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A Movement is Born
Camphill in Botswana
Camphill Lehenhof, Germany
Camphill Solborg, Norway
Early Letterhead
A «logo» is an important graphic design element that we connect with the gesture of «corporate identity». In the early years
Camphill had a very nice letterhead, but in the 1950’s the question of a common identity became more and more important as
the work in the small settlements around Aberdeen became a
widening and diversifying movement: The Camphill Movement.
«Logo» comes from the Greek «Logos»: In the beginning was
the Word! What was the «beginning», the original impulse or
idea of what had come to be called «Camphill»?
New logo as letterhead, 1962
During the last building phase of Camphill Hall, 1962, it became
clear that the center piece of the building should show this
«ideal» of Camphill. Above the chapel the stylistic design of the
«dove descending» became this graphic expression and Karl
König asked that this become the logo and letterhead of all
Camphill initiatives, asking that this would be artistically adapted
locally. Today there are many individual expressions of this logo.
The ideal Tilla and Karl König and their friends carried was to
realise the healthy and true spiritual nature of each human being,
no matter how the outer expression manifested. Their task was
for Camphill to help this spirit to descend to the individual, like
a Pentecostal reality; and in forming community in this sense,
they were to contribute to an awareness of spiritual reality, so
that it may become more evident in our present world.
To do Curative Education is not our only task, but also with and through
the children with special needs to create islands of culture.
Karl König in a letter to Carlo Pietzner, 1950