Armin Lindauer

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Armin Lindauer (* 1958 in Mannheim ) is a German graphic designer , painter , author and university professor .

Live and act

Lindauer studied at the University of Düsseldorf , the Bodensee Kunstschule Konstanz (today Konstanz University ) and the Berlin University of the Arts (since 2001 University of the Arts). In 1984 he became a master student of Helmut Lortz at the HdK Berlin. After graduating, he began to work as a freelance graphic designer and visual artist and had his own studio in Berlin. From 1984 to 1997 he taught at the Hdk Berlin. In 2000 he was appointed professor for editorial design and typography at the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences.

Lindauer works in the applied areas of book and catalog design, corporate design , signet and poster design. His work has been awarded national and international design prizes, including a. with the iF Award Gold, the Red Dot Award “best of the best”, the Joseph Binder Award Silver, and several times from the Type Directors Club New York. His free work has been exhibited regularly. In 1987 he was awarded the Nuremberg City Draftsman Art Prize .

He works as an author and publishes books on design topics, including Helmut Lortz | Memories and Helmut Lortz - slightly sensible , a typographically staged book that won an award. His conceptual photographs of the Berlin Wall before it fell are the basis for the panorama book The Berlin Wall - The Beginning of the End . The method book Experimental Design - Visual Method and Systematic Play was published in 2015 with Bettina Müller. Lindauer lives and works in Mannheim and Berlin.

Exhibitions

  • 2016: St. Christophorus Church, Berlin-Neukölln, prayer rugs
  • 2016: A picture is not a picture is a picture , Galerie Z, Berlin
  • 2014: vorWand and disappointment , Mannheimer Kunstverein
  • 2014: The anti-fascist protective wall - or how I learned to love the wall , photo installation, Mannheimer Kunstverein
  • 2014: You shouldn't make yourself a picture , pictures, Artspace Pot 72, Berlin
  • 2009: sporty: seen , pictures and drawings, DOSB German Olympic Sports Confederation, Frankfurt
  • 2009: Schauplätze - 20 years of Berlin in transition , photographs, traveling exhibition on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall (g)
  • 2005: vorBilder , Bilder und Drawings, Kunstverein Schwetzingen (g)
  • 1994: Berlin House of Representatives, 36 photographs (g)
  • 1990: Galerie Michael Schulz, drawings and pictures, Berlin
  • 1988: City description , drawings and pictures, studio gallery of the Sparkasse der Stadt Berlin West (g)
  • 1988: Studio gallery of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg , drawings and pictures (g)
  • 1987: Galerie Zero, drawings and pictures, Kiel
  • 1987: Gallery in the water tower, drawings and pictures, Mölln
  • 1987: Galerie B., Pictures and Drawings, Berlin

Publications

  • Experimental design - visual method and systematic game , with Betina Müller, Niggli, Switzerland, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7212-0912-9 (German), ISBN 978-3-7212-0913-6 (English)
  • The Berlin Wall - The Beginning of the End , Edition Panorama, Mannheim, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89823-404-7
  • Helmut Lortz - easily sensible , Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz, 2005, ISBN 3-87439-677-0
  • Helmut Lortz | Memorandum , Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz, 2003, ISBN 3-87439-623-1
  • The Berlin Wall with data and facts , Bien and Giersch project agency, Berlin, 2001, 2nd expanded edition 2007
  • Around Berlin , Verlag Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, 1994, 2nd revised edition 1999, ISBN 3-922484-37-9

Literature (selection)

Publications with texts and / or images by Armin Lindauer

  • Armin Lindauer: vorWand und disappointment , edited by Martin Stather, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7356-0523-8 (German / English)
  • Eye Magazine , Great Britain, 2018, Eye No. 95, Vol. 24, pp. 68-73, ISSN 0960-779X
  • Novum , World of Graphic Design, Stiebner Verlag, Munich, 09. 2015, pp. 24–27,
  • Novum , World of Graphic Design, Stiebner Verlag, Munich, 08. 2012, p. 52/53,
  • One by One , hesign (publishing & design), 2011, p. 255, ISBN 978-3-9814557-0-0
  • The Sourcebook of Contemporary Graphic Design , HarperCollinsPublisher, New York, 2009, pp. 68-75, ISBN 978-0-06-170438-3
  • Graphic Design Inspirations , daab, Cologne, 2008, pp. 514, 580, ISBN 978-3-86654-075-0
  • Zander's ikono Showbook , 50 outstanding designers, 2005, pp. 110/111
  • Who's who in design . Volume 2., Peter Zec, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2003, p. 316, ISBN 3-89986-002-0
  • Graphis Poster , New York, 1997, pp. 48, 98, ISBN 1-888001-23-2
  • Graphis Letterhead 4 , New York, 1994, p. 34, ISBN 1-888001-57-7
  • Forum , magazine for literature and criticism, 1/1981, Konstanz, 1981

Philatelic

Armin Lindauer designs postage stamps for the Federal Ministry of Finance. For the 2019 edition, he designed the “Konzerthaus Blaibach” brands and the “For Sport” series.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professors Mannheim University. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lindauer, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic designer, painter, author and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim