Following function, form also necessarily follows the content of the language. They might have developed in the spirit of playfulness, but their nature is always conceptual, directed towards a complex, yet harmonic, whole. However, even his independent work can be understood as objectivized signs in their symbolism, they are embedded in the fundamental questions of human existance.
Frutiger's precise sense of outline reveals itself two- or three-dimensionally in wood, stone, or bronze, on printing plates and in the form of reliefs. Personal and intensive, this work is the manifestation of his expressive will. His independent work possesses the controllable language of letterforms. In Adrian Frutiger, the discipline of a mathematically exact mind is joined with an unmistakable artistic sense.