Adrian Frutiger Typefaces. The Complete Works

Heidrun Osterer; Philipp Stamm (eds)

ISBN 10: 3764385820 / ISBN 13: 9783764385828

Published by Birkhauser, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adrian Frutiger Typefaces. The Complete Works
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 3764385820
• ISBN 13: 9783764385828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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Synopsis

The international creation of typefaces after 1950 was decisively influenced by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. His Univers typeface and the machine-readable font OCR-B, which was adopted as an ISO standard, are milestones, as is his type for the Paris airports, which set new standards for signage types and evolved into the Frutiger typeface. With his corporate types, he helped to define the public profiles of companies such as the Japanese Shiseido line of cosmetics. In all he created some fifty types, including Ondine, Méridien, Avenir, and Vectora.
Based on conversations with Frutiger himself and on extensive research in France, England, Germany, and Switzerland, this publication provides a highly detailed and accurate account of the type designer’s artistic development. For the first time, all of his types – from the design phase to the marketing stage – are illustrated and analyzed with reference to the technology and related types. Hitherto unpublished types that were never realized and more than one hundred logos complete the picture.

About the Authors

Heidrun Osterer, Berufsschule für Gestaltung, Zurich.

Philipp Stamm, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel.

Heidrun Osterer, Berufsschule für Gestaltung, Zürich; Philipp Stamm, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel.