Albert-Jan Pool - Citizendia

Albert-Jan Pool (born 1960 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch type designer. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, Type design, and modifying type Glyphs Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. For other Royal Academies see Royal Academy (disambiguation The Royal Academy of Art is an Art Academy in The Hague

After his study he left for Germany. From 1987 to 1991 he was Type Director at Scangraphic in Wedel, near Hamburg. Scangraphic is a division of Dr Böger Duplomat Apparate GmbH & Co From 1991 to 1994 he was Manager of Type Design and Production at URW. URW is the usual short form of the company URW++ Design & Development, located in Hamburg, Germany. During this time he completed his type families URW Imperial, URW Linear and URW Mauritius.

By January 1995 he started his own studio Dutch Design. FF DIN and FF OCR-F were among his first projects. FF DIN is a realist sans-serif typeface designed in 1995 by Albert-Jan Pool, and based upon the earlier DIN typeface family He also created the Jet Set Sans, C&A InfoType, DTL HEIN GAS corporate typefaces. Jet is the Filling station brand of ConocoPhillips, used in Europe. C&A is also an abbreviation for the Camden and Amboy Railroad.

In 1999 Albert-Jan Pool co-founded FarbTon Konzept + Design. During this time he created the Regenbogen Bold typeface as well as DTL HeinGas Headline. He left FarbTon at the end of 2005.

Since January 2006 he started publishing his findings on the history of the German standard typefaces as defined in DIN 1451

He has been teaching type design at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule as well as typography at the HAMM Hanseatische Akademie für Marketing und Medien (Hanseatic Academy for Marketing and Media) from 1996 to 1999. DIN 1451 is a realist Sans-serif Typeface that has been defined by the German standards body Deutsches Institut für Normung since 1936 In 2006 he also took up these jobs again.

The history of the design of a contemporary typeface

He has written a series of articles about the origins of the DIN typeface, published in the e-magazine 'Encore', issues 13-15, 17-18.

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