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Otl Aicher

1922 - 1991

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Otto "Otl" Aicher (German: [ˈɔtl̩ ˈʔaɪçɐ]; 13 May 1922 – 1 September 1991) was a German graphic designer and typographer. Aicher co-founded and taught at the influential Ulm School of Design. He is known for having led the design team of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, and for overseeing the creation of its prominently used system of pictograms. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otl Aicher has received more than 239,870 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Otl Aicher is the 45th most popular designer (up from 51st in 2019), the 2,645th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,785th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Designer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Otl Aicher ranks 45 out of 104. Before him are Mariano Fortuny, Adrian Frutiger, Andokides painter, Jimmy Choo, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., and Betsy Ross. After him are Luigi Colani, Margarete Steiff, John Baskerville, Eiko Ishioka, Syd Mead, and Milton Glaser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Otl Aicher ranks 171. Before him are Stephen Toulmin, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Esther Lederberg, Maila Nurmi, Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, and Manshuk Mametova. After him are John Edward Williams, Esther Brand, George Knobel, Raymond Franz, Hammer DeRoburt, and Jean Malaurie. Among people deceased in 1991, Otl Aicher ranks 92. Before him are Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Kevin Peter Hall, Vasko Popa, Shintaro Abe, Heidi Brühl, and Richard Thorpe. After him are Alex North, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Mikheil Meskhi, Schubert Gambetta, Artur Lundkvist, and Luigi Zampa.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otl Aicher ranks 2,645 out of 7,253. Before him are Erwin Jaenecke (1890), John II, Count Palatine of Simmern (1492), Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834), Regina Jonas (1902), Doro (1964), and Carl Ludwig Blume (1796). After him are Ursula Kuczynski (1907), Helmut Gröttrup (1916), Stefan Heym (1913), Marie Eleonore of Cleves (1550), Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760), and Henry Koster (1905).

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Among DESIGNERS In Germany

Among designers born in Germany, Otl Aicher ranks 6. Before him are Michael Thonet (1796), Georg Elser (1903), Hugo Boss (1885), Dieter Rams (1932), and Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (1914). After him are Luigi Colani (1928), Margarete Steiff (1847), Anton Koberger (1440), Erik Spiekermann (1947), and Philipp Plein (1978).

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