Rolf Müller (designer)

Rolf Müller (born December 15 1940 - died February 18, 2015 in Munich) was a German graphic designer. He was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. He worked on visual design for the 1972 Summer Olympics. The central themes of his creative work were corporate design, the development of information and orientation systems, posters, publications and exhibitions.[1]

Rolf Müller
Rolf Müller, 2001
Born(1940-12-15)15 December 1940
Dortmund, Germany
Died18 February 2015(2015-02-18) (aged 74)
Munich, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materUlm School of Design
Known forDesign

Biography

Müller studied at the Ulm School of Design and then worked for the Swiss graphic designer Josef Müller-Brockmann. From 1967 to 1972 he worked with the team of Otl Aicher, which developed the visual identity of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and its mascot Waldi.[2] He became deputy design officer of the organizing committee for the games. In 1972 he founded the Rolf Müller office for visual communication in Munich. Rolf Müller designed and realized visual appearances, developed information and orientation systems, designed publications and posters. For Heidelberger Druckmaschinen he developed the magazine HQ (High Quality), which at the time set standards in printing technology and design.[3] He has lived in Munich since 1967 and has a daughter, the designer Anna Lena von Helldorff. Since the end of the 1990s he took a teaching position, u. a. at the Ravensburg School of Design. In 2008 he received the design award of the City of Munich, and in 2009 a retrospective of his work took place. In 2014 the monograph Rolf Müller: Stories, Systems, Signs[4] which he helped to edit, was published.

Works
Rolf Müller, Munich 2003
Rolf Müller, at the retrospective of his works, Munich 2009

Awards
  • gold medal from the Art Directors Club of New York 1989
  • German Prize for Communication Design 1993: Award for the highest design quality
  • Die 100 besten Plakate des Jahres 1997 des Verbandes der Grafik-Designer e.V. for the poster Glückskinder
  • Book Art Foundation: the most beautiful books 1995 and 1998.
  • Various titles in the magazine High-Quality
  • Official book of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Exhibition poster Glückskinder
  • Artwork: Spiegelfaltung, Bonn

Publication
  • Jens Müller (Hrsg.): Rolf Müller – Geschichten, Systeme, Zeichen – Stories, Systems, Marks. Band 7 der Buchreihe A5, Lars Müller Publishers, Zürich 2014, ISBN 978-3037784143.

References
  1. Designculture: Vita about Rolf Müller from Nicola-Matteo Munari
  2. Spiegel.de: Olympiamaskottchen Freakshow der Fabelwesen
  3. Wolfgang Beinert: Atelier talk with designer Rolf Müller on January 27, 2001 in Wolfgang Beinert's studio in Munich
  4. Lars Müller Publishers: Jens Müller (ed.) A5/07 Rolf Müller
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