Wednesday, March 10, 2010


Celestino Piatti
Retro Designer and Illustrator
1922–2007
One of our most beloved designers and illustrators is Celestino Piatti from Switzerland. He is famous for his cover designs and corporate design of the german dtv book publisher between 1960 and 1995. Altogether he designed more than 6300 book covers. Puhhh! But he also did lot of other nice designs and illustrations, typographic works, paintings, sculpture and more than 500 artist poster. And last but not least he is the godfather of the owl. ;) Lars Müller Publisher just published a small nice book him and his work with dtv.