Otl Aicher

Aicher is best known as the lead designer for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. He created a revolutionary set of minimalistic pictograms of stick figures, which today are still the basis of many human figure icons and even human figure logos.
The 1972 Olympics Icons designed by Aicher:

Aicher also designed the Rotis Font Family. This font family was the basis for the ERCO logo.
Logos by Otl Aicher: