About

Arthur Schwarz is the co-founder of the independent type design studio Bolid System, together with Maël Bächtold. They create and distribute typefaces ranging from bold displays to extensive text families.

Selected Clients

• Type Foundries: Production Type, Extraset, Type of Feeling, LO-OL, Sociotype, APK Type, Blaze Type, Fontef, Claude Type.

• Design Studios: &Walsh, Neo Neo, Alex Dujet Type System Corp (Futur Neue), Cécile + Roger, Enen Studio, Peter Korsman (Autograph), Hugmun, Margot Lévêque. 

• Brands & Institutions: Vogue, Applied Intuition, Bosch, Humane, Swiss Olympic, CoreMedica, Crack Magazine, Geneva Conservatory of Music.

Talks & Lectures

• Everything old is new again. (In Design We Trust 8 by ADC Paris, 2024)
• The font business is broken: can we fix it? (ATypI 2023, Paris)
• Business of Type: Type of Business. (In Design We Trust 6 by ADC, Paris, 2022)
• How to type design (Design Society Talk, Plymouth, UK, 2022)

Publications

• Typodarium (Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2027)
• Creative Boom — The best new typefaces for August 2026
• Type Today Digest (April 2026)
• Bounty Hunters – BS Resort Sans Brings Clarity and Flexibility to Contemporary Typography (2026)
• Typodarium (Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2026)
• Young Graphic Design Switzerland! (Museum für Gestaltung Zürich 2025)
• Typodarium (Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2025)
• Typodarium (Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2024)
• Typodarium (Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2023)
• Typodarium (Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 2022)
• BASE 10 (Melbourne, Australia, 2021)
• Tomorrow Type Today (Russia, 2020)
• Catálogo Tipográfico 2020 (Spain, 2020)
• New Aesthetics 2 (Germany, 2020)
• Graphic Matters Festival (Breda, NL, 2017)
• Weltformat Festival (Lucerne, Switzerland, 2017)