He started designing his own typefaces and entered the postgraduate course in type design at KABK in 2001, where Van der Laan was one of his teachers. After that, he spent eight years toiling for various design and advertising firms, where he developed a passion for type and typography. Pieter van Rosmalen studied design and advertising at Sint Lucas in Boxtel from 1989 to 1993. Combining the monospaced Nitti with the proportional Nitti Grotesk offers many possibilities for typesetting publications that marry running text with tabular matter, like annual reports.
Over the years, countless TYPO Berlin attendees enjoyed his deadpan humor at the joint TypeCooker critique sessions he led with Erik van Blokland. Van der Laan was eventually invited to take up a teaching position at his alma mater.
After a two-year stint as a web designer at an agency, he gave in to his passion and went back to school, enrolling in the postgraduate course in type design ( Type and Media’s precursor). Paul van der Laan attended the academy in the early nineties and was bitten by the typography bug during the half-day-a-week sessions focusing on type. After a successful decade in business, they’ve decided to broaden their reach by joining a constellation of kindred indies at Type Network.īold Monday’s two principals met at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague. Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen established their well-regarded independent foundry in 2008.
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