Bart van der Leck

Son of a house painter, he started his career learning how to make stained glass in a shop in Utrecht.

[1] In 1919-1920 he created the interior design for St Hubertus Hunting Lodge, in the Hoge Veluwe estate.

In 1930, he was commissioned by Jo de Leeuw, owner of the prestigious Dutch department store Metz & Co. to design interiors, window packaging, branding and advertising.

For these print materials van der Leck developed a rectilinear, geometrically constructed alphabet.

Architype van der Leck, a digital revival of that face by David Quary and Freda Sack of The Foundry, was released in 1994.