Tuesday 29/10/19- Hochschule für Gestaltung (HFG) Ulm 1953-68 "school of design" with Rhiannon Robinson

 The Ulm school of design was founded  in memory of Hans and Sophie Scholl by sibling Inge Scholl back in 1953. Both Hans and Sophie Scholl were key figures in the anti-facism & democracy movement. The school's history evolved through change and innovation, in line with their own self-image of the school as an experimental institution. The teaching as the college was based on a curriculum covering four years. The first academic year was devoted to the basic course and then students chose a specialty from Product Design, Visual Communication, Industrialized Building, Information (which lasted until 1962) and Filmmaking.

Although the school ceased operation after fifteen years, the ′Ulm Model′ continues to have a major influence on international design education.
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Otl Aicher 

Otl Aicher was born on the 13th May 1922 in Ulm, Germany. Aicher was a German graphic designer and typographer. He is best known for having designed pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich that proved influential on the use of stick figures or public signage, as well as designing the typeface, Rotis. 

He was strongly opposed to the Nazi movement. He was arrested in 1937 for refusing to join the  Hitler Youth, and consequently he was failed on his college entrance examination in 1941. He was subsequently drafted into the German army to fight in World War II, though he tried to leave at various times. In 1952 he married Inge Scholl before being a co-founder of the Ulm School of Design, along with Inge Scholl and Max Bill in 1953.

The 1972 Summer Olympics pictograms have since inspired various designers due to their simplistic yet universal style.