The Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung) was a college of design based in Ulm, Germany.
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 and is now viewed as being second only to the Bauhaus as the most influential school of design. During its operation from 1953–1968, new approaches to the design process were implemented within the departments of Product Design, Visual Communication, Industrialized Building, Information and Filmmaking.

The HfG building was designed by Max Bill and remains intact today as a historically important and functional building under the auspices of Foundation Ulm. The HfG was one of the most progressive educational institutions of design in the decades of the 50s and 60s and a pioneer in the study of semiotics.

“The design process had to be more than strictly a ‘method of analysis’. It must be a balancing of both art and science.”






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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ulm-School-of-Design/104122249625743
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulm_School_of_Design
http://www.hfg-archiv.ulm.de/english/the_hfg_ulm/
http://www.ifa.de/en/exhibitions/exhibitions-abroad/design/ulmermodelle/school-of-design/