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  Armin Hoffman - Posters from the 3 Deep Design Collection
Born in 1920, Armin Hofmann was a pivotal?gure in mid twentieth century graphic design and his work was to exert a significant influence on design internationally.
Hofmann began teaching his typographic principles at the Basel School of Design in 1947 where he pioneered the school's contribution to the development of the Swiss international Style.
Hofmann's accentuation of contrasts between various design elements formed the basis of this universal language; the use of abstract forms communicate ideas directly to the eye.
www.agda.com.au /eventsnews/nsw/events/2005/ArminH.html   (288 words)

  
 About Armin Hofmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Armin Hofmann was born in Winterthur, Switzerland in 1920.
Hofmann came to the US and taught at Yale and they Philadelphia Museum School of the Arts.
Hofmann is one of the founders of the Swiss International Style.
www.acs.appstate.edu /~sb55068/bluesite/homagesite/bio.htm   (109 words)

  
 swiss poster history
The style was refined at two design schools in Switzerland, one in Basel led by Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder, and the other in Zurich under the leadership of Joseph Muller-Brockmann.
Hofmann’s series for the Basel State Theater and Muller-Brockmann’s for Zurich’s Tonhalle are two of the most famous.
Hofmann’s accentuation of contrasts between various design elements and Muller-Brockmann’s exploration of rhythm and tempo in visual form are high notes in the evolution of the style.
www.postershow.com /swiss_poster/poster_history.htm   (1318 words)

  
 Past exhibitions / The Corcoran Gallery of Art | Exhibitions
Armin and Dorothea Hofmann have each achieved international recognition for their contributions as artists and educators in their respective disciplines.
Armin Hofmann has shaped the world of graphic design and graphic design education on an international scale through his teachings, writings, and works.
Armin has been a visiting lecturer at the Museum College of Art in Philadelphia, has taught as a Professor at Yale University since 1956, and has been a guest lecturer at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India.
www.corcoran.org /exhibitions/previous_results.asp?Exhib_ID=28   (270 words)

  
 kripy* - better out than couched - exhibition:graphic art & design:Armin Hofmann
Armin Hofmann is the driving force behind the Basel School of Design, an internationally renowned design institute based in Switzerland.
It's unknown as to whether it's Hofmann's teaching strategies alone that produce these results, but the bottom line is is that these kids are damn good - consistently above average compared to other design schools - indicating that their tutor is someone worth gleaning knowledge from.
You won't appreciate how influential Hofmann has been until you witness his work, and realise the intelligence and consideration behind each piece, and how many designers over the past three decades have adopted elements of his style.
www.kripy.com /event/129/armin-hofmann   (194 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Artist: Armin Hofmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After completing an apprenticeship in lithography, Armin Hofmann began teaching his own typographic principles at the Basel School of Design in 1947.
Hofmann espoused a dynamic balance of all the parts of a design and a modern aesthetic.
This exhibition of Hofmann's simple fl and white posters was mounted to mark his receiving the 1997 Art Prize of the City of Basel.
www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?wosid=NO&id=39   (137 words)

  
 Armin Hofmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With Emil Ruder, Hoffman helped to found the Basel School (Schule für Gestaltung Basel) and a graphic style known as the Swiss Style.
He was well known for his posters, which emphasised economical use of colour and fonts, in reaction to what Hofmann regarded as the "trivialization of colour".
His posters have been widely exhibited as works of art in major galleries, such as the New York Museum of Modern Art.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armin_Hofmann   (185 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The list of subjects a good design teacher is aware of ranges from the fundamentals of drawing and painting to the study of mathematics, psychology, and philosophy and to a more than passing acquaintance with the history of art and design.
Hofmann’s posters for museums and for the Basel State Theatre and his architecturally-related projects are evidence of his social consciousness and his preference for the kind of work that permits artistic freedom.
Armin Hofmann stresses the higher goals of art and education not to put down the world of business but to give it real meaning.
vanhuyckphoto.com /armin_Hoffmann.doc   (1658 words)

