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          In , three years after the birth of Jan, the Van Toorn family left the city of Tiel in search of work in Amsterdam.!

          Van Toorn has described himself as someone interested in the history of ideas, who also happens to be a practical person, a designer, and.

        1. Van Toorn has described himself as someone interested in the history of ideas, who also happens to be a practical person, a designer, and.
        2. From –98 he was director of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, a postgraduate centre for fine art, design and theory.
        3. In , three years after the birth of Jan, the Van Toorn family left the city of Tiel in search of work in Amsterdam.
        4. A video profile of Jan van Toorn — one of Holland's most influential graphic designers.
        5. The latest D&AD President's Lecture was given by Dutch designer Jan van Toorn (subject of this recent book by Rick Poynor).

          6. In memoriam: Jan van Toorn (1932-2020)

          Highly regarded as one of the most influential and significant figures in Dutch design and beyond, Dutch graphic designer, design theoretician and exhibition designer Jan van Toorn passed away on the 13th of November. 

          Always arguing with visual means, this creative genius was born in Tiel, Netherlands in 1932. From early childhood, Van Toorn lived in Amsterdam, where he started working in a printing company as a teenager.

          In 1949 he attended Amsterdamse Grafische School (Amsterdam School of Printing) to study graphic design and he continued his studies at the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs (Institute of Arts and Crafts) -now the Gerrit Rietveld Academie- until 1953.

          “The emotional charge in Van Toorn’s designs stems from his interest in investigating visual meaning and the social role of the profession.

          He focuses on substance rather than smooth stylistic expression and develops questioning