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Re:Adrian Frutiger has died by th0ma5 on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @01:33PM (#10221938)
I'm curious about the comment in the caption of the portrait in this story, specifically that harmonious typefaces are only achievable by hand. Anyone have any more details about this? Hopefully there are many aspects of design that are still solely within the realm of people, but this may be slightly shrinking every day.
Re:Adrian Frutiger has died by 542458 on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @02:02PM (#10222156)
To clarify, I believe that his stance was that while digital reproductions of a finished font are satisfactory, the creative process and the original design of a typeface must always be done by hand. You can see some of his hand-drawn works here, on the Zurich University of the Arts' website:

http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asimages/search@?criteria...

Here are some particularly interesting ones:

http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/52/title-a...

http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/65/title-a...

http://www.emuseum.ch/view/objects/asitem/search@/114/title-...