I’m a type and graphic designer based in Amsterdam. I first studied graphic design in Lucerne and later worked at a multi-disciplinary design studio in Hamburg. I graduated from TypeMedia in 2007 and founded my own studio in the Netherlands in 2008. For many years I assisted in the extension of the Taz family at LucasFonts in Berlin. Currently I’m a member of the Bold Monday team, and organise letterspace.amsterdam, a monthly series focused on diverse approaches to type within the Amsterdam design community. I also co-founded the typographic Mastodon instance typo.social together with members of TypeMedia, Typografische Gesellschaft München, Tiro Typeworkshop and Fonts In Use.
My studio practice focuses on typedesign while still maintaining a strong interest in graphic design. My strengths are at their best in combination, for instance, when a corporate identity benefits from a custom type-face.
I’m also available for small requests that take advantage of my expertise as a font engineer.
Education
1979 Born and raised in Switzerland
1996–2000 Graphic Design study in Luzern at Fachklasse Grafik
2006–2007 Master Type and Media at KABK, The Hague
Jobs & Internships
1998 Internship at Spinform Design Lenzburg
1998 Internship at feldmann+schultchen Design, Hamburg
2000–2006 Designer at feldmann+schultchen Design, Hamburg
2007–2016 Type designer LucasFonts in Berlin
2012–2017 Amsterdam office of Orange Council
2016–now parttime Type designer Bold Monday
Workshops
2013–2016 Merz Akademie, Typographic Basics
2019 Schwäbisch-Gmünd, Writing With Images
2020 Merz Akademie, Modular Variable Fonts
2020 Schwäbisch-Gmünd, Writing With Images
2022 Merz Akademie, Modular Variable Fonts
2024 Merz Akademie, Modular Variable Fonts
2026 Merz Akademie, Modular Variable Fonts
Exhibitions
2000 INSTANT, representing Lucerne School of Art and Design at Leipzig Book Fair
2005 Big in Japan, S.K.A.M. Hamburg, series of middle-format images 13x13
2007 Your Point of View #1, Achter Neurath, Stroom, #2, Atrium of city hall, The Hague, #3, Lovely Language at Centraal Museum Utrecht
2010 two typefaces SonicWaves and Agile featured in Typecal The Hague at world exhibition in Shanghai
2014 Fachklasse Grafik Luzern, group exhibition with selected work of alumni
2018 Typografía México Logical and Ghetto Radio typeface
2019 The Annex of Universal Languages, The Palace of Typographic Masonry, Amsterdam
2020 Icon Memory, Sing Index – Shape/Content, The Society of Signs, Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Düren
2021 Icon Bulletin, Sing Index – Shape/Content, The Society of Signs, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg
2021 Logical Ignotae, L’écriture avant la lettre, Alphabetum, The Hague
2023 The Evolution of Emoji into a Language, The Palace of Typographic Masonry, Graphic Matters, Breda
2023 Publications for the Palace of Typographic Masonry and Alphabetum included in the Toolbox, requested by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam for the exhibition Modern.
2025 A new poster The Utopian Quest for a Pasigraphy, for the Palace of Typographic Masonry at Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt
2025 Exhibition design and a new poster Writing Systems from the Otherworld in collaboration with Tim Brookes from Endangered Alphabets, for Alphabetum XV, WEST Den Haag.
2025 Groote Super, supermarket of the future together with Esther de Boer at Groote Museum Amsterdam
Lectures
2017 Invisible Work, letterspace.amsterdam
2018 Utopian Universal Languages, Graphic Design, KABK The Hague
2019 The Annex of Universal Languages, The Palace of Typographic Masonry, Amsterdam
2019 Type Playground, with Johannes Verwoerd, Zefir7, The Hague
2019 Typostammtisch, Zürich
2020 The Annex of Universal Languages, WdKA, Rotterdam
2021 Visual Grammar, Die Gesellschaft der Zeichen, online
2021 The Annex of Universal Languages, WdKA, Rotterdam & ArtEZ, Arnhem
2021 Universal Space Communication, Pillow Lava on Laptops in Space
2022 Type Engineering, FF talk at Random.Studio
2022 Emoji2022, with KomunIKON
2023 Oedipus Alphaverse, with Victor Brangolo at letterspace.amsterdam
2024 The Symbol Group Symposium Symbol 24
2026 Team Letterspace, F.A.Q. Type at thonik loft
2026 Get Organized! It’s All Graphics, Wim Crouwel Instituut
2026 From Symbols to Writing Systems, Kosmandejong Backstage,
2026 Typostammtisch der Typostammtische, Typostammtisch Berlin
I am a member of the BNO and work according to their regulations.
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Portrait: Daan Liu
Font: Infillism Sans
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