Anton Stankowski
February 8th, 2010By: Antonio Carusone
Category: Design, Design Legends, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style
Comments: 8
Category: Design, Design Legends, Grid Systems, International Typographic Style
Comments: 8
I love finding gems like this.
Anton Stankowski was a Germany designer and teacher who pioneered constructive graphic design and is probably best known for designing the wonderful Deutsche Bank logo, which makes excellent use of a grid. I also love how he used basic geometric shapes to create the visuals.
David has some hi-res images of Stankowski’s work. Beautiful.
Seán
This site (http://www.stankowski-stiftung.de/) is also a great resource on Stankowski. You can buy some very nice design books off them for a very reasonable price. I believe the same books were on counterprint for about 6 – 7 times the price.
Jonathan
The monograph on his work, Stankowski 06, is amazing. One of the best books I own. Well worth checking out, he did work back in the 20’s and 30’s that still looks current today. There are some images of the book on my flickr page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/insect54/sets/72157623387059072/
Chris
The hidden message in the Deutsche Bank logo is amazing, the outside square means your money is safe with us and the diagonal line — your money is always going up! Very clever. Not sure in the current climate this is the case!
Gilles
Another good book in German and English: Anton Stankowski — Frei und Angewandt 1925 – 1995 / Free and Applied 1925 – 1995.
http://www.amazon.ca/Anton-Stankowski-Free-Applied-1925 – 1995/dp/3433023700
Was able to buy this at a discounter in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.