News — dutch design

Anthon Beeke With Anthon Beeke i complete the large blog stories on the great dutch graphic designers from the last 80 years. For many Beeke related books and posters please search with “beeke” at www.ftn-books.com or click here The Shameless Eye: Anthon Beeke and the Art of Making Amsterdam Blush There’s a particular kind of designer who doesn’t just make images — he picks fights with them. Anthon Beeke was that designer. For fifty years he stalked Dutch public space with posters of naked bodies, bandaged museum directors, and typography built entirely out of women lying on a gymnasium floor, and he did...

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,...