Swiss Graphic Design Histories [electronic resource].

Scheidegger & Spiess 2021

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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visual artefacts and archival documents, the majority published here for the first time, alongside likewise previously unpublished conversations with designers who have forged developments of the past decades, as well as new essays discussing key terms that refer to various design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.
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Art--Study and teaching
Art--Collectors and collecting
Art--Exhibitions
Graphic arts
Graphic artists
Historiography
Publishers and publishing
Graphic design (Typography)

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Sandra Bischler
Sarah Klein
Jonas Niedermann
Michael Renner
Chiara Barbieri
Jonas Berthod
Constance Delamadeleine
Davide Fornari
Sarah Owens
Ueli Kaufmann
Peter J. Schneemann
Sara Zeller
Robert Lzicar
Arne Scheuermann
Rudolf Barmettler
Roland Früh
Chris Walton
Dean Drake
Martine Passelaigue
Lisa Schons
Simone Farner
Naima Schalcher