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Recent articles about Erik van Blokland

Postmodern jam sessionIssue 83, Summer 2012
Feature

                                            
	Jan Middendorp recalls Fuse, the type ‘magazine’ that opened up (and put the lid on) a transient era of adventurous type design from small digital foundries            
Fuse's envelope comes unstuckIssue 16, Spring 1995
Review

                                                The suffix ’94 seems to suggest that the organisers of the Fuse conference expect to…                        
Deep in the archivesIssue 75, Spring 2010
Feature

                                            Contemporary type designers Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes select some historical type specimens that excite and intrigue them.             
Digital type decadeIssue 40, Summer 2001
Feature

                                            
	The sound and fury of ‘radical’ typeface design associated with the early days of PostScript have quietened into a purposeful, prolific hum. There’s a new order of craft and and invention, driven by corporate culture, nostalgia and the demands of the screen.            
The digital waveIssue 7, Summer 1992
Feature

                                            
	The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production have been swallowed and largely pushed to the sidelines. By Robin Kinross            
Typography’s new priestsIssue 1, Autumn 1990
Review

                                                ‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford this summer. Following the successful pattern…                        

Recent blog posts about Erik van Blokland

Variable grunge

4 April 2023
Design history, Technology, Type Tuesday, Typography

The typewriter typeface formerly known as ‘Trixie’ gets a makeover and a new name: Neither Confirm Nor Deny (NCND). By Paul Barnes

Trixie was perfect for the age of grunge. It became a visual shorthand for typewriters, with the quality of authenticity …

Font Li Beirut – harmony in discord

8 September 2020
Graphic design, Posters, Type Tuesday, Typography

Li Beirut is a unique font – made in a week by 160 type designers – to support victims of last month’s Beirut blast. Nadine Chahine writes for Eye about her Letters of Hope project

On Tuesday 4 August 2020, villages and towns to the north, east, and south of…

Out of the Fog and into the Fab

9 April 2009
Graphic design, Technology, Typography

Robothon 2009’s hi-tech type tools give automation to the superfamilies

Only a few decades ago, a conference about new developments in typographic technology would have…