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Petr Van Blokland
Petr van Blokland (born 1956, Gouda) is a Dutch graphic designer, software author and typeface designer who lives in Delft. Contributions to typeface technology He has made numerous important contributions to the adoption of software in typeface design. He was a co-author of Ikarus M, the first typeface design software for Macintosh computers. Alongside his brother Erik van Blokland and Just Van Rossum, he created RoboFOG, a system for writing scripts to streamline typeface design work in then market-dominating type design software Fontographer. RoboFOG (and its successor RoboFAB) spearheaded a technological revolution in type design revolving around the core technologies of RoboFOG, that is Python programming, the programming assets created with the software, and the ethos that the small group evangelised, "build your own tools". A technological movement began around this, revolving around the Type and Media masters course that the three all teach at. Petr co-founded TypeNetwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petr Van Blokland At TYPO Berlin 2014
Petr is a Czech given name for males and a Czech surname. Petr is the Czech form of ''Peter''. For information on Petr as a first name, see Peter (given name). Given name * Petr Aven (born 1955), Russian billionaire banker, economist and politician * Petr Čech (born 1982), Czech footballer * Petr Čech (hurdler) (born 1944), Czech hurdler * Petr Chelčický (c. 1390 – c. 1460), Czech Christian spiritual leader and author in Bohemia * Petr Cornelie (born 1996), French basketball player * Petr Duchoň (born 1956), Czech politician * Petr Fiala (born 1964), Czech politician and Prime Minister of the Czech Republic * Petr Ginz (1928–1944), Czechoslovak half-Jewish writer, diarist and publisher, victim of the Holocaust * Petr Kellner (1964–2021), Czech billionaire businessman * Petr Korda (born 1968), Czech tennis player * Petr Mitrichev (born 1985), Russian competitive programmer under the handle "Petr" * Petr Mrázek (born 1992), Czech ice hockey goaltender * Petr Nedvěd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gouda, South Holland
Gouda () is a city and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, between Rotterdam and Utrecht, in the province of South Holland. Gouda has a population of 75,000 and is famous for its Gouda cheese, stroopwafels, many grachten, smoking pipes, and its 15th-century city hall. Its array of historic churches and other buildings makes it a very popular day trip destination. In the Middle Ages, a settlement was founded at the location of the current city by the Van der Goude family, who built a fortified castle alongside the banks of the Gouwe River, from which the family and the city took its name. The area, originally marshland, developed over the course of two centuries. By 1225, a canal was linked to the Gouwe and its estuary was transformed into a harbour. City rights were granted in 1272. History Around the year 1100, the area where Gouda now is located was swampy and covered with a peat forest, crossed by small creeks such as the Gouwe. Along the shores of this st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delft
Delft () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, and The Hague, to the northwest. Together with them, it is part of both the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area and the Randstad. Delft is a popular tourist destination in the Netherlands, famous for its historical connections with the reigning House of Orange-Nassau, for its Delftware, blue pottery, for being home to the painter Johannes Vermeer, Jan Vermeer, and for hosting Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Historically, Delft played a highly influential role in the Dutch Golden Age. In terms of science and technology, thanks to the pioneering contributions of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and Martinus Beijerinck, Delft can be considered to be the birthplace of microbiology. History Early history The city of Delft came into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Van Blokland
Erik van Blokland (born 29 August 1967 in Gouda) is a Dutch typeface designer, educator and computer programmer. He is the head of the Type Media Master of Design program in Typeface Design at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in the Netherlands. Letterror Letterror is the name of the collaborative efforts of Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum. While studying at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, the two were introduced by the school's professor of Type Design, Gerrit Noordzij, who "knew they shared an enthusiasm for computers and programming". Their collaboration started in earnest in Berlin in 1989 around the time the duo were working for Erik Spiekermann. First they published zine, which was named Letterror, which demonstrated their experiments with generative type. That name followed their collaboration through the years. FF Beowulf FF Beowulf is a Serif-typeface which had novel programming features. Each time it was printed, code within the typeface files moved the ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Font Bureau
