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Karel Martens INSPIRATION I


Karel Marten is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer born in 1939. Marten is half-designer,  half-artis. He has never stopped his research work. Printed looks, he draws from his collection of abstracted forms, characters from impression pressed in the hand that he mixes with colors. Martens created so at the same time a graphic grammar and a colored vocabulary whichdo never stop evolving.



Rare and particular thing for an alive artist, his work is recognized today as being a reference in the world of Graphic Design. When he begins his studies,  graphic design does not existe as a class. Fifty years later, he his a emblemic figure of the Dutch modernist Graphic Design.







 
  CURRENT UNI WORK INSPIRED BY KAREL MARTENS


  

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