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Between writing and type: the stencil letter’, exhibition. 19 April to 29 June 2012, . Accompanied by the catalogue Between writing and type: the stencil letter (24 pp., English & Dutch, ISBN 9789491054013), with text by Kindel.

A curated and designed exhibition of historical stencil letters presented together with new stencil fonts. The exhibition featured a wide selection of stencil letters in the context of historical artefacts, documents, and ephemera, including stencil plates and stencilling devices, specimens and catalogues, and patent inventions. Side-by-side with the historical material, the exhibition introduced a new series of stencil fonts designed by Maurice Göldner, Pierre Pané-Farré and Fred Smeijers, whose design made reference to, or was informed by, the historical material, or by research findings into methods used for making/cutting stencil letters.The exhibition was possibly the first (ever) dedicated to historical stencil letters and artefacts. It drew on an extensive collection of material assembled over 15 years by Kindel, to support his on-going programme of research into the history of stencilling. The exhibition was accompanied by a published catalogue under the same title, whose 3000-word text and representative images chronicled features of stencil letters, methods of stencil making, and the work of stencilling, as found over the past several centuries in Europe and North America. This research-based historical and technical account was then positioned adjacent to the new stencil fonts to illustrate relationships between them.