Speaker Petr van Blokland

Petr van Blokland works with designer Claudia Mens and others, depending on the type of project. He graduated in 1980 cum laude in Graphic Design at the Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague (KABK) and studied Industrial Design in Delft. His special interest is in typography, type design, designing the design process, programming, and design theory. He received the ATypI Charles Peignot Award in 1988 and was a Board member of ATypI. He has lectured at various academies at bachelor and master’s level. His current focus is on international projects related to typography and type, as co-founder of Type Network.