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Date Saturday, September 22nd 2001
Venue Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, Denmark / Track A

Unpublished alphabets

Jan MIddendorp (Copenhagen 2001) Jan Middendorp

Type–not dead trees

Jan’s talk is inspired by the Danish tradition of hand-lettering and sign painting, and the way it influences today’s digital type design. When does lettering become type? And how can type become lettering? When do type­faces die, and why are they revived-or why aren’t they? And how can regional traditions survive in the computer age? “Unpublished Typefaces” takes a look at alphabets that could live very well without digital technolo­gy, but might be o your hard drive next year.

Jan MIddendorp (Copenhagen 2001)
Speaker

Jan Middendorp

Jan Middendorp is a Dutch design writer and graphic designer living in Ghent, Belgium. He is the founding editor and art director of
Druk, the FontShop Benelux quarterly maga­zine. He is the author and designer of Lettered, Typefaces and Alphabets by Clotilde Olyff. His book about the history of postwar design in The Hague (commissioned by that city’s Arts Council) will be published later this year, followed in 2002 by Dutch Type, from 010 Publishers.