About & appreciations

Type and Media is a Masters program for type design at the Royal Academy of Art the Hague (KABK) in the Netherlands. The program gives us students a broad overview of the skills needed for a type designer today, exploring multiple mediums and skillsets. Among them are exercises in calligraphy, lettering, stone carving and Python programming. We also work on several projects designing alphabets and functional typefaces before the final semester which consists solely of creating our own typeface project. These projects are what’s presented on this page.

On behalf of the Type and Media class of 2022–2023 we wish to extend a heartfelt thanks to all of those who taught us, showed us their work or collections, advised us, or simply spoke to us. You have been vital to our success during the year.

Teachers/Staff
Erik van Blokland
Paul van der Laan
Peter Verheul
Tânia Raposo
Françoise Berserik
Petr van Blokland
Peter Biľak
Just van Rossum
Marja van der Burgh

Advisors
Fred Smeijers
Paul Barnes

External examinator
Martin Majoor

Workshops
Aleksandra Samuļenkova
Minjoo Ham
Kristyan Sarkis
Frank Grießhammer
Gen Ramirez
Zrinka Buljabašić
Ilya Ruderman

Excursions
Letter-kunde.be, Patrick Goossens
Plantijn-Moretus Museum
Noord-Hollands Archief
TypeAmsterdam, Mathieu Lommen
Allard Pierson Collection, Mathieu Lommen
Huis van der Boek, Rickey Tax

Speakers
Jill Pichota
Frank J. Martinez
David Jonathan Ross
Héctor Mangas Afonso
Ben Kiel & Jesse Ragan, XYZ type
Santiago Orosco

We also wish to thank Greg Gazdowicz and Commercial Type for lending us a license for Terza Editor for this page. We also wish to thank Kirby CMS for providing a free license to the class.

Website made by Nika Langosz, Samara Keller, Pavel Pavlov (design) and Benjamin R Gaupset (design & development) with the input of the whole TM2223 class.