ABOUT: Richard Niessen (Edam-Volendam, 1972) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1996. Ever since he works on a body of work that he calls ‘Typographic Masonry’. It is the almost hermetic craft of forging amalgams of signs, symbols & ornaments in mostly nonlinear structures. This
syncretic approach to graphic design, with a predilection for printwork, creates a coherent formal language exclusively to the project at hand.