What’s become of Otl Aicher’s former abode? A visit to the Allgäu.
Gerrit Terstiege
Rotis: light and shade
What’s become of Otl Aicher’s former abode? A visit to the Allgäu
Gerrit Terstiege
“You don’t have to interpolate goulash and spaghetti”
Interviewed: Erik Spiekermann, type designer, author and Aicher critic
Daniel Damler
Aesthetic of the devil
Technology: a central notion and fixed point of perspective in the work of Otl Aicher
Revisiting the work of a once-in-a-century
designer: the first critical online
Aicher monograph aims to spark a discourse.
Jasmin Jouhar
“I was immediately drawn to him”
The British architect Norman Foster on his friendship with Otl Aicher: He had absolute integrity
Dagmar Rinker
Butterflies, nasturtiums, roses and chromatic greys
Thoughts on the colour palettes of Otl Aicher
Linus Rapp
A graphic view of things
Absolute sharpness, reduction and strict rules determine the character of his pictures: Otl Aicher as photographer
Elisabeth Spieker
Show, don’t explain
Under Otl Aicher’s direction, designers, architects and landscape planners shaped the face of the Olympic Games 1972
Karl R. Kegler
Mit System: Aichers Architektur-Entwürfe EN
Zeit seines Lebens hat der berühmte Grafiker Gebäude konstruiert – realisiert wurden freilich nur wenige.
Gerrit Terstiege
“It had to be Rotis”
An interview with design icon Stefan Sagmeister about typefaces, beauty and the legacy of Otl Aicher
Dagmar Rinker
The City in Black and White
Isny im Allgäu owes Otl Aicher a corporate design that is concise, bold and singular
Mark Holt
The Rainbow Games
A city glows: Otl Aicher sent a signal with his colourful visual design for the XX Summer Olympic Games 1972 in Munich. The young Federal Republic of Germany had entered modern times.
Jens Müller
Zeitenwende im On-Air-Design
Mit seinem Erscheinungsbild für das Zweite Deutsche Fernsehen (ZDF) wollte Otl Aicher „das typografische bild der bildröhre präzisieren“.
Martin Krampen
Not to be overlooked, highly original
Otl Aicher's Poster displays for the Ulmer Volkshochschule (Ulm Adult Education Centre)
Andreas Schwarz
Nine letters, vertical
From O to R: Let's talk about a hedgehog, standardisation and neurotis for a change (please click on the letters)
OBJEKT TROUVÉ.Marcel runs around the house and shouts: Otl quick, a hedgehog! He rushes over, bends down and reappears indignantly – the nine-year-old, the anti-authoritarian children's shop child, has teased him, the authority par excellence, and laughs and everyone...
Mark Holt
Design as a team sport
Otl Aicher’s Dept. XI team: the visual identity of the Munich ’72 Olympics was the work of graphic designers, illustrators and technical staff from all over the world
Robert Zoske
Full of feeling against people ruled by their feelings
Aicher’s childhood and youth: the years 1922 to 1945
Claus Michael Semmler
Finding ways out of uniformity
Otl Aicher’s signage systems for airports, metro stations and hospitals are considered exemplary to this day
Fritz Frenkler trifft Dieter Rams
„Anfangs war ich für Aicher Luft“ EN
Der einstige Braun-Chef-Designer im Gespräch über den Co-Gründer der Ulmer HfG
Florian Aicher
“A tough time, a good time”
Drawing in Rotis: former Aicher co-worker Reinfriede Bettrich talks about hand sketches, the first computers and everyday life at the office
10 x 10 x Aicher
Searching for traces: More than 30 years after Aichers death, his oeuvre will be remeasured. The small gallery of things displays furniture, photos, quotes and sketches. The unknown Aicher becomes visible.
Christiane Wachsmann
A wealth of material
How Otl Aicher’s papers and materials came to the HfG-Archiv/Museum Ulm
Gerrit Terstiege
Aicher’s recipes for Bulthaup
Die Küche zum Kochen (The Kitchen for Cooking) – the genesis of a book that has lost none of its relevance
Gerrit Terstiege
“Everything about the plush Waldi was wrong”
How a dachshund conquered the world: former Aicher staff member Elena Schwaiger on plush animals, fakes and the authentic mascot of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich
Chup Friemert
Writing as Longing and Passion
Le Violon d'Ingres or An Attempt to Defend the Writings of Otl Aicher
Andreas Schwarting
Construction: A kind of three-dimensional typography?
Otl Aicher as the architect of Rotis
First broadcast: 15.02.1971 on Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich (Only available in German)
Television documentary: Olympia cultural (1971)
Gerrit Terstiege
“A totally crazy story”
Interviewed: Jürgen Werner Braun on his collaboration with Otl Aicher
Carsten Wolff
Alpha wolves
They created the signature of an epoch: designers Otl Aicher, Willy Fleckhaus, Anton Stankowski and Kurt Weidemann
October 20, 2022
there is nothing here that gives shade
Four men and two motorcycles in the desert: Prof. Michael Klar and Karsten de Riese report in pictures and words on a desert trip with Otl Aicher and his son Florian, commissioned by BMW.
All Events
May 13, 2022
there is no computer that calls for freedom
Artificial intelligence and ethics – following on from Otl Aicher’s essay “kulturen des denkens” (cultures of thinking)
June 25, 2022
of course a car is also a sign
Retrospective of Otl Aicher: Kritik am Auto, Munich 1984
August 26, 2022
we have bread, we have games
Olympia as Politics, Olympia as Utopia, Olympia as Big Business – on the 50th Anniversary of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics
October 20, 2022
there is nothing here that gives shade
Four men and two motorcycles in the desert: Prof. Michael Klar and Karsten de Riese report in pictures and words on a desert trip with Otl Aicher and his son Florian, commissioned by BMW.
10 × 10 × Aicher
Searching for traces: More than 30 years after Aichers death, his oeuvre will be remeasured. The small gallery of things displays furniture, photos, quotes and sketches. The unknown Aicher becomes visible.
