Swiss Design


Anthony Chertudi
Design History & Theory

Swiss Design

Who
-Max Bill – Bauhaus – Music Model
-Theo Ballmer - Bauhaus
-Jan Tschichold – main proponent for intentional Style, Book – Typographic Design, later he forsake the Swiss Style
-Eduard Hoffman – Helvetica
-Max Meidinger - Helvetica
-Adrian Frutiger – Universe Typeface
-Muller Brockmann – Beethoven
-Hans Neuberg –
-Richard Paul Lohse – Construction and Habituation
-Armin Hoffman – Giselle
-Emil Rudner – faculty of Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basel
-Anton Stankowski- logo for Deutche Bank
-Oti Aicher – Olympic Logo games
-Stanley Morison - First Principles of Typography - British
-Herbert Spencer – electric in style
-Alan Fletcher – logo Victoria and Albert Museum, London
-Alvin Lustig – American
-Saul Bass – man w/ golden arm, Exodus
-Paul Rand – Corporate Identity


When
-Post WWII

Where
-Switzerland, Netherlands, England, USA

What
- Swiss Design, Journal – New Graphic Design- Golden Age of Logos, Corporate Architecture and Swiss Design, Corporate Identity

How
-Linotype Machine – phototypesetting – monotype – typo photo - Isotope

Style
-Swiss Design, International Style, Akzidenz Grotesk –Helvetica – Suber Bouillon, overlaps scripted letters

POV
-Swiss Style that denounces any political ties, style that is only focused on good design for a corporate world and to be neutral in style and Type from political baggage

Statement
-A new Design Style without baggage of political ties for a new corporate world.