Lineage of German Design
From Ulm to Apple: Germany's Legacy in Silicon Valley
In 2011, design critic Sophie Lovell published a book titled "Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible" (Phaidon). The foreword was written by Apple's Chief Design Officer, Jonathan Ive.In the for...
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Why the Ulm School of Design Closed: The Clash Between Politics and Design
In October 1968, the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg cast a vote. The agenda was the complete abolition of subsidies to the Ulm School of Design (HfG). The motion passed with a majority, and ...
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Hans Gugelot and Braun: The Birth of System Design
In 1956, a record player was completed at a factory near Frankfurt. It had a white metal casing, a transparent plastic lid, and simple buttons arranged horizontally. "Snow White's Coffin (Schneewit...
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What Max Bill and Swiss formative thought brought to Germany
In 1927, a 19-year-old Swiss youth enrolled in the Bauhaus in Dessau. He studied painting under Klee and Kandinsky, and material and composition under Moholy-Nagy. When he returned to Zurich two ye...
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The Ulm School of Design – What it inherited from the Bauhaus and what it discarded
In September 1953, a school opened in Ulm, a city in southern Germany. One of its founders, Inge Aicher-Scholl, was a survivor of the "White Rose" resistance movement, whose brother and sister had ...
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