The Ulm Model
5 October to 18 December 2016


Exhibition views

Exercise

Student: unknown

Instructor: Josef Albers

c. 1953-55, Foundation Course

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

Space units for residential buildings, cellular reinforced concrete construction system, model

Students: Bernd Meurer and Willi Ramstein

Instructor: Herbert Ohl

1961, Industrialised Building

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Traffic sign system, model

Student: Richard Schaerer

Instructor: Herbert Lindinger

1965-66, Product Design

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Foreground:

Oil canisters, models

Student: Hans-Jürgen Lannoch

Instructor: Hans Gugelot

1963-64, Product Design

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Left to right:

 

Exercise, 'tightly stackable forms'

Student: Herbert Falk

Instructor: Walter Zeischegg

1959-60, Foundation Course

 

Screwdrivers, models

Student: Frank Hess

Instructor: Peter Raacke

1963-64, Product Design

 

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

TC 100, stacking catering service

Designer: Hans Roericht

Product Design, diploma work, 1959

1962, Manufacturer: Rosenthal AG

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Oil canisters, models

Student: Hans-Jürgen Lannoch

Instructor: Hans Gugelot

1963-64, Product Design 

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Foreground:

Children's play furniture system

Designer: Hans Gugelot, Instructor, Product Design

1954, Manufacturer: Grünzig and Co.

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Wallpaper, inkjet print

Student: Martin Krampen

1957, Visual Communication

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Ulm Journal of the Hochschule für Gestaltung

Issue 1, October 1958 (cover and spread); Issue 2, October 1958; Issue 3, January 1959

Editor: Dr Hanno Kesting

Design: Anthony Fröshaug

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Foreground:

Prototype models and polyhedra

Designer: Walter Zeischegg, Instructor, Product Design

1959-66

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Prototype models and polyhedra

Designer: Walter Zeischegg, Instructor, Product Design

1959-66

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Bookend, card files, desk organizing items, letter rack,

magazine rack, planters, stackable ashtrays, stamp

holders, trays

Designer: Walter Zeischegg

Development Group led by Walter Zeischegg

1966-c. 1970, Manufacturer: Helit

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exercises

1953-68, Foundation Course

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exercises

1953-68, Foundation Course

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

D 55, flexible exhibition system

Designers: Otl Aicher, Instructor, Visual

Communication, assisted by student Hans Conrad

1955, Manufacturer: Braun

Courtesy Braun P&G/Braun Collection, Kronberg

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Left to right:

PK G 5, combined audio system

Designers: Hans Gugelot, Instructor, Product Design, and Wilhelm Wagenfeld, freelance designer for Braun

1957, Manufacturer: Braun

 

FS-G, television and stand

Designer: Hans Gugelot, Instructor, Product Design

1955, Manufacturer: Braun

 

Courtesy Braun P&G/Braun Collection, Kronberg

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Left to right:

Exporter 2, radio

Designer: Otl Aicher, Instructor, Visual Communication

1956, Manufacturer: Braun

 

G 11, radio/G 12, record player

Designer: Hans Gugelot, Instructor, Product Design, and Wilhelm Wagenfeld, freelance designer for Braun

1956, Manufacturer: Braun

 

Courtesy Braun P&G/Braun Collection, Kronberg

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

Left to right:

Ruhestörung [Disturbance of the peace], 16mm transferred to digital

Students: Ulrike Fröhner, Günther Hömann, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Hans Dieter Müller

1967-68, Film

 

8 Short Films, 16mm transferred to digital

Students: Erika Fortner, Gudi Haegele, Gert Krammling, Hatto Kurtenbach, Alfred Jungraithmayr and others

Instructors: Christian Staub, Hans Loeper, Uschi Werthner and others

1961-62, Visual Communication

 

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Sign system for data processing machines

Designers: Tomás Maldonado and Gui Bonsiepe, Instructors, Product Design

1961, Manufacturer: Olivetti

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Left to right:

Precision balance, model

Student: Gerda Müller-Krauspe

Instructors: Hans Gugelot, Walter Zeischegg and Georg Leowald

1959-60, Product Design

 

Double-ended caliper, photograph

Student: Klaus Krippendorff

Instructor: Dieter Oestreich

1957-58, Product Design

 

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Erbotherm, heat therapy unit

Designers: Tomás Maldonado and Gui Bonsiepe, Instructors, Product Design, assisted by student Rudolf Scharfenberg

Development Group led by Tomás Maldonado

1961, Manufacturer: C. Erbe

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Left to right:

 

