Pieter Dirk Brattinga (January 31, 1931,

Hilversum Hilversum () is a city and municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. Located in the heart of the Gooi, it is the largest urban centre in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes, and smaller towns. Hilvers ...

– July 8, 2004, Barneveld) was a Dutch

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. From 1951 until 1974 he was director of design at Steendrukkerij De Jong & Co in

. Between 1960 and 1964 he was professor and chairman at the visual communications faculty at the

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. He and

Dick Dooijes Dick Dooijes (May 6, 1909 – June 20, 1998) was a Dutch typeface designer. He worked at the Amsterdam Type Foundry for over forty years and directed the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 1968 to 1974. Biography Dick Dooijes was born in Amsterdam on ...

wrote the book 'History of the Dutch Poster 1890–1960' (1968)

Prizes

1998 - Grafische Cultuurprijs

References

1931 births 2004 deaths Dutch graphic designers People from Hilversum {{Netherlands-artist-stub