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Graphic designer Anthon Beeke is a street artist of a unique kind..
In Memoriam Anthon Beeke (1940 -2018)
As ‘visually irritating’ he explained his approach in 1970 in an interview to Dutch network NCRV.
In a period dominated by neatness, clarity and ledgebility, Anthon Beeke took the opposite stance. His ‘Naked Alphabeth’ reacted playfully to ‘New Alphabeth’ Wim Crouwel designed for the yet non-existentant personal computer.
Anthon Beeke is born in Amsterdam.
‘My alphabeth, while equally useless, was much nicer to look at’. Always smiling Beeke juxtaposed the ruler strictness of Helvetica to the provocative liberalism of Fluxus and Provo. Acknowledging himself ‘an Amsterdam streetkid’ by nature, he was mainl