Fidel Peugeot
Born in Basel in 1969, Fidel Peugeot began studying communications-design with Prof. Armin Hofmann, Wolfgang Weingart, and Rene Pulver at the University for Design in Basel. During his studies he had already been working as a graphic designer at the renowned agencies GGK, WeberHodelSchmid, and Stalder&Suter, and toured with a couple of bands as a musician. Next to the written word he also cultivated the spoken: together with Karl Rottweiler he founded the Swiss label and station Radio Glaibasel (RGB107,6) in the eighties.
After stopovers in New York and Paris he finally came to Vienna in 1991. Here he developed the first digitized handwriting, as well as a whole dynasty of pixelfonts for online purposes, the Lomofonts, the “Spruce” and the “Line” for Tyler Brulée, and the Wallpaper Group amongst others. Since 2002 Fidel Peugeot has been a Linotype font designer. Additionally Peugeot works in all fields of graphic design, e.g. as illustrator, or as logo designer, such as for the Albertina, Vienna.
Together with the Italian product designer Karl Emilio Pircher, Fidel Peugeot founded the Walking-Chair Design Studio GmbH in the heart of Vienna.
[Fidel Peugeot, September 2010]
Web: http://www.walking-chair.com/
Fonts designed by Fidel Peugeot
