2026年2月26日 星期四

法國著名平面設計師Jean Widmer(尚維德默)逝世,享年96歲。他設計的極簡主義路標成為法國高速公路的視覺標誌。他也為蓬皮杜中心等文化機構設計了標誌。在採訪中,他描述了自己如何逐漸擺脫簡單的複製——他曾在廣告和雜誌領域所熟悉的領域——回歸到他學生時代所熟悉的純粹的包浩斯世界。 「我不再以攝影的視角思考,而是轉向設計、基本形式和視覺識別,」他告訴《Eye》雜誌。 “我拒絕僅僅複製一個物體或物體的細節。我希望它關乎設計的本質。”

 法國著名平面設計師尚維德默逝世,享年96歲


他設計的極簡主義路標成為法國高速公路的視覺標誌。他也為蓬皮杜中心等文化機構設計了標誌。


黑色背景上,象形圖以白色呈現橋樑、城堡、釣客、蝸牛和櫻桃等眾多圖案。


1970年代初,維德默先生設計了一套類似象形文字的象形圖系統,幫助法國駕駛者找到附近的著名目的地。圖片來源:尚‧維德默


一張海報上寫著「couleur」(顏色),用噴漆噴塗的法語單字代表紅色、藍色、紫色和橙色等各種顏色,但顏色與實際顏色不符。


這是維德默先生於1975年為巴黎工業創意中心舉辦的展覽所設計的海報。五角設計事務所的寶拉·謝爾 (Paula Scher) 曾評價他「克制內斂」:「他從不張揚過頭。」(圖片來源:讓·維德默)


在採訪中,他描述了自己如何逐漸擺脫簡單的複製——他曾在廣告和雜誌領域所熟悉的領域——回歸到他學生時代所熟悉的純粹的包浩斯世界。


「我不再以攝影的視角思考,而是轉向設計、基本形式和視覺識別,」他告訴《Eye》雜誌。 “我拒絕僅僅複製一個物體或物體的細節。我希望它關乎設計的本質。”

Jean Widmer, Designer of Celebrated French Graphics, Dies at 96

His minimalist road signs became a visual hallmark of France’s highways. He also created logos for cultural institutions like the Pompidou Center.


Against a black background, a pictograph shows pared-down images in white of bridges, castles, a man fishing, a snail and cherries, among many other images.
In the early 1970s, Mr. Widmer created a system of hieroglyphic-like pictographs to help French motorists find notable destinations nearby. Credit...Jean Widmer
A poster saying “couleur” with spray-painted  words in French representing various colors like red, blue, violet and orange, but mismatched to their color.
A poster Mr. Widmer designed in 1975 for an exhibition at the Center for Industrial Creation in Paris. He was known for his restraint, Paula Scher of Pentagram said: “He was never over the top.”Credit...Jean Widmer

In interviews, he described how he gradually turned away from simple reproduction — the world he knew in advertising and magazines — and back to the pure Bauhaus world he had known as a student.

“I stopped thinking photographically and turned toward design, basic forms, visual identity,” he told Eye. “I refused simply to reproduce an object or the details of an object. I wanted it to be about the essence of design.”

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