Schrift Ecriture Lettering: The Development of European Letter Types Carved in Wood (Adrian Frutiger) birthdayposter this was published in an

this was published in an edition of just twenty-eight and we could not be more charmed

we came across this book in a used bookstore in Syracuse

This one is a brisk tour through the history of Western typography

In 1965 there was an exhibition of German industrial design in London

A highly uncommon thing

Schrift Ecriture Lettering: The Development of European Letter Types Carved in Wood (Adrian Frutiger) birthdayposter this was published in anPicture it: A 23 year old Adrian Frutiger needs to graduate from Kunstgewerbeschule Zrich (University of the Arts in Zurich). So what does he do? He used five short paragraphs about the history of occidental lettering written by one of his professors (because he was, apparently, a suck up) and cut in nine beechwood blocks fifteen approaches to lettering, from the Greek Lapidary Style to the Humanistic Cursive. Then he had that text printed from metal