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Jan van Toorn   For a large number of van Toorn related items please visit www.ftn-books.com or click here and search for “Toorn” Jan van Toorn is one of those designers whose work makes you rethink what a poster or a book cover is actually for. He’s often bracketed with Wim Crouwel and Willem Sandberg as one of the great postwar Dutch design figures, but he spent much of his career deliberately picking a fight with what they stood for — and that fight is the juiciest part of the story. The rebel against the grid Crouwel, nicknamed “Mr. Gridnik,” believed in cool, systematic,...