Swiss Foundation Type and Typography
Heidrun Osterer/Philipp Stamm (Editors)
Basel 2008
Cloth with dust wrapper 460 pages
Illustrated in colour & bl/w
Book idea: Friedrich Friedl/Adrian Frutiger/Erich Alb
Book concept & design: Heidrun Osterer/Philipp Stamm
Text in English

Price: € 106.90

The creation of type in the latter half of the 20th century was considerably influenced by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. His typefaces are amongst the most successful of contemporary classics.
Altogether Adrian Frutiger has designed over 50 typefaces, and his collaboration with colleagues has produced hundreds of logos and word marks.
"Adrian Frutiger Typefaces; The Complete Works" is based on interviews and conversations with the designer and on comprehensive research by the editors. Its depth and range make it an indispensable reference work. A meticulous, well designed project which was 8 years in the making and was completed in the year of Frutiger's 80th birthday, this book represents, as is his wish, his legacy to further generations of type designers and typographers.
There is also a German and French language edition.

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