Josef-Müller Brockmann

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Josef-Müller Brockmann Josef-Müller Brockmann (b. 1914, Rapperswil, Switzerland; d. 1996) was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich. In 1936, he opened a design studio in Zurich. He was professor of graphic design at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Zurich from 1957 to 1960, and guest lecturer at the University of Osaka from 1961 and the Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Ulm from 1963. From 1967 he was European design consultant for IBM. He is the author of The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems (1961), History of Visual Communication (1971), History of the Poster (with Shizuko Müller-Yoshikawa, 1971), and Grid Systems in Graphic Design (1981). In 1958 he became a founding editor of New Graphic Design along with R.P. Lohse, C. Vivarelli, and H. Neuburg. He was known for his simple designs and typography that is now known as the "Swiss international style". He designed some typefaces, including a mid-1970s type called Candia (for the Olivetti typewriters). Candia inspired Max Phillips in 2018 for his Ballinger Mono. Kobi Benezri's Lettera (2008) is also based on Candia.	EXTERNAL LINKS Josef-Müller Brockmann MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Typewriter fonts ⦿ Type design in Switzerland ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