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Fred Smeijers
Official Bio
[Source: ourtype.com]Fred Smeijers is a type designer, writer and educator. He specializes in typographic research and development for product manufacturers. Among his typeface designs are FF Quadraat and FF Quadraat Sans, TEFF Renard, DTL Nobel and OurType Arnhem, OT Fresco and OT Sansa.
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. In 1985 Smeijers c0-founded the group Quadraat (in Arnhem). The name of the design group was also given to his first published typeface: FF Quadraat, launched in 1992. His work of the 1990s included the expansion of the Quadraat family, type and lettering projects for Philips, collaboration on Martin Majoor’s Telefont type design, typefaces such as TEFF Renard and Romanée, and his first book for Hyphen Press – Counterpunch. His corporate type family for Canon-Europe was released in 2000.
With the award of the Gerrit Noordzij Prize (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 and in London in 2004. His second book Type now was also published in 2003, as a further part of the GNP award.
In 2004 Smeijers was appointed Professor of Digital Typography at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig. Next to that, he is lecturing internationally and a guest lecturer at the Type and Media, a MA in Type Design at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
Fred is the Creative Director of OurType - an independent type publishing label he co-founded in 2002.
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Related Links
Smeijers on Type radio
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst
Fred Smeijers at FontShop
Smeijers on MyFonts
Identifont, Smeijers
Books
Type Now: A Manifesto by Fred Smeijers, edited by Robin Kinross
Counterpunch by Fred Smeijers, edited by Robin Kinross
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