The world as design / Otl Aicher ; with an introduction by Wolfgang Jean Stock
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TextPublisher: Berlin : Ernst & Sohn, 2015Edition: 2nd editionDescription: 192 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783433031179 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Design -- History -- 20th century | Industrial design -- History -- 20th century | Art and Design | Art and DesignDDC classification: 745.2'0904 Summary: Otl Aicher (1922-1991) was an outstanding personality in modern design, he was a co-founder of the legendary Hochschule fur Gestaltung (HfG), the Ulm School of Design, Germany. This volume contains his polemical statements on cultural and political subjects as well as practical reports and historical exposition. He fights with productive obstinacy, above all for the renewal of modernism, which he claims has largely exhausted itself in aesthetic visions; he insists the ordinary working day is still more important than the cultural Sunday.
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Otl Aicher (1922-1991) was an outstanding personality in modern design, he was a co-founder of the legendary Hochschule fur Gestaltung (HfG), the Ulm School of Design, Germany. This volume contains his polemical statements on cultural and political subjects as well as practical reports and historical exposition. He fights with productive obstinacy, above all for the renewal of modernism, which he claims has largely exhausted itself in aesthetic visions; he insists the ordinary working day is still more important than the cultural Sunday.
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