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Per Mollerup

Per Mollerup, born 20 February 1942 in Nakskov, Denmark, is a designer, academic, and author.

Mollerup holds an MBA from Handelshøjskolen i Aarhus, now Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Denmark (1968), and a Doctorate in Architecture from Lund University, Sweden (1997).

1974–1984 Mollerup edited and published Mobilia Design Magazine. 1984–1988 he edited and published Tools Design Journal. 1984-2009 Mollerup owned and directed Designlab, an award-winning Danish Design office specialized in wayshowing and branding.

2005-2009 Mollerup served as Professor of Design at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway. Since 2009 he has served as Professor of Communication design at Swinburne University of Technology, School of Design, Melbourne, Australia.

Honours
Per Mollerup was in 1996 Awarded the Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal, and in 1997 The Prize of Honour of the Danish Society of Book Crafts. He is Honory Member of the Estonian Association of Designers.

Design

Mollerup with his design office, Designlab, 1984-2009 designed the visual profile and wayshowing (signage program) marked by simplicity for several leading public services and private companies. After design of visual profile and wayshowing for Copenhagen Airport (1989) followed similar design for Oslo Airport (1996), Stockholm Arlanda Airport in 1998 and Arlanda Express, airport train service in 1998. In 2002 Mollerup and Designlab designed the visual profile and wayshowing for Metro Copenhagen. Other design in the public sphere included hospitals and museums in Denmark and abroad. Designlab was awarded the Danish Design Prize nine times.

From 2003 Mollerup led changing groups of international experts preparing proposals for national design policies for Estonia(2003), Latvia (2004), and Lithuania (2008).

Selected bibliography

– The Corporate Design Programme (1980, 1987, Norwegian translation, 1988) – Design for Life (1986, translations and later editions in Danish, 1998, Norwegian, 1998, Swedish,1997, 2007, and Lithuanian, 2010) – Good Enough is not Enough: Obervations on Public Design, 1992 – Marks of Excellence: The History and Taxonomy of Trademarks (1997, revised and expanded edition 2013, French translation 1997) – Collapsibles: A Design Album of Space-Saving Objects (2002, French and German translations 2002, US edition: Collapsible: The Genius of Space-Saving Design (2002) –  Wayshowing: A Guide to Environmental Signage (2005 – Brandbook: Branding, Feelings, Reason (in Danish) (2008) – PowerNotes: Slide presentations reconsidered (2011 Downloadable from http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/191214) – Wayshowing>Wayfinding: Basic & Interactive (2013) – Data Design: Visualising quantities, locations, connections (2015) – Simplicity: A Matter of Design (2015, in print) Category:1942 births