Jon Wozencroft
is the founder of the audiovisual publishers, Touch, started in 1982 as a means of exploring the powerful chemistry between sound and visual media. Recent releases have included CDs by Fennesz, Biosphere, and
Chris Watson.
He is the author of 'The Graphic Language of Neville Brody' 1 & 2, published by Thames & Hudson in 1988 and 1994, and the curator of the exhibition of the same name, held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1988 and at Parco in Tokyo in 1990. In 1990, he set up FUSE with Neville Brody, a critical forum for the impact of digital media on type and visual communication. In 1994, 1995 and 1998, Wozencroft organised the programme for the 3 Fuse Conferences held in London, Berlin and San Francisco.
Wozencroft's photography and design work has appeared in publications, including Fax Art, Sampler, G1 and Merz to Emigre and Beyond. He was the publisher of Vagabond (magazine co-edited with Jon Savage, 1992), and the editor/designer of Joy Division's Heart and Soul box set in 1997. A book of his work, 'Touch & Fuse', was published in 1999 by The University of Porto. He is presently Senior Tutor in sound and moving image in the School of Communications at the Royal College of Art.
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