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De 1980 à 1983, dans le cadre d’un projet de développement des Nations Unies, formation de dessinateurs de lettres et création de caractères arabes à l’Institut de recherche et d’étude pour l’arabisation à Rabat, Maroc. Retour à Paris à nouveau comme designer indépendant avant de fonder, en 1998, l’atelier h avec Ursula Held.
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Hans-Jürg Hunziker (1938), type and typographic designer Apprenticeship as a typographic composer in Zürich. Inscription at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basle under Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann, in 1965. Departure for the United States to work, from 1967 to 1971, with Mergenthaler Linotype in Brooklyn N.Y. Under the direction of Mike Parker, I developped with Matthew Carter new typefaces for the photocompositon systems. Return to Europe to join Adrian Frutiger on various projects : IBM, encres Brancher, the parisian Métro, Aeroport Roissy Charles de Gaulle, the Univers Cyrilic and the Frutiger. Independent designer since 1976. From 1980–1983 in charge of training typedesigners by developping arabic typefaces at the Institut of arabisation in Rabat, Morocco on a United Nation developpement programm. Back in Paris, I worked again as independent designer before founding, in 1998, the atelier h with Ursula Held. Book and catalogue designs for the Centre Georges Pompidou, la Cité de la musique, l’Institut du monde arabe and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. From 1999 to 2002, creation of the cooperate typeface for Siemens with three typestyles : Sans, Serif and Slab with their italic in three weights. The fonts, developped with URW, cover a large number of latin and non latin writing systems. Teaching activities from 1986-2014 at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and at the Atelier national de recherche typographique, from 1990 to 2006.
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