In this episode of Khatt Chronicles, Roshanak Keyghobadi interviews UK-based Iranian type designer and researcher Sahar Afshar. They discuss Sahar's journey into the field of type design, the challenges she faced along the way, and her views on the responsibility of designing a typeface. They discuss some of Sahar's main and award-winning type projects. They touch upon specific topics of technology and how it might facilitate certain tedious tasks and speed up the design process. They also unpack the issue of the exclusion of women from the Iranian Graphic design history and the broader issue of the representation of women in the type design field at large. They end the conversation on a positive note highlighting the active role that the younger generation are taking in publishing and uncovering the professional engagement of women in graphic design.

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