Max Bill was a graphic designer Born in Switzerland in 1908 and passed away in 1994. An architect, painter, typographer, industrial designer, engineer, sculptor, educator, and graphic designer. He studied at the Bauhaus in 1927 and was educated by other influential figures such as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. 

After getting an education, in 1950 Max Bill founded the ILM school of Design. As a graphic designer he adopted  the philosophical views of this modernist movement. Majority of his works and a combination of sans serif typography, grids, asymmetric compositions, and dynamic figures.  He produced publications which gave gave other designers a lead and sense of direction. Max, being an architect, described typography to have similar elements of a building- ''organising machine produced parts in a structure''. Bill is known as one of the most influential students to have ever studied at the Bauhaus and is known for Environmental Design. 

                                       

                                                                                Construction in black 1939

1945, A time when the square was dominant in design.

























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Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920 ... - Richard Hollis - Google Books. 2014. Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920 ... - Richard Hollis - Google Books. [ONLINE] Available at: <http://books.google.com.mt/books?id=7XO-LMDo4yQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.> [Accessed 26 January 2014].

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