Pierre Bernard (25 February 1942 – 23 November 2015) was a French

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and

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. He was a member and then the manager for the L’Atelier Création Graphique in

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, an organization he founded along with Dirk Behage and Fokke Draaijer. He was the recipient of the 2006

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.Boekraad, Hugues
Pierre Bernard: Mon travail ce n'est pas mon travail, Design pour le domaine public
French and German Editions, amazon.comPierre Bernard: Mon travail ce n'est pas mon travail, Design pour le domaine public by Hugues Boekraad
French and German Editions, Product Description, amazon.comHe, Jianping. The Master of Design: Pierre Bernard, PB Books, 2007, 309 pages, In 1970, Pierre Bernard founded

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with François Miehe and Gérard Paris-Clavel met during the student strike in

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. All three were members of the

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. Alex Jordan and Jean-Paul Bachollet joined the collective in 1976. Bernard has been a member of the

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since 1987. He was a notable graphic design teacher at the

École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs The École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ÉnsAD, also known as Arts Decos', École des Arts Décoratifs) is a public grande école of art and design of PSL Research University. The school is located in the Rue d'Ulm in Paris. Prof ...

(ENSAD) in Paris. Bernard's status as a graphic designer equals that of graphic artists such as Niklaus Troxler and Werner Jekerof of Switzerland and Eiko Ishioka of Japan.

Publications

* ''Pierre Bernard. Design for the public domain. Erasmus Prize 2006''. (Publ. in English, French & Dutch). Amsterdam, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, 2007. * Hugues Boekraad: ''Mijn werk is niet mijn werk. Pierre Bernard. Ontwerpen voor het publieke domein''. Baden, Müller, 2007. * ''Pierre di Sciullo. Expériences graphiques et typographiques''. By Pierre Bernard, Muriel Paris, Pierre di Sciullo et al. Nuth, Rosbeek, 1995. No ISBN * ''27 voeux pour 1991''. Par Pierre Bernard, Dirk Behage et Fokke Draaijer. Paris, Gerfau & l'Atelier de Création Graphique-Grapus, 1991. No ISBN

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bernard, Pierre French graphic designers French educators French educational theorists 1942 births French Communist Party members 2015 deaths 20th-century French educators 21st-century French educators