Type designer Bas Jacobs is part of Underware, blending type design and progressive research projects. They introduced grammatography, publish about type, and initiate projects like Typeradio.
Regular speaker and workshop instructor. Lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Interested in languages. And dialects. And slang. And scripts. And alphabets. And type. Of course. Likes to ride a bike instead of a car. As fast as possible.
Personal motto: everything is mental.
Photo credit: Marc Eckhardt
The 6-week type design programme that you’ve been waiting for starts on 2 June and ends 10 July 2026.
Open to all Our summer programme is in English and covers typeface design and calligraphy techniques, type history, and software practices. Whether you’re a design pro or just curious about type design, you can learn all about it in a relatively short amount of time.
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