The new editions of Karel Martens: printed matter / drukwerk and of Norman Potter’s What is a designer are now finished and have been published in Europe. Copies of both titles are on their way to the USA and will be available this spring in North and South America through Princeton Architectural Press.

The new edition of Norman Potter’s What is a designer is set in the typeface Arnhem, designed by Fred Smeijers. Arnhem was designed and developed from 1998 onwards for a redesign of the Nederlandse Staatscourant that was undertaken by the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem (thus the name). In the end, for familiar reasons of commissioning ‘cold feet’, the typeface was not adopted by the client, but Fred Smeijers finished it anyway and is now preparing to release it commercially himself. Arnhem has a wonderful dignity, indeed stateliness, and yet has the now familiar friendly accessibility that characterizes all of Fred’s work. We are also using it for the new matter of Carter’s View and for Kinross’s Unjustified texts.