Chris Vermaas
Recent articles by Chris Vermaas
Ambassador for reading
Issue 102, Autumn 2021
In his daughter Flora’s schoolyard, the late Dutch type designer Gerard Unger (1942-2018) was once approached by a mother who told him that her daughter … [EXTRACT]
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 populated country and…
Dope cards from Amsterdam
Issue 53, Autumn 2004
The image of Holland has switched from tulips to hemp in one generation
Mandarin to Mao
Issue 28, Summer 1998
The modern Maoist versions of traditional Chinese characters introduced ambiguity and confusion by deleting information
Travellers’ Tales
Issue 31, Spring 1999
A global Esperanto of icons, warning signs on cardboard boxes speak a visual language that leaves no room for misunderstanding
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 the canon you become a product of its system’
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, don’t fix it’, with a familiar layout and masthead. Does a face-lift jeopardise its relationship with its readers? Time to call in the Type Police