# Stephen Banham

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'''Stephen Banham''' is an Australian typographer, type designer, writer, lecturer and founder of Letterbox, a typographic studio.

==Biography==
Banham was born in [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne) in 1968. In 2003 he completed a Master of Design (Research) and in 2019 was awarded a PhD for his work on the proposition of the 'typographic lens'. Banham has been lecturing in the field of typography since 1990.

In 1991 he printed the first small issue of ''Qwerty'', the first in a series of six spiral-bound issues.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-stephen-banham|work=Eye Magazine |title=Reputations: Stephen Banham}}</ref>

Banham has also been a contributor to, or featured in, design publications including ''Baseline'' magazine, ''Emigre'', ''Adbusters'', ''Face'', ''Typo'', ''Eye'', ''Monument'', ''Desktop'', ''Grafik'', ''Comma'' amongst others. He has spoken at design events in New York, Lebanon, Qatar, New Zealand, England, Spain and Australia. In 2011 he was inducted into the [International Society of Typographic Designers](/source/International_Society_of_Typographic_Designers) (ISTD).{{cn|date=April 2025}}

== References ==
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* {{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/arts/design/old-signs-of-the-times.html|title = Old Signs of the Times|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 6 May 2012|last1 = Rawsthorn|first1 = Alice}}
* {{Cite web|url=http://www.printmag.com/featured/book-review-characters-by-stephen-banham/|title = Book Review: Characters by Stephen Banham|date = 23 January 2012}}

== External links ==
* [https://letterbox.net.au/ Letterbox website]

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