Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm
Krippendorff started to work as an engineer and during the last year of his graduate study of design he was a Research Assistant at the Institute for Visual Perception at the Ulm School of Design. In 1961 he came to the United States with a two-year Ford International Fellowship, first to Princeton University but completing his second graduate education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1964, he joined the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.