Karl Gerstner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swiss graphic designer (1930-2017)
Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1930
Place of Birth: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Date of Death: 01-Jan-2017
Profession: artist, graphic designer, theorist
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Karl Gerstner
- Karl Gerstner (2 July 1930 – 1 January 2017) was a Swiss designer, typographer, author and artist. Gerstner was apprenticed as a typographer, and in 1949, started his own graphic design studio.
- In 1963, together with Paul Gredinger and Markus Kutter, he founded GGK (Gerstner, Gredinger + Kutter), a leading Swiss advertising agency.
- In 2006 Gerstner donated his entire archive to the Swiss National Library in Bern, and the Karl Gerstner Archive sets out to document his design process from the earliest drafts to the final product.Gerstner died in Basel University Hospital on 1 January 2017.
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