  
 Rene Wanner's Poster Page / Armin Hofmann exhib. / Introduction
When graphic designer and teacher Armin Hofmann was awarded the Art Price of the City of Basel in November 1997, not too many people in Basel knew about him or knew what he got the prize money of 20'000 swiss francs for (about 15'000 US$).
Just to be on the safe side, the city councilors arranged for a small private exhibition of some of his posters for the guests of the award ceremony so they could form their own opinion about his work, as the official announcement put it.
The teacher Armin Hofmann is considered one of the leading figures of the so-called Basel School, being part of the Swiss School.
www.posterpage.ch /exhib/ex03_hof/hofintro.htm   (536 words)

  
 whatsonwhen.com - Armin Hofmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The posters of a pioneering figure in Swiss graphic design, Armin Hofmann, are on display in the Poster Gallery of Zurich's Design Museum.
Armin Hofmann started his long period as a teacher at the Gewerbeschule in Basel in 1946 and developed - later in a lively dialogue with Wolfgang Weingart - educational skills that made a lasting impact on the international graphic design scene.
Hofmann recognised at an early stage that technological developments demanded a radical revision of the methods used for teaching budding graphic designers.
www.whatsonwhen.org /events/~93685.jml   (353 words)

  
 www.neshanmagazine.com,AH!-9
Armin Hofmann’s work never really fit easily into the cool, functional, design genre known as the Swiss International Style.
Influences from his schooling can be seen in Hofmann’s use of typography and especially his use of ligatures, a small but interesting aspect that reoccurs in his poster work and also in his logotypes and signage systems.
On another occasion, a friend of mine over-heard Hofmann in discussion with a classmate say, “Once you touch quality, you never forget it.” Maybe, the most important task in his teaching was bringing each student to this indefinable moment.
www.neshanmagazine.com /AH!-9.htm   (957 words)

  
 Basel School of Design and Its Philosophy: The Armin Hofmann Years: Posters
Text includes “Armin Hofmann” by Paul Rand; “Thoughts on the Poster” by Armin Hofmann; “The Basel School of Design” by Kenneth Hiebert.
Under the direction of Armin Hofmann for the past thirty years, the Basel School of Design in Basel, Switzerland, has had an enormous influence on international graphic art and design.
The five “universal principles” of the Basel School*#151;the expressive power of hand-drawn letterforms, the visual tension of type and image, the integration of apparently innocuous elements, the beauty of sensitively combined colors, and the authority of fl and white—have been expressed in distinctive posters that have influenced the way information is presented.
thegalleriesatmoore.org /publications/basel.shtml   (229 words)

  
 AIGA - Pat Hansen on Armin Hofmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
I have often said that Armin Hofmann “taught me to see.” During this summer program, we were also honored with classes taught by Wolfgang Weingart and Ivan Chermayeff.
The benefits of exposure to Armin, Wolfgang and Ivan, were enormous.
I believe that Armin was a large influence in that, particularly in our identity work.
www.aiga.org /content.cfm?contentalias=essay_hansen   (311 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Poster Collection 07: Armin Hofmann: Books: Armin Hofmann,Felix Studinka,Steven Heller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The museum's poster collection is one of the most comprehensive and significant archives of its kind in the world.~Poster Collection 07 gathers together the most important posters of Armin Hofmann, presenting them in the context of works by his most famous students.
Born in 1920, Hofmann began teaching his own typographic principles at the Basel School of Design in 1947.
Kunsthalle Basel, Armin Hofmann, Gewerbemuseum Basel, Allgemeinen Gewerbeschule Basel, Ernst Gubler, Max Mathys, Richard Paul Lohse, Alexander Calder, Donald Brun, Ihren Unterricht
www.amazon.com /Poster-Collection-07-Armin-Hofmann/dp/3037780045   (1215 words)

