Michael Sure

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Michael Klar (* 1943 in Berlin ) is a German graphic artist, designer and university professor.

life and work

Michael Klar completed his training as a photographer at the Lette-Verein in Berlin . From 1963 to 1966 he studied visual communication at the Ulm School of Design , with Otl Aicher , Herbert W. Kapitzki and Tomás Maldonado , among others .

From 1966 to 1967 he was an assistant there and as a member of the Kapitzki / Ohl working group involved in the pavilion project of the Federal Republic of Germany at the Expo 67 world exhibition in Montreal , Canada . In 1968 he graduated from the HfG and was the student representative in the year the HfG Ulm was closed.

From 1968 to 1970 he worked on setting up the Holzäpfel Project Institute . With Bernd Meurer , he founded Projekt Co ', a design office in Ulm, in 1970.

In 1972 Klar received the professorship for visual design at the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Design , whose teaching concepts he shaped significantly. In addition, he held various visiting professorships, including at Ohio State University , Columbus USA, at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver and at the University of Venice IUAV.

Klar was the founding dean of the design faculty at the Dresden University of Technology from 1992 to 1994 .

From 1992 to 2008 he taught at the Berlin University of the Arts, now the University of the Arts, as a professor of visual communication at the Institute for Transmedia Design.

Michael Klar lives and works as a designer in Berlin.

Publications

  • Ulm Statistics , Ulm 14/15/16 1965
  • Sign systems , dynamic television display, Ulm 17/18 1966
  • from the hfg: a contribution to the Expo '67 in Montreal , Ulmer Forum issue 2/1967
  • Critique of the role of design in the wasteful society , Format 20, No. 2/1969
  • Introduction to Design , Aspects, No. 3/1973
  • Communication and practice , criticism of everyday culture, aesthetics + communication 1979
  • Training is practice , Format 80, No. 4/1979
  • HfG Synopse , Ed. NH Roericht, Ulm 1982
  • History of the productive forces , Michael Klar u. a. VSA Verlag 1982
  • Appearance for an office furniture manufacturer , Novum, No. 5/1984
  • Michael Klar , Rasegna, Anno VI, 19/3 September 1984
  • Michael Klar , The European Iceberg, Creativity in Germany and Italy Today, Art Gallery of Ontario, Mazzotta 1985
  • Ulm ... the moral of objects , Ernst and Son 1987
  • History of the productive forces, zgraf 1987
  • The designer as author , Werk + Zeit, No. 3/4 1983
  • We're all flying through the ozone hole , Design Report, No. 9/1989
  • Designed in Germany , Ed. M. Erlhoff, Prestel 1990
  • University of Applied Sciences for Design Schwäbisch Gmünd , Novum, No. 9/1991
  • Discussion between two great German typographers Klar - Kroeplien , Druckspiegel, No. 6/1991
  • Object + objective = objectivity? Photography at the HfG, HfG Archive Ulm, 1991
  • International Exhibition of Graphic Design + Communication , Zagreb, zgraf, No. 6/1991
  • Globoscope , Form + Zweck, No. 4 + 5/1992
  • Global information - a project , future of space, campus 1994
  • Integrated traffic concept , Olympia Express 2000, IDZ Berlin 1994
  • Talking buildings , design report 9/1995
  • Global information - a project , positions on design, Bremen 1995
  • Friends and Encounters , Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft 1997
  • The whole is more than the sum of its parts , Compendium Corporate Identity and Corporate Design, av edition, 1997
  • Design in the Projekt der Moderne , av edition, 1997
  • Design is degenerate , design is a journey, Springer Verlag 1997
  • Kouakourou - Tokyo , design theory, anabas 2001
  • Institute for Transmedia Design , Berlin University of the Arts, 2001
  • tomás , senior service books, Milano 2002
  • Concrete utopia HfG , design report 10/2003
  • Berlin Night Edition , Berlin Night Edition, Ed. Michael Klar, nicolai 2007
  • PingPongProjekt , a project of graphic design training ... Ed. Severin Wucher, Gao Yi, Jiangxi Fine Arts Publishing House, 2008
  • IUAV DESIGN WORKSHOP 09 , IN MOVIMENTO, 2009
  • Kommando Otl Aicher , speech about the UdK Prize 2012, University of the Arts 2014
  • Criticism of the role of design in the wasteful society , design, texts on history and theory, Reclam, Universal-Bibliothek, Stuttgart 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ expo67 , description of the German pavilion (in English). Retrieved January 1, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Sure, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist, designer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin