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portrait photo of Dr Rob Hillier standing and smiling while looking away from camera with medium brown hair and brown glasses with a dark grey suit jacket

Since designing the Sylexiad range of fonts for adult dyslexic readers as part of my doctoral research, I have presented my findings at numerous design institutions and conferences, including the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) Conference in Reykjavik, the Design Principles and Practices Conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Design as Human Interface Workshop at the Design Museum, London. Sylexiad has been featured in numerous international publications including, Communication Arts, Baseline, Novum, Étapes, Slanted, Ultrabold, Hiut and the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice. A chapter about the typeface was also featured in the book Supporting Dyslexic Adults in Higher Education and the Workplace.

Sylexiad was included as part of the NEVERODDOREVEN exhibition at The Serpentine Gallery, London. Since then, I have had a number of solo exhibitions at venues such as The Norwich Arts Centre (List Landscapes) and at the St. Bride Library, London (Typologies. Making lists, marking time). I have also exhibited work in the USA, Germany and South Korea.

My most recent project is ‘To-ing’, a self-authored book that was part of the recent Norwich University of the Arts’ Cowbird symposium and the Sheffield International Artists’ Book Prize exhibition. ‘To-ing’ is also in the Tate Special Collections at Tate Britain.

In 2014 I also exhibited work at ‘Typography: Portrait / Landscape Works’ at the University of the Arts London. I am currently working on developing a research project around the idea of ‘Design Practice as Palimpsest’; I will present a paper on the topic at the Ninth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices at the University Centre in Chicago in March 2015. Since 2014 I have been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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