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Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces: The Complete Works Hardcover – Illustrated, December 12, 2008

by Heidrun Osterer (Editor), Philipp Stamm (Editor), Swiss Foundation Type and Typography (Editor)

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 Hitherto unpublished types that were never realized and more than one hundred logos complete the picture.

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460 pages
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English
Publisher

Birkhäuser Architecture
Publication date

December 12, 2008
Dimensions

10.1 x 1.8 x 12.4 inches
ISBN-10

3764385812
ISBN-13

978-3764385811
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Adrian Frutiger Typefaces presents the designs of one of the most significant type designers of the twentieth century. . . . Adrian Frutiger Typefaces will prove equally accessible to those with or without extensive experience in the sometimes esoteric world of letterform design. --Design and Culture

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Heidrun Osterer, Berufsschule für Gestaltung, Zürich.

Philipp Stamm, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Birkhäuser Architecture; 1st edition (December 12, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 460 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3764385812
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3764385811
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.89 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.1 x 1.8 x 12.4 inches

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Rodrigo Saiani

Every type designer must have it.

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2014

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By far one the most insightful book on type design I've read. It's like you're talking to Frutiger and hearing straight from him how each and every one of his typefaces came about. I'm in love with this book. It's huge, it has loads of information and detail.

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Ewa Satalecka

Adrian Frutiger

Reviewed in the United States on August 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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Goffredo Puccetti

The ultimate reference for typomaniacs

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2014

A beautifully crafted book about the one absolute master of modern Type Design. The result is sheer perfection. This book will bring hours of delight to any serious student and teacher of typography. The personal insights by Frutiger himself about the creation and story of his typefaces are priceless and offer plenty of food for thought on type design and its integration with signage and landscape design. Quite possibly one of the most beautiful book on typography ever designed.
I wish I could grant six stars.

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onpaperwings

The Definitive Book on Frutiger and His Type Designs

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2009

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!

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DSarault

A must have book!

Reviewed in Canada on May 31, 2014

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If your a typeface nut and you like the work of Frutiger, it's for you. Well writen and loaded with beautiful images of every typefaces ever design Adrian Frutiger. A worthy book for any designers collection.

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