Aurelia Peter is a Switzerland-based graphic designer and visual artist with a fondness for big issues and small details. Her studio engages in a wide variety of assignments across all media – from books and magazines to identity, posters and digital applications – most frequently in the fields of culture, architecture, education, fashion, music and arts. Besides collaborating with clients such as the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Fotomuseum Winterthur, she realizes selfinitiated pieces. Her book Through the Mask, honoured with the VOLUMES Zurich Award, was published in 2020.

BANK™ is a German/French graphic design studio based at Planet Modulor in Berlin. Since 2004 we create design concepts and manage the entire physical and digital production – from visual identities to books and websites.

Our clients are large and small institutions as well as commercial players with a focus on art, culture, architecture, and social politics.

BANK™ designs have been seen in more than 60 printed publications and over 30 bienniales and exhibitions around the globe. We’ve won a couple of prestigious awards such as the Certificate of Typographic Excellence by TDC NY 2022, the Gold Award of the Hong Kong Poster Triennial 2021 and 100 Best Posters 2020 and 2022, and we are regularly invited as jury members, e.g. at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the GDC China, Shenzhen, to name a few.

In spring 2023 we co-founded the Architektursalon Berlin and the event series Turnaround. Climate Action in Architecture to discuss how to tackle the challenges the world is facing these days. We’ve held numerous lectures worldwide, and teach internationally at art academies in China, Germany, France, Sweden, and Great Britain since more than 15 years.

Dutch independent graphic designer, artist and art director

Dafi Kühne is a Swiss designer and letterpress printer. In his studio he uses a wild mix of analog and digital tools to produce cultural posters. With this one main rule in his studio «No PDF ever leaves the studio as a final product», he prints all posters with letterpress printing presses. His mostly typographic posters have won international awards and been in exhibitions all around the globe.

Born in Ludwigsburg (southern Germany), Daniel Wiesmann studied communication design at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. Alongside fellow students and teachers in Stuttgart, his professor Niklaus Troxler was an important influence on him. During his studies he worked as an intern in the studios of Tamotsu Yagi (San Francisco) and Peter Buchanan-Smith (New York). After graduating in 2007, he moved to Berlin, where he worked with the design studio cyan for three years. Daniel Wiesmann has been running his own studio in Berlin since 2010. He is in charge of the visual identity of the dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Markthalle Neun in Berlin. His clients also include publishers, artists, musicians and filmmakers.

Erich Brechbühl is a Lucerne based independent graphic designer focused on poster and corporate design.

He was born on the 3rd of october 1977 in sursee, switzerland. in 1990, at the age of 13, he started his career with he foundation of „mix pictures“, an organisation for short film productions and cultural events.

after a typography apprenticeship near lucerne (1994-1998) he began an apprenticeship in graphic design at the studio of niklaus troxler in willisau (1998-2002). then erich moved to germany where he did an internship at metadesign berlin. back in lucerne he founded his own graphic design studio „mixer“. since 2007 he’s a member of the alliance graphique internationale (agi).

a selection of brechbühl's awards and honors include: design prestige – international award for design, brno (2002); gold prize, student section, korea international poster biennale (2002); bronze prize, cultural posters section, china international poster biennial (2003); honored prize of józef mroszczak, warsaw (2004); red dot award: communication design (with distinction) (2004); 2nd prize, trnava poster triennial (2006); grand prix, lahti poster biennial (2007); 2nd prize, concours international d’affiches, chaumont (2008); grand prix, swiss poster award (2008)

Fons is a distinguished graphic designer and professor renowned for his innovative and creative work in the design world. He leads the Berlin-based studio Fons Hickmann m23. He is a member of prestigious design organizations such as the TDC New York and AGI Alliance Graphique International, and also has a connection with Borussia Dortmund. Hickmann's work is characterized by its strong conceptual orientation and the ability to communicate complex content in an aesthetically appealing and understandable manner. He has received numerous awards, and his projects are frequently featured in international design publications. Since 2018, Hickmann has served as the president of the "100 Beste Plakate" association, celebrating top poster designs from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Beyond his design work, Hickmann influences through his roles as an author and educator, sharing his knowledge and passion for design with the next generation. His approach, often described as experimental and transgressive, has significantly shaped visual communication.

Igor Gurovich is a graphic designer and co-founder of studios Ostengruppe and Arbeitskollektiv. The beginning of his professional career coincided with a period of profound transformation in the post-Soviet context, and at a young age he became a cult figure in Russian graphic design. This status was shaped largely through his collaboration with the DOM Centre of Contemporary Culture, as well as through bold experimental projects produced by the Ostengruppe bureau.

