Hardcover: 439 pages
Publisher: Niggli Ag
Language: German
ISBN-10: 3721206320
ISBN-13: 978-3721206326
Product Dimensions: 30.2 x 23.6 x 3.6 cm
Release Date: 1996
Price: $180 USD (¥19,800 JPY)
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Dust jacket with rubbing and scratches. Age spotting to the reverse of the dust jacket and the page edges. Internally, generally clean and in good condition.
Author: Hans-Rudolf Lutz
Among Emil Ruder’s students at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel, Wolfgang Weingart and Helmut Schmid are by far the best known. However, Hans-Rudolf Lutz also deserves recognition as one of the most important typographers of the same generation.
Bound in a striking silver foil dust jacket, this beautifully produced and substantial monograph spans more than 400 pages, documenting Lutz’s experimental and multifaceted practice beyond the strict framework of Swiss typography. Moving fluidly across education, culture, and society, it reveals his remarkable ability to combine collage, photography, language, imagery, and typography into an expansive and highly original body of work.
In its closing chapters, the book also addresses how the digital age—by making history and information infinitely reproducible and editable—raises fundamental questions about authorship and ownership in design. Lutz’s willingness to incorporate the traces and noise generated by computers into his work, integrating them with established typographic conventions, was an extraordinarily forward-thinking approach, especially considering that these ideas were developed in the mid-1990s.
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Hans-Rudolf Lutz was born in Zurich in 1939. After completing a four-year typesetting apprenticeship with the Orell Füssli printing company in Zurich, he left Switzerland in 1961 to travel through Europe and North Africa. In 1963, he resumed his education in typography and design at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel where his teachers included Emil Ruder and Robert Büchler. From 1964 to 1966, Lutz was the leader of the ‘expression typographique’ group in Paris, at Studio Hollenstein, producing a range of graphic design. Hollenstein had developed the first photosetting machine, and the group responded by trying to produce an aesthetic that, in its modernity, matched the new technology. On his return to Zurich, Lutz set up his own studio and publishing company, ‘Hans-Rudolf Lutz Verlag’. He wrote, illustrated, typeset and produced nine books about visual communication.‘Typoundso’ and ‘Ausbildung in typografischer Gestaltung’ archive his own design work from the last thirty years. He also published various titles by other designers and writers. From 1983 to 1994, he was visual director of the avant-garde electronic music and multimedia performance group UnknownmiX. After the group disbanded, he continued to provide slide shows and visual contributions for live events. Hans-Rudolf Lutz taught at the schools of design in Zurich and in Lucerne for over thirty years, and founded the typography department in Lucerne in 1968. He also carried out assignments at colleges from the University of the Arts Bremen to Rhode Island School of Design. Hans-Rudolf Lutz died in January 1998.