Hi, I'm Joshua van Blijderveen, a graphic designer based in Veenendaal, the Netherlands. I'm currently studying at ArtEZ, Arnhem. I'm interested in typographic design and photography, but I also enjoy experimenting with different mediums, tools, and methods. I often embrace tactile processes like screen printing and other forms of traditional printing, combining them with digital ventures such as experimental video work and generative art, allowing for unexpected outcomes and continuous creative exploration.

With my work, I search for the line between reality and abstraction. Through experimentation with digital and analog techniques, my aim is to bring both worlds together by incorporating different creative areas and practices. I find curiosity in intuitive working ways, the study of details, searching for new connections, and experimentative practices that create new possible outcomes.

In my free time, I enjoy practicing the craft of calligraphy, photography, and collaging, as well as thrifting, watching movies, experimenting with music, and researching topics that strike my curiosity.


Exhibitions:
Navigating Navigation, Oude Kraan, Arnhem, 2024
Lorem Ipsum Expo, Midwest, Amsterdam 2024
MAFA, FOCUS Filmtheater, Arnhem  2024
Climate  Affordances, Rozet, Arnhem 2024
I am Here, Rozet, Arnhem, 2023  
EP Release, Kicker en Moab, 2023
Set Rules, Unexpected Outcomes:
On Workshop Based Practices
530 Type Club is a font-collective that hosts workshops and studies on experimental typography. Set Rules, Unexpected Outcomes: On Workshop-Based Design Practices is an investigation on how workshop-based creative practices engage with community, thinking through making, and archiving—the core of 530 Type Club.

The book contains interviews with individual designers as well as collectives whose practices involve workshops such as Fraser Muggeridge, Amandine Alessandra, Benjamin McMillan, notyourtypefoundry, K.C⇄Q, Extra Practice, Pen Plotting Party, DuctTape Collective, and No Other Option.


https://530type.club/