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AG Fronzoni (Pistoia, 1923 - Milan, 2002) was an Italian graphic designer, publisher, industrial designer, architect and educator. == Biography == "I think it's the duty of each of us bring culture where there is not already, but where is missing, in the province, on the outskirts, to the poorest, where there is less information. The culture of a country is measured by the culture from the last man of that country, it is the media that matters. Task and duty of every person is to advertise the culture. » (AG Fronzoni) AG Fronzoni〔Acronym of Angelo Giuseppe Fronzoni〕 was born in Pistoia in 1923. First, a graphic designer, but also a designer and an architect. He has made all his work and his life with sober and formal geometry as a primary source of inspiration, differentiating and overcoming the imitation of nature. Intransigent and uncompromising, his strong and original researches has ranged across all sectors articulating a philosophy of "minimalism" based on the synthesis and subtraction that is in the phrase of Mies van der Rohe, "Less is more" the starting point of his thought deeply rationalist. For Fronzoni, the superfluous, the excess, the redundancy are defined as "waste" in terms of aesthetics, moral and ethical. He began working in Brescia (a city in northern Italy) in 1949 as a self-taught graphic designer. In 1947, he founded a magazine called ''La Punta'' wich he directed and designed until 1965. During the 1950s he moved to Milan and opened there a new office. In 1968 he started to teach at the ''Scuola Umanitaria'' in Milan, dedicating himself to the art direction of the school magazine called “u”, characterized by a very small heading, set in lowercase 8 pts Haas Unica. Teaching During the 1970s he taught at the ''ISIA'' of Urbino and the ''Istituto di Comunicazione Visiva'' in Milan. In 1982 he founded his own school-atelier in Milan, ''La Botega'', where he taught until 2001. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「AG Fronzoni」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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