Hansje van Halem’s systematic work combines legibility and irregularity

We first wrote about Hansje van Halem around this time last year, and she has continued drawing intricate, perspective-bending typography, patterns and illustration. Much of her work is hand drawn, Hansje reasoning that she “finds repetitive work soothing” and enjoys “the tension between a systematic approach, legibility and (ir)regularity.” Her drawings manage to be bright, incredibly detailed and optically confusing whilst having just the right amount of knowing restraint to be readable.

As well as keeping, and publishing sketchbooks in which she draws type, motifs and experiments – which all started off as a hobby, something she would do between book design deadlines – Hanse takes commissions from Wired and People of Print , as well as an ongoing poster series for Amsterdam gallery Galerie Block C and seasonal endpapers for publishing house Uitgeverij De Buitenkant.