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Hans Jürg Hunziker, Swiss typographer and graphic designer. Trained by Adrian Frutiger, active with Matthew Carter and Linotype in the 1960s and 1970s. Contributed heavily to the CGP, Cyrillic, Frutiger, Gando Ronde, Helvetica, Iera Arabic and Iera Roqa Arabic, Metro, Univers and Univers Cyrillic typefaces, and the Siemens custom type family. Instructor at Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, (University of the Arts, ZHdK), Zürich

Early Years
Hunziker was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1938. After an apprenticeship as a typesetter (1954-1958), Hunziker gained practical experience in Germany and abroad. From 1965 to 1967, Hunziker studied at the Basel School of Design under Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann.

Upon graduation, Hunziker was hired as a type designer for Mergenthaler Linotype Company in Brooklyn, New York, where he was responsible for new development, working with Matthew Carter. From 1971 to 1975, Hunziker worked on font development with Adrian Frutiger in Paris. Hunziker helped to develop the Alphabet Brancher, Univers font (71), Roissy (73/74) In 1975, Hunziker finished the Centre Georges Pompidou (CGP) typeface for Frutiger and was hired to work directly for  Centre Pompidou.

From 1989 to 2006, Hunziker was the director of studies and taught at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, a post-graduate research program in typography based at École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nancy, France. (The school was known as the Atelier National de Création Typographique until 1996.)