Armin Hofman Print donated by Cynthia Kanner
Print Yellow Planes on Blue background (3 of 10) donated by Cynthia Kanner
This piece was part of one of the last shows at the A+D before it left Museum Mile. It speaks to timeless elegance of design by one of the world's greatest graphic designers.
Materials: Paper, Unframed
About the artist
Armin Hofman was a Swiss graphic designer. He began his career in 1947 as a teacher at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel School of Art and Crafts at the age of twenty-six. Hofmann followed Emil Ruder as head of the graphic design department at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel (Basel School of Design) and was instrumental in developing the graphic design style known as the Swiss Style. His teaching methods were unorthodox and broad based, setting new standards that became widely known in design education institutions throughout the world. His independent insights as an educator, married with his rich and innovative powers of visual expression, created a body of work enormously varied – books, exhibitions, stage sets, logotypes, symbols, typography, posters, sign systems, and environmental graphics.
