Roger Black

Roger Black is known for staying slightly 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 lead 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. He keeps a hand in the “old” media, helping with a redesign of Newsweek last fall, the fourth for the magazine he has done over the last 20 years.

Continuing as a partner in the Font Bureau and Danilo Black (both started in 1989), he works from a small studio in New York.