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+<p>Petr van Blokland (1956) is the owner, together with Claudia Mens, of Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens, founded in 1980 and working in cooperation with a network of participants per project. He studied at the Royal Academy of Arts – cum laude – in The Hague and Industrial Design at Delft Technical University. Van Blokland lectured at the Department of Graphic Design of the Academy of Arts in Arnhem (1984 – 1989), at the Department of Graphic Design (1988-2011) and Master Type & Media (1998 – present) of the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, as well as at the Department of Graphic Design of AKV St. Joost in Breda, Bachelor and Master (2010 - 2020) and at Cooper Union since 2020.
+Van Blokland received the Charles Peignot Award for typography of AtypI, the Association Typographique International, in 1988 and was Board Member from 1996 to 2003.
+He developed design games at various art schools, during conferences such as Typo Berlin and ATypI Lissabon), as well as assignments for various corporations from 1998 until present.
+Van Blokland has published in the Dutch design magazine Items and BNO Vormberichten on a regular basis.
+He also is co-founder of webtype.com and typenetwork.com, for which many typedesign tools were developed. Currently his focus is with his type foundry TYPETR, publishing Proforma, Productus, Presti, Upgrade, Responder, Powerlift and Bitcount.</p>
+<p><a href="https://typetr.com">typetr.com</a> | <a href="https://@petrvanblokland">@petrvanblokland</a></p>
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