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Otl Aicher
German graphic designer and typographer
Otto "Otl" Aicher (German:[ˈɔtl̩ˈʔaɪçɐ]; 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.
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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. Aicher also developed the Rotistypeface.
Early life and career
Aicher was born in Ulm, in the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg, on 13 May 1922.
Aicher was a classmate and friend of Werner Scholl, and through him met Werner's family, including his siblingsHans and Sophie Scholl (both of whom would be executed in 1943 for their membership in the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany).
Like the Scholls, Aicher was strongly opposed to the Nazi movement. He was arrested in 1937 for refusing to join the Hitler Youth, and consequently he was failed on his