The Noordzij Index

A collection of material relating to Gerrit Noordzij, maintained by the TypeMedia department. We have a growing bibliography, there is a list of editions and translations of The Stroke. And there are links to various collections.

New version of the cube for the 2019 reprint of The Stroke.

Image: Just van Rossum

Noordzij cube redrawn by Just van Rossum for the 2019 edition of the Stroke.

Bibliography

The Stroke in different editions and translations. LettError Noordzij Collection, 2025

Photo: LettError

A growing bibliography of writing by, and about Noordzij → here.

Letterletters

Image: TypeMedia

Collection of Letterletter 1 - 15 → Letterletters

Interview with Robin Kinross

Portrait of Gerrit, 2001

Photo Berserik

In 2001 Robin Kinross and Françoise Berserik spoke with Gerrit Noordzij in Hattem. → Interview

The Meaning of Writing

Engraving of a hand, holding a quill. Some swirley curleys on the left and right because clearly this person knows her stuff.

Photo LettError

Detail of Plate 3, Recueil de Planches de L’Encyclopédie Par Ordre de Matières, Paris, 1783

A short essay on the different meaning of the word writing. Contributed to typemedia.org by Gerrit Noordzij. The essay is unpublished and unfortunately not dated. → Article

The Stroke, 2019-2025 edition

The Hyphen Press and Buitenkant editions next to each other. On the right, a real Noordzij cube.

Photo: TypeMedia

Different Stroke editions. And a cube.

The current edition of ‘The stroke’ is published by Uitgeverij de Buitenkant and the Royal Academy of Art.

→ Order at Uitgeverij de Buitenkant

→ Order at Typotheque

→ At the TypeMedia office in the KABK.

Stamps by type designers

Image: Kat Ran Press

A stamp collection at the Kat Ran Press

Michael Russem maintains a collection of “Postage Stamps by Type Designers”. This is the page with Noordzij’s work. → Kat Ran Press

Photos on Flickr

Image: Frank Grießhammer, source: flickr

A collection of Noordzij photos → at Flickr

TDC Award, 2013

Video still Tipocracia

On October 10, 2013 the Type Directors Club awarded the TDC medal to Noordzij. This is a video of his acceptance speech → at YouTube

Gerrit’s notes for the speech, → [PDF] after receiving the TDC Medal

TYPO Berlin, 2014

Photo: TYPO / FSI

Interview and lecture with Jürgen Siebert in 2014. Gerrit Noordzij was scheduled to present at the TYPO Berlin in 2014. Health issues prevented him from making the trip, so Jürgen Siebert and Erik van Blokland traveled to Hattem instead to make this recording. German language. Camera: Maarten Toner. → YouTube

On the Noordzij cube, 2019

Image: Letterletter / ATypI

The Cube: practical research in theoretical models, a talk by Erik van Blokland. June 17, 2019 in the Rose Auditorium at The Cooper Union as part of Type@Cooper’s Lubalin Lecture Series. → Vimeo. This is a page on building a real cube → article on LettError.com