Type now, made at top speed, was finished just in time for its presentation on 17 October at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. It goes on sale in Europe now. The exhibition ‘Fred Smeijers: work so far’ was opened last week too. It runs for three weeks, to Saturday 8 November, on which day Fred’s theses will be debated in an open seminar at the Royal Academy.

One of the large displays, using quotations from the book, which cover the walls of one room in the exhibition.

Fred with Erik Spiekermann, the new Gerrit Noordzij Prize winner, in front of one of these displays.