[2 notices of Walter Käch’s death] posters one took our breath away

one took our breath away

The whole thing was screen-printed in more colors than we can count

greeting cards

That was over 100 years ago

[2 notices of Walter Käch’s death] posters one took our breath awayWe 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.