Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces

Published by Birkhäuser 2009

Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces

The Complete Works

Edited by: Heidrun Osterer, Philipp Stamm and Swiss Foundation Type and Typography

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783034609906

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About this book

A world of typeface design

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 Hitherto unpublished types that were never realized and more than one hundred logos complete the picture.

The indispensable standard work on Frutiger’s output
With unpublished images and new, hitherto unavailable information
Published to coincide with Frutiger’s eightieth birthday: May 24, 2008

Author information

Heidrun Osterer, Berufsschule für Gestaltung, Zurich.

Philipp Stamm, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Adrian Frutiger – The standard-setter Kurt Weidemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
A typeface is a tool Adrian Frutiger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction. How we made this book Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
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Career path. Adrian Frutiger’s teachers and mentors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Président Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
Type-design project. Delta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
PHOEBUS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Type-design project. Element-Grotesk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Type-design project. Federduktus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
ONDINE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
MÉRIDIEN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Caractères Lumitype Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
UNIVERS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
EGYPTIENNE F Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Opéra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Alphabet Orly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
APOLLO Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Type-design project. Alphabet Entreprise Francis Bouygues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Concorde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Type-design project. Serifen-Grotesk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Alphabet Algol Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
SERIFA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
OCR-B Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Univers IBM Composer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Alphabet EDF-GDF Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Type-design project. Katalog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Devanagari / Tamil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Alpha BP Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Documenta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Alphabet Facom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Alphabet Roissy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Alphabet Brancher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
IRIDIUM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Alphabet Métro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
ALPHABET CENTRE POMPIDOU Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
FRUTIGER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
GLYPHA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
ICONE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
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Type-design project. Dolmen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
TIEMANN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
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Linotype Centennial Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
AVENIR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
WESTSIDE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
VECTORA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	352
LINOTYPE DIDOT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
HERCULANUM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	370
Shiseido Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	378
Frutiger CAPITALI S Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	380
Pompeijana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
RUSTICANA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	390
FRUTIGER STONES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	396
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Professional/practitioner
Pages
- Main content: 460
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 620
- Coloured Illustrations: 430
Keywords: Frutiger, Adrian; typography

eBook

Published: November 5, 2012
ISBN: 9783034609906