| last name: | Krampen |
| first name: | Martin |
| birthday: | March 9, 1928 |
| birth-place: | Siegen (Germany) |
| death date: | June 18, 2015 |
| died in: | Ulm (Germany) |
German semiotician, artist, editor of “Design and Planning” and co-editor of “Zeitschrift für Semiotik”.
In June 1966 he organized in collaboration with Peter Seitz a conference Planning and Design 66 . At the time he was employed by both the University of waterloo,Canada and Hochshule Fur Gestaltung, Ulm. The conference was devoted to the possibilities of designing with the computer and forged a connection between computer artists in North America and Germany.
| 1950 | Studied painting under Prof. Ugo Capocchini, Accademia Belle Arti Florenz. |
| 1953 | Internship with Otl Aicher, at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG, College of Design) in Ulm (Germany) (took lectures from Josef Albers, Helene Nonne-Schmidt, Max Bill, and Walter Zeischegg). Studied Visual Communication (with Otl Aicher, Tomás Maldonado, and Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart). |
| 1957 | Graduated from HfG(Ulm). |
| 1962 | Studied psychology, design, and communication science at Michigan State University, East Lansing (USA) for his Ph.D. – Taught computer graphics in the United States and Canada (Waterloo). |
| 1967 onwards | Lecturer at the HfG (Ulm) until it’s closing in 1972. |
| 1972 onwards | Lecturer in semiotics at the College of Design at Schwäbisch Gmünd (Germany). |
| 1975 – 77 | professor of social psychology and semiology at the University of Göttingen. |
| 1977 – 93 | Professor of Theory of Visual Communication, University of Arts Berlin. |
| 1989 onwards | Resumed his artistic activities with collages (exhibitions in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Ulm and abroad). |
