Gert Dumbar
Gentleman Maverick of Dutch Design
by Max Bruinsma, Leonie ten Duis ; design by Renate Boere

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Author(s)

Max Bruinsma, Leonie ten Duis

Publication

Amsterdam : Valiz , 2024

Scope

480 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.

ISBN

9789493246331

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Gert Dumbar (1940) is one of the most influential—and colourful—graphic designers in the postwar design field, both in the Netherlands and abroad. As a young partner in Tel Design, he designed one of the most iconic symbols in the Dutch public domain, the logo for the Dutch National Railways, NS, to which he has added countless designs for other clients with his own Studio Dumbar. Gert Dumbar, Gentleman Maverick of Dutch Design considers this versatile oeuvre in its time and context and examines the various roles Dumbar played—that of artist, provocateur and ‘design director’, student and teacher, cultural initiator and mediator.

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Person as subject

Gert Dumbar

Keywords

graphic designers

Location

Cabinet 13 - 4: Grafische vormgeving

Remarks

Includes notes, index, bibliography, short biographies