This year, the Industriemuseum celebrated its 50th anniversary. With the museum shop recently redesigned, it felt like the perfect moment to create something special: a birthday calendar, typeset entirely by hand using wood type and ornaments from the museum’s rich collection, and printed on a Heidelberg KSBA cylinder press.
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Type walk in Ghent. Before & after. Oudburg.
When walking through Oudburg in Ghent, which I do quite often, I have noticed a number of small changes over the years. Signs disappear. Façades are repainted. Businesses move on. New lettering takes their place.
None of these changes is particularly dramatic. But together they tell us something about how the visual identity of a street evolves.
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Type Walk in Ghent. Before & After. Looking up: the fading letters of Cockney's Distillery.
A couple of weeks ago, during the annual flea market on Lange Violettestraat, I found myself doing what I probably do too often: looking up.
While most people were browsing records, ceramics and old books, my attention drifted towards the façades. That's when I noticed it. Barely visible beneath layers of age and weather, a painted sign slowly emerged from the brickwork.
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Type Walks in Paris and beyond
From time to time, I take a city trip to one of the neighboring countries. Whenever I arrive in a new city, one of the first things I do is exploring the streets in search of typographic treasures. From vintage shop signs to hand-painted lettering and unexpected details hidden in plain sight, every city has its own visual language. Enjoy this collection of typographic discoveries from my latest wanderings.
1.Typography. Paris. 2. Typography. Lille. 3. Typography. Amiens. 4. Typography. Roubaix. 5. Typography. Hasselt. 6. Typography. Maastricht. 7. Typography. The Hague. 8. Typography. Zeeland. 9. Typography. Dusseldorf. 10. Typography. Bonn.
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Type Walks in Ghent and beyond.
It has been quite some time since I began my Sunday type walks through Ghent. What started as a simple habit quickly became a way of exploring the city through its typography—discovering the stories hidden in street signs, shopfronts, inscriptions, and architectural details.
Whenever I arrive in a new city, I find myself doing the same thing (I’m sure many of you are doing the same). Almost instinctively, I start looking around for typographic treasures. Every street seems to hold something worth noticing: a beautifully crafted letterform, a fading painted sign, or an unexpected piece of visual history waiting to be discovered.
Over the years, I started documenting the changing typographic landscape of Ghent through a series of blog posts. Along the way, I also collected a growing archive of photographs from walks in other Belgian cities, each with its own character and typographic identity.
After sitting on my hard drive for far too long, I finally found the time to sort through and upload many of these images. They are now online and ready to explore.
I hope you enjoy this collection of streets, hidden corners, letterforms, and everyday details as much as I enjoyed discovering and photographing them.
1.Typography. Ghent. 2. Typography. Brussels. 3. Typography. Diksmuide.
4. Typography. Turnhout. 5. Typography. Deinze. 6. Typography. Sint-Niklaas.
7. Typography. Luik. 8. Typography. Halle. 9. Typography. Lokeren.
10. Typography. Namen. 11. Typography. Kortrijk.
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Type walk in Ghent. Before & after. 90 years of Dossche Sport.
Dossche Sport is one of the symbols of Ghent’s rich cycling heritage — a business rooted in professional racing history, family tradition, and nearly a century of dedication to the bicycle culture of the city.
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Type walk in Ghent. Before & after. Marchandises & stories.
Tucked away near Sint-Jacobsplein in Ghent once stood a place that many locals still remember with a certain nostalgia: Marchand’10. The name Marchand’10 (Marchandise) — French for “merchant” — suited the place perfectly. This was never just a shop, but a world of its own. It felt more like wandering into a densely packed cabinet of curiosities.
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