Graphic designer, Josef Muller Brockmann, was born on May 9, 1914 in Rapperswil, Switzerland. He began finished secondary school in Rapperswil before he went off to start his career as an apprentice to the designer and advertising consultant Walter Diggelman, after his apprenticeship he worked as a freelance designer and also joined the Swiss army where he was a lieutenant. After the war, he began to work for various theatres as a set designer. It did not take long before Brockmann was known as the leading practitioner and theorist of the Swiss Style. He was the first to create typographical posters for the Tonhalle.
In 1958 he became a founding editor of New Graphic Design and eight years later he was appointed European design consultant to IBM. Müller-Brockman was author of the 1961 publications The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems, Grid Systems in Graphic Design. He influenced the spread of the grid and was known for his use of typography in his clean simple designs. The grid is used today in graphic media and is an essential part of teaching students studying Graphic Art. On August 30, 1996, Brockmann died in Zurich.
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