[38], In 1988, Frutiger completed the family Avenir. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, (1952 - [72], He also designed a word mark for the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India. [2][3][4], Frutiger's most famous designs, Univers, Frutiger and Avenir, are landmark sans-serif families spanning the three main genres of sans-serif typefaces: neogrotesque, humanist and geometric. At the very young age, he began experimenting with stylized handwriting and invented scripts, defying the formal, cursive penmanship then taught at Swiss schools. Disappointed by the standard of mental health care at the time, Frutiger and his wife founded the Fondation Adrian et Simone Frutiger to fund psychology and neuroscience research and developments in mental health support. He was apprenticed to a typesetter as a teenager. His interest in sculpturing was not met with very encouraging views by his father and teachers. He later also created Frutiger Stones (no connection to Frutiger), a playful design inspired by the shapes of pebbles. [41] While Frutiger continued to be involved in adaptations and expansions of pre-existing families and smaller projects, he described Didot in 1998 as his "last typeface design".[7]. [9], At the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed for four years, as a compositor, to the printer Otto Schlaeffli in Interlaken, also taking classes in woodcuts and drawing at the Gewerbeschule in Bern under Walter Zerbe, followed by employment as a compositor at Gebr. His career spanned the hot metal, phototypesetting and digital typesetting eras. The resultant face has a tall x-height and is legible in small-point sizes. [71], To celebrate Swiss graphic design he designed three stamps for the Swiss post office. Official Sites. Impressed by the success of the Bauer foundry's Futura typeface, Peignot encouraged a new, geometric sans-serif type in competition. Univers was reissued as Linotype Univers with sixty-three variants; Frutiger was reissued as Frutiger Next with additional weights. [21] It makes use of narrow wedge serifs, a style sometimes known as Latin which Frutiger would often use in his future serif designs. He was a graphic designer who created some of the most widely used fonts of the 20th century, seen in airports, on street signs, and in subway stations around the world. There he created some of his earliest fonts, among them Président, Méridien, and Ondine. It can be read by machines as well as humans, and is used on checks. This page was last edited on 20 November 2020, at 06:55. Until his death, he lived in Bremgarten bei Bern. He was married to Simone Huguette Bickel and Paulette Flückiger. Other Works It was marketed with a design inspired by the periodic table. In the late 1990s, Frutiger began collaborating on refining and expanding his most famous Univers, Frutiger, and Avenir families. He was married to Simone Huguette Bickel and Paulette Flückiger. He died on September 10, 2015 in Bremgarten, Bern. [19] At Deberny & Peignot foundry, Frutiger designed the typefaces Président, Méridien, and Ondine. 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The design failed to attract attention and was withdrawn from sale after a few years. Raph Levien described as a "Frutiger trademark" his common use of an "a" where the loop makes a horizontal line at the top on meeting the vertical. After initially planning to train as a pastry chef, Frutiger secured an apprenticeship at the Otto Schlaefli printing house in Interlaken. Adrian Frutiger was born on May 24, 1928 in Unterseen, Bern, Switzerland.