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Open Manifesto No.5
With an impressive selection of contributors, this issue of Open Manifesto seeks to explore specific and... -
Open Manifesto No.4
This issue explores the topic of propaganda with contributions from documentary filmmaker Errol Morris,... -
Open Manifesto No.1
First issue of Australian graphic design magazine providing thoughtful and thought provoking writing devoted... -
The National Grid No.5
A graphic design publication from New Zealand, offering an eclectic mix of contents ranging from design...
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Articles (23)
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Conceptual Type?
In November 2010 Peter Biľak was invited to give a talk at a one-day conference ‘Conceptual Type – Type led by ideas’ in Copenhagen about the underlying ideas behind typefaces. This lecture questions the possibility of conceptual type and... -
Jan van Toorn, Critical Practice
Third in the heavily subsidised series ‘Graphic design in the Netherlands’, Jan van Toorn, Critical Practice takes on the difficult task of exploring and striving to elucidate the work of Jan van Toorn (JvT), a designer who is not always clear... -
Ways of Seeing, book review
More than 35 years after the seminal art book Ways of Seeing was published, Peter Biľak looks closely at its continuing relevance. -
Family planning, or how type families work
An essay on the history and definition of type families, type design parameters, and the possibilities of creating larger type systems today.
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Fred Smeijers
Dutch type designer, born in Eindhoven, in 1961. He specializes in typographic research and development for product manufacturers. Among his typeface designs are FF Quadraat, Renard, DTL Nobel, Arnhem, Fresco, and Sansa. The last three are available... -
Gerrit Noordzij
Teacher, type designer and typographer born in 1931 in Rotterdam. From 1960-1990 he taught type design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Noordzij also designed a number of books for Van Oorschot publishers, and wrote Letterletter , The...
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