Paul van der Laan
Credits
- Website
- http://www.type-invaders.com/
Background
Paul van der Laan operates from a studio near the seaside in The Hague as a typographic designer. He runs Type Invaders, his privately owned typography studio, and is founding partner of Bold Monday, an independent font foundry.
He is a tutor at the Type & Media masters course at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague. He has given workshops and lectures about type design at numerous schools, including the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Basel, Konstfack in Stockholm, ECAL in Lausanne, AFAD in Bratislava and at various conferences, including Typo Berlin, Forum Typography and ATypI.
He is the designer of acclaimed typefaces, including Rezident (Linotype), Flex (Type Invaders), Chalet Comprimé (House Industries), FF Kievit Pro and FF Milo (FontFont, in conjunction with Mike Abbink), Feisar (Type Invaders).
Together with Pieter van Rosmalen he set up the foundry »Boldmonday« in 2008.
Flex