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THE DANISH LICENSEPLATES
Member of: MDD, Denmark
About the design
The danish licenseplates was originally designed by prof. Naur Klint in
1976. The method of production - the letters and numbers pressed up in
an aluminium plate and only a restricted space for each character -
required a specially designed alphabet, and he created the
characteristic soft and rounded grotesques with open numerals in order
to meet the additionally demand of maximum legibillity. The stability
of the plate required that it be pressed with a frame - Naur Klint took
full advantage of this and turned it into a red profile frame which,
set off on the white background, suggested a national identity as well
as an aesthetic conclusion of the plate.
Initially
some of the graphically unhandy and linguistically complicated letters
had been omitted, thus I (too close to the number 1), W (too wide), Q
(too close to the letter O), and weren't in production until 1993 when
vanity plates put all characters in demand. Since theese letters
originally had been left out because of the difficulty of their
implementation, the time had come to think different and at same time
stay within the existing design.
About the designer
Prof. Naur Klint was appointed as
professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of
Architecture in 1970 and functioned as such until his dead in 1978.
Lars Klint is working as an ass. prof. at the same place and has done so since 1983.
Lise Vejse Klint graduated in 1993 and has, since then, been the director of the studio klint and vejse.
More information
Client: The Danish Ministry of Justice
Designers: Prof. Naur Klint, Ass. Prof. Lars Klint, architect and graphic designer Lise Vejse Klint
Design Firm: klint & vejse
Additional creative credits: Graphic designer Margit Besiakow
Plate size: 50,4 X 12 cm
Copyright: klint & vejse, 1993
klint & vejse
Overgaden Oven Vandet 2
1415-Copenhagen
Denmark
T: + 45 3296 4440
F: + 45 3296 4480
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