Roger Black

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Since LA in 1972, Roger Black has been chief art director or design consultant for publications all over the world. Among them: Rolling Stone, New York, The New York Times, Newsweek, Esquire, Reader’s Digest, The Los Angeles Times, MSNBC.com, Bloomberg.com, The Washington Post, Semana (Colombia), Panorama (Italy), The Straits Times (Singapore), Kompas (Indonesia), The Nation (Bangkok),Tages Anzeiger (Switzerland), Placar (Brazil), Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden), and Scientific American.

Black has been involved in many startups. The most recent is, TYPE. Previous launches, like Outside, Fast Company, and Out are continuing success stories. He’s a director at Type Network which offers the typefaces of leading digital type foundries, including Font Bureau, which Black co-founded with David Berlow in 1989.