Architype Ingenieur (above and top) is a grid-based font that comes in four weights, including a dot matrix.

Architype Vierkant (above and below) is related to his controversial New Alphabet of 1967, which only used vertical and horizontal strokes in response to early digital display screens.

Dezeen interviewed Crouwel about his career to coincide with a retrospective of his work at the Design Museum last year. Watch the movie here or below and read more about his work in our earlier story.

Here's some more information from The Foundry:

Foundry Types launches two new Crouwel typefaces

Building on its longstanding collaboration with Wim Crouwel, The Foundry – the London based independent type foundry set up by Freda Sack and David Quay – has launched two new typefaces by the Dutch design legend.

Architype Ingenieur is a four weight family inspired by Crouwel’s late 1950s exhibition catalogues and posters. Available in light, bold, regular and dot, the typeface was inspired by the simplified geometric letterforms Crouwel created for various exhibition catalogues and posters during the late 1950s.

Influenced by his boyhood fascination with naval lettering, Crouwel designed grid-based type with 45-degree angles for the Olanda poster for the Dutch entry to the 1960 Venice Biennale. A subtle variation on this appeared in the 1960 Stedelijk Museum catalogue for painter Jean Brusselmans; and several dot matrix versions followed.

Architype Vierkant has been developed from the letterforms that Crouwel created on the theme ‘typo vision international’ for a 1972 Drupa catalogue. This references many of the experimental ideas which underpin his controversial New Alphabet and Fodor typefaces. This single weight typeface forms part of the Architype Crouwel Collection.

Both typefaces are part of Foundry Types’ newly expanded Architype Collections. The other collections in the series – Architype Konstrukt and Architype Universal – feature typefaces created from the experimental typographic work of artists and designers including Josef Albers, Jan Tschichold, Herbert Bayer, Kurt Schwitters and Theo Ballmer.

All fonts are available to licence direct from the new website www.foundrytypes.co.uk which now offers Opentype versions of all of the Foundry’s typefaces. Designers are invited to submit examples of their work which use the Foundry’s typefaces for inclusion on its new blog.

About The Foundry

Set up in London in 1989 by David Quay and Freda Sack, The Foundry is the trademark of the highly respected typeface library, which is managed and run by Foundry Types Limited. Some of its best-selling releases include Foundry Sans, Foundry Wilson, Foundry Monoline and Foundry Gridnik.

Both of The Foundry’s partners continue to develop new typeface designs to expand the font collection. They bring a combination of traditional and modern approaches to font design and implementation, having worked in every technological stage of type design since hot metal, particularly being involved with the beginnings of digital font technology. Their pre-digital experience and skills lend integrity and quality to their type design.

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Dezeen interviewed Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel last week on the eve of the opening of the exhibition Wim Crouwel - A Graphic Design Odyssey at the Design Museum in London.

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In the first movie (above), which was filmed at the Andaz Hotel in London, Crouwel talks about the exhibition as well as wallpaper and a rug based on his typographic designs that feature in a room at the hotel.

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In the second movie, Crouwel talks in more depth about stages of his career.

See our earlier story for more details about the exhibition, which continues at the Design Museum until 3 July.

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Original sketches, posters, catalogues and archive photography plus film and video are displayed along a 20 meter-long white table.

The show presents work spanning 60 years of the Dutch graphic designer's career including the identity he created for the Stedelijk Museum from 1967 onwards, the New Alphabet typeface from 1967 and Dutch postal stamps that were in circulation 1976–2002.

The exhibition continues until 3 July.

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Wim Crouwel A graphic odyssey Design Museum

The Design Museum celebrates the prolific career of the Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel in this his first UK retrospective. Regarded as one of the leading designers of the twentieth century, Crouwel embraced a new modernity to produce typographic designs that captured the essence of the emerging computer and space age of the early 1960s. This exhibition, spanning over 60 years, will cover Crouwelʼs rigorous design approach and key moments in his career including his work for design practice ʻTotal Designʼ, the identity for the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, as well as his iconic poster, print, typography and lesser known exhibition design. The exhibition will also highlight Crouwelʼs rigorous design approach exploring his innovative use of grid-based layouts and typographic systems to produce consistently striking asymmetric visuals.

Original sketches, posters, catalogues and archive photography will be on display alongside films and audio commentary. In addition to celebrating Crouwelʼs career this exhibition will also explore his legacy and influence on contemporary graphic design with commentary from leading industry figures including Peter Saville and Stefan Sagmeister.

Designed by 6a Architects, in collaboration with graphic designers Spin, the exhibition creates a subtle backdrop to Crouwelʼs vivid works. The gallery was stripped back and opened up, allowing a twenty-metre long white table into the space. Exhibits are arranged across its surface, a figurative white page to the exhibitsʼ colourful intensity. Visitors move around, through and in-between its openings, reminiscent of Crouwelʼs fondness for three dimensional space in a two dimensional design. Crouwelʼs own commentaries explain the works, punctuated with striking portraits of the designer across the decades. The simple, paired down design reveals Crouwelʼs surprising tactility, a digital designer working in the analogue age.

Exhibition Design by 6a Architects. Exhibition graphics by Spin.

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