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Walter Käch
Teacher of Adrian Frutiger, b. 1901, Ottenbach, Switzerland. Pic. Here, you can find wonderful advice for making well-adjusted alphabets. In this wikipedia, we read: At the age of 16, Frutiger was apprenticed as compositor to a printer in the nearby town of Interlaken for four years and attended classes at the Zürich School of Arts and Crafts. (Rauri) Under the tutelage of Walter Käch from 1949 to 1951, students learned type design by rubbing forms from Roman inscriptions. The students then applied the knowledge learned from these ancient letterforms to their own type creations. The students came to realize that the way the inscriptions were made was an outline applied with a pen, and then chiseled into the rock. When students were first learning to design typefaces, they used pens to create flowing letterforms. Then students moved on to work with pencil. No instruments, such as rulers were used- everything was done by eye, and corrections had to be made by scraping the markings off with a knife. Frutiger respected Käch, and felt he was a fine teacher who allowed many different views to be prevalent. However, the young student disagreed with his teacher on how technical and defined forms should be. Käch was a calligrapher, and thought because punch cutters used a grid their forms were too harsh and technical. His typefaces are all dated 1949 and were published by ZHdK Zurich:
Author of the lettering manual Schriften/Lettering/Ecritures (1949), which, according to Peter Bain, establishes a conversation between typeface designers, typefounders, and those who were drawing letters in a typographic age. |
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file name: Walter Kach Catalog1
file name: Walter Kach Catalog2
file name: Walter Kach Arte Antiqua 1949
file name: Walter Kach 1949 Arte Antiqua2
file name: Walter Kach 1949 Au Cerf
file name: Walter Kach 1949 Capitalis Monumentalis
file name: Walter Kach 1949 Florist
file name: Walter Kach 1949 Gegr1845 2
file name: Walter Kach 1949 Modesde Paris
file name: Walter Kach 1949 Modesde Paris
file name: Walter Kach 1949 Optik Foto Film
file name: Walter Kach 1949 Picture Gallery
file name: Walter Kach 1949 W K Rauchwaren 26
file name: Walter Kach 1949 Roentgen Therapie
file name: Walter Kach 1949 Segel Club layout2
file name: Walter Kach 1949 Velos
file name: Walter Kach
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