Moderne Malerei Seit 1945, Aus der Sammlung Dotrement 22.IV-28.V, Kunsthalle Basel, 1961

Armin Hofmann

Exhibition Catalogue

Details

Format Exhibition Catalogue
Designer/s Armin Hofmann
Year 1961
Client/Publisher Kunsthalle Basel
Size 190mm x 260mm

Armin Hofmann

Armin Hofmann is one of the most famous Swiss graphic designers best known for his poster designs Theatre Basel. He was a director of the graphic design course at Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel and taught at Yale in the US (he was a permanent member of staff from 1972-86). Explore related designers including Emil Ruder and Wolfgang Weingart. See also Swiss International Style, Swiss graphic design history, and 1950s graphic design history.

Linked Information

Design Format: Exhibition Catalogue
Designed in the: 1960s

Moderne Malerei Seit 1945, Aus der Sammlung Dotrement 22.IV-28.V, Kunsthalle Basel, 1961 designed by Armin Hofmann

More graphic design artefacts

view more of the graphic design archive

The Illustrated Collaborations of Klaus Winter and Helmut Bischoff

Winter + Bischoff’s work blends fine art and graphic design and is a fine example of commercial design featuring a heavy use of stylistic illustration. In fact a lot of German graphic design in the 1960s has this strong relationship of commercial and professional typographic layout with the roughness and organicness of art.

Read Article