Gunnar Biilmann Petersen
Dänemark

Gunnar Biilmann Petersen is one of the great figures Danish design. He trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Decorative Art and subsequently worked as an architect. However. His most important contribution to Danish design history

are in the graphic arts.

His work covers everything from posters, bank notes and logos, to Jens Olsen's World Clock in Copenhagen's City Hall.

Alongside his design work, Biilmann Petersen concerned himself with education and researc

h. He was the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' first design professor appointed in 1951.