Gert Dumbar

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Gert Dumbar (born May 16, 1940 in Jakarta ) is a Dutch graphic designer and founder of Studio Dumbar, who achieved national and international fame with his work.

Life

Gert Dumbar is a descendant of the Dumbar patrician family. He grew up in Bandung , the capital of the Indonesian province of West Java , until he was eleven .

He studied painting and graphic design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague . He graduated from the Royal College of Art in London with a degree in graphic design . After graduating in 1963, he started at the design agency Teldesign. At the time, the agency was still specialized in industrial design, with Dumbar setting up the graphic design department there. The first big customers were the Dutch Railways and the old PTT .

In 1977 he founded his own company, Studio Dumbar . In 1983 Dumbar was awarded the HN Werkman Prize for Graphic Design for his work. From 1987–1988 he was President of the British Designers and Art Directors Association , until 1994 he was a member of the British Rail Company's design board . In 1990 the Humberside Polytechnic made him an honorary member of the Polytechnic. From 1996 to 1998 he held a visiting professorship at the Saar College of Fine Arts in Saarbrücken . In the four years that followed, he was a board member of the DesignLab in Bremerhaven . Between 2000 and 2002 Dumbar was also visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London.

Dumbar has been teaching at the | Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague since 2003. He is also a frequent speaker at art schools and international design conferences. In 2006 he won the Grand Prix at the Dutch Design Awards with his studio and in 2009 he received the Piet Zwart Prize.

Works

Logo of the Dutch Railway Company designed by Dumbar

Studio Dumar works as a design office and focuses primarily on creating many "iconic corporate identity systems" for clients such as Dutch Post and Telecommunications, Dutch Railways, Dutch Police , Danish Post and Czech Telecom. The Dutch Railways logo he designed is still in use today. It was part of a revitalization effort by the company in the 1960s. At the same time, a new image should be created, reflecting the change towards a new, more modern identity and renewing interest in the Dutch rail system. The Dutch Railways campaign introduced “new trains, improved routes and intercity services”. According to Studio Dumbar, the railway logo represents the arriving and departing trains in the arrows, the few parallel lines show the train tracks.

Another, equally iconic design by Dumbar is the logo of the then newly reunited Dutch National Police. The stripe design won several awards. It can be found on police cruisers, boats, rescue vehicles, helicopters and motorcycles. This design, commissioned in 1992, is still in use today; it is supposed to symbolize the merger of the former state police and the city police.

In 2002 he designed the Indian Monument in The Hague as a participant in the Indonesian War of Independence .

Web links

Commons : Studio Dumbar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Graham Sturt: Dutch Design Heroes: Gert Dumbar. January 9, 2018, accessed February 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Gert Dumbar. Retrieved February 5, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ Awards. Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Gert Dumbar | GD 203. Retrieved February 5, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Op welke aarde will be occasionally. Retrieved February 5, 2020 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Dumbar, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Jakarta