Passenger Information System: Design Manual for the Swiss Federal Railways by Josef Müller-Brockmann (Fahrgastinformationssystem / Passenger Information System) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3037786108 ISBN 13: 9783037786109

Verlag: Lars Muller Publishers, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

In 1980 Josef Müller-Brockmann laid the cornerstone for a uniform visual identity for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) with his legendary Visual Information System at Train Stations and Stops. In view of Switzerland’s multilingualism, the manual proposed a signage system that largely did without language; with his functional typography, the pioneer of Swiss graphics conceived an intuitively comprehensible signage system for use throughout the country to also guide passengers unfamiliar with the terrain to their destination with the help of pictograms. The visual concept was developed in dialogue with the SBB and still dominates the railways’ visual identity even today. Müller-Brockmann’s manual, greatly expanded in 1992 and given the title Passenger Information System, is a prime example of a complex design project that succeeds through extreme rationality and consistency. It thus serves as a compass for designers worldwide in their daily work. This reprint with an English translation makes the manual accessible for the first time to a broader public. Andres Janser examines the project in the context of Müller-Brockmann’s conceptual work and the systematic international design for which railways everywhere were striving during the period.

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In 1980, the Swiss Federal Railways contracted one of their country's leading graphic designers, Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914-96), to overhaul the design of their train stations' signage, a project that resulted in a "visual information system" using intuitive pictograms to orient rail passengers, doing so largely without the aid of language.
Müller-Brockmann's manual, expanded in 1992, is a complex, large-scale design project that met its users' needs through its emphatic rationalism and consistency. This reprint in English translation--part of Lars Müller's XX The Century of Print series--makes the manual accessible for the first time to a broader public, and is one of the most significant projects by this legendary designer, well known for his posters and the influential magazine he founded, New Graphic Design (1958-65). This 200-page edition features a transparent PVC jacket, an interview with the contemporary Swiss graphic designer Peter Spalinger and text by curator Andres Janser.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lars Muller Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 3037786108
• ISBN 13: 9783037786109
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222
• Herausgeber: Museum Für Gestaltung Zürich, Shizuko Yoshikawa And Josef Müller-Brockmann Foundation
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