His practice is primarily focused on collaborations with cultural institutions, including museums, theaters, festivals, and music venues. Gurovich works in book design and branding, designs exhibition and theatrical scenography, and at various stages of his career has also engaged in object design. He is the author of collections of furniture, porcelain, and textiles.

Gurovich is a participant and award recipient of major international exhibitions and a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). His work has been published in professional design media since 1996. He currently lives in Armenia, where he heads a new campus of the HSE School of Design, continuing his long-standing engagement with professional design education, which he has pursued for more than fifteen years.

Poster design is instrumental to Gurovich’s practice. Some of his poster series, created for a select group of clients, span multiple years and even decades, allowing the gradual evolution of his visual language to be traced over time. In these works, his interests in theatre, music, typography, and the material world converge, alongside its distinctive and often playful artifacts.

Jianping He (born February 26, 1973, in Fuyang District, Hangzhou, China), also known as Jumping He, is a German-Chinese graphic designer, professor and publisher. He lives and works in Berlin.
Jianping He studied graphic design at the China Academy of Art from 1991 to 1994 and graduated in 1995 with a bachelor's degree. From 1997 to 2001 he studied fine arts under Heinz Jürgen Kristahn at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he received his diploma and became a master student in 2001. In 2011 he did his doctorate in cultural history at the Free University of Berlin.

He taught at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2001 to 2008 and worked as a visiting professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as well as a professor for doctoral students at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou from 2006 to 2019. In 2002 he founded his design studio hesign based in Berlin. in 2008, he opened a second branch in Hangzhou, China. He was a member of the examinations panel for Master Level diploma at the ESAG Penninghen Art School in Paris. He also acted as a jury member of numerous international competitions, such as the 100 best posters of the year - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the International Biennale of Theater Poster, Rzeszow, the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, the International Poster Biennal, Ningbo and the Red Dot Design Award and the DFA Design for Asia Award in Hong Kong. Since 2005 he has been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
His exhibitions have taken place in over 50 cities around the world, including Germany, Malaysia, Slovenia, China, Taiwan and Japan.

He's works are collected by Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Museum of Arts and Crafts Hamburg, Berlin State Museums, German Museum Munich, German Poster Museum - Museum Folkwang, Ogaki Poster Museum Japan, Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Taiwan, Israel National Museum, Poster Museum Warsaw, Poster Museum Poznan, Lahti Art Museum, Museum of Design Zurich, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Center Georges-Pompidou, Victoria and Albert Museum London, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum New York and many other institutions.

Individual exhibitions
Come back to Asia, 2004, The One Academy, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
10 Years in Germany, 2006, Grillo Theater, Essen, Germany
Flashback, 2012, Ginza graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
In Between, 2012, Emzin Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenian
Acquaintance, 2012, NUA Art Museum, Nanjing, China
14th Homage to Maestro Morteza Momayez – Solo Exhibition of Jumping He in Tehran, 2019, Momayez Foundation, Tehran, Iran
In 2021, his book "daydream" was published and his "daydream" exhibition took place in the V&A Museum in Shenzhen, China.

I am a Graphic Designer based in London, UK and Bern, Switzerland with over a decade experience in the industry. My work focuses on bespoke creative solutions with an emphasis on clear and strong typographic designs.

Kai Damian Matthiesen is a Graphic Designer with over a decade experience in the industry. My work focuses on bespoke creative solutions with an emphasis on clear and strong typographic designs.

Lundgren+Lindqvist is a Sweden-based design studio founded and led by Andreas Friberg Lundgren and Carl-Johan Lindqvist. Known for its conceptually driven approach, the studio has earned an international reputation for delivering high-quality design solutions that are visually striking and intellectually engaging.

Since its founding in 2007, Lundgren+Lindqvist has embraced code as a design tool as natural as pen and paper. While the studio’s output may appear understated, each project is deeply layered, rooted in a thorough understanding of the project’s unique requirements. Whether the solution is physical or digital, the studio takes a bespoke approach, seeking to clarify what might otherwise be obscure.

Lundgren+Lindqvist offers a wide range of services, including visual identity design, art direction, print and digital design, packaging, signage, and web development. Our developers work on project’s for the studio’s clients, as well as in collaboration with design studios and communication agencies around the world.

With clients spanning from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, Lundgren+Lindqvist takes on projects of varying scale across diverse sectors. From cultural institutions, artists and publishers to fashion brands and tech startups, the studio builds strong, long-term relationships founded on mutual trust and collaboration.

