Phil Baber (1987) is an independent typographer, editor, and writer. Since 2016 he has taught writing in the Graphic Design Department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and from 2020 to 2021 he taught in the MA Approaching Language, a temporary master’s programme at the Sandberg Instituut.
Phil Baber (1987, UK) is a typographer, publisher, writer, and researcher. He has been teaching typography in the Graphic Design Department at the KABK since 2022. Besides the KABK Baber also teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Baber has been a core tutor on the MA Approaching Language, a temporary programme at the Sandberg Instituut. In 2012 he received the Walter Tiemann Prize for book design.
Baber works mostly on, with, and around literature, politics, and publishing, and his teaching at the KABK is centred on these themes. In 2023–4, his course focused on the work of poet, activist, and typesetter Karen Brodine. In the current academic year, he is working with a collection of oral history interviews conducted by Suzanne Snider with women involved in the radical feminist press between 1960 and 1985.
Baber is the editor and designer of The Last Books, a small press for experimental poetry and poetics, which he founded with Snejanka Mihaylova in 2012. With Rietlanden Women’s Office, he organizes an occasional reading series called Don’t Pay Your Rent. Baber has been a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and is currently a research fellow at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where he is working on a book about typography, poetry, and the material and social infrastructure of radical publishing.
In possession of the Certificate Basic Qualification Didactic Competence and Examination (BKE).