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Facebook site is edited by Hans D Reichert/Baseline Magazine M’72 – Exhibition and Symposium presents the trailblazing design heritage of the Olympic games held in Germany forty years ago. This one-day symposium will be held in University for the Creative Arts' Cragg Lecture Theatre in Canterbury on 29 June 2012. The symposium will coincide with the exhibition Munich ’72 – The Des
ign Legacy, which is held in the university's Herbert Read Gallery from 28 June to 31 July 2012. Bringing together leading experts in the area of communication design the symposium will explore the innovative and continued appeal of
the design approach and solutions developed for the Olympic Games in Munich during 1972 by Otl Aicher and his team. It will consider why the international profession is still interested in these typographic and graphic designs from 40 years ago. It will discuss what influence the strategy and the resulting posters, pictograms, information design, and range of print and promotion materials produced then may have had? The exhibition and symposium will also showcase the development of some of Aicher’s subsequent concepts, which may have originated in the Munich project. This will include the range of nearly 1,000 pictographic symbols produced for and marketed by ERCO; and projects with Lord Foster. The symposium will bring together contributions from one of Aicher’s Munich team; some of his later clients; and respected current practitioners in both the UK and abroad. Through these witness accounts the symposium will also consider the material history and practical aspects of generating and producing such design solutions in the early 1970s. The aim is to highlight the extent to which Aicher’s creative practice is still relevant for contemporary communication designers given the influence of established and emergent digital technologies and the changing demands of clients. The contributions will highlight the conceptual, material and technical knowledge, skills and experience required then and now, and their relevance to the development of training, curricula and research for current and future generations of visual communicators.
