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typotheque have placed an interview online with dutch designer ‘rené knip’ the interview is an excerpt form a book entitled 158 answers

…i saw so much in lettering that the whole idea for me is to create a world of images; I do a lot of lettering which is very illustrative. I got out of the world of book typography because it has so many rules for readability; the text needs to be more or less transparent. I use letters like a photographer does a camera: I use them to illustrate emotions…