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TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on Thu Sep 10 20:46:40 EDT 2015
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Cofounder of Underware (b. Wanssum, The Netherlands, 1976), a typographic design studio based in Den Haag, founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling and Bas Jacobs. Bas lives in Amsterdam since 2001. He studied at the KABK in Den Haag. Bas Jacobs and Akiem Helmling designed Dolly (2001), a 4-font book typeface with flourishes. The Bukvaraz 2001 award they won for it mentions that Lars de Beer and Sami Kortemäki also had a hand in the font. Dolly A Book Typeface with Flourishes is also a book. Bas also codesigned the other Underware fonts after Doly: Bello, Sauna (2002; +Sauna Mono Pro), Liza (2009), Auto (1, 2 and 3) (2004-2014), Unibody 8 (free) and Fakir. In 2015, Bas Jacobs, Akiem Helmling and Sami Kortemäki published the stencil family Tripper. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about education in type design. FontShop link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. |
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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |