Petr van Blokland

Petr van Blokland (1956) is the owner, together with Claudia Mens, of Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens, founded in 1982. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts – cum laude – in The Hague and Industrial Design at Delft Technical University. His special interest is in typography, type design, designing the design process, automation of design, developing software tools for designers and design theory. He developed live design games at various art schools and conferences around the world and published columns in design magazines on various topics.

Van Blokland lectured at the Department of Graphic Design of the Academy of Arts in Arnhem (1984 – 1989), at the Department of Graphic Design (1988-2011) and Master Type & Media (1998 – present) of the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, as well as at the Master Institute of AKV St. Joost in Den Bosch (2010 - present).

Van Blokland received the Charles Peignot Award for typography of AtypI, the Association Typographique International, in 1988 and was Board Member from 1996 to 2003.

He was co-founder and CTO for The Health Agency, publisher of online health information, from 2001 to 2006.

Besides lecturing, his current focus is on international projects, related to typography and type design. He also is co-founder of webtype.com and typenetwork.com, for which many typedesign tools were developed. Type Network is also the location of his type foundry TYPETR. The online study environment DesignDesign.Space started in 2017.

Claudia Mens

Claudia Mens (1957) knew young that she wanted to be an interior designer. Yet she chose to study social studies and worked as a study and career counselor. That proved a great orientation to the world and fed her interest in the lives of other people. But it was not fulfilling and led to study the decisive step of Architectural Design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in The Netherland, and then to finish the post-graduate Master Environmental Design. In 2015 she followed a coaching program “Train the Trainer”.

Mens lectured at the Department of Graphic Design (1991-2015) of the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. During that period, she also developed a minor program General Design for the University Leiden.

Together with her partner and type designer Petr van Blokland, she started her design studio in 1982. Her special interest is in interior and environmental design, color and materials, the development of workspaces and the coaching of desingners.

She was co-founder and head of design for The Health Agency, publisher of online health information, from 2001 to 2006.

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