Christof Gassner
Christof Gassner (born April 24, 1941 in Zurich , Switzerland ) is a professor emeritus for visual communication and graphic design at the Kassel Art College .
Life
Christof Gassner trained as a graphic designer at the Zurich School of Applied Arts , among others with Josef Müller-Brockmann and Walter Käch . He has had his own graphic design studio in Frankfurt am Main since 1966 , and in Darmstadt from 1992 . His work focuses on editorial design , corporate design as well as book design and design of postage stamps and posters . His most famous logos include the branding of the Weilrod loudspeaker manufacturer Canton Elektronik and that of the ÖKO-TEST magazine , for which he was responsible from 1984 to 1990. The book he published, everyday life, ecology, design - creating environmental magazines provides just as impressive information on this as the video portrait in which he outlines the development of the consumer magazine.
Between April 2013 and September 2015 the exhibition “Less, but better design in Frankfurt 1925 to 1985: The Frankfurt Room” was on view at the Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt am Main) . This was followed in March 2016 by the exhibition “Alles neu! 100 Years of New Typography and New Graphics in Frankfurt am Main ”. What both exhibitions have in common is that they also present Christof Gassner's works as examples for the respective context. His design concepts for Canton and the ÖKO-TEST magazine can be found there alongside the design icons from the “BRAUN Design Collection” created by Dieter Rams . But the ÖKO-TEST magazine, which is recognized in both exhibitions as an example of how typography and graphics are handled, is, apart from the logo, no longer the magazine that is available in kiosks today, but the one for which Christof Gassner was responsible for the design in the mid-1980s.
Awards
- Gold medal and Icograda Excellence Award , Brno Biennale, 1986
- Design Prestige Award , 1994
- Dr. Hogo Brandes Prize , German Poster Museum Essen, 1995
literature
- Font and typography . In: Handbook of Visual Communication . Publishing house Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1989 and 1994
- Industrial design, communication design: studying at the design department at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences . Ed .: Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Design Department, Darmstadt 1991
- Everyday life, ecology, design - creating environmental magazines . Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-87439-308-9
- Theme and variations of Canton posters 1983-1995 . Usingen 1996
Web links
- Literature by and about Christof Gassner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Small homage to a word mark - Canton
- Video portrait of Christof Gassner
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Käch
- ↑ Video portrait of Christof Gassner
- ↑ Less, but better design in Frankfurt 1925 to 1985 ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Everything new! 100 Years of New Typography and New Graphics in Frankfurt am Main ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The BRAUN Design Collection
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gassner, Christof |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss graphic designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |