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During the Summer of 07 team Plural had the privelege of participating in a type workshop at the Basel School of Design. Our brilliant professor, Philipp Stamm, taught me more about typography, and Basler football, in one week than I had learned over the course of my design education and career the past 8 years.

Besides teaching, Philipp Stamm and a team of able cohorts, (Heidrun Osterer (Editor), Susanne Dickel (Translator), Dylan Spiekermann (Translator), Erik Spiekermann (Translator), and Tim Danaher (Translator)), have been working intensely with Mr. Adrian Frutiger for the past 6 years creating the masterpiece that has recently been released by Birkhäuser.

“Many people associate Adrian Frutiger with Univers, the typeface that made him internationally known towards the end of the nineteen-fifties. Today one encounters his typefaces daily and on a global scale – in print media, on deposit slips, in advertising, on packaging, on TV, on the internet and in public spaces. But even though much has already been written about the Swiss type designer and he himself also published regularly, his complete work is still not sufficiently known. Even experts have an incomplete knowledge regarding his creation of typefaces.

The book Adrian Frutiger - Typefaces. The Complete Works is based upon a close collaboration with Adrian Frutiger. In it one can find for the first time a complete and detailed essay on the design of typefaces and logos, including so-far unpublished or never-realised typefaces – from the design phase through the final drafting process to its realisation, from the idea to the marketing stage. The more than 50 typefaces and type designs are presented, explained and examined in chronological order on more than 460 richly illustrated pages.” -via FontFeed

Congratulations Philipp!

Here are some pics of Stamm and Plural from the type workshop…