Yeah, Science!

synthesis between times, tools, and relationships translated into form that engages an audience

To synthesize design thinking with education and technology.

It is important to realize that Burtin’s gigantic structures were not literal enlargements of microscopic images already available, but rather, were diagrammatic — and kinetic — depictions of processes and functions that were only beginning to be understood.

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Creating a visualization that would, through its three-dimensional translation, give the research back to the scientists in a way that they themselves had not gotten to “see,” and which would also work as a teaching tool for the public.

Implored designers to step up to social engagement through the use of their skills to clarify and explicate a rapidly-changing world to an audience hungry for understanding.

Visual Aspects of Science

The Brain (1960)

The Cell (1958)

Integration, the New Discipline in Design

SCOPE

Upjohn Company

Kodak

United States Information Agency

United States Army

Fortune magazine

Сontract from the US Government to create the Federal Works Agency’s exhibition at the 1939 New York World’s Fair.

Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels made an official request for Burtin to become the Ministry’s Director of Design.

Burtin and Hilde Munk were married in 1932.

1928, opened his own design studio — Entwurfe Bürtin

Dr. Philippe Knöll

Kölner Werkschulen

Will Bürtin

January 27, 1908

Integrator