My first weeks at the school were scary. Looking around, I could not find anyone who started as lowly as I did. Many students came from very sophisticated high schools. Some had already semesters of art or design education behind them. I lacked all of their skills. For the first two semesters I was in […]
Biography
Alsterdamm Influences
Max Herrmann Mahlmann born April 4, 1912 in Hamburg, Germany was a German painter of Constructivism, graphic designer and design teacher Life and work Max H. Mahlmann studied with Richard Müller and Wilhelm Rudolph at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden from 1934 to 1938. Initially, he also worked as a stage painter and […]
Robert Berkovitz
Robert Berkovitz was always aware of the structural and ordering powers of good design and typography and its ability in providing aid for traversing complex information environments. In an article, “Design, Development and Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Learning for Speech Science Education” he writes: Graphic Design Issues. We made a number of decisions at the outset […]
Jacqueline S. Casey, 1927–1992
Jacqueline S. Casey practiced an intuitive and organic Modernism. From 1955 to 1989, she was a designer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Office of Publications, first under the direction of Muriel Cooper (I believe that this is totally wrong. The only person in charge of all office staff members was John “Mattill” as […]
Pataphysics
My ambitions were never to become a designer or artist in pursuit of importance, status or notoriety. My interests were always bound to an insatiable appetite for discovery and looking for collaboration in interpreting the discovered phenomena. “Ask a provocative question, and without hesitation I stand ready to explore it to find an answer”, that […]
Myths + Realities
It is time for design historians worth their salt, to untangle the amazing myths that obscure a very simple reality, behind which many American designers have been hiding, to shield themselves from exposure to something that is not as glamorous as has been portrayed by their professional design media. For instance, historians have to set […]
Biography
Dietmar R. Winkler, educated in design in Hamburg, Germany, is professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He believes that design theory cannot be separated from evolving contemporary and future professional practices. He was director of the Institute of Design at IIT, the director of the School of Art and Design at the University […]