Thursday, September 4, 2014

Wim Crouwel













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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