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Jon Ashmann, USA Michalis Arfaras, GREECE Dimitris Arvanitis, GREECE Thanos Arvanitis, GREECE Neville Brody, UK Petr van Blokland, HOLLAND Aggelos Bakas, GREECE Maria Canellopoulou Bottis, GREECE Andreu Balius, SPAIN Jo De Baerdemaeker, UK Christina Banou, GREECE Joseph Coates, USA Anthony Cahalan, CANADA Dan Carr and Julia Ferrari, USA Dimitris Charitos, GREECE Vassilis Charissis, UK Mary Dyson, UK Simon Daniels, USA Dhian Damajani, INDONESIA Costis Dallas, GREECE Stergios Delialis, GREECE Artur Frankowski, POLAND Victor Gaultney, UK Iva Georgieva, BULGARIA Lars Harmsen, GERMANY Vangelis Hatzitheodorou, GREECE Haralambos Haitas, GREECE Akiem Helmling, HOLLAND Guy Hutsebaut, BELGIUM Naomi Haswanto, INDONESIA Peter Karow, GERMANY Nikos Koutsmanis, GREECE Alexandros Kouris, GREECE Pat Kahn, UK Richard Kegler, USA Marianna Kafaridou, CYPRUS Natassa Kalou, GREECE Petros Kostagiolas, GREECE Veroniki Korakidou, GREECE Eric Kindel, UK Giannis Karlopoulos, GREECE Christiana Lafazani, USA John Langdon, USA David Lemon, USA Gerry Leonidas, UK Louise McWhinnie, AUSTRALIA Eva Massoura, GREECE George Matthiopoulos, GREECE Klimis Mastoridis, GREECE Dimitris Mitsiopoulos, GREECE Arafat Al-Naim, JORDAN Maria Nicholas, USA Annette O'Sullivan, NEW ZEALAND Sarah Owens, UK Raquel Pelta, SPAIN Mervi Pakaste, USA Aspasia Papadema, CYPRUS Anastasios Politis, GREECE Irini Pitsaki, GREECE Klaudio Pap, CROATIA Efrossini Roupa, GREECE Dan Reynolds, GERMANY Natasha Raissaki, GREECE Manolis Savidis, GREECE Paul Stiff, UK José Scaglione, ARGENTINA Michael Semoglou, GREECE David Shields, USA Fred Smeijers, HOLLAND Iordanis Stylidis, GREECE Riama Sihombing, INDONESIA Andreas Sophocleous, CYPRUS Alessandro Segalini, TURKEY Andreas Stötzner, GERMANY Vangelio Tzanetatou, GREECE Adam Twardoch, GERMANY Charis Tsevis, GREECE Keith Chi-Hang Tam, Hong Kong Panos Vassiliou GREECE Eirini Vlachou, GREECE Jana Vujic, CROATIA Leoni Vidali, GREECE Karel van der Waarde, BELGIUM Ruth Westervelt, USA Daniel Warner, USA Artemis Yagou, GREECE Alexios Zavras, GREECE Ivana Ziljak, CROATIA Spyros Zevelakis, UK Evripides Zantides, CYPRUS

Fred Smeijers

Fred Smeijers is a type designer who specializes in typographic research and development for product manufacturers such as Philips and Canon. Among his typeface designs are FF Quadraat and Quadraat Sans, TEFF Renard, and the OurType Arnhem, Fresco, Sansa, Monitor and Custodia.
Born in the Netherlands, Smeijers studied graphic design at the Academy of Art in Arnhem. His first practice came in the mid-1980s with the firm of Océ, just then entering the field of typography with laser printers. This set the pattern for Smeijers's long engagement with type design in its most functional applications, as part of product design. After five years he left to work in graphic design, helping to establish the group Quadraat (in Arnhem). The name of the design group was also given to his first published typeface: FF Quadraat, launched by FontShop International in 1992. His work of the 1990s included the expansion of the Quadraat family, type and lettering design jobs for Philips, collaboration on Martin Majoor's Telefont type design, typefaces such as TEFF Renard and Romanée, and his first book – Counterpunch.
With the award of the Gerrit Noordzij Prize in 2000, Smeijers's achievements in the field of practice, research and education were formally recognized. This prize included a retrospective exhibition of his work, held in The Hague in 2003. His book Type now was also published then, as a further part of the award. That year also saw the launch of the font publishing label he co-founded: OurType.
Smeijers is actively involved in historical typographic research – his current research projects include History of the text stenciling in Europe (with Eric Kindel, Readin University, UK) and Type casting under the auspices of Plantin Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium.
For the past decade Smeijers has been lecturing internationally, among others, at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, University of Reading, St.Bride Library in London and Plantin Society in Antwerp. In 2004 Smeijers was appointed Professor of Digital Typography at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig.

More info at:
www.ourtype.com
www.hyphenpress.co.uk
www.zeit.de/2005/06/C-Schrift


Plantin-Moretus, typographical World Heritage (with Guy Hutsebaut)