Albert Pinggera learned, from his father, how to draw letters in the 80s. During the 90s he worked as an assistant for Luc(as) de Groot at the Type Department of MetaDesign, and afterwards he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Den Haag. After finishing the Postgraduate Course in type design and typography he founded the design.buero in Northern Italy.

Today he designs typefaces for FontShop International and numerous corporate clients. His type family FF Strada received a prize at the TDC2 2003.