US EditionDisappearance. He Created the Famous Brown Panels of Highways, Graphic Designer Jean Widmer Died
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At 96, the Franco-Swiss designer and graphic designer Jean Widmer died. Author of the famous logo of the Centre Pompidou and designer of the tourist signs of the French motorways, he marked the world of graphic design.
Jean Widmer, a designer born in Switzerland, and also author of the famous logo of the Centre Pompidou, died at the age of 96.
Born in 1929 in German-speaking Switzerland, the designer designed the visual identity of several cultural places, including the Musée d'Orsay, the Institute of the Arab World and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
The French-Swiss designer and graphic designer was among others the creator of the famous logo of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and designer of the signage of the French motorways. He was 96 years old.
The French-Swiss graphic designer died at the age of 96, we learned this Tuesday. This pioneer of minimalism shaped the visual identity of modern France, from the Musée d'Orsay to the Bibliothèque nationale de France, leaving behind him an indelible graphic heritageThe Franco-Swiss designer and graphic designer Jean Widmer, author of the famous logo of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and designer of the signs and signals of the French motorways, di…
He signed the logos of the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d'Orsay, the Institute of the Arab World, the BNF... The tourist signs of our motorways are still he! This Switzerland of Paris, who died this Monday, at 96 years old, was one of the great artistic directors of the 20th century.
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