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Hansje van Halem www.hansje.net

Dutch graphic designer Hansje van Halem (1978) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and started her own studio in Amsterdam in 2003. She creates alphabets, textures and patterns, both digitally and manually, that she applies to designs for posters, illustrations and public space art works such as gates and floors.

Watch a short documentary about Hansje van Halem.

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Fonts 1

Wind
4 Styles

Books 2

Hansje van Halem, 4
This lavishly produced book presents Hansje van Halem’s array of commissioned, self-generated, rejected and unfinished sketches, type drawings, and experiments
Hansje van Halem, III
This lavishly produced book presents Hansje van Halem’s array of commissioned, self-generated, rejected and unfinished sketches, type drawings, and experiments

Posters 1

200 letters ‘a’
This limited-edition poster features 200 different hairline versions of the lowercase ‘a' superimposed on each other.