It thus serves as a compass for designers worldwide in their daily work. Müller-Brockmann s manual, greatly expanded in 1992 and given the title Passenger Information System, is a prime example of a complex design project that succeeds through extreme rationality and consistency.
The visual concept was developed in dialogue with the SBB and still dominates the railways visual identity even today. In view of Switzerland s multilingualism, the manual proposed a signage system that largely did without language with his functional typography, the pioneer of Swiss graphic design conceived an intuitively comprehensible signage system for use throughout the country to also guide passengers unfamiliar with the terrain to their destination with the help of pictograms. 21 × 29,7 cm, 8 ½ × 11 ¾ in 222 pages, 324 illustrations - In 1980 Josef Müller-Brockmann laid the cornerstone for a uniform visual identity for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) with his legendary Visual Information System at Train Stations and Stops.
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