Albert Boton

Albert Boton became a graphic designer and a letter draftsman accidentally. His father, cabinet maker & joiner, intended him for a career in this noble discipline, but young Albert only thought of drawing. During a construction site in a building of the sixteenth district of which he repairs the windows: the revelation occurred! In the last floor, an advertising studio. Between two plane knocks, Albert Boton got acquainted with them and decides to switch carriers. After his military service, he learns the profession within this team and takes Adrian Frutiger's classes at the Estienne school. One year later, Albert Boton joins him at the Deberny & Peignot Foundry. Followed by a few years of collaboration in the Hollenstein studio where Albert Boton creates about twenty exclusive characters for the new Hollenstein photo titration catalog.

His career continues as art director in various advertising and design agencies, such as Delpire (Cacharel, Citroën, Schlumberger) and Carré Noir where he is head of the " Cadrat " department specialized in company visual identity and on typography (Vichy, Erato, La Salle Pleyel, Dalloz…) with always in parallel a characters creator's activity in independent.

During these years, he also teaches calligraphy and letter drawing at the National School of Applied Arts and at the National Typographic Research Studio.