Instead of writing and producing new books of my own, I have been contributing to books edited by others lately. I was lucky enough to be invited to be one of the 10 curators of Area2 from Phaidon Publishers, a book that shows the work of 100 young and not-so-young graphic designers from around the world (of which I selected and interviewed 10). I also contributed an essay about Adrian Frutiger's Avenir to a book about Linotype's Platinum Collection, edited by John D. Berry.

Apart from that, I act as an editor, writer and consultant to various type foundries and distributors. I've been writing and designing stuff for LucasFonts, I'm writing a piece for Jeremy Tankard's forthcoming Type Book 2, and I've been working on stuff for other foundries that is still under embargo. I also edit and write monthly type designer interviews published in MyFonts' Creative Characters newsletter. Among the type designers I interviewed for them so far are David Berlow, Christian Schwartz, Frantisek Storm, Dino dos Santos and Underware.

See also janmiddendorp.com (but not yet).