The Library Talks with Marius Schwarz
Its Otl Aicher, the late German designer behind their iconic logos, who connects the dots between these brands. In fact, he didnt design the Nokia logo, but the slogan a Connecting people used to be set in his typeface Rotis before Nokia came up with their own adjusted version of that same font.
Rotis was named after the eponymous idyllic village where Aicher escaped to after he became fed up with the corporate stress he had endured during his design work for the legendary identity of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Aicher employed a few like-minded designers and moved them and his family into self-designed cabins floating metres above the ground in the south of Germany.
In 1991 Aicher died, after he was struck by a vehicle while mowing the grass at Rotis. Nowadays, the sheep of Marius Schwarz parents are stationed at Rotis to trim the grass.
After graduating from Rietveld Academies Graphic Design Department in 2014, Marius Schwarz continued working on a text about his relation to Rotis and this writing has now finally been published. For The Library Talks #7, Schwarz will talk about his research and will read from ‘The Green Our Sheep Graze.