International Design Talks

How Mrs. Trees was born and raised

Sander Neijnens
Berlin 2013
Saturday, 18 May 2013 | 16:00 | Show
English
In 2007 poet Nick J. Swarth and Sander Neijnens started the project “On-site Poetry. They create poems in the public space that are related to the specific location. For this project Sander designed the typeface Mrs. Trees as an aid to ‘write’ with objects (e.g. apples, flowers, grave lights). Mrs. Trees is a source of inspiration for touching typography.

Sander Neijnens

Graphic Designer(Tilburg)
Graphic designer. Runs his own company Bladvulling since 1991. Besides commissioned work he initiates projects on topics that have his special interest. In 2004 he published the book ‘Shirt numbers’ about the design of numbers on football jerseys. He also wrote two books about the most versatile... Read More