London's Design Museum Plans Wim Crouwel Retrospective

Grid-loving graphic design legend Wim Crouwel, now 82, will get his close-up next year when the Design Museum celebrates his career with a major retrospective. Spanning more than 60 years, the exhibition will cover the Dutch designer’s rigorous approach and such milestones as his work for design practice TotalDesign, the identity for Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, as well as his iconic poster, print, typography, and lesser known exhibition design. In a nod to Crouwel’s mod works that captured the essence of the emerging computer and space age of the early 1960s, the show is entitled “Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey.”