Anthon beeke biography definition

Anthon Beeke was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in Apart from a few months of evening classes at the school of applied arts, he received no formal design training. After working as an apprentice for a number of overseas designers, he spent an important formative year as an assistant to Jan van Toorn.

In , Beeke established his own graphic design practice, working mainly for literary publishers, museums, cultural magazines and theatre companies. His independent career was interrupted from to , when he was assistant director of Total Design; until the foundation of his own Studio Anthon Beeke in he occasionally worked with Dutch designer Swip Stolk.

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Beeke’s designs have always generated controversy, from his alphabet composed entirely of naked women, to his notorious poster for Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida – intended, the designer claims, as a feminist statement.

Beeke now employs a staff of eight in his Amsterdam office. He has been awarded innumerable prizes for posters, b