Martin Krampen

Martin staples (* 1928 in Siegen) is a German designer, artist and semiotician, he was a student and lecturer at the Ulm School of Design.

Life

Martin staples studied theology, psychology and art history at the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg, as well as painting in Florence. At the Ulm School of Design ( HfG ) he studied Visual Communications and graduated there in 1957 with a diploma. He later worked as a lecturer at the HfG. Next he studied at Michigan State University Psychology and Communication Studies, where he received his doctorate in 1962.

He held various professorships in design and psychology in the U.S. and Canada. From 1972 to 2005 he was a lecturer at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd. Martin staples since 1993 Honorary Member of the German Society for Semiotics.

Publications

  • Martin staples / Klaus Oehler / Roland Posner / Thure von Uexküll (ed. ): The world as a sign. Classics of modern semiotics. Berlin: Severin and Siedler 1981.
  • Il contributo della scuola di Ulm. The Legacy of the School of Ulm. In: Rassegna issue 19, 1984 With contributions by Tomás Maldonado, Marina Bistolfi, Martin cramps, Giovanni Anceschi, Piero G. Tanca. . 1984
  • Otl Aicher and Martin staples: sign system of visual communication. Manual for designers, architects, planners, organizers. Berlin: Ernst and Son Publishers for Architecture and Technical Sciences, 1996.
  • Martin staples: Otl Aicher - 328 posters for the Ulmer Community College. Berlin: Ernst and Son Publishers for Architecture and Technical Sciences, 2000.
  • Martin cramps, Günther Hörmann: The Ulm School of Design / The School of Design. Beginnings of a project of radical modernism / Beginnings of a Project of Radical Modernism. Berlin: Ernst and Son, 2003.
  • Michael Gotte, Michael & Martin Kneidl staples (ed.), The world of signs / The World of Signs, Ludwigsburg Av Edition, 2007.
  • Martin cramps, Torsten Malcherczyk, Jochen Speidel: " observe and formulate / observation and formulation", Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009
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