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January 6, 2012
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Pierre Mendell

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Pierre Mendell (1929 — 2008) was a graphic designer that stud­ied design under Armin Hof­mann at the Schule für Gestal­tung in Basel and later went on to form the Mendell & Oberer stu­dioin 1961 in Munich. Mendell is best known for his work iden­tity work Vitra and Siemens.

The MoMA has a small, but great, gallery of some of his work.

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2 Comments on "Pierre Mendell"

  • max says

    see more posters of mendell for the “Bay­erische Staat­soper” in their shop!

    http://www.bayerische.staatsoper.de/858-Y2lkPTgmZG9tPWRvbTEmbD1kZQ-~service~shop~overview.html

    January 7, 2012 at 12:25 pm
  • Rob says

    I dis­cov­ered Mendell’s work about a year ago and I think it’s really inspir­ing. He’s a per­fect exam­ple of a mod­ernist who effec­tively com­bines the visual power of reduc­tivism with the the­matic power of strong con­cepts.
    I found an excel­lent mono­graph of his work that is now one of my all-time favorite design books:
    “At First Sight” by Pierre Mendell. (avail­able on Ama­zon, etc.)

    January 7, 2012 at 1:35 pm