R.Roger Remington
Edited by the Museum of Design Zurich, Andres Janser, Barbara Junod
Corporate Diversity
Swiss Graphic Design and Advertising by Geigy, 1940 – 1970
Design: Kevin Rau
2009 | English | 19.4 x 26.8 cm | 208 pages | 385 illustrations | hardcover
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The design studio of J. R. Geigy AG was the launching pad for one of the great periods of Swiss graphic design, in the 1950s and 1960s. The open-minded corporate culture of the chemical company in Basel combined product and company advertising in an exemplary way. The resulting works reveal a modernist formal idiom without being indebted to a specific, formulaic look. There was room in it for visual symbolism as well as the acquisition of nonrepresentational art, with which some of the graphic designers involved were connected.
Under the leadership of Max Schmid for many years, the studio employed Roland Aeschlimann, Karl Gerstner, Jörg Hamburger, Steff Geissbühler, Andreas His, Toshihiro Katayama, and Nelly Rudin, among others. Freelance designers such as Michael Engelmann, Gottfried Honegger, Armin Hofmann, Herbert Leupin, Warja Lavater, Numa Rick, and Niklaus Stoecklin were also used. In the 1960s, the Basel office, most especially George Giusti and Fred Troller, was involved in developing the studios of the subsidiaries in the United States and the United Kingdom, placing more emphasis on advertising.
This is the first comprehensive presentation of Geigy design, an important Swiss contribution to the international history of design, in all its determination and independence.
デザインスタジオ、J. R. Geigy AGは、1950〜60年代スイス・グラフィックデザインにおける偉大なる時代の一出発点であった。バーゼルにあった化学系企業の寛大な企業文化は、商品と企業広告を好例といえるような方法で組み合わせた。それは結果的に、ありきたりではない、モダニストの整然とした表現型式を確立した。
Max Schmidが長年に渡りJ. R. Geigy AGのリーダーシップを取り、かつてRoland Aeschlimann, Karl Gerstner, Jörg Hamburger, Steff Geissbühler, Andreas His, Toshihiro Katayama, and Nelly Rudinらが彼の元で働いている。また、フリーランスデザーナーとしてMichael Engelmann, Gottfried Honegger, Armin Hofmann, Herbert Leupin, Warja Lavater, Numa Rick, and Niklaus Stoecklinらも起用している。1960年代は、主にGeorge GiustiとFred Trollerで知られていたBaselのオフィスは、アメリカとイギリスにあるに子会社のスタジオでもより広告を重要視させ、その発展に関与した。
本書は、ひとえに決断力と自立精神によって国際的なデザイン史に貢献したスイスのGeigyデザインを包括的に紹介した初の書籍である。
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