LL’Editions
In addition to its client work, Lundgren+Lindqvist operates LL’Editions, a publishing imprint that serves as a platform for cross-disciplinary creative collaboration. Each year, a curated selection of editions, from books to multiples, is released in editions ranging from five to 1000 copies, available through the LL’Editions webshop.

Michael Speranza is a designer, lecturer and researcher at the Lucerne School of Design, Film & Art (HSLU DFK). He initiated and leads the Nodo Creative Hub, is part of the research team at the Research Competence Center Transformation Design, and contributes to the new BA in Creative Transformation. He is also a member of the group sustainability@dfk and co-initiated the funding platform Basislager Nachhaltigkeit. Alongside this, he works as a social designer at Sentitreff Luzern.
He holds a BA in Graphic Design and an MA in Eco-Social Design and brings many years of experience as a graphic designer and art director and is member of the SGV (Schweizer Grafiker:innen Verband). He is interested in developing support structures for social transformation. As a passionate poster designer, he has also received multiple international awards for his poster works.

Founded by Pit Stenkhoff and Eva Wendel in 1995, Neue Gestaltung GmbH is a German design firm based in Berlin. With a strong focus on art direction, editorial design, corporate identity and innovative digital applications, we engage in cultural and commercial projects alike. Using form, color, type and code we create unique visual narratives, strengthening core institutional values and authenticity of our clients. Our work is a reflection of our conviction that clear visual communication needs to excite in order to reach an audience.

Co-founders Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian) and Jon Forss (British) used to sit side-by-side in their London studio, where they founded Non-Format back in 2000. Since 2007, when Jon emigrated to Saint Paul, Minnesota, the duo has been working remotely. In 2009 Kjell moved back to Norway and is now based near Oslo. They continue to collaborate closely on projects including art direction, design, illustration and custom typography for clients such as Adobe, Coca-Cola, EMI, Gap, IBM, New York Times, Nike, Nokia, Rick Owens, Sony Music and a great many others. Their monograph, Love Song, was published in 2007 and their work has garnered many international design awards, with several projects included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. In 2015 Non-Format partnered with the Norwegian design firm ANTI, where they continue to collaborate via the kind of technology that now seems commonplace but which seemed otherworldly way back in 2007.

Philippe Apeloig studied at the École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (Ensad). After two internships at Total Design in Amsterdam, he joined the Musée d’Orsay as a graphic designer in 1985. In 1987, Apeloig moved to Los Angeles to study and work with April Greiman. In 1993, he won a fellowship at the French Academy in Rome, where he designed typefaces. His series of posters for a dance and music festival, which used his original font, won the 1995 Tokyo Type Directors Club’s Gold Award. During the nineties, Apeloig taught typography in Paris at Ensad and was hired as a full-time professor of graphic design at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York where he was also appointed curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. In 2013, the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris mounted a 30-year retrospective of Apeloig’s work. In 2015 the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam presented an exhibition focused on the designer’s typographic posters. In 2017, the Ginza Graphic Gallery (GGG) in Tokyo mounted a survey of Apeloig’s work. Apeloig collaborated with Ateliers Jean Nouvel on the wayfinding system for the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Raffinerie?
We are Raffinerie, a Zurich-based graphic design agency.
Culture, art, business, and NGOs are our main focus – being it digital, analogue, or in three dimensions.

Why?
Our clients’ needs are our top priority. In a collaboration we seek out individual approaches, surprising solutions, and smart beauty—from brainstorming to the finished project.

How?
We approach every project with curiosity and openness. By combining tradition and craftsmanship with modern technology, we create lasting value—whether on screen, on paper, or in concept.

Who?
At Raffinerie, teamwork comes first. We celebrate collective creation over individual achievements and value every voice—from emerging talents to established experts. That’s how we’ve worked since 2000—and how we continue to evolve, together.

Rejane Dal Bello, an AGI member, is an award-winning designer with more than 25 years of experience in graphic design and branding, including stints at renowned agencies such as Studio Dumbar (NL), Wolff Olins (UK), and Collins (US). She recently wrote the book ‘Citizen First, Designer Second,’ among the top 50 must-read design books of all time (according to Design Boom).

As the founder of Studio Rejane Dal Bello (SRDB), based in London, she specializes in helping brands find their unique identities by creating design that has impact and purpose. The studio boasts a clientele spanning the non-profit sector and art foundations, reflecting her commitment to impactful and purposeful design.

