1. Wim Crouwel

Wim Crouwel is a Dutch graphic designer, type designer and typographer. He left art school to become a painter, but found he loved to organize information on a page and started creating posters in 1952. He started designing catalogues and posters for museums, later founding a studio, Total Design. Crouwel loved Helvetica, is a modernist, functionalist and purist. He created many wordmarks and the famous New Alphabet.

http://www.iconofgraphics.com/Wim-Crouwel/

2. Armin Hofmann

Armin Hofmann was a Swiss graphic designer that has been noted for his great influence on "generations of designers". His style is elegant and simple and worked as a lithographer and graphic designer before becoming and educator. Hofmann was a great teacher to young designers, his student Kenneth Hiebert said Hofmann's class was like starting all over again in design. He influenced many designers and had a beautiful personal style that is well recognized today.

http://www.aiga.org/medalist-arminhofmann/

3. Jessica Hische

Jessica Hische is a typographer, designer and illustrator living and working in Brooklyn. She has created work for Starbucks, Wes Anderson, Target, Penguin Books, Tiffany & Co., and many many more famous brands. Hische works in several mediums, creating advertising, books, brand identities and editorial work.

http://jessicahische.is/awesome

4. Stefan Sagmeister

Stefan Sagmeister is an Austrian graphic designer living and working in New York City. He studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Pratt Institute in New York City. He is known for his work in the music industry, creating artwork for Lou Reed, David Bryne and many others. He worked in Hong Kong before returning back to New York, and he has had exhibitions of his work worldwide.

http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com

5. Bruno Monguzzi

Bruno Monguzzi is a Swiss Graphic Designer that attended the St.Martin's School of Art and the London College of Printing before working for several well-known agencies. He worked for Studio Boggeri, Dennis Bailey, Charles Gagnon, James Volkus, and then independently in his own atelier. He was successful, being awarded the Premio Bodoni in 1971, the Gold Medal from the New York Art Directors Club in 1990, the Yusaku Kamekura Award and the Gold Medal at the Toyama Biennial in 2000.

http://a-g-i.org/member-work/profile/340

Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger is a Swiss typeface designer who influenced the world of digital type in the second half of the twentieth century. He created many type faces, including eponymous Frutiger, Univers, Avenir, and a personal favorite of mine, Eygptienne.

Frutiger studied in Zürich, focusing on calligraphy before being hired by Charles Piegnot, of Deberny et Peignot, for his wood engraved illustrations. During his time there, Frutiger created many typefaces we know and love today. In the 1970s, he created the Paris Metro sign and way-finding signage for the Charles de Gaulle airport outside of Paris. When he created Univers, he created a grid that is a chart that documents the different variations of the font based on stroke weight and kerning, creating organization for the font." Univers also has many faces, 44, many with individual weight and width that makes it very unique. Frutiger said, “the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader. In the course of my professional life I have acquired knowledge and manual skill. To pass on what I had learned and achieved to the next generation became a necessity.” 

Adrian Frutiger has passed on that knowledge, through his elegant and beautiful typefaces that we cherish and use today, many years after their original creation.


http://melindadraut.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/adrian-frutiger-and-the-univers-grid/

Universal Typeface

Bic has been collecting handwriting samples and averaging them to create a universal typeface. The idea sounds pretty cool, but it mainly ends up looking rather boring due to the average, and because people were using tablets or even mice to write. Even still, its cool to see the variation from different parts of the world.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/846791-digging-for-data-in-bics-typeface-experiment/