Adrian Frutiger Typefaces: The Complete Works
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The Definitive Book on Frutiger and His Type Designs
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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Adrian Frutiger
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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Product Description
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 Hitherto unpublished types that were never realized and more than one hundred logos complete the picture.
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Not a book, per se