Jan Tschichold was a famous designer that dealt mostly with stock types by using them in non-traditional ways.

Jan Tschichold was born into a family that very much led him to be a designer. His father jobs dealt with using a variety of different types exposing Tschichold to script at a young age. As Tschichold grew older he began helping his father manage the different scripts. He decided to be a drawing teacher at the young age of fourteen. While teaching the class Tschichold studied a wide range of arts. This included looking at type as not only letters but also forms of art. At the age of sixteen Tschichold decided to stop teaching and to attend the Academy for Graphic Arts to be a typeface designer. When Tschichold was nineteen he began teaching a script class at the academy. He was doing very well of himself especially at such a young age.

While teaching the class he became very interested in the Bauhaus movement. He was in awe of their work and tried to adopt some of their work into his. He began to try to make his work less like the typographers of before and tried to really push the envelope for new ideas. Tschichold believed in Modernist design ways and expressed that in is work.

As time progressed his ideas and work became fresher and more interesting. This gained a bigger audience for his work and his name became to be better known in the world of design. Soon he began writing books while still designing. Out of all of his books his most popular written work is called, “Die Neue Typographie”. This book was about creating new typography work using non-traditional ways to communicate. Jan Tschichold is also famous for creating a new “universal alphabet” which used only one typeface, sans serif. Jan Tschichold also designed types including Transit, Saskia, Zeus, and Sabon.

Jan Tschichold is one of the most famous designers worldwide. Designers today still look to his work for design inspiration and teaching designers of today.