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Jan Middendorp

Born in The Hague (the Netherlands), Jan Middendorp is a self-taught graphic designer and writer living in Ghent, Belgium. He has contributed articles about design, type and performing arts to many magazines. He was the founding editor and art director of Druk, a magazine on type published between 1999 and 2003 by FontShop Benelux. He wrote and designed Lettered, an award-winning book about the Belgian type designer Clotilde Olyff, and wrote Ha, daar gaat er een van mij (Ah, there goes one of mine), a chronicle of graphic design in The Hague after 1945. His new book Dutch Type is a colourful portrait of one of the world's most remarkable type design communities.
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