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Jan Middendorp

Recent articles by Jan Middendorp

eL Seed: City-wide calligraffitiIssue 100, Summer 2020
Feature

	This mega-mural by street artist eL Seed spans the walls of 50 buildings in a  Christian Coptic…
Dafi Kühne: By his own handIssue 100, Summer 2020
Feature

	Swiss designer Dafi Kühne works wholly in traditional letterpress techniques with entirely…
Type now: Independence and originalityIssue 98, Spring 2019
Feature

	The following three articles address several issues that are facing type…
      
States of independenceIssue 98, Spring 2019
Feature
The fragmentation of the type market has lead to new ways of examining, 
acquiring and enjoying…
Generation font rentIssue 97, Autumn 2018
Feature

	Fontstand has pioneered an innovative way for graphics students to make work with professional…
Time and typeIssue 96, Spring 2018
Review

	One of the privileges that comes with being a typography and graphic design…
      
Colour is the new blackIssue 94, Summer 2017
Feature
For the past decade or so, Mark van Wageningen has been investigating the possibilities of adding…
Postmodern jam sessionIssue 83, Summer 2012
Feature

	Jan Middendorp recalls Fuse, the type ‘magazine’ that opened up (and put the lid on) a transient…
Typeface/interfaceIssue 64, Summer 2007
Feature
Andrea Tinnes makes type families — functional or ornamental — that quickly acquire a life of…
Space and rhythmIssue 59, Spring 2006
Feature
Type designer Cyrus Highsmith learnt the craft through both study and apprenticeship 
Prototype propagandistIssue 68, Summer 2008
Feature

	Rivadulla’s revolutionary poster art avoids socialist cliché.
An abundance of directionsIssue 66, Winter 2007
Review

                Edo Smitshuijzen has an impressive track record as a designer of major identity and…
      
The man on every French bookshelfIssue 65, Autumn 2007
Review

                The French designer known as Massin (he removed his first name, Robert, in the…
      
From the typographic to the visualIssue 64, Summer 2007
Review

                This book’s title is a librarian’s nightmare. It differs by only three letters…
      
Fruitful lines of graphic type analysisIssue 59, Spring 2006
Review

	In late 2002, a group of subscribers to the ATypI mailing list conspired to…
      
The eye of the curatorIssue 55, Spring 2005
Review

	To a young, typographically inclined Dutchman growing up in the 1960s and…
      
BerlinIssue 74, Winter 2009
Feature
It’s a state of mind, a club scene, and one of the great political, cultural and historical events…
Down-to-earth Son Of A Windmill-builderIssue 63, Spring 2007
Review

	‘Typo-photo’ was a term coined by Moholy-Nagy in 1925 to designate the striking…
      
Is type design teaching losing its soul?Issue 71, Spring 2009
Opinion
Formulaic, modular approaches threaten the chemistry of the master-apprentice model.

Recent blog posts by Jan Middendorp

Rigorous play

1 January 2021

For almost three decades East Berlin duo Cyan has produced urgent, experimental yet precise graphic design. Jan Middendorp meets them while the city sleeps

Like all design studios, Berlin’s Cyan has gone through a very unusual year, writes Jan Middendorp.

Fill the white space

15 July 2020

‘À propos’, Anette Lenz’s first major exhibition in her homeland, is an immersive, virtuoso response to Richard Meier’s MAK building in Frankfurt. By Jan Middendorp

After a two-month Covid-related delay, one of the most remarkable exhibitions of a contemporary graphic designer’s work has now opened at Museum Angewandte Kunst (‘applied art’), aka MAK, in Frankfurt / Main, writes Jan Middendorp.

Tom Hautekiet, 1970-2020

11 May 2020

Belgian designer Tom Hautekiet was one of the smartest, most energetic practitioners of his generation. His witty and subtly subversive spirit will be missed. By Jan Middendorp

On 30 April 2020, Belgian graphic designer, illustrator and musician Tom Hautekiet died unexpectedly at his family home, aged only 50. The Flemish cultural world was devastated, writes Jan Middendorp.

Culture in colour

1 April 2020

Tereza Bettinardi designs ‘Cursos e Oficinas’, an abstract and vibrant book series for São Paulo organisation Sesc. By Jan Middendorp

Tereza Bettinardi is from Santa Maria, in the centre of Brazil’s southernmost state, where she studied journalism and graduated in graphic design in 2006, writes Jan Middendorp.

Take the clear line

28 October 2019

Kunstal Rotterdam presents a generous survey of work by Dutch illustrator, designer and comic artist Joost Swarte. Jan Middendorp reports

Joost Swarte must be the best known and most appreciated Dutch illustrator, designer and comic artist of his generation, writes Jan Middendorp.

Due process

13 October 2010

Porto plays host to an inspiring AGI Open conference

This year’s AGI (Alliance Graphique International) conference is taking place in Porto, a spectacular yet run-down city that bears many traces of Portugal’s current economic crisis, writes Jan Middendorp.