Otl Aicher
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Otto "Otl" Aicher was a German graphic designer and typographer. Aicher co-founded and taught at the influential Ulm School of Design. He is known for having led the design team of the 1972 Summer Oly
Aicher (right) in 1959
Book covers designed by Otl Aicher for Severin & Siedler
Pictograms designed by Aicher, in use at the Athens Airport
One of the studio buildings designed by Aicher for his office
White Rose
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The White Rose was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one LMU Munich professor: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmore
Otl Aicher
…and through him met Werner's family, including his siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl (both of whom would be executed in 1943 for their membership in the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany). Like the Scholls, Aicher was strongly opposed to the Nazi movement. He was arrested in 1937 for refusing to join…
Monument to the "Weiße Rose" in front of LMU Munich
Kurt Huber, a core member of the White Rose Resistance Group
Clemens August Graf von Galen
Atrium of LMU Munich's main building, where Hans and Sophie Scholl were arrested on 18 February 1943