Past ExhibitionsThe renowned Swiss product designer and graduate of the HfG Ulm, Franco Clivio, has collected around 1000 mostly small objects from everyday use and is now presenting them in his exhibition „no name design“. What unites all these objects is their clever design and functionality, based on a particular idea and... —› more
Otl Aicher (1922-1991) was one of the leading designers in the second half of the 20th century. With the posters for the Ulm Adult Education Center (vh ulm) or for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Otl Aicher created designs that are still influential today. As a co-founder of the... —› more
With the exhibition “The Ulm Stool: Idea – Icon – Idol“, the HfG-Archiv Ulm places one of the most famous designs created at the Ulm School of Design (HfG) at the center of an analytical presentation for the first time. By means of a multifaceted look at the different conditions... —› more
The exhibition HfG Ulm: Exhibition Fever by the HfG-Archiv Ulm presents, for the first time, an opportunity to explore the exhibition activities of the Ulm School of Design (HfG), which contributed significantly to its international reputation. Without doubt, one of the most influential schools of design in the twentieth century,... —› more
The Dutch architect Hans Gugelot (1920-1965) was a leading industrial designer and pioneer of system design in the period after the Second World War. From 1954 until his early death, he taught at the legendary Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm (HfG), to whose success he contributed significantly with his product designs.... —› more
100 years after its foundation, the Bauhaus is still a source of inspiration, and designers and artists refer to the designs and attitudes of this first German design academy. At various locations in Weimar, the birthplace of the Bauhaus, 100 actors from the fields of art, design, architecture, civil engineering,... —› more
The city of Tel Aviv today has one of the largest concentrations of International Style buildings in the world. The immigration of numerous architects in the early 1930s, many of whom were from Germany, as well as the return of Israeli architects who had studied architecture in Europe, led to... —› more
100 years after the founding of the Bauhaus, the HfG archive looks back on the years between 1953 and 1958. During this time, the basic teaching at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm (HfG) was marked by pedagogical ideas that the Bauhaus had developed for its preliminary course. Max Bill, co-founder... —› more
A bench for breastfeeding in public spaces, a hijab for high performance sport, a prostate-relief bicycle seat, a swanky puffer and a smouldering femme-fatale, boys prefer blue and girls love pink? What does gender have to do with design? Gender Design focuses the socio-culturally defined concept of ‘gender’ at the... —› more
In 1968, the year of the student movement, the Ulm School of Design (HfG) was closed. An ambitious educational project of the early years of the Federal Republic of Germany had come to its close. The Ulm School of Design was a meeting point for people who wanted to begin... —› more
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