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Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens [Petr van Blokland]

Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens is a design and typography outfit in Delft (The Netherlands), which marketed RoboFog, a scripting language for Fontographer. Petr van Blokland (b. Gouda, 1956) is also a teacher at the Royal Academy Art in The Hague, and has designed the typefaces Vijfzeven (1978, dot matrix), Proforma (1984, available from Font Bureau), Productus (1992, sans), Prolinea, and Deforma (1999). In 1988, he received the Prix Charles Peignot. Since 1980, Petr is designer and partner in Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens. From 1984 until 1989 he taught at the Academy for Visual Arts in Arnhem. Since 1988 he is a teacher at the Graphic and Typographic Design Department and the post-graduate course Type&Media of the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague. In 2005, Erik and his brother Petr made the Künstlerbrüder-Schriftfamilie of 30 fonts (10 widths, 3 weights) based on 3 width masters for each of two weights. It is a quirky and refreshing family made for banners for the Münchener Haus der Kunst in 2005.

Keynote speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam.

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