Thursday, April 26, 2007

Otl Aicher. The complete works. A few sample pages can be found at Slanted. Another one on my wish list. Many thanks to Axel for the link. Long-awaited first monograph on German graphic designer and educator Otl Aicher (1922-91), a key international figure in post-war design and a pioneer in the field of corporate identity and visual communication systems. Aicher is renowned for creating visual identities for dozens of major corporations, including Braun, BMW, Lufthansa and ERCO; for his design of the complete graphics programme for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games; and as the inventor of the popular typeface Rotis. Aicher influenced a generation of future designers in the 1950s and 60s at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG), the school he helped to found in in Ulm, Germany; he also collaborated with British architect Norman Foster and counted numerous corporate CEOs as clients and friends. 7:40:55 PM   Art & Advertising, Literature | |

A Collection. Red Baron's dodgy record covers: 1, 2, 3. 6:37:12 PM   This & That | |