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Charles teaches Design History and Introductory Typography at San Jose State University, and Information Design at San Francisco State. He was once the Creative Director of Digital & Brand in the San Francisco office of frogdesign. While a Creative Director at USWeb/CKS in the Knowledge Management division, he led a team to create an academic community site for Encyclopaedia Britannica. As the Creative Director of Adobe.com, he accomplished a series of global redesigns, and the creation of a new Type browser.

Other activities have included teaching design history and experimental typography at Calarts & Otis College of Art in Los Angeles, lecturing at Central College of Art in London, broadcast design at RGA/LA and editorial illustration for the LA Times Sunday Magazine. Charles has an MFA from Calarts, a B.F.A from the University of Alberta, and his work has been published in Baseline & ID.