Dick Dooijes

Dick Dooijes (May 6, 1909 – June 20, 1998) was a Dutch typeface designer. He worked at the Amsterdam Type Foundry for over forty years and directed the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 1968 to 1974.

Biography Dick Dooijes was born in Amsterdam on May 6, 1909. He began working at Lettergieterij Amsterdam (the Amsterdam Type Foundry) in 1926 as S.H. de Roos's assistant and pupil. He worked with de Roos on the design of the typefaces Nobel and Egmont. In 1940, Dooijes succeeded de Roos as artistic director of Lettergieterij Amsterdam.

Dooijes' first solo typeface design was a Hebrew alphabet, which he could not read, created for Palestinian printing companies. After his retirement, he took up writing, publishing an autobiography titled Mijn leven met letters (My Life with Letters) and a book about Dutch typographers. He died on June 20, 1998, in Baarn.