ThoughtGallery.org > Adrian Frutiger: A Tribute by Matthew Carter

Adrian Frutiger: A Tribute by Matthew Carter

The passing of Adrian Frutiger last year took from us a giant of a critical period of typographic history: the transition from metal foundry type, via photocomposition, to the digital world we now live in. He led the way through a technical revolution with standards of design that never wavered, putting before the reader typefaces that were as beautiful as they were functional. As a friend said of him, he was a designer with the equivalent of a musician’s perfect pitch; his hand could not draw a bad line.

Matthew Carter is a type designer with 60 years’ experience in typographic technologies, ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts. After a long association with the Linotype companies he was a co-founder of Bitstream Inc. in 1981, a digital type foundry where he worked for ten years. Carter is now a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc., designers and producers of original typefaces, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received the Type Directors’ Club Medal in 1997.











When: Mon., Apr. 18, 2016 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: The New School
66 W. 12th St.
212-229-5108
Price: Free
Buy tickets/get more info now
See other events in these categories:

The passing of Adrian Frutiger last year took from us a giant of a critical period of typographic history: the transition from metal foundry type, via photocomposition, to the digital world we now live in. He led the way through a technical revolution with standards of design that never wavered, putting before the reader typefaces that were as beautiful as they were functional. As a friend said of him, he was a designer with the equivalent of a musician’s perfect pitch; his hand could not draw a bad line.

Matthew Carter is a type designer with 60 years’ experience in typographic technologies, ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts. After a long association with the Linotype companies he was a co-founder of Bitstream Inc. in 1981, a digital type foundry where he worked for ten years. Carter is now a principal of Carter & Cone Type Inc., designers and producers of original typefaces, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received the Type Directors’ Club Medal in 1997.

Buy tickets/get more info now