Adrian Frutiger is the designer of many well-known and popularly used typefaces of the 20th and 21st centuries, such Avenir, Univers, and Frutiger (named after himself, obviously). Frutiger was born in 1928 in Switzerland, where he grew up and studied at the Zurich School of Arts and Crafts. In 1951 he moved to Paris, where he began creating typefaces and preparing type for photo compositions while working for the company Deberny & Peignot. It wasn't until 1957 that Frutiger achieved worldwide attention after designing the typeface "Univers", a sans-serif font that was first produced for metal and film.
From there, Frutiger's career continued to progress and prosper. He founded his own design firm with Bruno Pfäffli and André Gürtler near Paris in 1961, where he also taught for ten years as a professor at the Ecole Estienne and spent eight years teaching at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Frutiger not only worked to create typefaces, but also to improve upon and expand them. He redefined his work to include more weight and italicization options. By doing so, his work is even more usable and applicable for typographic needs around the world. Fruitger remains one of only a few typeface designers whose career has included a combination of hot metal, photographic, and digital type work.
Sources: http://www.identifont.com/show?110
http://www.designishistory.com/1940/adrian-frutiger/
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