Jost Hochuli was born on June 8, 1933 in St. Gallen, Switzerland. A commercial artist and typesetter by trade, he studied with Adrian Frutiger in Paris. Since 1959, Hochuli has run his own commercial graphics and book design company in St. Gallen. For 25 years, he was the president as well as a designer with the VGS co-op publishing company of St. Gallen, which he co-founded in 1979. In addition, he taught lettering, calligraphy and typography for 29 years at design schools in Zurich and St. Gallen. From 1983 until 1998, Hochuli designed and published the annual Typotron booklet series and, since 2000, the Edition Ostschweiz series