LUNCHTIME TALK
BAS JACOBS
UNDERWARE
FRIDAY/19/11/10
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER
ART COLLEGE FOYER
1PM
For more than ten years the pan-European design collective Underware has been creating versatile fonts, surfing the waves, conducting type workshops, running the radio station Typeradio. The company was founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki, based in Den Haag, Helsinki and Amsterdam.
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Try it out for [...]
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