
Adrian Frutiger - Caractères
L'ouvre complète
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2008
Book
Hardback
460 pages
978-3-7643-8582-8 (ISBN)
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 Hitherto unpublished types that were never realized and more than one hundred logos complete the picture.
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Language
French
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
620 s/w Abbildungen, 430 farbige Abbildungen
620 b/w and 430 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 31 cm
Width: 24.5 cm
Weight
2675 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-8582-8 (9783764385828)
Schweitzer Classification
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Heidrun Osterer | Philipp Stamm | Fondation Suisse Caractères et Typographie
Adrian Frutiger - Caractères
L'ouvre complète
Book
01/2013
1st Edition
Birkhäuser
€169.95
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Heidrun Osterer | Philipp Stamm | Fondation Suisse Caractères et Typographie
Adrian Frutiger - Caractères
L'ouvre complète
E-Book
11/2012
1st Edition
Birkhäuser
€109.95
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Persons
Heidrun Osterer, Berufsschule für Gestaltung, Zürich; Philipp Stamm, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel.
Content
Introduction. Etudes et formation. Ecritures: Président, Phoebus, Element-Grotesk, Delta, Federduktus, Ondine, Méridien, écritures Lumitype, Univers, Egyptienne F, Opéra, Apollo, OCR-B, Serifa, Concorde, New Devanagari, Iridium, Frutiger, Glypha, Icone, Breughel, Versailles, LT Centennial, Avenir, Westside, Herculanum, LT Didot, Vectora, Shisheido, Pompeijana, Rusticana, Neon, Frutiger Stones/Symbols, Capitalis/Symbolica, Nami/Tectum etc. Eléments techniques: composition manuelle au plomb, photocomposition Photon, Monotype, Sofratype, OCR, typographie IBM, Letraset, CRT, Polices laser, Postscript etc. Chronologie détaillée, sources et références bibliographiques.