Rolf Müller (designer)

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Rolf Müller (2001)

Rolf Müller (born December 15, 1940 in Dortmund ; † February 18, 2015 ) was a German designer . He was a member of the Alliance Graphique International AGI . For many years he has been one of the leading, internationally respected designer personalities in Munich. His visual design for the 1972 Olympic Games made him known far beyond the boundaries of the subject. The central themes of his creative work were corporate design, the development of information and orientation systems, posters, publications and exhibitions.

Life

Rolf Müller at the retrospective of his work, organized by the Typografische Gesellschaft München, on the occasion of the award of the Design Prize of the City of Munich (February 2009).

Müller studied at the HfG University of Design in Ulm. From 1967 to 1972 he developed a. a. with Otl Aicher the visual appearance of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and was deputy design officer of the organizing committee. He then founded the Rolf Müller office for visual communication in Munich, which for the next 40 years was one of the leading German design offices. Rolf Müller designed and realized visual appearances, developed information and orientation systems, designed publications and posters. For Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG he developed the magazine HQ (High Quality), which at the time set standards in printing technology and design. He lived in Munich and has a daughter, the designer Anna Lena von Helldorff . Since the late 1990s he has been teaching at the Ravensburg School of Design . In 2008 he received the design award of the City of Munich , and in 2009 a retrospective of his work took place. In 2014 the monograph Rolf Müller , which he helped to edit, was published : Stories, Systems, Signs .

Work

Various titles in High-Quality magazine
Appearance of the city of Leverkusen

literature

  • Jens Müller (Ed.): Rolf Müller - Stories, Systems, Signs - Stories, Systems, Marks. Volume 7 of the book series A5, Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3037784143 .

Prices

  • Gold Medal from the Art Directors Club of New York 1989
  • German Prize for Communication Design 1993: Award for the highest design quality,
  • The 100 best posters of 1997 from the Association of Graphic Designers for the Glückskinder poster
  • Book Art Foundation : The Most Beautiful Books 1995 and 1998.

Web links

Commons : Rolf Müller (Designer)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ^ Obituary by design colleague and friend Wolfgang Beinert on Rolf Müller on Facebook
  2. ^ Olympic mascot freak show of the mythical creatures Spiegel.de
  3. ^ Reasons given by the jury on the occasion of the award of the 2008 Design Prize by the City of Munich
  4. ↑ Müller, J., ed. (2013): Rolf Müller: Histories, Systems, Signs. Lars Müller Publishers, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2015