The ulm school of designOtl AicherAicher was an influential graphic designer and typographer from Germany that co founded the Ulm school of design, alongside Inge Scholl and Max Bill. He was born in may 1922 and Grew up in Ulm. While growing up he became close friends with a boy called Werner Scholl. Through knowing Werner, Aicher met his family who just so happened to be part of the non violence resistance group 'the white rose'. This group was anti-nazi and worked against them and their views through propaganda. Seeing this work alongside seeing on of Werners eldest sisters be executed for being against the Nazis made Aicher also very against them. Aicher refused to join the Hitler youth group and so got arrested in 1937, This meant that he couldn't take his entrance exams for college, therefore not being able to go once being released. After not being able to attend college, Aicher was then forced to join the German army to help fight in WW2. Obviously the young man was very against this war and made every attempt he could to leave but to no avail most of his attempts failed. Eventually he managed to run away from the war and take refuge at the Scholls family house. He hid there for quite some time to avoid the war. When the war finally came to a halt in 1946 he enrolled himself in the School of fine art, Munich to study sculpture. A year after enrolling to study sculpture Aicher launched a studio in Ulm and got married into the Scholl family through his friends sister, Inge Scholl. Very soon after this he established the Ulm school of design and became very successful. So successful infact that it remained one of Germanies leading education centres until it was closed in 1968. Aicher himself had a high interest in corporate branding and got plenty of commissioned work in his time of being a graphic designer and typographer. He made logos for famous German airlines and was even offered the lead designers position for the 1972 Olympics summer Olmypics. This is when he started using stick figures throughout his work, this which was largely influential to the graphics design world and definitely helped make his mark on the graphic design world. In 1888 Aicher even created the Rotis font family after consulting the kitchen company 'Bulthaup'. He wrote plenty of books on subjects including art and design that also became highly influential on popular.
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