Leading Dutch typographer and graphic designer who created the Gridnik and New Alphabet typefacesWim Crouwel, who has died aged 90, defined the look of the modern Netherlands. He became an influential graphic designer, establishing one of the first professional Dutch design offices, Total Design, with Benno Wissing, a fellow graphic designer, and the furniture designer Friso Kramer, in 1963. `We designed all of Holland, more or less, or at least that is what our competitors said,` Crouwel told one interviewer.And indeed, he is responsible for its stamps; the signage system for Schiphol, its main airport; the identity of its biggest bank; two decadesī worth of posters for the Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam; and even the Dutch team football strip for the 2014 World Cup. He was also an influential teacher at the Technical University in Delft and, from 1985 to 1993, the director of the Boijmans Van Beuningen art muiseum in Rotterdam. In 2011, the Design Museum in London staged a Crouwel retrospective under the title A Graphic Odyssey. Continue reading...
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