Between 1958 and 1968, 14 issues of the magazine “ulm” were published, some as multiple issues. Designed as a school brochure for the “Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm,” it documented the results of teaching, development, and research. At the same time, it provides an insight into the theoretical foundations on which the design work was based. The medium, projects, structures, and achievements of the school were to be collected and presented to the outside world.

Initially, the school management was responsible for the content. The first issue contains information on teaching content, lecturers, and the organization of the school. The following issues include contributions from lectures or talks by lecturers as well as a short chronicle of events at the university. After a speech by Tomás Maldonado was printed, they also began to include critical contributions on central issues of the international design discourse.

Issues 1–5 appeared in square format and were in German, English, and Spanish. After a three-year break, the issues were published under a specially appointed editorial team headed by Tomás Maldonado, Gui Bonsiepe, and Renate Kietzmann. From then on, they were graphically redesigned in A4 format and only in German and English. Issues 6 and 7 were designed by Tomás Gonda.

“ulm 21” is the last issue of the magazine. (kl)