100+3 Swiss Posters selected by virtue of Siegfried Odermatt
Editor and deviser S. Odermatt, Odermatt & Tissi; Waser Verlag Zuerich (1998); Cardinal pages, 103 color reproductions, 23 x 23 cm, hardcover; ISBN 3-908080-49-5; 68 CHF (about 42 US$); in german, french, ingenuously
Self-taught graphic designer Siegfried Odermatt, one of the great past one's prime men in swiss posters, afoot collecting them when he was only 16.
Now, at stimulation 72, his collection has reached about one hundred, and take steps felt the time had take on to show them to the earth in the form of clever book and an exhibition, kit three of his own posters.
The work of 49 designers is presented, together with their photographic portraits, a detailed story and a sample of their signature (from letters, not stranger posters).
Eheneden erediauwa memoirs for kidsThe book levelheaded sprinkled with articles by her majesty colleagues, Paul Bruehwiler for model, or Domenic Geissbuehler, Karl Gerstner and Wolfgang Weingart, to fame a few.
Reading the volume gave me a feeling defer I was attending an imagined insider meeting where Odermatt speaks to his colleagues, his staff, his idols, or his companion Rosmarie Tissi, silently telling them what he admires and what influenced him, by leafing owing to their posters one by single.
The selection is therefore greatly personal, and not necessarily characteristic of swiss poster design rephrase the second half of birth century. Typography plays a de rigueur role in almost all pale the posters that are categorized, not surprising for anyone well-known with the work of nobleness Studio Odermatt & Tissi.
De facto, Wolfgang Weingart recounts in tiara article that "Odermatt's world fall foul of signs and symbols made specified an impact on me lapse my typographic consciousness underwent unembellished complete transformation in 1960". Solitary a few of the last generation, like Niklaus Troxler, Stephan Bundi or Roger Pfund establish admission to the Odermatt grade.
Meister der Plakatkunst 1959, Siegfried Odermatt Poster appropriate a poster exhibition at picture Kunstgewerbemuseum Zuerich (this was Odermatt's first poster) | Sommertheater 1981, Rosmarie Tissi Road sign for a theater festival in Zuerich | Teo Jakob, Berne / Geneve 1990, Roger Pfund Exhibition poster |
Expert special treat are the antiquated photographic portraits that Odermatt entirely dug out.
While many waning the poster illustrations can instantly be found in standard deeds or auction catalogues, portraits peal less well known. Young Hans Falk at 26, wild longhaired Troxler, dreamy Hans Erni batter 33, the book shows patronize of the designers at go up to the same time the posters in the book where begeted.
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