Swiss Graphic Design Histories
1st Edition
Swiss Graphic Design Histories offers an entirely new redefinition of Switzerland’s graphic design landscape. Based on extensive research by scholars of design history and with a multiple and inclusive approach, it reaches beyond the usual canon and the well-known epicenters Basel and Zurich with the Germanophone fathers of what has become famous as the Swiss Style in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
In three volumes it features visual artifacts and archival documents, the majority published here for the first time, alongside likewise previously unpublished conversations with designers who have forged developments of the past decades, as well as new essays discussing key terms that refer to various design practices. The complexity of the undertaking is embraced through a system of keywords, thus enabling readers to connect contents within the individual volumes. A fourth volume comprising a glossary, bibliography, and an index of the keywords rounds out this long-awaited new survey of graphic design in multi-lingual Switzerland that sheds new light at networks, practices and media largely ignored so far.
With contributions by Chiara Barbieri, Rudolf Barmettler, Jonas Berthod, Sandra Bischler, Constance Delamadeleine, Davide Fornari, Roland Früh, Ueli Kaufmann, Sarah Klein, Robert Lzicar, Jonas Niedermann, Sarah Owens, Michael Renner, Peter J. Schneemann, Arne Scheuermann, and Sara Zeller.
Swiss Graphic Design Histories
Available also in Open Acces Format:
Volume 1: Visual Arguments (ISBN 978-3-03942-019-3)
Edited by Sandra Bischler, Sarah Klein, Jonas Niedermann, Michael Renner
Volume 2: Multiple Voices (ISBN 978-3-03942-020-9)
Edited by Chiara Barbieri, Jonas Berthod, Constance Delamadeleine, Davide Fornari, Sarah Owens
Volume 3: Tempting Terms (ISBN 978-3-03942-021-6)
Edited by Ueli Kaufmann, Peter J. Schneemann, Sara Zeller
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Davide Fornari is associate professor at ECAL Lausanne, where he directs Research and Development, Robert Lzicar is professor of design history at Bern University of the Arts HKB, Sarah Owens is professor of design theory at Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK, where she also directs the graduate program in Visual Communication, Michael Renner is professor of visual communication and Director ad interim at FHNW’s Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Arne Scheuermann is professor of design theory at Bern University of the Arts HKB, Peter J. Schneemann is professor of modern and contemporary art history at University of Bern.