DT 1 Manulux, dynamo torch

Designer: Hans Gugelot, Gugelot Institute for Product Development and Design

1964, Manufacturer: Braun

 

SM 31 Sixtant, shaver

Designers: Gerd Alfred Müller, Designer at Braun, and Hans Gugelot, Instructor, Product Design

1962, Manufactuerr: Braun

 

Courtesy Das Programm, London

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Hi-fi component system, model

Student: Herbert Lindinger

Instructor: Hans Gugelot

Development Group led by hans Gugelot for Braun

1958, Product Design, diploma work

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Two arrangements of the D 55 exhibition stand (1955) for Photokina trade exhibition Cologne, 1956

Drawing and blueprint

Designers: Otl Aicher, Instructor, Visual Communication, assisted by student Hans Conrad

Drawing: Hans Conrad, 1956

Collection René Spitz, Cologne

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Parking Meter (Model 1), model

Student: Horst Diener

Instructor: Hans Gugelot

1961-62, Product Design

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

SK 4 Phonosuper, combined audio system

Designers: Hans Gugelot, Instructor, Product Design,

Otl Aicher, Instructor, Visual Communication,

Wilhelm Wagenfeld, and Dieter Rams, Designer at

Braun

1956, Manufacturer: Braun

Courtesy Braun P&G/Braun Collection, Kronberg

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Foreground:

Knockdown chair, sling seat, roll and table

Designers: Carl-Heinz Bergmiller and Ernst Moeckl

Product Design, independent project

1958, Manufacturer: Wilde + Spieth

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

TP 2, portable transistor radio and phonograph

Designer: Dieter Rams, Designer at Braun and HfG

Ulm

1959, Manufacturer: Braun

Courtesy Braun P&G/Braun Collection, Kronberg

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Left to right:

KMM 1, coffee grinder

Designer: Reinhold Weiss, former student HfG Ulm

1965, Manufacturer: Braun

Collection Reinhold Weiss, Tucson

 

HL 1 Multiwind, desk fan

Designer: Reinhold Weiss, former student HfG Ulm

1961, Manufacturer: Braun

Courtesy Das Programm, London

 

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Foreground:

Knockdown chair, sling seat, roll and table

Designers: Carl-Heinz Bergmiller and Ernst Moeckl

Product Design, independent project

1958, Manufacturer: Wilde + Spieth

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

 

Plastic shell suitcases

Designers: Dieter Raffler, student, with Peter Raacke,

Instructor, Product Design

1965-66, Manufacturer: Hanning

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Vacuum cleaner, model

Students: Traudl Hölzemann and Axel Lintener

Instructor: Gui Bonsiepe

1967-68, Product Design

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

HfG bed

Designer: Hans Gugelot, Instructor, Product Design

Base: 1954, Manufacturer: Dunlop

Frame: Date and local manufacturer unknown

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Pfaff 90, sewing machine

Designers: Hans Gugelot, assisted by student Herbert Lindinger

Development Group led by Hans Gugelot

1959, Manufacturer: Pfaff AG

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Left to right:

 

Espresso maker

Student: Hans von Klier

Instructor: Georg Leowald

1956-57, Product Design

 

Coffee grinder

Student: Larry Monk

Instructor: Hans Gugelot

1960-61, Product Design

 

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Exhibition view

The Ulm Model

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Visual identity guidelines and standards, cabin tag, comment card, economy boarding pass, first class boarding pass and seating plan

Designers: Otl Aicher, Instructor, Visual Communication, with Hans Roericht, former student HfG Ulm, students Tomás Gonda and Fritz Querngässer, and in association with Hans Conrad, former student HfG Ulm working for Lufthansa

Development Group E 5, led by Otl Aicher

1962-63, Manufacturer Lufthansa

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

Visual identity guidelines and standards, cabin tag, comment card, economy boarding pass, first class boarding pass and seating plan

Designers: Otl Aicher, Instructor, Visual Communication, with Hans Roericht, former student HfG Ulm, students Tomás Gonda and Fritz Querngässer, and in association with Hans Conrad, former student HfG Ulm working for Lufthansa

Development Group E 5, led by Otl Aicher

1962-63, Manufacturer Lufthansa

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

On-board tableware, setting and trays, prototypes

Designer: Hans Roericht

Development Group E 5, led by Otl Aicher

1962-63, Manufacturer: Lufthansa

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith

 

On-board tableware, setting and trays, prototypes

Designer: Hans Roericht

Development Group E 5, led by Otl Aicher

1962-63, Manufacturer: Lufthansa

Courtesy HfG-Archiv/Ulmer Museum

Photo by Marcus J. Leith