Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger, born in 1928, is a 20^th century Swiss Graphic Designer. Although he was interested in sculpting since he was young, his forte was typeface designing. Frutiger designed many typefaces including Ondine, Meridien, and Président. He also invented scripts, defying the formal cursive penmanship and taught at Swiss schools.  He recreated the Univers typeface in a font that was variant. Not only was he successful with his work at the young age of 16, apprenticing as a Compositor to the printer Otto Schaerffli for four years, but also was commissioned. The French airport authority commissioned him because of his successful modern typeface. In 1952, at Deberny and Peignot, he went to Paris and worked as a typeface designer and artistic manager. His font is very well-known and Frutiger has given numerous seminars all around the world. Some of the awards he has received throughout his career include the Gutenberg Prize, Medal of the Type Directors Club, Typography Award from SOTA, Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Grand Prix National des Arts Graphiques. Frutiger is still doing work to this day, in 2008 he collaborated on a reworked version of his font Meridien, and was released by Linotype named Frutiger Serif in honor of him turning 80 years old