Adrian Frutiger

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Design history disciplined

Issue 85, Spring 2013

Review

What kind of discipline is graphic design history? Catherine de Smet provided one answer in…

A Monotype timeline

Issue 84, Autumn 2012

Feature

A selected, chronological list of notable events in the long, complex history of Monotype

A life in parallel columns

Issue 71, Spring 2009

Review

Adrian Frutiger (Switzerland, b. 1928) is one of the most important type designers of the…

Electrifying the alphabet

Issue 62, Winter 2006

Feature

At the dawn of the computer age, new functions ushered in new forms for type design

Reputations: Adrian Frutiger

Issue 31, Spring 1999

Feature

‘I was fortunate. Early in life, I understood that my world was a two-dimensional one. At sixteen I knew that my work would be in black and white.’

The digital wave

Issue 7, Summer 1992

Feature

The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production have been swallowed and largely pushed to the sidelines. By Robin Kinross

Typography’s new priests

Issue 1, Autumn 1990

Review

‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford this summer. Following the successful pattern…

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Books received #62

9 January 2026
Design history, Graphic design, Music design, Reviews, Visual culture

Greensleeves, The Outdoor Archive, On the Edges of Graphic Design from A—Z, Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930, A Sign Is, Turning Revolt into Style

Here are half a dozen interesting books that landed on Eye’s desks and plan chests in recent months …