Schrift Ecriture Lettering: The Development of European Letter Types Carved in Wood (Adrian Frutiger) birthdayposter Each one of these envelope-pushers

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Schrift Ecriture Lettering: The Development of European Letter Types Carved in Wood (Adrian Frutiger) birthdayposter Each one of these envelope-pushersPicture 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