Edgar Walthert

Swiss-born Edgar Walthert studied graphic design in Luzern, Switzerland, in the late nineties. After working as a graphic and packaging designer in Hamburg, Germany, he undertook the well-known TypeMedia postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Art in the Netherlands, which allowed him to focus an entire year on the practice of typeface design. After this course, he completed a placement at LucasFonts in Berlin, Germany. Since 2008, he has worked from his studio in Amsterdam, combining type and graphic design.