Fred Smeijers
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Reputations: Fred Smeijers
Issue 90, Summer 2015
‘My father was a mechanic. Respect – for tools and for the material with which you work – is one…
Endangered species
Issue 53, Autumn 2004
Piet Gerards is a craftsman. You can’t fail to notice this from the moment you…
Why Helvetica?
Issue 40, Summer 2001
Despite the changes provoked by the digital ‘revolution’, designing a typeface for serious…
Recent blog posts by Fred Smeijers
Type Tuesday: Between writing & type
15 May 2012
Stencils, stencil letters, tools and new fonts on display in Antwerp
The exhibition ‘Between Writing & Type: The Stencil Letter’, which opened in Antwerp on 19 April 2012, combines two aims, reports co-curator Eric Kindel. The first is to display artefacts gathered over the past ten or so years that document some of the history of stencil letters. The second is to introduce a series of new stencil fonts.