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…
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…
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…
The digital wave
Issue 7, Summer 1992
The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production through most of this century…
Typography’s new priests
Issue 1, Autumn 1990
‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford…