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Jan Middendorp

Recent articles by Jan Middendorp

Postmodern jam sessionIssue 83,  2012
Feature

	Jan Middendorp recalls Fuse, the type ‘magazine’ that opened up (and put the lid on) a transient…
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…
      
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…
      
Fruitful lines of graphic type analysisIssue 59, Spring 2006
Review

                In late 2002, a group of subscribers to the ATypI mailing list conspired to discuss…
      
The eye of the curator [extract]Issue 55, Spring 2005
Review

	To a young, typographically inclined Dutchman growing up in the 1960s and 1970s…
      
BerlinIssue 74, Winter 2009
Feature
It’s a state of mind, a club scene, and one of the great political, cultural and historical events…
Prototype propagandistIssue 68, Summer 2008
Feature

	Rivadulla’s revolutionary poster art avoids socialist cliché.
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 
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

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.