Max Kisman

Max Kisman (NL, 1953) is a graphic designer, illustrator, type designer and animator and a pioneer in digital technology in the 80s, with an internationally acclaimed practice. Graduated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1977, his animation career took off as graphic designer for Dutch VPRO public broadcasting networks in 1997. In 1995 he received the Award of the public in the Design Awards of the City of Rotterdam, and in 1996 he received the prestigious H.M. Werkman Award for graphic Design in Amsterdam, both for his television graphics. 1997 Wired Television in San Francisco hired him as art director. Until the summer of 2005 he worked and lived in Mill Valley, near San Francisco, California. He works for various clients in the US and Europe. Kisman teaches graphic design, typography, animation and typeface design at various international art institutes. In 2002 he founded Holland Fonts, a foundry for his typeface designs and is involved in various self initiated projects, like TYP/Typographic paper (NL), Building Letters (UK, USA), Spaced Out (USA). In 2006 he produced “Roam Is My Home,” an internet art and media project in the Centraal Museum Utrecht (NL). Currently he illustrates for the Volkskrant newspaper and teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.