Bruno Maag the Typographer

  • “Bruno Maag, Creative Director & Chairman.”

http://www.daltonmaag.com/people/Bruno_Maag.html

 

  • “I am trained as a typesetter, in metal, photo and digital, and soon found my   passion in designing type. As the company grew I naturally drifted towards running a business and working with my talented team to produce the world’s best fonts.”

http://www.daltonmaag.com/people/Bruno_Maag.html

 

  • “He is the co-founder and owner of Dalton Maag, possibly the largest independent studio in Europe specializing in custom type design.”

http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/201209.html

 

  • “His company recently developed a huge plurilingual font system for Nokia and has presented their bespoke font for the 2016 Rio Olympics.”

http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/201209.html

 

  • “My background has always been in typography, starting with a typesetting apprenticeship and followed by a typographic design degree at the Basel School of Design.”

http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/201209.html

 

  • “After my work at Monotype, both in the UK and the US, I startedDalton Maag with Liz Dalton, my wife… The company has grown steadily and organically over the last twenty years, and today Dalton Maag employs over forty people, most of us based in London but also in Boston, Brazil, Vienna and most recently in Hong Kong.”

http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/201209.html

 

  • “Born in Zurich, 1962, Bruno Maag graduated from Basel School of Design, Switzerland, with a degree in Typographic Design and Visual Communications.”

http://www.identifont.com/show?3WF

 

  • “His studio designed typefaces for clients like British Telecom, BMW, Hewlett Packard, and many others.”

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  • “In my whole career in typography, starting with my apprenticeship, I have never used Helvetica. Being a Swiss typographer, it’s always been Univers. Even in my apprenticeship we didn’t have Helvetica in the printshop.”

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/july/the-helvetica-killer

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