Font Designer – Axel Bertram
Axel Bertram was born in Dresden in 1936. He studied at the Berlin –Weissensee Academy of Fine and Applied Arts.
– | 1960 Co-founder of the “Group4” art workshop of which he remained a member until 1972. |
– | Since 1960 he has been a freelance graphic artist working in Berlin for publishers and cultural publicity media. |
– | Typeface design, calligraphy, typography, symbols and drawing, photography. |
– | Publicity work on aspects of design in cultural publications and book publishing projects. |
– | From 1972 to 1986 and from 1989 to 1992 he worked as a university lecturer in typeface and graphic design at the Berlin-Weissensee Academy of Fine and Applied Arts. He was made professor in 1977. |
– | Studies in the Cultural History of the Latin Script, publ. 2004 “Das wohltemperierte Alphabet” in first edition, two reprints in 2005. |
– | Digital typeface design (technical realisation in collaboration with Andreas Frohloff), informal type graphics. |