Typographer. Born in February 1942 in Austria with German nationality, he completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter in Germany before studying at the Basel School of Design (Schule für Gestaltung Basel) under Emil Ruder, Kurt Hauert, and Robert Büchler. He subsequently worked in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, and Japan, where he created his renowned type design “Katanaka Eru”. In Japan and Germany, he published several books, including Gestaltung ist Haltung (Design Is Attitude), and worked as a designer in Osaka, focusing on the duality of information transmission and freeform design. He edited and designed Typography Today in 1980 and published The Road to Basel, the fourth in the Typographic Reflection series, in 1997. He contributed to magazines such as Idea (Japan), Baseline (UK), and TM (Switzerland). He also taught typography and conducted workshops at institutions like the IDC in Mumbai, KDU in Kobe, and Hongik University in Seoul. He passed away in 2018.