News — Willem Sandberg

Wim Crouwel / The Gridnik   For examples of the many Crouwel designs www.ftn-books.com has in its inventory please click here and search for “crouwel” and find over 600 Wim Crouwel related items. The Gridnik: The Life and Quiet Rebellion of Wim Crouwel Amsterdam, 1967 The room was too quiet. Wim Crouwel stood beside a wall of proofs, watching people who normally had opinions about everything struggle to say anything at all. He had just shown them a new alphabet — one he had built not from centuries of calligraphic tradition, but from a grid. No curves. No diagonals where a diagonal wasn’t strictly...

Willem Sandberg The Man Who Tore Up the Rulebook: Willem Sandberg and the Reinvention of the Museum For the many Sandberg items www.ftn-books.com has available, click here   Walk into Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum today, and you’re standing inside an idea that one man spent thirty years fighting for: that a museum should be alive, welcoming, and unafraid of new art. That man was Willem Sandberg — a self-taught typographer, wartime forger, and the director who turned a sleepy Dutch municipal museum into one of Europe’s most influential homes for modern art. Sandberg’s story is unusual because it refuses to sit in one lane....