Petr Van Blokland
Educator Owner
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPetr Van Blokland is a veteran designer-educator and studio owner with over four decades shaping type design, corporate identities, interiors and web applications. He combines hands-on practice—running Buro Petr van Blokland + Claudia Mens and founding DesignDesign.Space & TYPETR—with long-term academic leadership at The Royal Academy of Art and AKV|St.Joost, mentoring Bachelor and Master graphic design students. A maker of design tools and developer of design theory, he specializes in "designing the design process" and experiments with Live Design Games that blur teaching, software and practice. His career bridges commercial work (The Font Bureau, RTL) and cultural leadership (ATypI board), reflecting rare depth across craft, systems and pedagogy. Based in Delft, he’s quietly influential: few peers combine typeface production, custom tooling and curriculum-building at this scale.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Christelijk Lyceum GoudaDelft University of TechnologyCum Laude, Graphic Design, Cum Laude, Graphic Design at Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag
Github Skills (45)
page-layout10
layout10
python10
phonetics10
hebrew10
typography10
cjk9
opentype9
fonts9
webfonts9
latin9
ufo9
google-fonts9
truetype9
woff8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
petrvanblokland/TYPETR-Assistants
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:342 pushes in 1 year 11 months
PageBot/PepperTom
Oct 2020 - Apr 2025
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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