What is a diagram? Or why do we diagram? What function does the diagram serve? What methods are used in the creation of a diagram? Where does a diagram begin, or end? What relationship does the diagram have to typography? What is the process, the histories, the problems, the biases, the opportunities of the diagram?
Senior lecturer Paul Finn unpicks the idea of the diagram as a way of thinking, writing, and organising knowledge.
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Paul delivered this talk at ‘Typography Theory Practice’
@typographytheorypractice , a one-day conference on Saturday 25 October 2025 at Leeds Beckett University
@lbu_lsa , organised by Professor Fraser Muggeridge, that explored how typographic theories and propositions can manifest in practice, can be used to explain practice, and become practice. The conference brought typographic theory and practice together across a range of contexts and applications.