{"id":5025,"date":"2026-05-08T17:54:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/project\/from-letter-to-book\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T10:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:38:57","slug":"from-letter-to-book","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/en\/project\/from-letter-to-book\/","title":{"rendered":"From Letter to Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5025\" class=\"elementor elementor-5025 elementor-5007\" data-elementor-post-type=\"project\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f9de3c9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f9de3c9\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ef63b4 elementor-drop-cap-yes dropcap-serif elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ef63b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 15-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>O<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ur new exhibition, showcasing the graduation projects of our students, is now open at the Letterenhuis. This year, 31 students completed our Expert Class Type Design and our Dutch \u2018Typografie &amp; Boek\u2019 programme, and this exhibition presents the culmination of their work over the year.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ced75f6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ced75f6\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9127bd8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-gallery\" data-id=\"9127bd8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" 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data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 15-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Expert Class Type design<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e59c29b dropcap-serif elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e59c29b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following our exhibition sign to the left in the Letterenhuis, you will see thirteen new type families displayed on individual panels, each carefully designed by a student over eight months. As you walk around the exhibition space, the stylistic variety is striking. These creative designs draw on a huge range of historic inspirations, from sixteenth-century Anabaptist publications and calligrapher Maria Strick, to jazz albums, The New York Times and the lettering used by architects. As our students have developed expansive typeface families, exploring not only roman but bold and italic as well; making typefaces that are suitable for many different applications including editorial, branding, and packaging.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alongside their individual designs, the type design process is shown through a step-by-step display and a group project where students replicated four historic title pages. The complexities and effort behind the students\u2019 final work is revealed in many iterations of sketches and tiny technical adjustments. They have devoted significant time to all stages of the design process, working from initial sketches to digitisation and production.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The renowned British type designer Jeremy Tankard leads the course. He has brought together the history of type design and its changing technologies, as well as practical requirements of the craft today, including hands-on training in industry standard software such as Glyphs.app and RMX Tools.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Type designs from:<\/strong> <\/span>Jim Catel, Barbora Gavl\u00e1kov\u00e1, Derek Hamm, Wayne Hart, Yusuke Ito, Agnieszka Ma\u0142ecka, Francisca Monteiro, Robbe Oyen, Diego Scaro, Georgi Sharov, Mar\u00eda Valls Luna, Jeremy Vinson en Katarzyna Wolny.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70c50cc e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"70c50cc\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-123214c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"123214c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 15-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Boekentafel2-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-5207\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Boekentafel2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Boekentafel2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Boekentafel2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Boekentafel2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Boekentafel2-625x351.jpg 625w, https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Boekentafel2-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Boekentafel2.jpg 1883w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19424dd elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"19424dd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u2018Typografie & Boek\u2019 programme<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2632deb dropcap-serif elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2632deb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Letterenhuis workshop room to the right, you will find our students\u2019 creative book designs, under the direction of Hugo Puttaert. Laid out across the central table are physical dummies of their designs, ready for you to leaf through and enjoy.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year each student produced their own book, in collaboration with an external partner, leading to an exciting array of unique projects. These include photo and artists\u2019 books, vegan cookbooks, and poetry volumes. Several students brought materials from Antwerp archives to life, from the distinctive logo designs of Paul Ibou (housed in the Letterenhuis itself) to the everyday photographs taken by Congolese members of <em>Les<\/em> <em>Amicale des Marins Congolais<\/em>.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students took inspiration from their families too: one student designed a book showcasing her sister\u2019s edible bouquet business. Others tell important stories through personal interviews and photography, such as one project commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These books are made with many different techniques and materials, combining artworks, tracing paper, screen-printed material and creative binding techniques reflecting the book\u2019s themes (such as a vinyl inspired book with different A and B sides and a book that mimics \u2018unboxing\u2019 an archive). The physical designs are as various as the book\u2019s topics, leading to an unexpectedly tactile as well as visual exhibition.<\/p><p><strong>Book designs by:<\/strong> Giel Boogaerts, Leen Caremans, Annelies de Jong, Cara Eykermans, Helena Genard, Ren\u00e9e Ghyoot, Alexandra Hoet, Elie L\u2019Hoyest, Sofie Leon, Gert Motmans, Maartje Peeters, Elke Schuerman, Vennica Sidibanga-Kaseye, Wilfred Springer, R\u00e9ka Szentirmay, Jolien Van den Broeck, Deborah Vanden Brande en Lisa Vanlandschoot.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed625ba e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ed625ba\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-daa8406 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"daa8406\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dutch Saturday programme \u2018Typografie &amp; Boek\u2019 provides all the knowledge and skills needed to design books, whether self-published or for a publisher. The course combines theory and practice, enabling students to learn a range of techniques from micro- and macro-typography to book-binding and editorial design. For further information please join us at the Institute on our Open Days on the <strong>7th and 8th August<\/strong> (details can be found on the Practical Information \/ Open Day page).<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enrolling for next year\u2019s Expert Class Type Design is not possible anymore. The class is full.<\/span><\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Practical <span lang=\"EN-GB\">Information:<\/span><\/h4><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From 27 July to 18 September 2026<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Letterenhuis, Minderbroedersstraat 22, 2000 Antwerp<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weekdays from 10 am to 6 pm. Free admission<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also open during Museumnacht Antwerp (1 August, 7 pm \u2013 1 am, only with Museumnacht ticket)<\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the moment, in the Letterenhuis you can see the permanent exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/letterenhuis.be\/nl\/moeders\">\u2018Moeders\u2019<\/a> also, and the exhibition from the Academy of Berchem, <a href=\"https:\/\/letterenhuis.be\/nl\/activiteit\/verbeelding-gebonden-100-jaar-boekkunst-academie-berchem\">\u2018Verbeelding gebonden\u2019<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c553db9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c553db9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Letterenhuis-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-5209\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Letterenhuis-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Letterenhuis-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Letterenhuis-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Letterenhuis-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Letterenhuis-625x351.jpg 625w, https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Letterenhuis-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Letterenhuis.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Photo\u2019s Frederik Hulstaert<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"featured_media":5150,"template":"","categories":[18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>From Letter to Book - Plantin Instituut voor Typografie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/plantininstituut.be\/en\/project\/from-letter-to-book\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From Letter to Book - Plantin Instituut voor Typografie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"O ur new exhibition, showcasing the graduation projects of our students, is now open at the Letterenhuis. 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