Roger Black

Roger Black (born August 18, 1948) is an American graphic designer whose work has been influential in the design of magazines, newspapers, digital typography and the web. His contributions include designs for Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New Republic, Fast Company, Reader's Digest, Foreign Affairs, the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle and the website Bloomberg.com. Early life Roger Black was born in Austin, Texas, to Eleanor Fox Black and J. J. Black, an architect who built more than 200 homes in Midland, Texas and several buildings in New York. His mother, Eleanor, worked in the business department of The New York Times in the mid-1920s and left to work at The American Mercury, a magazine published in the Roaring Twenties. Black attended Deerfield Academy boarding school in Massachusetts. Early career