photo: Hans Hendriks
Kisman declared war to the current state of design, typography and taste of the Dutch aesthetic elite in a strong and hartwarming speech.
Soon the official TYP was formed by editors Dietvorst, Groenendijk, Kisman, Maas and Mertens. A while later Jongstra joined.
The following years the group produced a number of publications on the broad field of design, typography, art, visuals and literature. As the slogan says: TYP informs and opiniates about the image in design, art and literature.
For TYP, it's design or representative form is of no importance. TYP looks sober and simple, not designed and accessable. The quality of content is it's identity.
Between 1986 and 1990 TYP officially published 6 regular issues
photo: Hans Hendriks
After a difference of opinions, TYP #E a carton box with individual contributions of the editors, was the 'Let it be' publication of the group.
In the following years the only activities were taken for the Small Publishers Fair, every december in Paradiso, Amsterdam. This resulted in the 'Fax TYP' issue, 'Tape TYP' issue and 'TYP goes for the crowd' issue. In the summer of 1992, TYP published one week, every day a daily newspaper.
Especially these days, while useless information and bad taste in design and visuals is pouring out of our screens, TYP seems to be more nessecary than ever before.