Zimmermann Asociados

It’s possible that the name of the German designer Otl Aicher may be familiar to some elderly designers, but it is equally possible that it is not familiar and is not meaningful to younger generations of designers. Even those who can locate his name in the “who is who” in the European design panorama, don’t know more than what is known by the general public, that is, that he was one of the important personalities, together with Max Bill, Tomás Maldonado and others, who founded the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm (1953-1968); others may recall him as the designer of the corporate image for the Olympic Games of Munich (1972) for which he also designed the famous pictogram system.

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At the time of this writing, seven years have have passed since the citizens of Europe had to abandon their respective currencies – the Francs, the Liras, the Marks, the Pesetas etc., and get accustomed to the use of the new currency, the Euro.

In order to introduce a common currency to all the countries pertaining to the European Union, on February 1996 the European Monetary Institute (EMI), predecessor of the Central European Bank, presented a competition for the design of the new banknotes. Not everybody could participate. Only members countries of the European Union had the authority to invite in each case three designers, the great majority of which had never designed banknotes in their professional life.

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