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Jos Buivenga can be passionate about a lot of things. He loves to paint, listen to music, brew an almost perfect espresso... but nothing challenges and rewards him more than designing type. If ever he was stranded on a desert island he would still draw alphabets in the sand, even if there was no one else to see them. He is the founder of exljbris, the one-man Dutch font foundry through which he releases and offers his typefaces. For 15 years, his online friends and fans could follow the development of his typefaces and download the results at no cost. In 2008, while still working as an art director at an advertising agency, he released his first commercial typeface Museo with several weights offered for free. That strategy paid off and Museo became a huge bestseller. Partly thanks to that success he now calls himself a full time type designer. All photos by Jos van Roij

Nai-Dan Chang is a Taiwanese designer based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2016, currently working as a freelance designer and artistic researcher. Her works focus on the relationship between people and spaces, from which she intends to create "atmospheric objects" in order to arouse our senses without noticing it intellectually. Material experimenting is also one of her interests, allowing her to explore the possibility of design in a spontaneous and unexpected process.