Martin Majoor
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Martin Majoor | |
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Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands | |
| Education | Academy of Fine Arts, Arnhem, Netherlands (1980 to 1986) |
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| Website | martinmajoor.com |
Martin Majoor (born 14 October 1960)[1][failed verification] is a Dutch type designer and graphic designer.[2] As of 2006, he had worked since 1997 in both Arnhem, Netherlands, and Warsaw, Poland.[3]
Biography
Early life
Majoor was born in 1960 in the town of Baarn, in the Dutch province of Utrecht.[1]
Education
Majoor enrolled at the then Academie voor Beeldende Kunst Arnhem (Academy of Fine Arts, Arnhem), now part of ArtEZ University of the Arts, in 1980. He graduated in 1986.
For a student placement, Majoor went to URW Type Foundry in 1984. He used their Ikarus system to design a typeface named Serré, which was never released.
Early work
In 1986, Majoor joined the research department of Océ and investigated fonts for use on computer monitors. He also researched fonts for laser printing for Bitstream.
In 1988, Majoor became a graphic designer for the
Font designs
FF Scala and FF Scala Sans
index symbols were also added[when?] as FF Scala Hands, from a 1933 design by Bruce Rogers .
TelefontIn 1994, Majoor redesigned the Dutch telephone directory for PTT Telecom (now KPN) alongside Jan Kees Schelvis. For this he created a new typeface named Telefont, with digitization assistance by Fred Smeijers. Telefont List was designed for computer-generated listings, while Telefont Text provides small caps and text figures for use in the directory's introductory material. FF SeriaFF Seria is Majoor's second superfamily, released in 2000.[4] Seria is a book face with irregular details.[5] In 2001 the FF Seria family was awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the ISTD International TypoGraphic Awards 2001 in London and a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the ATypI Type Design Competition ‘Bukva:raz!’ in Moscow.[citation needed] FF Seria Arabic (2009), a complimentary Naskh-style Arabic font in four weights for display and text use, was designed by Pascal Zoghbi. It was based on Sada (2007), designed by Zoghbi with Majoor as part of the Typographic Matchmaking project.[6] FF NexusMajoor started on an alternative version of Seria, but this became a larger project. The result was released in 2004 as FF In 2006 the FF Nexus family won the first prize at the Creative Review Type Design Awards, in the category Text Families. QuestaIn 2014, Majoor released Questa, a Didone font and sans-serif derivative[clarification needed] in collaboration with Jos Buivenga.[8] Book designBesides working as a type designer Martin Majoor has always worked as a book typographer and graphic designer. "It is my conviction that you cannot be a good type designer if you are not a book typographer."[9] He designed several books for Dutch publishers such as Bunge, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, L.J. Veen, Vrij Geestesleven and Elsevier.[citation needed] Three times his book designs were chosen among the Best Dutch Book Designs, especially for its inside book typography, rather than for its covers.[citation needed] These books included Adieu Aesthetics & Beautiful Pages! (Adieu æsthetica & mooie pagina's!’), published in 1995 as the catalogue for the exhibition ‘The Aesthetic World of Jan van Krimpen, Book Designer and Typographer’ in the Museum of the Book/Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague and in the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) in New York (1995).[citation needed] For this book Majoor was the first to use the digital version of Jan van Krimpen’s typeface Romanée (originally cut in 1928 for the Joh. Enschedé typefoundry), which in 1991 had been digitized by Peter Mattias Noordzij and Fred Smeijers for incorporation into the Enschedé Font Foundry (TEFF).[10] In 2010, together with the French teacher[clarification needed] Sebastien Morlighem, he wrote a book on the works of the French type designer José Mendoza y Almeida.[11] From 1999 until 2010 Majoor was the graphic designer for the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the largest international Polish festival of contemporary music. The programme books were set in Majoor’s own typeface Seria.[citation needed ]
Teaching and speakingFrom 1990 to 1995, Majoor taught typography at the Schools of Fine Arts in Arnhem and Breda. He wrote articles for magazines like Items, Eye magazine , 2+3D and tpG tipoGráfica.
He lectured at ATypI/Typelab conferences in Budapest, Antwerp, Paris, San Francisco, Barcelona, The Hague and Prague;[when?] at TypoBerlin (2002 and 2005); and during other type events in Lure-en-Provence (Rencontres internationales de Lure 1996), Leipzig (TypoTage 2004), Warsaw, Katowice, Stockholm, Hamburg, Caen, Vienna and Dortmund. He gave workshops in Amsterdam (Gerrit Rietveld Academie), Stuttgart (Merz Akademie) and Warsaw.[when?] His type designs were exhibited in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, New York (Cooper Union), Paris, London, Manchester, Berlin, Helsinki and Barcelona. [when?] Awards
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