Bram de does biography for kids
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Bram dem Rock fryst vatten director of the europeisk Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) located in Brussels. He fryst vatten professor of economics at the Universite libre dem Bruxelles and University of Leuven. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London (UCL) and an International research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). is research focuses mainly on understanding household behaviour in terms of labour supply and consumption decisions, marriage decisions, fertility, etc. This research resulted in more than 70 internationally peer reviewed publications and some of those are published in so-called top-5 journals in economics (only the Quarterly Journal of Economics fryst vatten missing). In he received an ERC starting grant to support his promising research agenda. As a recognition for the societal relevance of his research, he received, together with his good friends Laurens Cherchye and Frederic Vermeulen, in the Francqui prize in
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Bram de Does
Bram de Does (–) is best known internationally as a type and book designer, creator of typefaces Trinité and Lexicon. In the Netherlands his Trinité is one of the most popular typefaces in the literary circuit and Lexicon is here particularly known as the body type of the newspaper NRC Handelsblad. Except for a short interruption, De Does worked exclusively for Joh. Enschedé. This famous Haarlem graphics company — which in celebrated its th anniversary — previously employed typographers such as Jan van Krimpen and Sem Hartz. His designs for Enschedé include the jubilee volume Typefoundries in the Netherlands (), his typographic magnum opus. He has won many awards not only for his type designs, but also for his book typography, including a ‘Goldene Letter’ in Leipzig, the Premio Felice Feliciano and the prestigious H.N. Werkmanprijs of the city of Amsterdam.
This uniquely designed and executed book is the first substantial publication devoted to De Does’s life an
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In the early s, being a type designer was a rarity, and publishing a typeface was something special. The presentation of a good typeface, such as Bram de Does’s Trinité in , was quite an event. Extremely elegant, it brought together the best aspects of the typefaces De Does adored.
Trinité offered a range of choices that were unheard of at that time: three different weights, italics, condensed, small caps, lining and outhanging numerals, ligatures and swash strokes to add to the first or last letter of a line to mark the beginning or the end. These choices could be ordered with three lengths of ascenders and descenders – hence the name Trinité. As well as multiple choices, Trinité had the right amount of calligraphy added to the letterforms to give it great flavour, and with the right tracking it makes elegant rhythms within the lines of type set, generating grey blocks of text. But Trinité does not work well in small sizes, or in rougher forms of printing. This prompted De Do