Franko Luin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franko Luin

Swedish type designer

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1941

Place of Birth: Trieste, Friuli–Venezia Giulia

Date of Death: 15-Sep-2005

Profession: translator, graphic designer, Esperantist, designer

Nationality: Sweden, Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Franko Luin (6 April 1941 in Trieste, Italy – 15 September 2005 in Tyresö, Sweden) was a Swedish type designer of Slovene origin.
He studied graphic arts at Grafiska Institutet in Stockholm, where he graduated in 1967.
A graphic designer at the telecom company Ericsson (1967–1989), He started his own design shop Omnibus Typografi in 1989. Franko Luin had a keen interest in languages, particularly the international auxiliary language Esperanto, and was for many years president of the Swedish Esperanto association SEF.
He wrote poems, translated songs into Esperanto and organized a well renowned homepage, the Kiosk, which had an enormous link list of online newspapers.
In his later years, he collected and digitized many 19th and 20th century works by Slovene classical authors and distributed them on his homepage Beseda ("Word").