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Frans Lieshout
TypoGraphic Designer
+31 6 81 65 50 88
Portrait: Aatjan Renders
> Biography
1956
August 21, born in Hoorn, The Netherlands.
1971 - 1979
Worked as a hot metal type-setter at printing shop Stumpel, Hoorn.
1974 - 1976
Evening-course lay-out at the Graphic School of Amsterdam.
1977 - 1981
Evening-course Graphic Design at the Rietveld Academy of Amsterdam.
1979 - 1986
Designer at Total Design, Amsterdam.
1987
Holiday break Africa.
1988 - 1989
Member of the Jury at the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Graphiques (ESAG) at Paris, France.
1989 - 1991
Teacher typography at the Academy St. Joost at Breda.
1992
Teacher typography at the Academy of Modern Art at Rotterdam.
1993
Workshop at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Germany.
1992 - 1999
Senior designer at Design Connection.
1993
Workshop at the Département de Design, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada.
1999 - 2021
Senior designer and way finding / visual designer at Cascade visuele communicatie bv.
2009
Young meets old in ‘de Bazel, Amsterdam.
The influence of design on the computer design practice.
Titus Yocarini (Director, Museum of Communication) interviews the designers Frans Lieshout and Jelle van der Toorn Vrijthoff.
2015
Exibition at galerie Sopit, Typographic painting.
> Participated in the following exhibitions
1981
Graf 3.
1984
Graf 4.
Brno Biennale.
International Poster Biennale, Warsaw.
1985
Lathi Poster Biennale.
1987
Graf 5.
Holland in Vorm, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
1990
Brno Biennale - ‘winner of the silver medal’.
> Publications
Published in several international books and magazines; in the books ‘Experimental Design’ by Igildo G. Biesele and Basic Typography ‘Design with letters’ by Ruedi Rüegg.