Biography
(1914–05) Swiss typographer who studied and taught at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel, where he initiated classes that explored the new technology of phototypesetting. He is renowned for creating a body of work recognized as quintessential ‘Swiss’.
Selected sources +
- Hollis, Richard. Swiss Graphic Design: the Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920–1965. New Haven: Yale UP, 2006, pp. 199, 222–223
- Friedl, Friedrich, Nicolaus Ott, and Bernard Stein. Typography: an Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques throughout History. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 1998, pp. 150
- Wiedler, Felix. ‘Hostettler: TM / Typografische Monatsblätter / 1954, 1’
- Sadha, Aswin. ‘Thinking Robert Büchler. 04 23 1914’ Thinking Form