Dutch design


Dutch design is design from The Netherlands or which adheres to the Dutch style of design.

Fonts 2

Amalia
8 Styles
Bara
8 Styles

Books 10

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Helmut Salden Uncovered
A monograph on the lettering artist Helmut Salden (1910–96), exploring his original sketches and working drawings.
Karel Martens - Patterns
This publication devoid of any text, contains a collection of patterns designed by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens.
What You Hear When you Read
This book was published on the occasion of the opening of Typotheque’s solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag.
Re-Printed Matter / Karel Martens
Fourth edition of much anticipated book presenting almost 60 years of the work of Karel Martens.
Dutch Type — reprint
A long-awaited reprint of the 2004 book ‘Dutch Type’, a comprehensive overview of type design and lettering in the Netherlands from the 15th to the 20th centuries

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Irma Boom interview
Peter Biľak speaks to Irma Boom about how her design practice developed over the past decade.
Interviews · 23 July 2012 · English · 2942 words
Interview with René Knip
Interview with the Dutch designer René Knip, specialising in three-dimensional typography and lettering. Part of the book 158 answers.
Interviews · 9 May 2011 · English · 2361 words
Fred Smeijers’s Arnhem typefaces
Andy Crewdson discusses the origins of the Dutch designer’s recent family of types.
Typeface stories · 24 February 2005 · English · 1573 words
New Faces (abstract): type design in the first decade of device-independent digital typesetting (1987-1997)
The abstract for Emily King’s doctoral thesis which focuses on typeface design in the United States, England and the Netherlands between 1987 and 1997.
Essays · 23 January 2005 · English · 392 words
New Faces (Chapter Two: The West Coast)
The second chapter of Emily King’s doctoral thesis which focuses on typeface design in the United States, England and the Netherlands between 1987 and 1997.
Essays · 23 January 2005 · English · 18886 words

Blogs 1

World's first Augmented Reality (AR) stamp
Dutch design agency Gummo designed a new series of post stamps for the TNT Post (now Post NL) on the given theme of not yet realised architecture in the Netherlands, creating the world's first Augmented Reality (AR) stamp.
10 October 2011

Authors 3

Gerard Unger
Gerard Unger (1942–2018) is a Dutch graphic and type designer. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1963–67. A pio...
Frederike Huygen
Frederike Huygen is a Dutch art historian, researcher and author. She was the curator of the industrial design collection at the Museum Boijmans Van ...
Jaap van Triest
Jaap van Triest (1957) is a graphic and editorial designer. He designed numerous magazines (Forum, Vormberichten, etc.), publications in collaboration...