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Saturday, August 6, 2011

Type Masters exhibition in the Mota Italic Gallery, Berlin.

Sneak peek of 24 new typefaces, including my typeface Foxhill, from the 2011 graduating master classes at the University of Reading (UK) and the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (NL).

Running July 26 – August 27, 2011.
Opening Party July 28, 18:00

Big thanks to Rob Keller & Sonja Keller!

Mota Italic Gallery
Schliemannstrasse 34, Berlin.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Foxhill, a result of the MA Typeface Design, 2011

Foxhill is a typeface especially designed to work in small sizes such as bilingual religious texts.

The Latin and Greek Foxhill are designed to work harmonious together. It includes polytonic Greek, which is still used in historical texts, literary texts and poetry.
It is available in three weights, for small sizes up to 8pt - regular, bold and italic. The text weights regular, bold and italic are specially designed for texts set in 9 points and above.
The main characteristics of Foxhill are its short ascenders and descenders; this saves space since the leading can be reduced and more lines will fit the page, perfect for usage in religious texts. The large x-height in conjunction with round and open counters ensures legibility and readability in small sizes.

Besides this a funky blackletter inspired-stylistic set is designed for headings and such.
Foxhill comes with several opentype features, as ligatures, swashes, ornaments and titling caps.

Made possible with a grant of the Fonds BKVB; Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Over Dieren

Over Dieren
Pitch for the theatre group Het Nationale Toneel for the play Over Dieren, written by Elfriede Jelinek. Deadline April first.

'A woman alone. She's having an imaginary conversation with a lover: will she give herself to him or not? When she loses herself in him, will she still exist? Is love to disappear in the other and to not exist anymore? The woman hesitates. She cannot decide between surrender and self-preservation.
Then follows a telephone conversation: a men negotiates about a woman. The woman in the magazine are objects, products, animals. The escort service on the other line delivers everything, except love.'

For this poster I photographed a place where prostitutes used to work. Now these houses are empty and forgotten, only the memories remain. The typography is designed in the viewpoint of the photo. By using the lines of the photograph there arises a extra layer between the typography and the photo.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Varsity 126

Dit jaar heb ik de poster voor de Varsity 126 ontworpen.

In de AH in Utrecht.

Helaas heb ik hem niet kunnen zien nadat hij gedrukt was, aangezien ik in Chongqing ben, maar heb wel wat foto's ontvangen van vrienden die hem in Utrecht hebben zien hangen. De Varsity 126 is op zondag 12 april.