Ernest Hoch is a consultant designer and typographer in London (45 Cholmelcy Park, London N 6, England). Interested in education as a specific area of design, he is Director of Postgraduate Studies in Graphic Design at the Central School of Art and Design in London and consultant to the School of Advanced Studies, Manchester School of Art and Design. He is a founder member of the SIAD/STD Typographers' Computer Working Group and of the Working Party for Typographic Teaching; and currently chairman of the Technical Committee of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers, and chairman of the Icograda Standardisation Commission.