Wim Crouwel
Designer
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Articles & interviews2
- Studio Blackburn
The Brand Identity interviews Paul Blackburn, founder of Studio Blackburn, about the studio’s evolution, design philosophy, and notable branding projects including Trainline, Positive News, and UCL School of Management. Blackburn discusses the studio’s modernist approach, collaborative processes, and influences from designers like Wim Crouwel, Otl Aicher, and Kenya Hara. The conversation highlights Studio Blackburn’s focus on clarity, typographic precision, and meaningful simplicity in branding.
- Monograph uncovers Israeli modernist designer Eli Gross
The article interviews Hamburg-based designer and researcher Liad Shadmi about his forthcoming bilingual monograph, Eli Gross | Total Designer. It recovers the work of Israeli modernist Eli Gross, a former Total Design designer whose corporate identities and wayfinding systems helped introduce a functional Swiss-influenced approach to Israel. Shadmi positions the book as both a biography and a study of how European Modernism travelled, changed and was received in Israeli visual culture.