Adrian Frutiger
Swiss type designer
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Adrian Johann Frutiger was a Swiss typeface designer who influenced the direction of type design in the second half of the 20th century. His career spanned the hot metal, phototypesetting and digital typesetting eras. Until his death, he lived in... Wikipedia
Born: May 24, 1928, Unterseen, Switzerland
Died: September 10, 2015 (age 87 years), Bremgarten bei Bern, Switzerland
Children: 3
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Adrian Johann Frutiger was a Swiss typeface designer who influenced the direction of type design in the second half of the 20th century.
Adrian Frutiger is a renowned twentieth century Swiss graphic designer. His forte was typeface designing and he is considered responsible for the ...
Sep 20, 2015 · A type designer who died on Sept. 10 at 87 in his native Switzerland, Mr. Frutiger created some of the most widely used fonts of the 20th ...
Sep 16, 2020 · Creator of the Univers typeface. Diploma in hand, he was hired at an old established Parisian foundry, Deberny & Peignot, where he quickly set ...
Nov 5, 2021 · “Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements. It gives the distance between the trees, the room ...
Sep 10, 2019 · Born in 1928 in Unterseen, Adrian Frutiger experimented with invented scripts and stylized handwriting in negative reaction to the formal, ...
Contemporary Swiss graphic designer, typographer and type designer of imagination and consummate craftsmanship, associated with Deberny & Peignot, Ba...
For more than 45 years the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger, born in 1928, has been a hugely influential figure in typography. After an apprenticeship as ...
Frutiger went to Paris in 1952 and worked as typeface designer and artistic manager at Deberny & Peignot. His first typeface creations were Phoebus (1953), ...
In 1968, Adrian Frutiger became an official advisor for D. Stempel AG in Frankfurt, Germany, and therefore also for its successor companies such as Mergenthaler ...