Sahar Afshar

Sahar Afshar is an independent type designer and researcher based in London. She holds a PhD in Printing History from Birmingham City University and is part of the advisory boards of the Centre for Printing History and Culture in Birmingham and the Type Directors Club in New York. 

Sahar divides her time between her practice as a type designer, with more than a decade of experience working on various retail and custom typefaces, and her research, where she explores the technological, cultural, and political dimensions of typography and printing, as well as the ways these aspects converge across different historical contexts. She is the Lead Instructor for Type West Online, where she helps students from around the world expand their creative potential to create their own typefaces.