Dr Vaibhav Singh
Independent Scholar / type designer
Vaibhav Singh is an independent typographer and type designer. Chairman of the Printing Historical Society he is also the editor and publisher of Contextual Alternate, an interdisciplinary journal of typography, design, and history. Vaibhav’s research interests revolve broadly around typographic history, printing, publishing, and textual communication, and in particular, aspects of design and technology for Indian languages and scripts. With a focus on the history of design processes, their broader sociopolitical contexts, and their formulations of creativity and innovation, his research areas span interactions between makers and users across geographies as well as social groups. His research interests also extend to working practices and their transformation across technological change, transnational professional and commercial networks, and the dynamics of international collaboration in the development of design and technology across linguistic boundaries.
