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Karel Martens was born on 1939, is a Karel Martens is freelance graphic designer. Discover Karel Martens's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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1939

Karel Martens (born 1939) is a Dutch freelance graphic designer, specialized in typography

Martens was born in Mook en Middelaar in 1939 and graduated from the Arnhem Academy of Art and Industrial Arts of the Netherlands in 1961 where he studied fine arts.

He did not study graphic design because it was not considered a career at the time and therefore, did not exist as its own course of study.

In school he took many classes such as painting, sculpture making, illustration, and publicity.

Today he is recognized as one of the most influential practitioners in graphic design.

1977

He started teaching at ArtEZ in Arnhem in 1977.

1990

Martens has since took over designing the journal since 1990.

Martens uses the magazine as space for experimental design.

1995

He also received an honourable mention for the Rotterdam Design Prize in 1995.

1996

In 1996 he was awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art, and in 2012 he won the Gerrit Noordzij Prize.

His book Printed Matter, published in 1996 with Jaap van Triest, was declared the best designed book in the world by the 1998 Leipzig Book Fair.

His books, letterpress prints, and monoprints are highly revered and collectible.

He is included in a list of “one hundred of history's leading practitioners” in the book The Designer Says, along with other notable practitioners of graphic design.

Many of Martens’ work ranges from posters, to prints and to editorials, but all have a strong emphasis on typography.

He had always been fascinated with language, mathematics and color and he finds a way to incorporate all these interests into his designs.

His work is not glamorous.

In fact, his monoprints series was created using found metal objects taken from discarded car parts, disks, and other miscellaneous objects collected from the side of the road.

He uses these objects to print ink on found paper.

His methods are slow but very precise—he prints one colour per day, waits for it to dry, and prints the second colour the next day.

By this method, Martens’ prints may take days or weeks to be completed.

One of Martens’ longest on-going projects is his Stedelijk print collection.

It began when the catalogues in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam were being digitized and the old archive cards—designed by Willem Sandberg—were being discarded.

Martens proceeded to take the documents and have been using them as a canvas for his projects since and each print is unique in that they are made from individual catalogue cards.

These finalized prints are now used as diplomas, which will be presented to the Werkplaats students upon graduation.

1998

In 1998 he, along with Wigger Bierma, founded the Werkplaats Typografie, a renowned Masters course for typography in Arnhem, Netherlands.

Martens’s practice consists of designing and teaching.

He is responsible for the design of architectural magazine OASE, in collaboration with current and former students.

And he has designed books for publisher SUN in many varying formats.

His work has also included designing coins, postage stamps and telephone cards for the Dutch government.

The Werkplaats Typografie (WT) is a two-year graphic design master programme at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and was founded by Karel Martens and his former student Wigger Bierma in 1998.

The idea to start Werkplaats Typografie came from the problems Martens found in existing models of design education in the Netherlands.

He notes that “A little bit what I’m regretting now in design education is that its design, design, design, the students always looking in magazines, looking at how other designers are doing it—it’s incestuous…students often see inspiration in copying things, not in the energy of the work or the mentality behind the design but the flavor of it and the superficial work.” He did not want his programme to be a place that just churned out designers, but one that urges students to own styles and personalities.

The program is very hands-on and offers many collaborative opportunities to work with external clients.

Since its conception, the school regularly invites guests to review student work, give presentations, or host workshops.

The students are often invited to work with both international and national festivals and projects.

In addition to these opportunities, students are expected to work on self-initiated projects as well as attend meetings, lectures, and seminars.

The curriculum consists of three components:

The Werkplaats Typografie postgraduate program offers a lot of workshops.

One reoccurring project Martens shares with successive groups of students is the design of OASE.

OASE is an independent, international, peer-reviewed architectural journal founded by students of Delft University of Technology in the early 80s.