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

SPIKE Font
This type specimen was created out of interest and fascination by gothic pointed shapes and blocky sharp-cornered symbols. I made a special grid that allows for countless combinations/variations of letters, glyphs, characters and symbols. The grid enforces triangular pointy shapes and therefore promotes angular results. Through multiple sessions of exploration and experimentation, I designed an alphabet, a set of numbers, glyphs and symbols.