  
 YouWorkForThem | Poster design: Poster Collection 07: Armin Hofmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Description: Poster Collection 07 gathers together the most important posters of Armin Hofmann, presenting them in the context of works by his most famous students.
The Poster Collection of the Zurich Museum für Gestaltung offers a record of the history of the poster, in Switzerland and worldwide, from its beginnings in the 19th century to its current existence.
After completing an apprenticeship in lithography, Armin Hofmann (born 1920) began teaching his own typographic principles at the Basel School of Design in 1947.
www.youworkforthem.com /product_release.php?sku=P0151   (379 words)

  
 exhibitions / Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, DC - The first joint exhibition of renowned graphic designer, Armin Hoffman and his wife, international artist, Dorothea Hofmann, presented in Atlanta and most recently at the National Library in Mexico City, is on view in the Hemicycle Gallery at the Corcoran Gallery of Art from October 13 through November 15, 1999.
The opportunity to view their work together initiates comparisons and contrasts that reveal a complex synergy in their artistic output to which not even Armin and Dorothea were previously aware.
Her work has been exhibited in Switzerland and the United States and is included in many public and private collections.
www.corcoran.org /exhibitions/press_results.asp?Exhib_ID=28   (326 words)

  
 Armin Hofmann
Armin Hofmann gehört zu den bedeutendsten Schweizer Grafikern des letzten Jahrhunderts.
Damit ist eine einzigartige Ausstellung entstanden, welche das vielfältige Gesicht Indiens aus einer speziellen Perspektive zeigt und gleichzeitig Zeugnis ablegt vom bedeutungsvollen grafischen und künstlerischen Schaffen Armin Hofmanns.
Arbeiten von Armin Hofmann in der Ausstellung der Galerie
www.stasiahutter.com /Kuenstler/hofmann.htm   (496 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Armin Hofmann": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Certains as- pects de la doctrine d'Armin Hofmann et de Wolfgang Weingart, conus plutt  titre exprimental ou comme modles, concordent alors avec les ambitions des tudiants et...
Armin Hofmann, logotype for the Basel Civic Theater, 1954.
Seit ber fnfzig Jahren trumt Armin Hofmann davon, die Straen Basels in Sehschulen zu verwandeln.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Armin-Hofmann   (467 words)

  
 Textbooks by Armin Hofmann - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Authors: Harald Brune, Armin Grunwald, Werner Grünwald, Heinrich Hofmann, Harald Krug, Peter Janich, Marcel Mayor, Wolfgang Rathgeber, Günter Schmid, Ulrich Simon, Viola Vogel, Daniel Wyrwa
Armin Hofmann: Posters : Sept. 10-Oct. 25, 1981, The Museum of Modern Art, by Armin Hofmann
Author: Armin, Illustrated with 301 b/w Reproductions of Graphic Designs.
www.directtextbook.com /author/armin-hofmann   (416 words)

  
 Rob Roy Kelly Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
They were graduates of Armin Hofmann's program at the Kunst Gewerbeschule in Basel.
I was greatly impressed with their design performance, especially the visual sophistication and intelligence reflected in their work.
I wrote Hofmann a letter explaining my predicament and asking if he would be willing to send graduates from his program.
www.rit.edu /~rkelly/html/03_ped/ped_tea1.html   (1236 words)

  
 grid study assignment
The purpose of this investigation is to advance the student's knowledge of design.
"Inventive power, abstract thinking, and conceptual processing," are expressions used by Hofmann to describe the research involved in these studies.
As described in Armin Hofmann, His Work, Quest and Philosophy "The themes are concerned with abstract processes such as joining together, massing, ordering, destroying, rotating, transposing, questioning, etc.
oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~adleta/classes/year0405/fall/seniorstudio/grid.htm   (972 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Paul Rand: Books: Armin Hofmann,Steven Heller,Jessica Helfand,George Lois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
by Armin Hofmann (Foreword, Author), Steven Heller (Author), Jessica Helfand (Author), George Lois (Introduction)
This book comprises a definitive collection of Rand's works, through an exploration of his advertising, publishing and corporate identity work.
Steven Heller's text, with a foreword by designer Armin Hofmann, introduction by advertising guru George Lois, and a concluding essay by designer and writer Jessica Helfand, offer an insight into Paul Rand's work.
www.amazon.co.uk /Paul-Rand-Armin-Hofmann/dp/0714839949   (669 words)

