Chris Vermaas
Recent articles by Chris Vermaas
The organic type designer
Issue 53, Autumn 2004
In the early 1980s, being a type designer was a rarity, and publishing a typeface…
Sailing down a mighty river of type
Issue 52, Summer 2004
Over the past five centuries the Netherlands has become an extremely densely…
Dope cards from Amsterdam
Issue 53, Autumn 2004
The image of Holland has switched from tulips to hemp in one generation
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Issue 28, Summer 1998
Travelling graphic designers supply a personal vision, in words and pictures, of professional and…
Mandarin to Mao
Issue 28, Summer 1998
The modern Maoist versions of traditional Chinese characters introduced ambiguity and confusion by…
Travellers’ Tales
Issue 31, Spring 1999
A global Esperanto of icons, warning signs on cardboard boxes speak a visual language that leaves no…
Reputations: Piet Schreuders
Issue 32, Summer 1999
‘I don’t want to know the canon, because it is completely irrelevant and transient. If you fight…
A New York state of mind
Issue 40, Summer 2001
The design of The New Yorker has nearly always taken the approach that ‘if it ain’t broke…