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Alice Savoie is a typeface designer, researcher and teacher. She wrote her PhD on the making of typefaces for phototypesetting, and is the principal researcher on the Women in Type project.
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Expanding the design canon

Written by
Alice Savoie
Posted on
5th November 2021

As our Women in Type research project is drawing to a close, we are pleased to announce an evening of talks curated by Prof. Fiona Ross and Dr. Alice Savoie,…Read More >

Expanding the design canon

Upcoming talks and publications

Written by
Alice Savoie
Posted on
15th December 2020

Talks Alice Savoie has been invited to present our Women in Type research as a keynote speaker in Paris at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) on 20…Read More >

Upcoming talks and publications

The women behind Times New Roman

Written by
Alice Savoie
Posted on
6th July 2020

We are pleased to announce the publication of our article ‘The women behind Times New Roman: The contribution of type drawing offices to twentieth century type-making’ in Journal of Design…Read More >

The women behind Times New Roman

Public presentations of Women in Type

Written by
Alice Savoie
Posted on
8th October 201922nd October 2019

Following our presentations of the Women in Type research project at academic conferences in Antwerp and Birmingham last year, our team has had a number of opportunities this year to…Read More >

Public presentations of Women in Type

Photographing the Monotype archives

Written by
Alice Savoie
Posted on
8th October 20198th October 2019

Back in July, our team was joined in the Monotype archives by photographer Laura Bennetto. Laura has long collaborated with the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University…Read More >

Photographing the Monotype archives

Patricia Saunders 1933–2019

Written by
Alice Savoie
Posted on
29th June 201930th October 2019

Above: Patricia Saunders (then Patricia Mullett) in the Monotype Drawing Office in 1955, aged 22. © Monotype Archives It is with great sadness that our team has been informed that…Read More >

Patricia Saunders 1933–2019

A Monotype Composing Machine, 1925

Written by
Alice Savoie
Posted on
2nd April 20192nd April 2019

  This silent film from 1925 provides a lively and informative insight into the life of employees at the Monotype Works in Salfords. The first part of the film walks…Read More >

A Monotype Composing Machine, 1925

Undertaking archival research

Written by
Alice Savoie
Posted on
6th December 201821st January 2021

Above: Letter to Lady Astor on the issue of married women’s employment, 1933. Special Collections of the Museum of English Rural Life. All rights reserved. Yesterday our research led us…Read More >

Undertaking archival research

Our Atypi talk is online

Written by
Alice Savoie
Posted on
5th October 20185th December 2018

On 13 September 2018 part of our team presented the ‘Women in Type’ research project at the annual Atypi conference, which took place this year in Antwerp, Belgium. This was…Read More >

Our Atypi talk is online

Early days of the Monotype Type Drawing Office

Written by
Alice Savoie
Posted on
10th September 2018

Fritz Max Steletzer led the Type Drawing Office of Monotype in Salfords from its inception in the early 1900s until his retirement in 1940. This is an extract from one…Read More >

Early days of the Monotype Type Drawing Office

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