Adrian Frutiger
Recent articles about Adrian Frutiger
Design history disciplined
Issue 85, Spring 2013
What kind of discipline is graphic design history? Catherine de Smet provided one answer in…
A Monotype timeline
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
A selected, chronological list of notable events in the long, complex history of Monotype
A life in parallel columns
Issue 71, Spring 2009
Adrian Frutiger (Switzerland, b. 1928) is one of the most important type designers of the…
Electrifying the alphabet
Issue 62, Winter 2006
At the dawn of the computer age, new functions ushered in new forms for type design
Reputations: Adrian Frutiger
Issue 31, Spring 1999
‘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
The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production through most of this century have been swallowed and largely pushed to the sidelines, while initiatives in design – and in the terms and routines that condition design – have been made by a few rapidly growing software and computer hardware companies. Pathbreaking contributions have come from small studios or individual designers working, in every sense, from just a desktop. There have been ‘font wars’, corporate piracy and copyright contravention on a large scale. To use the loose terminology by which we attempt to carve up typographic history, it is clear that during the 1980s, the developed world left behind photographic typography (to which metal had ceded) and entered the era of the ‘digital’
Typography’s new priests
Issue 1, Autumn 1990
‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford this summer. Following the successful pattern…