Jens Schildt
Contact
schilla77@gmail.com
+46(0)70 877 00 49

OPS Type
www.ourpolitesocietytype.net

Credits
Photography: Paulien Barbas, Johannes Schwartz, Sander van Wettum, Breanne Furlong, Thomas Mandl, Karolina Sobel
Typeface: OPS And Ever by Jan Egbers for OPS Type
Web design: Jens Schildt

Jens Schildt is an independent graphic designer based in Stockholm, Sweden, with a special flair for typography, type design, research, and education. In 2008, he co-founded the design studio Our Polite Society together with longtime collaborator Matthias Kreutzer. In 2017, they expanded their collaboration by establishing OPS Type, a type foundry that began as a playground for project-based type designs, which has since developed into a platform for self-initiated projects, commissions, and custom typefaces. In 2023, Jens decided to leave Our Polite Society to establish his own practice while continuing to be a part of OPS Type. Since 2013, he has been sharing his knowledge through teaching at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts, and Design in the Graphic Design & Illustration department in Stockholm.

Collaborators Accelerator (Stockholm, SE), Acne Studios (Stockholm, SE), Actual Source (Los Angeles, USA) ArkDes (Stockholm, SE), Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (Dessau, DE), Beckmans College of design (Stockholm, SE), Bureau Europa (Maastricht, NL), CentroCentro (Madrid, ES), Constant Foundation (Amsterdam, NL), De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam, NL), Dutch Architecture Institute – NAI (Rotterdam, NL), Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam, NL), Internationale Bauausstellung – IBA (Berlin, DE), Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht, NL), International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam – IABR (Rotterdam, NL), International Poster and Graphic Design Festival Chaumont (Chaumont, FR), KHiO – Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Oslo, NO), Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design (Stockholm, SE), Kunstverein Bielefeld (Bielefeld, DE), Lammhults (SE), Lars Winnerbäck (SE), Malmö Konstmuseum (Malmö, SE), Marres – Center for Contemporary Culture (Maastricht, NL), Museum für Konkrete Kunst (Ingolstadt, DE), Onomatopee (Eindhoven, NL), Openlab (Stockholm, SE), Ornamenta 2024 (Pforzheim, DE), Our Polite Society (Stockholm SE, Hamburg DE, Montreal CA) Paradiso (Amsterdam, NL), Plan B (Amsterdam, NL), Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam, NL), Slanted Publishers (Karlsruhe, DE), Spector Books (Leipzig, DE), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Amsterdam, NL), The Music Box (Stockholm, SE), The New Institute (Rotterdam, NL), University of Leuven (Leuven, BE), University of Stockholm (Stockholm, SE), Wim Crouwel Institute (Amsterdam, NL), Wunderbaum (Rotterdam, NL)

Thank you Anna Olsson, Catherine Anyango Grünewald, Creative Industries Fund NL, Christopher West, Dodo Voelkel, Elina Birkehag, Emma Rendel, Eva Molauert, Experimental Jetset, Extrapool, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Gustaf Kjellin, Helena Malm, Henk Groenendijk, Ian Brown, Iréne Thisner, Jan Egbers, Jan van Eyck Academie, Jonas Williamsson, Jules van den Langenberg, Julia Born, Jöns Mellgren, Kalle Mattsson, Karl Nawrot, Karolien Glazenburg, Konstfack University, Lars Høie, Laslo Strong, Linn Eriksen, Linda van Deursen, Mark Owens, Markus Dressen, Martin Frostner, Matthias Kreutzer, Myrabelle Charlebois, Na Kim, Nadine Droste, Oskar Laurin, Parasto Backman, Patrick Lacey, Paul Gangloff, Paulien Barbas, Radek Górniak, Radek Sidun, Research & Development, Rikard Heberling, Sakari Paananen, Sara Kaaman, Sara Teleman, Spector Books, Tarja Szaranjec, The Session, Tomas Adolfs, Will Holder, William Andersson, Åbäke, Örjan Nordling
Photo by Thomas Mandl for Slanted Magazine


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