German Visual Design Guide Hardcover Edition - One of a Kind Globally

German Visual Design Guide - **Hardcover Edition - Signed by Designer Kurt Weidemann** A rare offering: This signed edition by the Mercedes-Benz brand designer is available for purchase. **Collector's Grade - Believed to be the only one of its kind in the world.** Signed by German printer **Kurt Weidemann**. About Kurt Weidemann's Classic Designs Kurt Weidemann – born 15. 12. 1922 in Eichmedien, Germany (today Poland) – **typographer, graphic designer, author, teacher**. 1950–52: trains as a typesetter in Lübeck. 1953–55: studies book graphics and typography at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. 1955: starts freelancing as a graphic designer, **advertising consultant and copywriter**. Clients include **COOP, Zeiss, Merck AG, Mercedes-Benz AG, Daimer-Benz AG, Deutsche Aerospace AG and Deutsche Bahn AG**. Designs books for publishers who include the **Büchergilde Gutenberg**, Ullstein, Propyläen, Ernst Klett and Thieme. 1955–64: type manager of the specialist journal **"Der Druckspiegel"**. 1965–85: professor at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. 1983: starts teaching at the Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung in Koblenz. From 1987 onwards: corporate identity consultant to **Daimler-Benz**. 1990: reworks **Porsche AG’s** corporate identity. 1991: starts teaching at the Hochschule für Gestaltung at the Zentrum für Kunst- und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe. Weidemann has won numerous awards, including the *Lucky Strike Designer Award from the Raymond-Loewy-Stiftung *(1955) and Germany’s Order of Merit (1996). Fonts: Biblica (1979), (1983), Corporate A.S.E. (1985–89). **Weidemann is a registered trademark of International Typeface Corporation.** Pages: 367 pages "Hardcover Edition" talked with Kurt Weidemann: https://vimeo.com/59493511 ☺︎ This is a pinnacle of classic design, recommended by world-renowned design firms, design connoisseurs, art critics, authors, and collectors! **”A time that has lost its memory of the things that shape its life does not know what it wants.« SIGFRIED GIEDEON, 1948** **”We have painstakingly invented writing and printing for two world customers.„ Eugen Roth**