Otl Aicher’s Pictograms

Issue
05/2022 Prefabrication Modular Construction
Author
Kai Gehrmann
Source
DETAIL
Location
Germany, Munich
Munich 1972: The design concept for the Games helped ensure that, despite the terrorist attack, they would be called the “smiling Games”.
© Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München/Bildarchiv
An homage to the creative intellectual and generalist on his 100th birthday, and to the "language without words," that he developed for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
Munich 1972: The design concept for the Games helped ensure that, despite the terrorist attack, they would be called the “smiling Games”.
© Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München/Bildarchiv