Chris Vermaas

Chris Vermaas (Amsterdam, 1958) began attending the evening program at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1976 and worked for several years as an assistant to his teacher, Gerard Unger. In the 1980s, he worked as a designer, writer, and teacher in Amsterdam and Enschede. Subsequently, he lived in Barcelona and taught at RISD, Yale University, Cooper Union, and UDLA Puebla (Mexico). After his return, he founded Office of CC together with his partner, Chin-Lien Chen. In addition to his design work, he taught at DAE, HKU, Plantin (Belgium), and TU Delft. Since 2009, he has been affiliated with the University of Twente, where he is currently conducting doctoral research into the effectiveness of ‘invisible’ aspects of our visual language.