Hans Eduard Meier
Born in 1922.
Died in 2014.
Hans Eduard Meier made a significant mark on the fields of graphic design and typography. His professional career included work as a graphic designer, typographer and type designer. From 1952 to 1984, he taught at the Zurich School of Design, where he helped educate numerous students.
Among his notable achievements was the development of the typeface «Syntax». From 1984 onwards, he was recognised as Switzerland’s first digital type designer, working at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.