Armin Hofmann — Farbe

A project by Fabienne Ruppen and Christof Nüssli
www.armin-hofmann.ch

Armin Hofmann (b. Winterthur, Switzerland, 1920) is internationally renowned for his black-and-white posters. The exhibition at Galerie Susanna Kulli now offers the first insight into his intense engagement with color. Its centerpiece is a portfolio of silkscreen prints that is unique in Hofmann’s oeuvre. A lifelong creative interest, issues of color have played a crucial role especially in his decades-long work as a teacher and in his art for public spaces. In addition to the silkscreen portfolio, the show presents manuscripts and original designs from Hofmann’s private archive as well as problems he assigned in his classes. Hofmann’s former students Philip Burton, April Greiman, Aki Nurosi, and Moritz Zwimpfer have contributed recollections that also open up new perspectives on his teaching of color.

August 30 – September 28, 2012
Opening: Wednesday, August 29, starting at 6pm

Munich ’72 – Design Legacy
Exhibition at UCA Canterbury
29.06. – 31.7.2012, Monday – Friday: 10am – 4pm

Munich ’72 – Design Legacy presents the trailblazing design heritage of the Olympic games held in Germany forty years ago. The exhibition offers a very rare opportunity to see the groundbreaking pictorial symbols (pictograms), a selection of the 42 pioneering posters, and other items designed and produced for the Olympic Games in Munich 1972. It offers a first hand account of the evolution of the designs, the subsequent commercialisation of aspects of the work produced for Munich ’72 and the design impact on subsequent international visual communication strategies and standards including London 2012. It is a showcase for a combination of fantastic design solutions, creativity and Olympic spirit.

The exhibition is held to coincide with the London Olympiad including the passage of the Olympic flame through Canterbury and the opening of the 2012 Olympic games in July 2012. The project draws upon the significant collection of key material by Ian McLaren who was a senior member of Otl Aicher’s design team. Whilst the posters illustrate the institution of the Olympiad, the sports and the cultural programme, the pictograms have been associated with the subsequent successful commercialisation by Aicher for the lighting manufacturer ERCO. These exhibits are enriched by accompanying material such as the official guidebook to the games, daily programmes and detailed technical documentation. This material will foster an understanding of the power of graphic design and typography to communicate persuasively new ideas and shape institutional and collective values.

www.munich72.org

Herbert Read Gallery
UCA Canterbury
New Dover Road
Canterbury
Kent CT1 3AN

Munich ’72 – Design Legacy
Symposium at UCA Canterbury
29.6.2012, 9.30am – 5.15pm

This one-day symposium is to be held on the occasion of the exhibition Munich ’72 – Design Legacy, held in the Herbert Read Gallery of UCA, Canterbury Campus from 29.6. – 31.7.2012.

The symposium aims to explore the innovative and continued appeal of the design approach and solutions developed for the Olympic Games in Munich during 1972 by Otl Aicher and his team. It considers why the international profession is still interested in these typographic and graphic designs from 40 years ago. It seeks to explore what influence the strategy and the resulting posters, pictograms, information design, and range of print and promotion materials produced then may have had? The exhibition and symposium will also showcase the development of some of Aicher’s subsequent concepts, which may have originated in the Munich project. This will include the range of nearly 1,000 pictographic symbols produced for and marketed by ERCO; and projects with Lord Foster. The symposium will bring together contributions from one of Aicher’s Munich team; some of his later clients; and respected current practitioners in both the UK and abroad.

Through these witness accounts the symposium will also consider the material history and practical aspects of generating and producing such design solutions in the early 1970s. The aim is to highlight the extent to which Aicher’s creative practice is still relevant for contemporary communication designers given the influence of established and emergent digital technologies and the changing demands of clients. The contributions will highlight the conceptual, material and technical knowledge, skills and experience required then and now, and their relevance to the development of training, curricula and research for current and future generations of Visual Communicators.

Speakers:
David Nelson, Foster + Partners
Hans Dieter Reichert, Baseline Magazine
Klaus J Maack, ERCO
Ian McLaren, Joint Deputy Art Director for Munich ’72
Tony Brook, Spin
Lucienne Roberts, LucienneRoberts+
Mason Wells, Bibliothèque Design

Ticket information:
The Symposium has a limited amount of 120 seats available.
To book your ticket, please contact Elizabeth Baxter, Research + Enterprise, UCA.
E: ebaxter@ucreative.ac.uk

www.munich72.org

Cragg Lecture Theatre
UCA Canterbury
New Dover Road
Canterbury
Kent CT1 3AN

Ken Garland: Galy Tots
22 March – 21 April 2012

Ken Garland is one of the UK’s leading graphic exponents, a former editor of Design Magazine, with lectureships which have included the University of Reading, the Royal College of Art and the Central School of Art and Design.

This exhibition highlights the most significant designs during Galt’s transformation from school furnishers to makers of retail children’s toys. Initially producing the branding and catalogues for Galt, along with his new team (Ken Garland & Associates) he expanded his portfolio with concepts for toys and games, notably Connect, Marble Run and Fizzog, which seemed to straddle the grey area between teaching and learning design. Read more here

43 Charlotte Road
London EC2A 3PD
+44 (0)20 7729 3636
info@kemistrygallery
www.kemistrygallery.co.uk

Celebrate the launch of a new typeface by Jeremy Tankard at Kemistry Gallery

Jeremy Tankard has decided to have a party for his latest typeface.
It has seven weights and two styles. Its name is Fenland.

Launch party and exhibition
Monday 19 March 2012
6—9pm

43 Charlotte Road
London EC2A 3PD
+44 (0)20 7729 3636
info@kemistrygallery
www.kemistrygallery.co.uk

This exhibition/book brings together books to illustrate a canon of more than five hundred years of Western book design. It showcases book design in all its forms: reference works and works of art, ‘machines for reading’ and picture books, prestigious collector’s items and throwaway paperbacks. It includes work by famous printers of the hand-press period — Nicolas Jenson, Aldus Manutius, Christoffel Plantin, the Elzeviers, John Baskerville, Giambattista Bodoni — and trendsetting designers of the modern era — William Morris, El Lissitzky, Jan Tschichold, Paul Rand, Massin, Irma Boom. It also includes remarkable illustrated works by architects and artists such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Maria Sibylla Merian. Special attention is devoted to printers’ manuals, illuminating the printing process, and also to type specimens and writing masters’ copybooks, placing letterforms in a broader context.

www.bijzonderecollecties.uva.nl