Otl Aicher 19221991 was an outstanding personality in modern design he was a cofounder of the legendary Hochschule fr Gestaltung HfG the Ulm School of Design Germany. His works since the fifties of the last century in the field of corporate design and his pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are major achievements in the visual communication of our times. An integral component of Aichers work is that it is anchored in a philosophy of making inspired by such thinkers as Ockham Kant