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When
Brody received a commission from Gerd Bacher at the
Austrian state broadcasting company Österreichischer
Rundfunk (ORF) in 1991, it was an opportunityto take
both TV graphics and the traditional notion of corporate
identity a step further by creating a completely integrated
design philosophy.
We
set up a modular structure based around a colour wheel
- an idea that Paul Klee had also focused on during
his teaching at the Bauhaus, "the rainbow seen
as a ring" - adapted and remodelled as a satellite
system retaining the existing central ORF identity,
the eye, at its core. The intention was to enable ORF
to use their new identity just as one speaks a language.
The
elements of typography, colour, shape and the eye fit
together in different ways depending on what is being
said and where it is being applied.
To
set this process in place we insisted upon an independent
company, which had absolutely no involvement with ORF's
daily machinations, to organise and manage the design
project. Run by Hubert Schillhuber and Oliver Kartak
in Vienna, Design for Media and Communication (DMC)
became the company that directed the redisign and print
production.
Wolfgang
Lorenz was our main contact at ORF.
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