[2 notices of Walter Käch’s death] posters The Last Message of the

The Last Message of the Cosmonaut

in which the words are set in the cadence of speech)

This is a serious type specimen for serious types

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Fashions in type faces

[2 notices of Walter Käch’s death] posters The Last Message of theWe are deeply saddened to inform friends and acquaintances that our dear Walter Kch Altherr (whom we usually know as just Walter Kch or Kaech), the influential Swiss lettering master and graphic designer who taught for decades at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zrich, where he famously trained Adrian Frutiger in the precise structural geometry of classical Roman letterforms, is dead. Here are two notices about his untimely passing in 1970.