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Gerard Unger

Recent articles about Gerard Unger

Ambassador for readingIssue 102, Autumn 2021
Review
In his daughter Flora’s schoolyard, the late Dutch type designer Gerard Unger (1942-2018) was once approached by a mother who told him that her daughter … [EXTRACT]
Rules of engagementIssue 98, Spring 2019
Review

                                                Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a somewhat…                        
Endangered speciesIssue 53, Autumn 2004
Review

                                                Piet Gerards is a craftsman. You can’t fail to notice this from the moment you…                        
Electrifying the alphabetIssue 62, Winter 2006
Feature

                                            At the dawn of the computer age, new functions ushered in new forms for type design            
Reputations: Gerard UngerIssue 40, Summer 2001
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	‘Papers have all kinds of information on the same page; very distressing and very joyful; gossip and facts. I wanted to bring that variety, that liveliness into the typeface design.’            
Why Helvetica?Issue 40, Summer 2001
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                                            Despite the changes provoked by the digital ‘revolution’, designing a typeface for serious reading remains a time-consuming task. For the designer, choosing and setting a body text font can be equally daunting, resulting in some inspired, eccentric and provocative choices            
The digital waveIssue 7, Summer 1992
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	The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production have been swallowed and largely pushed to the sidelines. By Robin Kinross            
Sense of placeIssue 58, Winter 2005
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                                            Three new typefaces for local institutions draw on Sheffield’s cultural and typographic history            
Technology, aesthetics and typeIssue 3, Spring 1991
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                                            With a substantial body of work already completed, Gerard Unger’s designs are entering a new phase.            

Blog posts by Gerard Unger

Buy your tickets for Type Tuesday 10.03.26

6 March 2026
Type Tuesday, Typography, Type design

‘Punches to pixels’ at London’s SBF features Veronika Burian (TypeTogether), Richard Ardagh on Type Archived plus special guest Theo Hersey

So we urge everyone who can get to London easily to buy tickets for our first event of 2026.

Noted #77

7 September 2016
Book design, Brand madness, Magazines, Music design, Technology, Typography

Beer cans, Dutch Alphabets, the Global Synthesizer Project, An Anthology of Decorated Papers and Chanced Arm no. 2

Here are a few things – beer cans, books, a sound installation and a magazine…