The Ulm School of Design was a college of design based in Ulm, Germany. It was founded in 1953 by Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill, the latter being first rector of the school and a former student at the Bauhaus. The HfG quickly gained international recognition by emphasizing the holistic, multidisciplinary context of design beyond the Bauhaus approach of integrating art, craft and technology. The subjects of sociology, psychology, politics, economics, philosophy and systems-thinking were integrated with aesthetics and technology. During HfG operations from 1953–1968, progressive approaches to the design process were implemented within the departments of Product Design, Visual Communication, Industrialized Building, Information and Filmmaking.
Building Ulm HfG designed by Max Bill and completed in 1955.
Building Ulm HfG, photography by Hans G. Conrad.
Model for the continuous study of the workshop of Tomas Maldonado.
Poster designed by Margarete Kögler in the class of Otl Aicher.
Ulm is the sixth-largest city of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with around 129,000 inhabitants, it is Germany's 60th-largest city.
Image: Ulm Panorama 01
Image: Ulm Münster NW 2011 08 30
Image: Ulmer Münster Rooftop
Image: Rathaus Ulma
