Herbert Lindinger (born 3 December 1933 in

Wels Wels (; Central Bavarian: ''Wös'') is a city in Upper Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is the county seat of Wels-Land, and with a population of approximately 60,000, the eighth largest city in Austria. Geography Wels is in the H ...

) is an

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n graphic artist, exhibition designer, industrial designer, and university professor. He is known for designing trains and trams such as the S-DT8.12 Stuttgart light rail cars, and the

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and

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(with

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) for the city of Hanover, Germany, as well as the associated urban furniture and infrastructure. The logo of the

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, which evokes Leibniz's exploration of the binary number system, was also designed by Lindinger. SSB3502 InnoTrans2012

Early life and education

Lindinger was born in Wels, Austria in 1933. He studied graphic and exhibition design in

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from 1950 to 1954, and subsequently studied product design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) from 1954 to 58, where he was a student of

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, Tomas Maldonado, and

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Work and career

In the 1950s he worked alongside

and

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designing audio equipment for

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. He was a lecturer at the

Ulm School of Design The Ulm School of Design (german: Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm) was a college of design based in Ulm, Germany. It was founded in 1953 by Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aicher and Max Bill, the latter being first rector of the school and a former stud ...

(HfG) from 1963 to 1968, and subsequently, from 1971 to 1998, a professor and Director of the Institute for Industrial Design at the

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. A 2017 German postage stamp honouring "Design from Germany" features Lindinger and his design for the Stuttgart light rail cars. In 2022, a German court ruled that Lindinger's design of the fabric used for the seat covers of the city’s public transport system was protected by copyright. As a result, the public transportation company BVG was temporarily barred from selling products and merchandise (including tea towels to sneakers) using the popular design. ''

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'' noted that "While it has been resolved amicably, the fight reveals how passionate people can get about public transit seat covers — designs that many of us see every day, but which very often fall far outside the boundaries of conventional good taste." A settlement was letter reached.

Publications

* Lindinger, Herbert (1991). ''Ulm Design: The Morality of Objects.'' MIT Press.

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0-262-12147-6 * * Götze, Oliver; Bartelsheim, Ursula; Baur, Janina (2021). ''Design & Bahn''. Prestel (Verlag) ISBN 9783791379210

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