Adrian Frutiger quotes
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“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”
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“When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.”
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“If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.”
-- Adrian FrutigerSource : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.
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“From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.”
-- Adrian FrutigerSource : "A fractal life". Interview with Valerie Jamieson, www.newscientist.com. November 10, 2004.
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“Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.”
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“I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.”
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“The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.”
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“The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.”
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“I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit—and how I feel.”
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Source : Source: collider.com
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“One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'”
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“Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.”
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Source : Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.
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