Will Hill

Will Hill is a typographer, graphic artist and writer. He is Emeritus Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, where until his retirement he headed the MA programme in Graphic Design and Typography. Full academic CV
He studied at Winchester School of Art 1973–4 and Cambridge School of Art 1974–77 and later completed an MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading in 2006
Prior to his academic career, his work as an illustrator and designer included editorial illustration for Time Out, the Observer, New Scientist, New Statesman, the Sunday Telegraph and the Radio Times, commissions from design consultancies Michael Peters, Pauffley and Co, Cresse Learman King and Robert Lamb Associates for clients including: TSB, The Leeds Building Society, McConnell Douglas, Eagle Star. He designed book covers for: Routledge, Octopus, Longman and Harper Collins, and designed and art-edited the journals Framework, Undercurrents and Margin.
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One man exhibitions:
2024 Front Room Gallery, The District, Cambridge: Joy
2010 Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge (with Jim Butler): Signs of life/Signs of Change
University of Porto, Portugal. (with Jim Butler): Signs of Life/Signs of Change
2009 Clare Hall Gallery, Cambridge University: The City of Letters
1981 (as part of Cambridge International Poetry Festival programme) Caius Gallery Cambridge University
1979 (as part of Rivers of Life workshop events) Victoria Centre, Gravesend.
1977 Old Fire Station Gallery Oxford
1977 Nelson Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
1977 Caius College Gallery, Cambridge University
1976 Clare College Latimer Rooms, Cambridge University
Group exhibitions:
2023 Art, Language, Location TEN:th Cambridge
2019 Rock, Paper, Pixel. Lettering Arts Trust Gallery, Snape Maltings
2018 Letter Exchange 30th conference, Ruskin Gallery Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge
2017 Continuum Cambridge School of Art Design Research Group Ruskin Gallery Anglia Ruskin University
2017 Breathing the Kite Clare Hall Gallery, Cambridge
2017 In Concert Lettering Arts Trust Gallery, Snape Maltings
2015–16 Hopes and Dreams Lettering Arts Trust Gallery, Snape Maltings and touring
2014 26 words (collaboration with Ceridwen Tallett) Free Word Centre, London and touring
2013 Evolution of Angels St Peter Hungate, Norwich; video installation: ‘Cosmographica’
2016 Art, Language, Location Cambridge; video installation: ‘Creative/Reactive’
2009 Landscape and Memory UWE Bristol Gallery, University of the West of England
2007 Plus Design Festival Wild Building, Birmingham.
2006 Fast Type, Slow Type 5th Friends of St Brides conference, the Custard Factory, Birmingham
1982 A Bit of Classicism W8 Gallery London
1981 A Taste for the Future W8 Gallery London
1981 Poet’s Choice Kettle’s Yard Gallery Cambridge
1979 Images: Association of Illustrators Annual Mall Gallery London
1977 7 Artists Fitzwilliam College Cambridge University