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Roger Black is known for staying ahead of societal and technological changes. A publication designer at Rolling Stone in the 70s and The New York Times in the 80s, he was an early adapter of “desktop publishing,” with Smart.

In the mid-90s, he led the design of important content-rich web sites such as MSNBC.com and @Home. Some of his early thinking about the Internet is reflected in a book, “Web Sites that Work” (Macmillan. 1996). More recently he directed the redesigns for chron.com (the Houston Chronicle's site), Bloomberg.com and The New York Sun.

Now he's at work on a new generation of digital publications, including the launch of Alta later this year. He keeps a hand in the “old” media, helping with a redesign of Newsweek last fall—the fourth for the magazine over 20 years.

A partner in the Font Bureau and Danilo Black (both started in 1989), he now works from a small studio in New York. (http://rogerblack.com)


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