Alan Kitching is a world-renowned typographer, designer and letterpress practitioner who’s celebrated career has spanned six decades. He co-established the Experimental Printing Workshop at Watford College of Technology in 1964, then after founding two design studios he established The Typography Workshop in 1989, later turning his hand to teaching at the Royal College of Art in 1991.
His enviable body of work includes compositions for corporate identities, magazine and book covers and illustrations. Alan’s work has also featured on postage stamps, theater posters, shop windows, billboards, signage and a 30 x 15ft typographic mural for the Guardian Newspaper’s London office.
In 1994 Alan became an elected member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and was appointed Royal Designer for Industry (RDI). In 1998 he was made Fellow of the Royal College of Art, and Visiting Professor at the London Institute (University of the Arts London) in 2001.
More recently, Laurence King have published Alan Kitching’s A–Z of Letterpress (with Angus Hyland) and a new monograph, A Life in Letters, by John L Walters.