Her work is part of the permanent collection of the V&A Museum and has been displayed in many museums and exhibitions such as the Wellcome Collection in the UK and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Holland. Rejane’s work is regularly featured in publications, and she also gives workshops and lectures around the world.

You’ll get one team, working directly for you, from first thoughts to finished creative.

Richard Niessen (Edam-Volendam, 1972) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1996. Ever since he works on a body of work that he calls ‘Typographic Masonry’. It is the almost hermetic craft of forging amalgams of signs, symbols & ornaments in mostly nonlinear structures. This syncretic approach to graphic design, with a predilection for printwork, creates a coherent formal language exclusively to the project at hand.

Richard works for various clients including artists like Jennifer Tee and Ad de Jong, exhibition spaces as Cobra Museum and Tijdelijk Museum and organizations like the Stimuleringsfonds and Rijksgebouwendienst. In addition, the self-initiated projects (such as "JACK", "1:1:1", "Based on Bas Oudt") lead to experiments with presentation forms and collaborations with other designers and artists.

He created two traveling overview exhibitions of his work: "TM-City" (Chaumont Design Graphique, Chaumont, 2007) and "A Hermetic Compendium of Typographic Masonry"(Une Saison Graphique, Le Havre, 2014).

His most recent project is "The Palace of Typographic Masonry" which brings together experiment, research, connection with other disciplines and the embedding of graphic design in a broader cultural history.

Practicing as an artist and designer, Niessen has conducted workshops with students and designers around the world, and he has lectured and exhibited his work widely.

Sam Steiner is a graphic designer focused on poster and corporate design.

Since graduating with a bachelor in graphic design from the Lucerne School of Art and Design in 2016, he has been working for various clients from the cultural scene.

From 2020 to 2023, he was Head of Graphic Design at Netzwerk Neubad in Lucerne.

Since 2021, he is teaching graphic design and typography at the SKDZ - School of Art and Design Zurich.

Studio Tillack Knöll is a design practice that concerns itself with the visual and spatial aspects of communication. We design exhibitions, wayfinding, books, visual identities and digital experiences for a variety of clients involved in architecture, art, science and commerce to cultural insittutions and NGOs. The driving force behind our work is the interaction and collaboration with and for other human beings. Besides creating our visual output we enhance our design practice with editing, writing and coding.

toan vu-huu is a german-born graphic designer of vietnamese and english descent. he studied sociology from 1994 to 1998 while working as a dj in frankfurt, organizing events and collaborating with graphic designers to create visuals—an experience that sparked his shift toward the visual arts. he then studied graphic design at the university of applied arts in darmstadt and later joined intégral ruedi baur et associés in paris, where he contributed to major projects such as the signage for cologne-bonn airport and the visual identity of the cinémathèque française.

in 2008, he co-founded the studio baldinger•vu-huu with andré baldinger. renowned for its conceptual and multidisciplinary approach, the studio developed identities, signage systems, publications, museography projects, and custom typefaces. notable achievements include the new visual identity for the city of chaumont and the dina chaumont modular typeface. its work has been internationally recognized, receiving the grand prix at the toyama international poster triennale (2018), a certificate of typographic excellence from the type directors club in new york (2019), and two first prizes at the club des da (2023).

between 2015 and 2021, toan also designed the visual identity, typography, and signage for doc!, a self-managed art space in paris, where he experimented with the codes of visual communication through a large body of poster work that was awarded and exhibited internationally.

in 2022, he launched the bvh type foundry, specializing in the creation and distribution of typefaces. since 2023, he has been working under his new practice, studio vu-huu, where he created the new visual identity for the cité du design in saint-étienne.

his works are represented in several major public collections, including the centre national des arts plastiques (cnap), the musée des arts décoratifs (mad), the centre national du graphisme (le signe), the type directors club in new york, the lhati museum of visual arts in finland, and the toyama museum of modern art.

a member of the alliance graphique internationale (agi) since 2019, toan is currently president of agi france. he taught for fifteen years at leading french art and design schools before dedicating himself fully to practice, while continuing to lecture, give interviews, and lead workshops worldwide.

Lobke van Aar (1982) is an artist - working in the fields of illustration, design and handlettering - who lives and works in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.

The works by Lobke van Aar are a playful mix of illustration, color and typography. She incorporates a range of techniques and yet still her style remains recognizable and unique. Lobke has a passion for handlettering, a fascination for the whispers of the past and is always looking for the human element in her topics. In her day to day life it's the little things that jump out and inspire her.