Inge Druckrey

Inge Druckrey (born 1940 in Berlin ) is a German-American designer .

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Inge Druckrey attended seminars on art history and language at the University of Basel while she completed her design studies at the Basel School of Applied Arts in 1965 . She then worked for Studio Halpern in Zurich for a year . From 1966 she taught in the USA at Yale University , the Rhode Island School of Design , the University of the Arts Philadelphia and the Kansas City Art Institute, in Germany she taught at the Krefeld School of Applied Arts . In addition to teaching, she worked as a designer for clients such as IBM and US universities . Her works combine Swiss rationality with postmodern complexity; they were widely published and included in collections of various museums. Druckrey is married to Edward Tufte , the author of seminal writings on information design.

Inge Druckrey, "Learning from Historical Sources," In: Spirals 91, (Graphic Design Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Fall 1992), pp. 121-128.
HU Allemann, Inge Druckrey, Basic Design, Limited Edition Publication, (Kansas City Art Institute, 1968)
Inge Druckrey, “Signs,” Design Quarterly 92, ( Walker Art Center , Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1974)

Dawn Ades / Richard Peterson / Robert Brown: The 20th-Century Poster - Design of the Avant-Garde. New York 1984.
Gerda Breuer, Julia Meer: Women in Graphic Design 1890–2012 . Ed .: Gerda Breuer, Julia Meer. Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 , pp. 434 .
In 2012 Andrei Severny made the documentary Teaching to See about Druckrey's work, working methods and teaching concepts.

30 Years of Poster Art, Gewerbemuseum Basel , Switzerland, 1983.
The 20th Century Poster, Design of the Avant-Garde, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1985.
The Basel School of Design and its Philosophy: The Armin Hofmann Years, Moore College of Art and Design, Rhode Island School of Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1986.
The Modern Poster, Museum of Modern Art , New York, 1988.
Universal / Unique, 31 Graphic Design Educators, University of the Arts (Philadelphia), the Herb Lubalin Study Center, Cooper-Hewitt , National Design Museum, New York, 1989.
Graphic Design in America, Walker Art Center, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, The Phoenix Art Museum, Design Museum at Butlers Wharf in London, 1989.
UArts Faculty Work, Rosenwald-Wolf and Hamilton Galleries, The University of the Arts (Philadelphia), 2001.

Commons : Inge Druckrey - Collection of images, videos and audio files

^ Profile page of the University of the Arts Philadelphia. Retrieved December 20, 2019 .
↑ Gerda Breuer, Julia Meer: Women in Graphic Design 1890–2012 . Ed .: Gerda Breuer, Julia Meer. Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-153-8 , pp. 434 .