Merel Matzinger is a graphic designer, born in The Netherlands. She was educated at the Art Center College of Design, first in Switzerland (1992-94) and then in the USA (1994-96), from where she graduated in Graphic & Packaging Design. She went on to work in New York and Amsterdam; her work was published, among others, in Print Regional Design Annual.
In 1998, while on vacation in Paris, she discovered the book Haagse letters in the bookshop La Hune. This led to a year of study at the postgraduate course in Type Design and Typography at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. There she began with theory lessons and with practice in calligraphy, stone cutting, before going on to digitizing type. As a final project she chose to design a 'friendly sanserif' inspired by the work of the ceramicist Eva Zeisel. The first, one-weight version of Eva was designed in 1999. OurType Eva was completed with Fred Smeijers and released in 2006.
Merel lives and works in New York.
