Willem Hendrick Crouwel, one of the founders of the design
studio Total Design, was born on Novermber 21, 1928. He is a Dutch graphic
designer, type designer, and typographer. He studied fine arts at Academie
Minerva in Groningen, the Netherlands and typography at Gerrit Rietveld
Academie in Amsterdam. In 1967 he designed the typeface New Alphabet which uses
the technology of the cathode ray tube, containing only horizontal and verticle
strokes. He also designed the typefaces Fodor, Grindik and is well known for
his use of grid-based layouts and typography based in the International
Typographic Style.
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