Swiss designers gave us the big-name Helvetica and Frutiger typefaces in the 20th century. Now a modern-day designer from Basel is collaborating on a new font that we might soon be seeing a lot more of.
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In this episode of The Swiss Connection podcast, Nina Stoessinger of Frere-Jones Type in Brooklyn talks about inspiration and challenges. (Photo above by Andrew Lichtenstein)
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On the centenary of Bauhaus, the influential German design school, a major exhibition in Zurich is devoted to Swiss all-rounder Max Bill.
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He was one of the few typographers who worked with hot metal, photographic and digital typesetting during his long career. Besides his well-known Univers family of sans serif typefaces, Frutiger designed over 50 other fonts like Roissy, Avenir, Centennial, Egyptienne, Glyphia, Serifa and Versailles. He was also the man behind OCR-B, the standard alphabet for…
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To mark the anniversary, American filmmaker Gary Hustwit has produced a documentary devoted to the font. “I had been interested in graphic design for years,” Hustwit told swissinfo. “From there came the idea to do a documentary about fonts. With Helvetica’s 50 years coming up I found the focal point on which to concentrate.” The…
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