Hansje van halem biography of christopher

Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a somewhat tongue-in-cheek article in which I argued that ‘Type design [...] seems to resist attempts to establish an encompassing theory by its very nature.

Type design is not an intellectual activity, but relies on a gesture of the person and his ability to express it formally’. I had been teaching type design for a number of years, and the article was a reaction to student requests to reveal the ultimate truths about type, its fundamental rules and principles.

The book is designed by his former student Hansje van Halem, and written by Christopher Burke who documents Unger's career in type design, but also examines.

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The extensive monograph 'Gerard Unger: life in letters' by English design historian Christopher Burke is published by De Buitenkant.

Born during the Second World War, Unger grew up in the city of Arnhem (of A Bridge Too Far fame), was educated in Amsterdam and London in the s and lived in.

Christopher Burke is a typographer, typeface designer, and design historian.

Type design is a series of personal discoveries built upon the collective memory of the profession. It is easy to acquire basic skills, but almost impossible to distil the vast diversity of type into a unified theory of type design.

That’s why I was eager to read Gerard Unger’s Theory of Type Design.

Unger (1942-2018), the venerable Dutch type designer, digital type pioneer and eyewitness to the technological shifts of the past five decades, w