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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 Lisbon), 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 is also co-founder of webtype.com and typenetwork.com, for which many type design 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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+Petr van Blokland (1956) is the owner, together with Claudia Mens, of Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens, a design studio founded in 1980 that works in cooperation with a network of participants per project.
+He studied cum laude at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (KABK), and also Industrial Design at Delft Technical University, and has lectured extensively throughout his career:
+In the departments of Graphic Design at both the Academy of Arts in Arnhem (1984–1989), the KABK (1988-2011), AKV St. Joost in Breda (2010 - 2020), and Cooper Union in New York City (2020–present).
+He has also taught in Masters programmes at AKV St. Joost and in the KABK Type & Media course (1998–present).
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+Petr received the Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique International (ATypI) in 1988, an award granted to type designers under the age of 35 who make outstanding contributions to type design, and served on the ATypI Board from 1996 to 2003.
+In 1988 he also began running novel design games at various design schools and conferences like TypoBerlin, as well as within various corporations, and continues to offer them for select clients.
+His writing on design is published in the Dutch design magazines <em>Items</em> and <em>BNO Vormberichten</em> on a regular basis.
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+He co-founded <a href="https://ilovetypography.com/2010/08/20/webtype/">webtype.com</a> in 2010, and <a href="https://typenetwork.com">typenetwork.com</a> in 2016, for which he has developed many type design tools.
+Currently his focus is with his type foundry <a href="https://typetr.com">TYPETR</a> where he publishes new type alongside best-sellers including Proforma, Productus, Presti, Upgrade, Responder, Powerlift and Bitcount.
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+  <a href="https://typetr.com">typetr.com</a> | 
+  <a href="https://instagram.com/petrvanblokland">@petrvanblokland</a>
+</p>