For more than ten years the pan-European design collective Underware has been creating versatile fonts, surfing the waves, conducting type workshops, running the radio station Typeradio, throwing cannon balls, experimenting with blood, practicing kamikaze chess; but mostly, they gave flowers for their mothers and turned them into a cover girl. Which resulted in an everlasting smile on their faces.

The company was founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki.
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Bas Jacobs
Born in Wanssum, the Netherlands, 1976. Studied visual communication at the art academy ABK in Maastricht and followed the post-graduate course typography and type design at the KABK Den Haag. Lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Still on the look out for the 5kg jars of Nutella.