Biography:Herbert Lindinger

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Short description: Austrian industrial designer (born 1933)

Herbert Lindinger (born 3 December 1933 in Wels)[1] is an Austrian graphic artist, exhibition designer, industrial designer, and university professor.[2] He is known for designing trains and trams such as the S-DT8.12 Stuttgart light rail cars, and the TW 6000 and TW 2000 (with Jasper Morrison) for the city of Hanover, Germany,[3] as well as the associated urban furniture and infrastructure. The logo of the University of Hannover, which evokes Leibniz's exploration of the binary number system, was also designed by Lindinger.[4][5]

S-DT8.12 Stuttgart light rail car

Early life and education

Lindinger was born in Wels, Austria in 1933. He studied graphic and exhibition design in Linz from 1950 to 1954, and subsequently studied product design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) from 1954 to 58, where he was a student of Josef Albers, Johannes Itten, Max Bill, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Tomas Maldonado, and Hans Gugelot.[6][7]

Work and career

1950s Braun G11 radio-amplifier and G12 turntable

In the 1950s he worked alongside Hans Gugelot and Dieter Rams designing audio equipment for Braun.[8][9][10]

He was a lecturer at the Ulm School of Design (HfG)[11][12] from 1963 to 1968, and subsequently, from 1971 to 1998, a professor and Director of the Institute for Industrial Design at the University of Hanover.[13]

A 2017 German postage stamp honouring "Design from Germany" features Lindinger and his design for the Stuttgart light rail cars.[14][15][16]

In 2022, a German court ruled that Lindinger's design of the fabric used for the seat covers of the city’s public transport system was protected by copyright. As a result, the public transportation company BVG was temporarily barred from selling products and merchandise (including tea towels to sneakers) using the popular design. Bloomberg News noted that "While it has been resolved amicably, the fight reveals how passionate people can get about public transit seat covers — designs that many of us see every day, but which very often fall far outside the boundaries of conventional good taste." A settlement was letter reached.[17]

Publications

  • Lindinger, Herbert (1991). Ulm Design: The Morality of Objects. MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-12147-6[18]
  • Morrison, Jasper; Ganseforth, Heinrich (1997) (in English). A New Tram for Hannover - Design: Jasper Morrison. Gebr. Mann. ISBN 9783786122487. OCLC 75902074. 
  • Götze, Oliver; Bartelsheim, Ursula; Baur, Janina (2021). Design & Bahn. Prestel (Verlag) ISBN 9783791379210[19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "sinnvolle formen: Interview mit dem Designer Herbert Lindinger". June 2017. https://www.deutscher-werkbund.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/16-17_Design_in_Deutschland_0617-2. 
  2. ↑ "Texte und Arbeiten unter Anleitung von von Herbert Lindinger" (in German). Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20110719052455/http://ulmertexte.kisd.de/lindinger.html. Retrieved 2008-12-23. 
  3. ↑ "Visit in Hannover". Archived from the original on 2009-01-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20090129193632/http://batia.infopace.net/euestra.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-23. 
  4. ↑ "Logo by Prof. em. Herbert Lindinger" (in en). https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/universitaet/profil/geschichte/logo. 
  5. ↑ "Neues Corporate Design der Leibniz Universität Hannover entsteht" (in German). http://www.uni-hannover.de/de/aktuell/online-aktuell/news/04921/. Retrieved 2008-12-23. 
  6. ↑ biskup (2020-04-16). "You have to come up with an idea – Hans Gugelot turns 100" (in en-GB). https://ndion.de/en/you-have-to-come-up-with-an-idea-hans-gugelot-turns-100/. 
  7. ↑ "Vita - Lindingerdesign". https://www.lindingerdesign.de/cms/index.php/prof-h-lindinger-vita.html. 
  8. ↑ "A History of Braun Design, Part 3: Audio Products" (in en). https://www.core77.com/posts/24768/A-History-of-Braun-Design-Part-3-Audio-Products. 
  9. ↑ "Studio 1 Ch= RC62/5 Radio Braun; Frankfurt, build 1957–". https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/braun_studio_1_rc62_5_rc_62_5.html. 
  10. ↑ "Radio-Phonogerät Studio 1, 1956". http://www.artnet.com/artists/hans-gugelot-herbert-lindinger-and-wilhelm-wagenfeld/radio-phonoger%C3%A4t-studio-1-D-bVU8j59xHjmrT9v5MULw2. 
  11. ↑ "The Ulm Model". http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/the_ulm_model/. 
  12. ↑ "Travelling exhibition of the HfG". https://hfgulmarchiv.de/ausstellungen/wanderausstellungderhfgstuttgart/046dc168d60d5632bf619333f6ab8242. 
  13. ↑ "Herbert Lindinger" (in en-US). https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/herbert-lindinger-7840/. 
  14. ↑ "Serie "Design aus Deutschland" Herbert Lindinger: Stadtbahn Stuttgart - Bundesfinanzministerium" (in de). https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Bilderstrecken/Sondermarken/Programm_2017/Briefmarken_Programm_2017/1712_Design.html. 
  15. ↑ "Deutsche Post pays tribute to designer Herbert Lindinger" (in en-EN). 2017-12-08. https://www.wilkhahn.com/en/blog/lindinger-stamp/. 
  16. ↑ "Deutsche Post, Stadtbahn Stuttgart". https://shop.deutschepost.de/stadtbahn-stuttgart-briefmarke-zu-1-45-euro-10er-bogen. 
  17. ↑ "Berlin’s Beloved Transit Seat Design Escapes Legal Bind" (in en). Bloomberg.com. 2022-11-22. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-22/berlin-s-wriggling-worm-subway-seat-pattern-escapes-legal-bind. 
  18. ↑ Ulm design : the morality of objects = Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm, 1953-1968. Herbert Lindinger, Hochschule für Gestaltung (1 ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 1991. ISBN 0-262-12147-6. OCLC 20828474. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20828474. 
  19. ↑ Design & Bahn : eine Gestaltungsgeschichte. Oliver Götze, Ursula Bartelsheim, Janinia Baur. München. 2021. ISBN 978-3-7913-7921-0. OCLC 1246166730. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1246166730. 

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