Albert-Jan Pool

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Albert-Jan Pool (born July 9, 1960 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch type designer , typographer and graphic designer .

biography

Pool studied at the Royal Academy in The Hague and began his career as a type designer, typographer and graphic designer in Germany in 1987. Among other things, he worked as Type Director at Scangraphic and URW Type Foundry . At the suggestion of Erik Spiekermann , Pool designed the FF OCR-F font based on OCR-B and the FF DIN based on DIN 1451 . The latter is one of the most successful fonts in the FontFont library at FSI FontShop International . In 1999 he founded the FarbTon Konzept und Design agency together with Birgit Hartmann, Jörn Iken and Klaus-Peter Staudinger. After leaving the agency in 2005, he returned to font design and teaching. The FF DIN Round font family appeared in 2010. From 2006 to 2008 he taught typography at the Hanseatic Academy for Marketing and Media in Hamburg, and since 2006 he has been a lecturer for type design at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel . Since 2010 he has been chairman of the “Fonts” committee at DIN, the German Institute for Standardization , where he was responsible for the new edition of DIN 1450 - Fonts, Legibility (published in 2013).

Writings by Albert-Jan Pool

  • FF DIN
  • FF DIN Condensed
  • FF DIN Round
  • URW Imperial
  • URW Linear
  • URW Mauritius
  • FF OCR F

Publications

  • Types make brands powerful , by Stefan Rögener, Albert-Jan Pool, Ursula Packhäuser. Hamburg 1995. ISBN 978-3-930027-07-1
  • DIN - Industrial Archeology , by Albert-Jan Pool and Filip Blazek, Hamburg and Prague 2005. An article and an interview about the genesis of the DIN 1451 and FF DIN fonts from the former English-Czech magazine TYPO
  • FF DIN - The story of a contemporary typeface by Albert-Jan Pool and Patrick Marc Sommer. Hamburg 2006. A five-part article and an interview about the genesis of the DIN 1451 and FF DIN fonts from the former online magazine Encore . The link leads to a DropBox archive.
  • FF DIN Round - digital block letters by Albert-Jan Pool. Berlin 2010. A brochure on the history of round sans serif fonts and the development of the FF DIN Round
  • Functional serifs? by Albert-Jan Pool. Hamburg 2013. An article about legibility of fonts and the new edition of DIN 1450 - fonts, legibility 2013

swell

  1. ^ Albert-Jan Pool on fontfont.com
  2. ^ Albert-Jan Pool on Muthesius-kunsthochschule.de
  3. ↑ Functional serifs? on Design made in Germany.de
  4. ^ Writings by Albert-Jan Pool on Identifont.com

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Pool, Albert-Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch type designer and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam , Netherlands