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Stephen Coles

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Stephen Coles is a writer and typographer living in Oakland and Berlin. After six years at FontShop as a creative director, he now publishes Fonts In Use, Typographica, and The Mid-Century Modernist and consults with various organizations on typeface selection. Stephen is the author of the book The Anatomy of Type (The Geometry of Type in the UK) and a columnist for Print magazine.

Cole was raised in rural Bedfordshire and attended the University of East Anglia between 1989-92, where he studied English literature and film studies, graduating with first-class honors. After a brief time working on local radio with BBC Radio Bedfordshire (now Three Counties), he became a junior assistant at BBC Children's Magazines in 1993, and by 1996 he was a Group Editor of Pre-School Magazines. 

In the summer of 1996, he wrote his first children's books: Cars on Mars, Alien Olympics, School on Saturn, and Mucky Martians, a collection of pop-up poetry books published by Levinson the following year. At the time, BBC Books had received rights to publish Doctor Who fiction after the release of the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie – and a new range of Eighth Doctor Adventures and Past Doctor Adventures would be commissioned. Cole applied for the role of Project Editor of Sci-Fi Titles as he was a fan of the program and was successful.

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