Adrian Frutiger - Typefaces [Hardcover]

Heidrun Osterer (Author)

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Hardcover: 460 pages
Publisher: Birkhauser Architecture; 1 edition (Oct 29 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3764385812
ISBN-13: 978-3764385811
Product Dimensions: 31.5 x 25.4 x 4.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 2.7 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #509,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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 Hitherto unpublished types that were never realized and more than one hundred logos complete the picture.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 Author

Heidrun Osterer is lecturer in typographic screen design at 'Berufsschule für Gestaltung' (vocational design education and training) in Zurich

Philipp Stamm is an assistant professor of typography and type design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (HGK) Basel (University of Art and Design Basel).

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Book on Frutiger and His Type Designs, Mar 7 2009

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This review is from: Adrian Frutiger - Typefaces (Hardcover)

A seriously enormous undertaking, "Adrian Frutiger Typefaces" is the definitive book on the type design work of Adrian Frutiger. From his beginnings to his latest designs, each face ever designed is displayed, compared, commented upon, and put into context.

Along with massive amounts of detail on each typeface Frutiger designed, there is a great deal of information explaining the technologies that were used and the advancements in type design over the past century. This is not only a book just on Frutiger's designs, but a book about the process of designing a typeface down to the smallest detail.

Recommended for anyone that has even the smallest appreciation of type and type design!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Adrian Frutiger, Aug 1 2009

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Great book for advanced students, teachers and designers involved it typography. Well done documentation of the life and work Adrian Frutiger, full of sketches, notices and designer`s comments which help you understand his way of thinking and work. Necessary in each library for serious thinking about typography. Deeply helpful for teachers.

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