Sabina Oberholzer, Renato Tagli, Switzerland

Stamp Series
Motivations concerning the conception and the plan of a series of 3 stamps for the Swiss Mail.

Our intention is to represent the three thematic concepts for these stamps: “wedding/heart - birth/spiral -wishes/star.”
For the bottom of the stamps we have chosen three shadings and 6 different colors (rainbow): red/orange, cyan/magenta and green/violet in order to unify all three.
The orientation of the text is vertical, the choice of Helvetia 100 on the right part of the stamp, affords an easy reading without interfering the design.
From the game of the respective enlargement, reduction and duplication of symbols – bound together – we obtained a new design. The white symbols enrich, complete and distinguish the three stamps.

1.Wedding is represented by the heart, symbol of love and happiness… The basic color is shading of colors, which goes from red (love) to orange (warm). The design gushed from the heart is represented by a flower, a bouquet of hope and happy future.

2.Birth is represented by the spiral, symbol of life and increase… The basic color is shading of colors, which go from cyan (male) to magenta (female). The design gushed from the spiral represents the water source of life and health.

3.Wishes is represented by the star, symbol of light and success… The basic color is shading of colors, which go from violet (night) to green (day). The design gushed from the star represents turning it in motion and universal wishes, positivity for anniversaries.

Natasha Agapova, Russia

Poster, Natasha Agapova, Russia
Alex Von Schlippen Bach Trio / 65X934cm / 2008
Floating rhythms of Alex Von Schlippen Baach’s music inspired this poster. The idea of the poster was to convert musical rhythms into the graphic objects and to transmit the sense of music using visual language.

Mirko Ilic, USA
Poster
SAV TAJ CRTEZ (All that drawing) / 68X98cm / 2009
This poster was design for an exhibition of drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in Rijeka, Croatia. There are two parallel shows of drawings. The general idea was to show that in order to draw or to solve a problem one must find the right line in the right place.

Kari Piippo, Finland
Poster
Culture & Environment / 70x100 cm / 2008
Culture and environment provide lots of possibilities for a rich life. This poster won the first prize at Pécs in Hungary, in the European Cultural Capital 2010 Poster Competition.

Annik Troxler, Switzerland
Poster
Interne / 90 x 128 cm / 2008
I created this poster for an interne lecture series at the Basel school of design, HGK FHNW. All lecturers at this lecture series were teachers of the Basel school of design but they were giving the lectures about their work out of the school. This also could be interpreted as seeing “another side of the teachers” that you can see “, which was visualized in the letters where the backsides of the letters also are partially visible.

Megi Zumstein & Claudio Barandun (Hi), Switzerland
Poster
Hotspots / 127x93 cm
Poster for the Exhibition HotSpots – Rio de Janeiro, Milano/Torino, Los Angeles 1956–1969 at Kunsthaus Zürich. Until the fifties and into the sixties, the contemporary western art world had two unchallenged capitals: Paris and New York. Among the vibrant hot spots of the postwar era were the tropical metropolis known as Rio de Janeiro, the southern Alpine industrial belt between Milan and Turin, and Los Angeles, the city of the future on the Pacific coast of the United States. The exhibition is collaboration with the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Tobia Bezzola curates the show at the Kunsthaus Zürich, which unites artistic snapshots of the three centers into an impressive triptych.

Niels Schrader, The Netherlands
Poster
Corporations and Cities / 60X84cm / 2008
“Corporations and Cities” is an initiative of the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology in collaboration with the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam that brings together international professionals, policy makers, researchers and scholars in the fields of corporate accommodation, real estate, organizational management, urban planning and architecture to consider the relations between urban planning and the accommodation of large-scale organizations. Just like urbanism tends towards the ‘generic city’, the visual identity for the “Corporations and Cities” conference refuses the use of a static logo but emphasizes a modular design approach.

Christophe Gaudard, France
Poster
International Poster Biennial of Warsaw / 70X100cm / 2008
This poster was design to promote the 21st International Poster Biennial of Warsaw and the 40th Birthday of the Poster Museum of Wilanow.

Shin Matsunaga, Japan
Poster
G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit / 102x145 cm / 2008
All the living creatures have the right to live, no matter how large or small is the country they belong to. The strange, mysterious animals that I depicted in my poster represent the eight countries. But at the same time, you can see that they are all the same creatures. As long as the earth is led in the right way, it does not matter who the leader is. If you are born with great wisdom, please find out something that can save the earth.

ThomasMatthaeusMüller, Germany
Book design
Charles Bukowski “Ein Ablehnungsbescheid und die Folgen” / 2007
“Die Tollen Hefte” edited by Armin Abmeier, illustrated and designed by Thomas Matthaeus Müller, published by Büchergilde Gutenberg.
The American author Charles Bukowski who is known for his explicit description of instinctual life wrote the story “Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip” (a story about a misunderstanding) as a young man in the forties of the last century. It was his first published work. In German language it appeared in the series.

Martin Woodtli, Switzerland
Poster
VideoEx 08 / 90X128cm / 2008
VideoEx, the International Experimental Film and Video Festival, is the biggest experimental film festival of Switzerland and a place of exchange between filmmakers and the audience.
The festival is constantly trying to examine the perception of images, different aesthetic strategies, new ways of using technology in experimental film and video works and serves as a get-together for experimental film makers and video artist.
The Festival was started in 1998 and receives today about 2000 entries for the International Competition and 200 for the Swiss competition.

Fons M. Hickmann, Germany
Poster
5XBerlin / 118X114cm / 2006
The Berlin based design studio Fons Hickmann m23 was invited for an exhibition at the Poster Design Festival at Chaumont. Alex Jordan from Grapus was the curator of the exhibition. The studio designed the exhibition, a catalog and a poster. The poster shows a typical Berlin house wall with the huge graffiti m23 did especially fort his project. The lettering on the wall shows the title of the exhibition: ”5XBerlin” and the names of the invited artists: Cyan, Anschlaege, Attak, Angela Lorenz and Fons Hickmann m23.