Apprenticeship as a typographer with Swiss national degree. Postgraduate degree in typography, Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich. Moved to NY in 1970. Designer at Anspach, Grossman, Portugal. Design director at W.H. Sadlier Inc. Principal of Willi Kunz Associates, a design firm specializing in print communications, visual identity and architectural graphics. Teacher of typographic design at Ohio State University, and the School of Design, Basel, Switzerland. Works included in the collection of the NY MoMA; the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, NY; the Cooper Union Lubalin Center for Typography, NY; the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the SF MoMA; Denver Art Museum; Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; and important private collections in the United States. Author of Typography: Macro- and Microaesthetics (1998), editions in English, German, Spanish and Chinese. Typography: Formation and Transformation (2003). Phantasmagorias: Daydreaming with Lines (2017).