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Dr. Vaibhav Singh is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading, specializing in typographic history, printing, and publishing with a focus on Indian language scripts and their sociopolitical contexts. His current project, 'Merchants of alphabets: networks of typographic design and technology in Indian language publishing, 1900–1950,' examines how typographic design influenced linguistic diversity in Indian publishing pre-independence. He holds a PhD in typographic design from the University of Reading, alongside qualifications in book history, English literature, and visual communication.
His research explores transnational networks in design and technology, emphasizing how creative and commercial collaborations across geographies shaped multilingual publishing. Key themes include technological modernity, nationalism, and the interplay between design practices and social structures. Singh has exhibited widely, including works on global newspaper design, non-Latin type transitions, and historical print artifacts.
Publications span technical journals like Hiut: Typography Journal and edited volumes such as Non-Latin scripts: from metal to digital type. His work bridges material culture, technological history, and cultural studies, with a focus on understudied areas like colonial typography and pre-digital publishing workflows.
