Adrian Frutiger - typefaces : the complete works / edited by Heidrun Osterer, Philipp Stamm ; translated by S. Dickel.
Publisher: Basel : London Birkhäuser Springer [distributor], 2008Description: 1 v. ill. (some col.); 31 cm001: 12321ISBN: 9783764385811Subject(s): Frutiger, Adrian | Typography | Type fonts | DesignersDDC classification: 686.22092 FRUItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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686.22092 CAR Twentieth century type designers / | 686.22092 CAR Twentieth century type designers / | 686.22092 EAS Rookledge's international handbook of type designers: a biographical directory | 686.22092 FRU Adrian Frutiger - typefaces : the complete works / | 686.22092 GIL Letters of Eric Gill / | 686.22092 GIL Eric Gill: the man who loved letters | 686.22092 GIL Monotype Recorder: commemorating an exhibition of lettering and type designs by Eric Gill: held at Monotype House, London in October 1958 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, MĂ©ridien, 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 Hitherto unpublished types that were never realized and more than one hundred logos complete the picture.
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