Max Bill

Max Bill (born December 22, 1908, Winterthur, Switzerland—died December 9, 1994, Berlin, Germany) was a Swiss graphic artist, industrial designer, architect, sculptor, and painter, primarily important for his sophisticated, disciplined advertising designs. Bill’s early ambition was to become a silversmith, but the work of the architect Le Corbusier influenced him to study architecture at the Bauhaus, Germany’s foremost school of design. While there (1927–29), he also studied metalwork, stage design, and painting. In 1930 he...