Playing with Type

Designers use creative typography in posters to communicate, engage and entertain.

  • Flavia Cocchi
    Animation, MUDAC, Lausanne
    2007

  • Erich Brechbühl
    Bandscheibenvorfall
    2017

  • Jiri Oplatek
    Bernard Tschumi: Architecture, Concept & Notation, Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel
    2015

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    Bruno Monguzzi
    Botta / Cucchi, La Cappella del Monte Tamaro, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano
    1994

    • Posters convey a message using a combination of type and image.

    In the hands of a talented designer, a poster’s typography can be as expressive as an image and can even stand alone as the only imagery necessary.

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    Richard Niessen
    Building Brick Storage
    2015

  • ott+stein
    Das frühe Bauhaus und Johannes Itten, Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin
    1994

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    Anthon Beeke
    Holland Festival
    1995

  • Erich Brechbühl
    Innerschweizer Filmpreis 2017
    2017

    • Designers experiment with unusual combinations of typefaces, and with letterforms created out of unexpected materials. They may manipulate the type and its placement to produce an effect such as movement or depth.

    In some cases a designer will find a clever way to create a distinct object out of type, such as the bicycle in Paula Scher’s poster for PUBLIC. 

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    Paula Scher
    Public Bikes
    2012

  • Koichi Sato
    Japan Shop (black and white)
    2002

  • Koichi Sato
    Japan Shop (color)
    2002

  • Dima Kavko (Ostengruppe)
    Japanese Avant Garde Festival
    2004

  • Baumann & Baumann
    Kieler Woche
    1995

  • Melchior Imboden
    Kunstmarkt Innerschweizer Künstler in der Schmiedgasse Stans
    1992

  • Bruno Monguzzi
    Lyonel Feininger, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano
    1991

  • Niklaus Troxler
    Niklaus Troxler, Schweizer Plakate des Jahres 77-99
    2001

  • Takenobu Igarashi
    Noh, UCLA Asian Performing Arts Institute
    1981

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    Werner Jeker
    Papier, Un nouveau langage artistique, Musée des arts décoratifs, Lausanne
    1991

  • Ikko Tanaka
    Poster Auction XVII
    1993

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    Richard Niessen
    The Labyrinth of Scripts
    2017

  • Gavillet & Rust
    Unterirdisch, Das Spektakel des Unsichtbaren, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
    2014

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    Ralph Schraivogel
    Weingart Typografie, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
    2014

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    Erich Brechbühl
    Welcome to Paradise
    2016

  • Melchior Imboden
    Weltformat 2015
    2015

  • Annik Troxler
    Weltformat 2016
    2016

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    Sascha Lobe
    Bauhaus Rewritten (blue)
    2019

  • Sascha Lobe
    Bauhaus Rewritten (yellow)
    2019

  • Dan Reisinger
    Poster Auction XVIII
    1994