Jan Middendorp has been a theatre an media critic, taught himself graphic design in the 1980s-1990s and became a type writer and design editor from 1995. A permanent freelancer, he has worked for FontShop, Linotype, MyFonts and others, designed magazines and set books, has written or co-edited a pile of publications on type and graphic design, among which Dutch Type, Hand to Type and (with Erik Spiekermann) Made with FontFont. Regular contributor to Eye Magazine/Blog and FontsInUse.com
