Jan van Toorn lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied at the Institute of Arts and Crafts, Amsterdam. He has been a designer since 1957 specializing in publications and exhibitions. Among others he worked for Amsterdam, the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands ministry of culture and the dutch Ptt. He has taught graphic design and visual communication at various academies and universities in The Netherlands and abroad, including Gerrit Rietveld academie in Amsterdam. From 1991–1998 he was director of the Jan van Eyck akademie, an international postgraduate centre for fine art, design and theory in Maastricht, The Netherlands, where he organised Design beyond design, critical reflection and the practice of visual communication a conference devoted to the discrepancy between the socio-cultural and symbolic reality of the information-economy [1997]. Jan van Toorn is associate professor in the graduate programme of [Rhode Island school of design][], Providence USA.

[Rhode Island school of design]: http://www.risd.edu/

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