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Joseph Müller-Brockmann, Anthologie de Musique Suisse,1965

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• Joseph Müller-Brockmann, Anthologie de Musique Suisse,1965
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• Josef Müller-Brockmann, Der Film, 1960
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• Josef Müller-Brockmann, Weniger Lärm, poster, 1960
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• Joseph Müller-Brockmann, Olma St. Gallan, poster, 1959
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• Joseph Müller-Brockmann, Musica Viva, concert poster, 1958
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• Joseph Müller-Brockmann, Musica Viva, concert poster, 1955
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• Joseph Müller-Brockmann, Beethoven Concert poster design, 1955
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• Beethoven Poster, Josef Müller-Brockmann, 1955 (Zurich town hall poster advertisement), 1955
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• Josef Müller-Brockmann: Poster for the Auto Club in Switzerland, 1955
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• Josef Müller-Brockmann, Das Freundliche Handzeichen, Schützt vor Unfällen, 1954
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About the Gallery
The works designed by Joseph Muller-Brockmann for the Then Here and Now Exhibition are organized in chronological order based on the year Muller-Brockmann designed them.  The collection begins with his earlier works, in which were more graphic than his later more iconic “swiss style” works he became extremely well known for.

About the Designer
Josef Muller-Brockmann was a well-known twentieth century Swiss graphic designer. Besides working as a graphic designer, Muller-Brockmann was a teacher, as well as studied design, architecture, and art history. Muller-Brockmann was born May 9, 1914 in Rapperswill, Switzerland. He studied architecture, art, and design at the University of Zurich and the University of Kunstgewerbeshule. He began his design career with an apprenticeship to a designer and advertising consultant named Walter Diggleman. After his apprenticeship with Diggleman, Muller-Brockmann opened his own studio in Zurich in 1936, in which he specialized in graphics, photography, and exhibition design. Throughout his career as a designer Muller-Brockmann was inspired by the ideas of Constructivism, De Stijl, Suprematism, and the Bauhaus, which eventually led him to his creation of a universal graphic expression that applied a grid based design exclusive of subjective feeling and unnecessary illustration. After two decades of working in his studio, Muller-Brockmann became known as Switzerland’s leading specialist and theorist of “Swiss Style” (a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in the 1950s that emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity.) His work easily connected to the audience of his time period due to his simple designs and neat use of typography. Muller-Brockmann’s work has a unique way of grabbing attention without the use of flashiness or unnecessary imagery. His methodology was simple, he would look at everything he encounters in his designs in a critical light, then at all times he would remain self critical. Today, Muller-Brockmann is seen as one of the most well known Swiss designers of all time.

Signature Points
1.Leading specialist and theorist of Swiss Style (a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in the 1950s that emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity.)
2.Created a universal graphic expression that applied a grid-based design exclusive of subjective feeling and unnecessary illustration.
3.Simple designs and neat use of typography. His work has a unique way of grabbing attention without the use of flashiness or unnecessary imagery.

Links
http://www.famousgraphicdesigners.org/josef-muller-brockmann
http://www.designishistory.com/1940/joseph-mueller-brockmann/http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-josef-muller-brockmann