Hook

Type drawing. Letter used for a silk screened poster.

W139=30

This poster was made for the birthday of gallery W139, Amsterdam (NL).

Doily Type

Type design. Applied for gallery W139 poster and signage for Droog Design in New York. For an update, click here.

HMK

Design for invite for Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn (NL).

W139

Design for invite for gallery W139, Amsterdam (NL).

Grid Letter

Sketches for New York Times Magazine.

Room, Drops in the Ocean

(2005)

Commissioned assignment for artist initiative ROOM, Rotterdam (NL).

Wire Type

Wire Type was applied for embroidery on a bag by Wieki Somers / Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg (NL). Also used for my moving announcement.

Forge Type

This type was applied on a project called Smeedwerk.

Embroider, experiments

Sketches for poster for Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg.

Greytones

Contribution, spread for a book. 'Ik stel me voor' = 'I imagine'.

Machine Stitch

The typeface Machine Stitch was a reaction to the Stitch_Unsewed, made for a Droog Design project.



For an exhibition by Herman Verhagen I drew the Machine Stitch typeface directly on the wall with a pencil.

PrintRoom, invite

Invite commissioned by ROOM, Rotterdam (NL).

Stitch Unsewed, sample

Sketch for 'Stitch Unsewed' typeface. Applied for signage Droog Design, Milan (IT).

Scratched Letter

In 2003 I got a hold of a Wacom Dabler mouse pen for the first time. I tested the tool in Illustrator scratching within the outlines of a piece of text.

I started collecting all the different versions of the a,b,c... and piled them up into this alphabet:


By stacking 1 up to 200 different drawn versions of one letter, the letter gets thicker and more black.

By resizing the shape more details become visible.


I collected the sketches and made it into a type specimen book Letter Sketches.

I made a Letter Flip Book to zoom in on the details of the letter.

Hype Foundry

After playing around with handwritings for a while, I was taken by the fact that type can be easy and quick. I started printing outlines of existing typefaces, tracing them with markers or fineliners, scanned it and traced it. A nice trick for that time. I used it for the titles Reader Magazine (2002) and even other people started using these fun fonts.


I called the collection of typefaces 'The Hype Foundry' and also made a booklet with the font collection.

One of these typefaces was used Reader Magazine (2002, project by Michiel Schuurman and Hansje van Halem)