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Karl Gerstner was born on 2 July, 1930, is a Swiss designer, typographer, author and artist. Discover Karl Gerstner's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Occupation Typographer, designer, author and artist
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 2 July, 1930
Birthday 2 July
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Date of death 2017
Died Place Basel, Switzerland
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1930

Karl Gerstner (2 July 1930 – 1 January 2017) was a Swiss designer, typographer, author, and artist.

Gerstner attended Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel.

1944

From 1944 to 1948, Gerstner apprenticed as a typographer for artist Fritz Bühler's studio, alongside graphic designer Armin Hofmann, in Basel, Switzerland.

His supervisor at Bühler's studio, Max Schmid, later went on to work at the Geigy chemical company.

1949

In 1949, Gerstner began freelancing for Geigy after Schmid recruited him.

1958

In 1958, he and Markus Kutter formed Gerstner+Kutter advertising agency in Basel.

1962

In 1962, they partnered with Paul Gredinger, and Gerstner+Kutter became GGK (Gerstner, Gredinger + Kutter), a leading Swiss advertising agency.

1964

Gerstner Programm was designed by Karl Gerstner between 1964-67 and first published in Berthold's Diatype filmsetting format.

16 versions of the programme were generated, 8 regular and 8 italic, using the Sinar camera under the expert direction of GGK staff member Werner Richli.

Templates were executed by Christian Mengelt.

It was successful in the U.S., where it was issued by Aaron Burns, but soon perished with the Diatype system.

1973

designing programs/programming designs by Karl Gerstner was a solo exhibition on view from February 5 to March 30 1973 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York directed by Emilio Ambasz.

The exhibition was based on Gerstner's book Designing Programms.

2006

In 2006 Gerstner donated his entire archive to the Swiss National Library in Bern, and the Karl Gerstner Archive sets out to document his design process from the earliest drafts to the final product.

2017

Gerstner died in Basel University Hospital on 1 January 2017.

A digital restoration by Stephan Müller of Gerstner Programm has been released in 2017.

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