Jan Tit, with Aart Clerkx
Piet Schreuders is an independent graphic designer based in Amsterdam. His specialties include magazines, books, cds, cartography and rephotography of locations from classic films and Beatles press photos. He is also an expert in pop culture archaeology and classic typefaces.
He was born in 1951 as Pieter Ewoud Schreuders in Rotterdam and started out as a comic author under several pseudonyms in the first half of the 1970s. His best known strip was his parody of Hergé's 'Quick & Flupke' called 'De Guitenstreken van Pim en Propke'. It was published in Aloha (1972), Inkt (1972-1974) and Tante Leny Presenteert (1977). For Aloha, he also made the comics 'De Boys met Max', 'De Avonturen van Frits Strik' and 'Jan Tit' (with Aart Clerkx). Schreuders and Clerkx were also largely responsible for the design of Hitweek and Aloha, and for the weekly back page of De Nieuwe Linie newspaper ('Jan Tit's Progressief Journaal').
Pim en Propke
He also started self-publishing hand-drawn, machine-typed and photocopied zines in this period. Since 1974 he is editor-designer of De Poezenkrant, a newslatter about cats and since 1975 he has the same function at the magazine Furore. Contributors to these magazines have been Herwolt van Doornen and Aart Clerkx.
Schreuders has been working as a freelance graphic designer since 1976. He has worked extensively for broadcasting organization VPRO, and was the art director of the weekly media magazine VPRO Gids from 1998 until 2013 (he had been designing covers for the publication since 1983). He has also made designs for the books, dvd's and TV programs of Van Kooten & De Bie (including De Juinensche Courant) and Wim T. Schippers.
He wrote a critical book about design called 'Lay In, Lay Out'. He has also made designs for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Schreuders has made radio programs like 'Vrije Geluiden' and 'Instituut Schreuders' for the VPRO. He has been working together with designer and musician Sonja van Hamel since 2003.
Cover for Aloha starring Pim & Propke, and an issue of De Poezenkrant