BENNO WISSING
GRAFISCHE & RUIMTELIJKE ONTWERPEN
Chris Dercon [foreword]
Chris Dercon [foreword]: BENNO WISSING: GRAFISCHE & RUIMTELIJKE ONTWERPEN. Rotterdam: NAi Uitgevers, 1999. First edition. Text in Dutch. A near fine minus soft cover book with thick printed french-folded cardboard wrappers with minor shelf wear. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Design by 2D3D Design.
8.75 x 11.25 soft cover book with 96 well-illustrated pages. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (May 22 – Aug 29, 1999).
From the website for historygraphicdesign: Bernard (Benno) Wissing was a Dutch designer, painter, graphic artist and architect. He trained as a painter at the Art Academy in Rotterdam.
He began his career in 1949 as a designer for the Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam under VP Ebbinge Wubbe. He designed catalogs and posters and established exhibitions. He was one of the founders of Total Design which he worked from 1964 to 1972.
Wissing has become known for his signage designed in 1967 for Schiphol, the logo of the retail chain Makro, the house style of De Doelen, department store Metz & Co., and posters of the Holland Festival.
In 1972 he started his own agency. In 1980 he was invited to work at the Rhode Island School of Design, but he continued to make posters for the Holland Festival.
Wissing received the lifetime achievement award from the Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture in 1996.