial Design
Engineering of KIVI NIRIA, the Royal Institution of
Engineers in the Netherlands.

Linda King lecturers in design history and theory at the
Institute of Art Design and Technology (IADT), Dublin,
Ireland. She is currently co-editing the first anthology
of twentieth-century Irish Design and Material Culture.
In 2007 she received her PhD for an analysis of the
corporate identity and advertising strategies of the Irish
airline, Aer Lingus.

Amy F. Ogata is associate professor at the Bard Graduate
Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, E
Culture in New York. She is the author of “Creative
Playthings: Educational Toys and Postwar American
Culture,” in Winterthur Portfolio (University of Chicago
Press, 2004), and is currently writing a book about the
idea of creativity and the material culture of postwar
American childhood.

Alston W. Purvis is an Associate Professor at the Boston
University College of Fine Arts where he serves as Chair
of the Department of Graphic Design, and from 1971
until 1981 taught graphic design at the Royal Academy of
Fine Arts at The Hague. His publications include Dutch
Graphic Design, 1918–1945 (Van Nostrand Reinhold,
1992), H. N. Werkman (Stampa dell'Università di Yale, 2004), E
Dutch Graphic Design, a Century of Innovation (Thames &
Hudson, 2006). He is co-author of the Megg’s History of
Graphic Design, 4th edition (Wiley, 2005).

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Penny Sparke is a ProVice-Chancellor and the Director
of the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston
Università, London. She graduated from Sussex
University in 1971 and received her doctorate in 1975.
She taught design history between 1972 E 1999 at
Brighton Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art.
She has published over a dozen books focusing, since
the mid 1990s, on the relationship between design and
genere. Her books include As Long as It’s Pink: The Sexual
Politics of Taste (Pandora Press, 1995); Elsie de Wolfe: IL
Birth of Modern Interior Decoration (Acanthus Press, Nuovo
York, NY, 2005); and The Modern Interior (Reaktion Books,
2008).

Ann Thorpe teaches and researches sustainable
progetto. Her interests cover both product design and
architecture. She is currently a teaching fellow at the
Bartlett School of Architecture at University College
London. She is the author of The Designer’s Atlas of
Sustainability, published by Island Press (2007) E
publisher of the blog www.designactivism.net.

Jennifer K. Whyte is a Reader in Innovation and
Design at the School of Construction Management
and Engineering, University of Reading. Her research
explores design, visual practices and digital technologies.
She is the author of more than twenty refereed journal
articles and a book.

Jonathan M. Woodham is Professor of Design History at
the University of Brighton where he directs the Centre
for Research & Development (Arts) and established the
University’s Design Archives in 1994 with the acquisition
of the Design Council Archive. He has written and
lectured extensively on many aspects of design and
design history for more than thirty years, his best
known book being Twentieth Century Design, published
by Oxford University Press (1997), with worldwide sales
of around 50,000 volumes. More recently he authored the
Dictionary of Modern Design for Oxford University Press
(2005). Since 1985, he has been invited to deliver keynote
addresses in more than twenty countries and has been a
member of a number of editorial and editorial advisory
boards of leading design-related journals, including
Design Issues and the Journal of Design History, the latter
since its inception in 1988.