The Font Bureau, Inc. or Font Bureau is a digital type foundry based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The foundry is one of the leading designers of typefaces, specializing in type designs for magazine and newspaper publishers. History Font Bureau was founded in 1989 by Roger Black and David Berlow. Before founding Font Bureau, Roger Black was an established publications designer and consultant. David Berlow is a noted type designer. ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Newsweek'', ''Esquire Magazine'', ''Rolling Stone'' and the ''Wall Street Journal'' rank among Font Bureau's client list. Apart from Black and Berlow, other prominent designers at Font Bureau have included Tobias Frere-Jones, later of Hoefler & Frere-Jones and Frere-Jones Type, and Cyrus Highsmith, later of Occupant Fonts and Morisawa. Matthew Carter has been a frequent collaborator with the foundry. In October 2009, news sources reported that Font Bureau was "suing NBC Universal for at least $2 million ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Black (graphic Designer)
Roger Black is an American graphic designer whose work has been influential in the design of magazines, newspapers, digital typography and the web. His contributions include designs for ''Rolling Stone'', '' Esquire'', ''The New Republic'', ''Fast Company'', ''Reader's Digest'', '' Foreign Affairs'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', the'' Houston Chronicle'' and the website Bloomberg.com. Early life Roger Black was born in Austin, Texas, to Eleanor Fox Black and J. J. Black, an architect who built more than 200 homes in Midland, Texas and several buildings in New York. His mother, Eleanor, worked in the business department of ''The New York Times'' in the mid-1920s and left to work at ''The American Mercury'', a magazine published in the Roaring Twenties. Black attended Deerfield Academy boarding school in Massachusetts. Early career Roger Black's first position as a publication art director was at the alternative weekly ''LA'', edited by Karl Fleming and funded by Max Palevsky. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FontShop International
FontShop International was an international manufacturer of digital typefaces (fonts), based in Berlin. It was one of the largest digital type foundries. The ''FontFont'' library of fonts contains designs by 160 type designers, among them renowned designers such as Peter Biľak, Evert Bloemsma, Erik van Blokland, Neville Brody, Martin Majoor, Albert-Jan Pool, Hans Reichel, Just van Rossum, Fred Smeijers, and Erik Spiekermann. The aim of FontFont is to offer typefaces by designers for designers. FontShop International was acquired by Monotype Imaging on July 14, 2014. The deal came as part of Monotype's takeover of many of the other large digital type retailers, including Linotype, Monotype, ITC, and Bitstream. History After founding the first German reseller of typefaces FontShop on June 12, 1991, Joan Spiekermann, Erik Spiekermann, and Neville Brody started an independent type foundry just one year later. They commissioned a few young type designers to make the first few ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Charles Peignot
The Prix Charles Peignot (Charles Peignot Prize) is a major award in typeface design, given "to a designer under the age of 35 who has made an outstanding contribution to type design". It is awarded irregularly, typically every three to five years, by the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI, the international typographic association). It was first given in 1982. The prize is named after Charles Peignot (1897–1983), type designer, director of the Deberny & Peignot type foundry, and founder and first president of ATypI. Award winners Winners to date of this award have been: * Claude Mediavilla (1982) * Jovica Veljović (1985) * Petr van Blokland (1988) * Robert Slimbach (1991) * Carol Twombly (1994) * Jean François Porchez (1998) * Jonathan Hoefler (2002) * Christian Schwartz (2007) * Alexandra Korolkova Alexandra Korolkova ( rus, Александра Королькова) (born 1984) is a Russian typeface designer. She was awarded the infrequently presented Prix Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATypI
The ATypI () or Association Typographique Internationale (the International Typography Association) is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to typography and type design. The primary activity of the association is an annual fall conference, held in a different global city each year. History ATypI was founded in 1957 by Charles Peignot (from the French type foundry Deberny & Peignot). The members of the organisation come from the typographic community from all over the world and consist primarily of type designers, representatives of type foundries, graphic designers and typographers. The organisation is democratically run by an elected board. Each board member is elected by the ATypI general assembly at the annual general meeting for a period of three years. Current members of the Board are: Carolina Laudon (president), Jo De Baerdemaeker (vice-president), Crystian Cruz (vice-president), Simon Daniels (treasurer), Petra Černe Oven(secretary), Clare Bell, Linda Kudrn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dutch Typographers And Type Designers
Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ... * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People Ethnic groups * Germanic peoples, the original meaning of the term ''Dutch'' in English ** Pennsylvania Dutch, a group of early Germanic immigrants to Pennsylvania *Dutch people, the Germanic group native to the Netherlands Specific people * Dutch (nickname), a list of people * Johnny Dutch (born 1989), American hurdler * Dutch Schultz (1902–1935), American mobster born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer * Dutch Mantel, ring name of American retired professional wrestler Wayne Maurice Keown (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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