watchboy wrote:
I still do Jacky...Good Memory!I also own a Xemex XE5000...here is a pic of my other Offroad(below) which is a bit different as it is beadblasted bezel/same case and size...but bought at the same time (2003) from the same place(snbc/TT/Lior)...and still NIB!hand6.gif TY for the kind comments everyone and again TY to Chris!watch2.gif But Oscar, didn't you own one of this before???:? Very nice watch indeed!!!
A brief history of Ruedi Kulling/designer and co-founder of Xemex Watches (company was recently sold to a U.S entity)and accredited Graphics Artist whose works hang in many Art Museums! :)
The Designer - Ruedi Kulling
Date of birth: February 4, 1935. Lives and works in Zurich-Gockhausen. Education as graphic designer, Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich. Graphic designer and art director in Milan with Franco Grignani, in Zurich with Victor N. Cohen, in London with Mather & Crowther and in Chicago with Leo Burnett.
Becomes creative director of the advertising company Advico in Zurich-Gockhausen. Becomes co-owner of Advico. Foundation of Kulling+Partner Identity. Foundation of Xemex Swiss Watch together with Hanspeter Hanschick.
Awards
17 awards of 'One of the 20 best posters of the year' from the Swiss Government. Poster Biennale Warsaw, Poland: 1 gold palm, 1 silver palm, and 4 diplomas. 12th International Advertising Film Festival Cannes, France: international first prize.
4 first prizes Olma poster competition. Montreal: first international prize for a poster of the agriculture fair Olma. For Xemex Swiss Watch 'Montre passion': prix du public. Design Centre Nordrein Westfalen red point prize for 'High Design Quality'. ADC Switzerland silver category Product and Package Design. 'Chronos Europe' design innovation 2000 (1st place). 'Watch Times USA' watch of the year 2001 (1st place).
Publications
Graphis, international journal of graphic and applied art. 50 years poster Switzerland.
The poster in Switzerland.
Les Annees 60 d'Anne Bouy (Paris). HO-Zeitschrift ilber das Gestalten (Germany). Posters as permanent exhibits in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Watches and other products designs are available at the stores of the Chicago Museum of Architecture Design, at the London Design Museum, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
AGI: Alliance Graphique Internationale, president for 6 years.
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