Gebruiker:Dutchfonts/Kladblok
Ko Sliggers is a dutch type-, graphic- and exhibition designer.
early years
[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]He started his professional career in 1978 as an intern and from 1979 as a designer at Studio Dumbar, where he became a key figure (Rick Poynor; Design without boundaries: visual communication in transition, 1998). He contributed to the identity of the PTT (Dutch Post) and the ANWB (Dutch Touring Club) and created posters and a catalogue for the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Studio Dumbar's own identity, which he designed in 1979 and is still in use today, won a D&AD silver award in 1981. https://www.davidthedesigner.com/davidthedesigner/2011/10/reading-between-the-lines.html
design and cooking
[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]He left the studio in 1981 and worked as an independent graphic-, exhibition- and type designer in the cultural field. Between 1985-1986 he worked close together with Jan van Toorn on the permanent exhibition Delta Expo. Ko designed leaders and station calls for the dutch television and became a professional chef in the Netherlands, Italy and in France (1991-1995, 2008-2011). Switching back from food to design he became creative director at Studio Anthon Beeke from 1996 to 1999.
type design
[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]In 2002 he created his foundry dutchfonts where he develops and sells his typefaces. Although he was trained by Chris Brand at the St.Joost Academy in Breda, Sliggers is not part of the Dutch tradition of literary, historically inspired type design. His fonts are partially based on, and inspired by found, vernacular letterforms giving his typography an unmistakably identity. In Dutch Type, Jan Middendorp characterizes dutchfonts as is typically Dutch in the sense that it combines precision and rationality with dada-like anarchism and irreverence. http://janmiddendorp.com/work/books/books-written/dutch-type
books
[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]Ko wrote a Slow Food cookbook about his experience of raising and transforming pigs at home: Sus Domesticus, het varken op tafel 2007 Mets & Schilt. In his second book, Koken tussen vulkanen, (cooking between volcanoes) he writes about his experience as a chef in Sicily; in 2014 the book was selected as the best cookbook of the year in the Netherlands and was part of the selection best book design 2014. https://debestverzorgdeboeken.nl/nl/boeken/ko-sliggers-koken-tussen-vulkanen/ published by Loopvis in 2013, with three reprints in 2014 and 2015.
design archive
[bewerken | brontekst bewerken]Before moving to Italy in 2008 his design archive was revealed by Nago (Nederlands Archief Grafisch Ontwerpers) and moved to the Bijzondere Collecties, library of the University of Amsterdam. http://www.wimcrouwelinstituut.nl/nago/archief.php?id=23