Typography

As a child I was already writing and publishing. With my stamps I made puzzle-magazines which I distributed at school.

In primary school I helped printing the school newspaper with a rotating stencil machine. The masters were made electronically. It smelled like burning plastic! This was long before the the copying machine reached reasonable prices.

At Scouting PK18 (now Peka 18) in Utrecht I was involved with the monthly paper "De Boemerang". It was printed with an old-fashioned rotating duplicator which used alcohol. The printed ink was purple.

I liked making the layout of the paper with the limited tools. Text editors did not exist: everything was typed by hand. Errors could only be corrected by scratching the unintended ink from the master sheet.

Together with a handful of enthusiastic scouts I did everything to take advantage of the possibilities. The Boemerang scores very well at the annual scout paper contest.