Rosmarie Tissi (born 1937) is a Swiss graphic designer known for her poster designs. [1] [2]
Rosmarie Tissi (born 1937) is a Swiss graphic designer known for her poster designs. [1] [2]
Tissi first studied at Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich (School of Arts and Crafts) in 1953. [3] She left the school after one year to do a four-year apprenticeship with designer Siegfried Odermatt. [1] [4] [2] Tissi was hired by Odermatt in 1958. [2] In 1968, the two established a partnership as a studio under the name Odermatt & Tissi. They designed printed matter, posters, and typefaces. [1]
Tissi has received numerous awards including first prize and gold medal at the 11th International Poster Biennial in Warsaw 1986, second prize for her design of Swiss banknotes in 1989, and a Swiss Grand Award for Design in 2018. [5]
She also taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. [1]
Tissi's work was published in the first issue of Neue Grafik magazine in 1957. [3] When she completed her studies in 1958, Swiss designers such as Max Bill, Ernst Keller, Josef Muller-Brockmann were very popular. [6] Tissi's work first exemplified Swiss Modernism but evolved to a unique post-modern style. [3] [2] Hall of Femmes calls her a "reformer" of the Swiss School style. [5]
Tissi's designs are characterised by bright colors, geometric shapes, and playfulness. [7] Her work includes posters, banknotes, logos, textbooks and typefaces. [8] She is also well known for her posters. [4]
Tissi lives and works in Zurich. [9]
Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdisciplinary branch of design and of the fine arts. Its practice involves creativity, innovation and lateral thinking using manual or digital tools, where it is usual to use text and graphics to communicate visually.
Adrian Johann Frutiger was a Swiss typeface designer who influenced the direction of type design in the second half of the 20th century. His career spanned the hot metal, phototypesetting and digital typesetting eras. Until his death, he lived in Bremgarten bei Bern.
Zuzana Licko is a Slovak-born American type designer and visual artist known for co-founding Emigre Fonts, a digital type foundry in Berkeley, CA. She has designed and produced numerous digital typefaces including the popular Mrs Eaves, Modula, Filosofia, and Matrix. As a corresponding interest she also creates ceramic sculptures and jacquard weavings.
Josef Müller-Brockmann was a Swiss graphic designer, author, and educator, he was a Principal at Muller-Brockmann & Co. design firm. He was a pioneer of the International Typographic Style. One of the main masters of Swiss design. Müller-Brockmann is recognized for his simple designs and his clean use of typography, shapes and colors which inspire many graphic designers in the 21st century.
Kris Holmes is an American typeface designer, calligrapher, type design educator and animator. She, with Charles Bigelow, is the co-creator of the Lucida and Wingdings font families, among many other typeface designs. She is President of Bigelow & Holmes Inc., a typeface design studio.
The Type Directors Club (TDC) is an international organization devoted to typography and type design, founded in 1946 in New York City. TDC believes that type drives culture, and that culture drives type—and is dedicated to cataloging, showcasing, and exhibiting typography worldwide.
Paula Scher is an American graphic designer, painter and art educator in design. She also served as the first female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991.
The International Typographic Style is a systemic approach to graphic design that emerged during the 1930s – 1950s but continued to develop internationally. It is considered the basis of the Swiss style. It expanded on and formalized the modernist typographic innovations of the 1920s that emerged in part out of art movements such as Constructivism (Russia), De Stijl and at the Bauhaus (Germany). The International Typographic Style has had profound influence on graphic design as a part of the modernist movement, impacting many design-related fields including architecture and art. It emphasizes simplicity, clarity, readability, and objectivity. Hallmarks of the style are asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces like Akzidenz Grotesk and Helvetica, and flush left, ragged right text. The style is also associated with a preference for photography in place of illustrations or drawings. Many of the early International Typographic Style works featured typography as a primary design element in addition to its use in text, and it is for this that the style is named. The influences of this graphic movement can still be seen in design strategy and theory to this day.
Emil Ruder was a Swiss typographer and graphic designer, who with Armin Hofmann joined the faculty of the Schule für Gestaltung Basel. One of the main masters of Swiss design.
Edward Fella is an American graphic designer, artist and educator. He created the OutWest typeface in 1993. His work is held in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Brauer Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the recipient of the 2007 AIGA Medal. He was also the recipient of a Chrysler Award in 1997. Curt Cloninger called Fella "the contemporary master of hand-drawn typography."
Ikko Tanaka was a Japanese graphic designer.
Jennifer Morla is an American graphic designer and professor based in San Francisco. She received the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award in Communication Design in 2017.
Celestino Piatti was a Swiss graphic artist, painter and book designer. He was a popular illustrator of children's books and achieved international success as a designer for Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (DTV).
Walter Herdeg was a Swiss graphic designer, noted for his travel posters and work with Graphis Magazine, who was awarded an AIGA medal in 1986.
Théo Ballmer (1902-1965) was a Swiss graphic designer, photographer, and professor. He is best known for his Modernist poster designs which influenced the development of the International Typographic Style.
Ralph Schraivogel is a Swiss graphic designer and lecturer.
Jost Hochuli is a Swiss graphic designer known for his book designs. He is also the author of Detail in Typography, which has been translated into several languages.
Karel Svolinský was a Czech painter, graphic artist, illustrator, typographer, typeface designer, theatre stage designer and university professor.
Cornel Windlin is a Swiss graphic and type designer originally from Kerns (Obwalden) whose work has received national and international awards, been exhibited in museums and published in design books and publications. In addition to his design work, he also lectures regularly in Switzerland and abroad. His work has been extensively recognised in books, trade journals and exhibitions.
Dafi Kühne is a Swiss poster designer, graphic design educator and letterpress printer.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Artists | |
| People | |
