Erik van Blokland
Recent articles about Erik van Blokland
Postmodern jam session
Issue 83, Summer 2012
Jan Middendorp recalls Fuse, the type ‘magazine’ that opened up (and put the lid on) a transient…
Deep in the archives
Issue 75, Spring 2010
Contemporary type designers Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes select some historical type specimens…
The digital wave
Issue 7, Summer 1992
The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production through most of this century…
Typography’s new priests
Issue 1, Autumn 1990
‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford…
Recent blog posts by Erik van Blokland
Font Li Beirut – harmony in discord
8 September 2020
Li Beirut is a unique font – made in a week by 160 type designers – to support victims of last month’s Beirut blast. Nadine Chahine writes for Eye about her Letters of Hope project
On Tuesday 4 August 2020, villages and towns to the north, east, and south of Beirut began to report a big explosion, writes Nadine Chahine.