  
 Armin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Armin, member of the Lord Chamberlain's Men
Arminius, Germanic tribal leader who fought against the Romans
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same human name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armin   (144 words)

  
 Armin Hofmann: Posters from the 3 Deep Design Collection
Armin Hofmann: Posters from the 3 Deep Design Collection
The five "universal principles" of the Basel School; the expressive power of hand-drawn letterforms, the visual tension of type and image, the integration of apparently innocuous elements, the beauty of sensitively combined colors, and the authority of fl and white have been expressed in distinctive posters that have influenced the way information is presented.
A unique and rare collection of Armin Hofmann posters from the Melbourne based company 3 Deep Design.
www.utsgallery.uts.edu.au /gallery/past/2005/3dposters_0705.html   (136 words)

  
 Rene Wanner's Poster Page / Armin Hofmann exhibition / Publications
A good many of the publications are auction catalogues from the big international poster dealers, so clearly his work has generated more than just academic interest.
It also includes a bibliography on Hofmann's activities outside of posters, as well as publications by Hofmann himself, for example his famous textbook Methodik der Form- und Bildgestaltung - Aufbau, Synthese, Anwendung ; Arthur Niggli, Teufen (CH)(1965).
Wichmann, H. (Hrsg.) (1989); Armin Hofmann, Werk, Erkundung, Lehre; Basel (CH), Birkhaeuser
www.posterpage.ch /exhib/ex03_hof/hofpub.htm   (499 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Armin Hofmann : his work, quest, and philosophy = Werk, Erkundung, Lehre
Find in a Library: Armin Hofmann : his work, quest, and philosophy = Werk, Erkundung, Lehre
Armin Hofmann : his work, quest, and philosophy = Werk, Erkundung, Lehre
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/3eca124e21b3841ca19afeb4da09e526.html   (63 words)

  
 Armin Hofmann Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Armin Hofmann Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
by Kenneth J. Hiebert, Armin Hofmann (Foreword by)
With clear explanations and hundreds of revealing illustrations, the author of GRAPHIC DESIGN PROCESSES continues to discuss and demonstrate the process of design creation and how inventive graphic design inspiration arises from diverse sources.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Armin_Hofmann   (219 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice/Methodik Der Form-Und Bildgestaltung : Aufbau Synthese ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Publisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.
Even though Armin Hofmann has made a grand contrubution to the design world, I surely don't consider this book as a beginners manual.
The one book that I can only consider to open the beginners horizon is "A History of Graphic Design" by Philip B. Meggs.
www.amazon.ca /Graphic-Design-Manual-Form-Bildgestaltung/dp/3721200063   (239 words)

  
 Armin Hofmann by Paul Rand
Yet it is difficult, really, to pin him down.
Why do average students in Hofmann’s classes do above-average work while in most other classes average students do average work?
Hofmann’s posters for museums and for the Basel State Theatre and his architecturally-related projects are evidence of his social consciousness and his preference for the kind of work that permits artistic freedom.
thegalleriesatmoore.org /publications/baselpr.shtml   (340 words)

  
 International LRED Conference - November 2006
Annemarie has been instrumental in refining the approaches and instruments of LRED.
Armin Hofmann has extensive experience in Sustainable Economic Development approaches for more than 18 years
Every country is unique and has specific requirements, with our GTZ LRED experience we have tailormade responses to these challenges.
www.lred.info /group.html   (441 words)

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