Karen Polder

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Reputations: Rob Saunders

Issue 108, Spring 2025

Feature

‘We are in a moment of fascination with everything analogue, especially for designers who spend all day working on screens for screens. For them, it’s refreshing and mind-opening and inspiring in some magical way I can’t fully explain.’ Interview: Eric Heiman [EXTRACT]

Blog posts by Karen Polder

Always drawn, never written

14 September 2021
Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Type Tuesday, Typography

This unusual biography of book designer Helmut Salden (1910-96) shows the processes behind his lettering for dust jackets. By Jan Middendorp
Helmut Salden (1910-96) was the most productive book cover designer in the Netherlands, during the…