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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Aicher, Otl,
• Stock, Wolfgang Jean,

Titel

The world as design

Auflage

2nd ed

Ort / Verlag

Berlin, Germany : Ernst & Sohn,

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• otl aicher the world as design; contents; preface by sir norman foster; Introduction; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; crisis of modernism; doing without symbols; aesthetic existence; the third modernism; 1; 2; 3; charles eames; hans gugelot; flying machines by paul mc cready; bauhaus and ulm; architecture as a reflection of the state; the non-usable useful item; the signature; intelligent building; my workspace does not yet exist; difficulties for architects and designers; afterword; appearance; graphic designers' space to be themselves; a new typeface; the world as design; afterword; sources; eula
• Otl Aicher (1922-1991) was an outstanding personality in modern design, he was a co-founder of the legendary Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG), the Ulm School of Design, Germany. His works since the fifties of the last century in the field of corporate design and his pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are major achievements in the visual communication of our times. Otl Aicher's writings are explorations of the world, a substantive part of his work. In moving through the history of thought and design, building and construction, he assures us of the possibilities of arranging exi
• English
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 5, 2015).