Special Event! Kommando Otl Aicher
On Tuesday, the 25th of april 2006, 14:00,
at the Jan van Eyck Academie.
Alexander Negrelli’s lecture:
Kommando Otl Aicher
When graphic designer Otl Aicher was nominated as main commissioner for the public image of the XX. Olympic project in Munich, this was no coincidence. At this time he was directing the HfG Ulm design school. In one of its first meetings, the Olympic Committee’s design council decided that the communicated image should be “dynamic, unpathetic and free from ideology”. It should be the “cheerful Games” with a high priority on a carefree and serene environment. Any association with a nationalist or military image should be avoided.
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But on the 5th of september 1972, when the terrorists of the »Black September« organisation kidnapped a group of Israelian sportsmen, the public image that Aicher and his team had worked on for years changed within very little time.
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“Kommando Otl Aicher” is based on a chronological compilation of facts, and is trying to illustrate this tension, taking a closer look on the “image” of the games.
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Jan van Eyck Academie
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
The Netherlands
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www.janvaneyck.nl
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