Petr van Blokland

Recent articles about Petr van Blokland

Copyright will tear us apart

Issue 15, Winter 1994

Review

When the Association Typographique Internationale was founded in 1957, it was essentially a typesetting manufacturers’ organisation…

The digital wave

Issue 7, Summer 1992

Feature

The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production have been swallowed and largely pushed to the sidelines. By Robin Kinross

Recent blog posts about Petr van Blokland

Font Li Beirut – harmony in discord

8 September 2020
Graphic design, Posters, Type Tuesday, Typography

Li Beirut is a unique font – made in a week by 160 type designers – to support victims of last month’s Beirut blast. Nadine Chahine writes for Eye about her Letters of Hope project
On Tuesday 4 August 2020, villages and towns to the north, east, and south of…

Outlook variable

15 May 2018
Reviews, Technology, Type Tuesday, Typography

TYPO Labs unveiled cool tools for both tyros and trailblazers. In the run-up to TYPO Berlin, Jan Middendorp delivers a considered report
As the Berlin mothership – TYPO Berlin 2018 – approaches, it seems like a good…

Set the controls for the heart of Dutch design

15 July 2013
Critical path, Design education, Graphic design, Information design

Open Set summer school tackles autonomy within design culture under the theme of ‘Commonomy’ – with a special offer for Eye blog readers
Design summer programmes offer many enticing reasons to participate, not least of which is the…

Out of the Fog and into the Fab

9 April 2009
Graphic design, Technology, Typography

Robothon 2009’s hi-tech type tools give automation to the superfamilies
Only a few decades ago, a conference about new developments in typographic technology would have…