Jan Middendorp is a Dutch page maker and type writer, living in Berlin, Germany.
He was a literature and theater critic, DJ and b-2-b copywriter before that.
First type interviews: Rudy Vanderlans (1987, de Volkskrant, NL), Neville Brody (1988, MAN Magazine, NL).

Design magazines:
Items (Amsterdam) — contributor since 1994
Druk (FontShop Benelux, Gent) — founding editor and art director, 1999-2002; “96” (same), 2002-2004
Eye (London) — contributor since 2004
Other collaborations include tipoGrafica (Buenos Aires), TYPO (Prague), Typographic (London), Etapes (Paris), Matrix (Bad Homburg), Baseline (Kent).

Books:
Moving Minds (1999)
Lettered (about Clotilde Olyff, 2000)
Ha, daar gaat er een van mij! (about graphic design in The Hague, 2002)
Dutch Type (2004)
ARK/ABC (about and with René Knip, 2004)
Made with FontFont (with Erik Spiekermann, 2006)
A Line of Type (about Linotype, with Alessio Leonardi, 2006)

Design:
Lots of stuff for the University of Leuven and the City of Ghent (old)
Books and book covers for Lannoo Publishers (Tielt, Belgium)
Catalogues for VOUS ETES ICI Gallery (Amsterdam, 2003-present)

Current and recent clients:
LucasFonts, MyFonts, Linotype, FontShop, Font Bureau, BIS Publishers