Time is running out to catch ‘Les Suisses de Paris: Graphic Design and Typography’ which is currently showing until the 19th March at Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich.
‘Off to Paris!’ From the 1950s onward many Swiss graphic designers and typographers followed this call. Many of them achieved important key positions in the French capital: Peter Knapp and Jean Widmer with Galeries Lafayette or Adrian Frutiger in the type foundry Deberny & Peignot. With their modern training, something still lacking at that time in Paris, the Swiss filled a gap. They also involved themselves in teaching. Paris, in turn, offered them an international setting and exciting work.
This exhibition shows creations by the most important designers in exchange with their Parisian colleagues and introduces design schools influenced by the Swiss. Visitors can see works from the areas of editorial design, photography, film, advertising graphics, scenography, corporate design, signage, typography and type design.
Dates:
Until 19th March 2017
Location:
Museum für Gestaltung
Toni-Areal, Pfingstweidstrasse 96,
8005 Zürich
More Information:
www.museum-gestaltung.ch
Jon Dowling
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