ten lives
location: zurich switzerland, 2025
context: exhibition design for einfach zürich and friedhof forum zürich
collaboration with studio noi, with participation of ivana luggen
idea: from the founding of the kronenhalle to platzspitz, dada, and death metal: zurich’s history has seen many ups and downs. its last 200 years are told through the lives of ten people. lived in the same city, buried in the same soil – they all found their final resting place in the sihlfeld cemetery. their life stories are woven into an audio installation that can be experienced on-site. a grand, unified gesture fills the space. the carpeted seating and lounging area is a large collage composed of glimpses into the cemetery’s natural landscape. subjective stories intertwine to form something collective, a portrait of zurich that invites immersion.
images: mara truog & misc.
What a journey! For “Ten Lives—The History of a City” by Friedhof Forum and Einfach Zürich, and together with Grégory Taniguchi Ambos, we created one of our largest artworks yet: a rug to lie on while listening to the stories of ten remarkable lives that shaped Zurich. All of them share one thing—they found their final resting place at Sihlfeld Cemetery. Apart from the rug, we designed a publication, posters, signage, and all graphic elements of the exhibition.
Huge thanks to @gregory.taniguchi.ambos for the inspiring collaboration, @einfach_zuerich and @friedhof_forum for their trust, @ortreport_gmbh for the productive dialogue @marjetamorinc for perfect precision and @abcdinamo for final tweaking ✨
The exhibition is open until 16 July 2026
Exhibition concept: @einfach_zuerich & @friedhof_forum
Design Concept, Artwork & Design: @studionoi and @gregory.taniguchi.ambos
Text: Michèle Wannaz @einfach_zuerich
Scenography: @ortreport_gmbh
Font: Connect @abcdinamo
Printing Publication: @druckerei_odermatt_ag
Lithography: @marjetamorinc
Die Banner hängen – es wird ernst!
Unsere neue Ausstellung «ZEHN LEBEN – DIE GESCHICHTE EINER STADT» nimmt Form an. Zehn Leben. Zehn Biografien. Zehn Perspektiven auf Zürich.
Kommt zur Langen Nacht der Zürcher Museen (@zuerchermuseen ) am Freitag, 6. September. Da öffnen wir zum allerersten Mal die Türen zu unserer neuen Ausstellung!
@einfach_zuerich@studionoi
#ZehnLeben #friedhofforum #einfachzürich #zürichcity #ausstellung
The first issue of the newly designed Kunstbulletin is out! Our aim was to bring in more contrast, more colour and more air so that readers can navigate through it in different ways.
A redesign is always teamwork. Firstly, we would like to thank Deborah Keller (@deborah__keller ), Meret Arnold (@arnoldmeret ) and the whole Kunstbulletin team for their trust and professional way in which they managed the project in such a tight time frame. Many thanks to Lia Grünig, who assisted us during the design process – including a quick start into coding. We would like to thank Leonardo Azzolini and Simon Mager from Omnitype for customising Marmo, and to Aurèle Sack for customising beautiful Ivory. Nicole Widmer Meyer for layouting and typesetting (and your patience!). Christoph Meyer and Gerold Ritter for taking care of synchronisation and scripting. And Rebekka Steiger for providing a perfect picture for the first issue. A big thank you to all of you!
Assistance redesign: @liagruenig
Layout and typesetting: @directarts79
Fonts: Marmo KB by @omni.type ; Ivory Book and Ivory Mono by @aurele_sack / @lineto_com
Printing: @druckerei_odermatt_ag
Cover image: @steigerrebekka@kunstbulletin.ch #artmagazine #kunstmagazin #artlist #editorialdesign #contemporaryart #kunstschweiz #kunstbulletin
Rahel Hartmann Schweizer 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐬: 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞
Lisbeth Sachs (1914–2002) caused a sensation at the very beginning of her professional career: freshly graduated, she won the 1939 competition for the Kurtheater Baden. With the building, opened in 1952, she expressed her lucid architectural position and experienced what it meant to be one of the first independent Swiss female architects in a male-dominated profession. For Sachs, construction was a procedural act that extended from craftsmanship to the suitability of materials and finally to people’s appropriation of spaces. She sought to achieve architecture that floated, emerging organically from the topography and following environmentally and socially compatible principles. Her interdisciplinary understanding of architecture as applied ecology makes her work and thinking more relevant now than ever.
Rahel Hartmann Schweizer’s book about this unconventional architect, researcher and critical writer is part of Switzerland’s contribution to the 2025 Architecture Biennale in Venice involving the revival by Annexe of Lisbeth Sachs’ temporary Saffa 1958 art gallery.
By #RahelHartmannSchweizer
Foreword by @annexe.biennale
Translated by Thomas Skelton-Robinson
Designed by @studionoi
2025. 22.5 × 30 cm, hardcover
178 pages, 195 illustrations
ISBN 978-3-85676-493-7
Text in English
Last days! This winter we had the wonderful opportunity to design the exhibition “Virginia Woolf & Mrs Dalloway” at Museum Strauhof, curated by Elisabeth Bronfen. Next Thursday, May 15, from 6–8 pm, we will give a short guided tour – you are welcome to join! The exhibition will close on May 18.
Many thanks to everyone involved: Philip Sippel and Rémi Jaccard from @strauhof for the productive conversations; Elisabeth Bronfen for her passion and enthusiasm. Jana Bersorger and Lisa Steurer for finding those last images we needed. @liagruenig , who stood by our side during the entire design process and without whom we would not have been able to meet all the deadlines. @danielaspack for typesetting the reader in the shortest possible time. And last but not least, artist and interior designer Vanessa Bell – Virginia Woolf’s sister – for her beautiful book cover designs for Hogarth Press, which we used as source material for the wallpapers. So ahead of her time! 💜💜💜
Fonts: Gill Sans by Eric Gill, Otto by @abcdinamo , Ivory Mono by @aurele_sack /@lineto_com
Photography: Zeljko Gataric Imhoff
This Saturday, Kulturbüro Zürich will celebrate the move to their new location. Based on our redesign of their website last year, we designed signage, flyers etc. Come by and celebrate with us! 🏝️ With Swimming pools, DJ Sets, Kimchi Hotdogs, Bolani, Cocktails, Gelati and more.💘
Saturday, 24.8.2024, 14:00–20:00
Kanzleistr. 202, 8004 Zürich
More Infos: @kulturbuero.zuerich
With Jalscha Römer @yalechat
Original logo by Norm @norm_zurich
Typeface Marmo by Omnitype @omni.gr
Photography flyer by Val Minnig @val.minnig
Coding by Furbo @furbo_gmbh
Realization signage by Vincent Bodmer
Interior architecture by Kai Bührer @kaibhr
Images by Bianca Blair @biancablair_
Freshly printed (just before holidays ⛱️)! New poster series for Material Labor, an interactive laboratory for material research of all kinds based at @gewerbemuseum_winterthur . Photography: Michael Lio. Printing: Schelling. Fonts: Grotesko by @our_polite_society and Collab by @chillllllllll
Tomorrow! Book launch of Karl Egender: Architektur der Darbietung, the first comprehensive presentation of his oeuvre including lots of drawings and other unpublished archival material. The 29th volume of Dokumente zur modernen Schweizer Architektur is also the first volume in the new design we developed for the series, which is dedicated to the work of noteworthy protagonists of modern Swiss architecture.
June 12, 7pm
Museum für Gestaltung, Ausstellungstrasse 60, Zürich
Published by gta Verlag. Edited by Dorothee Huber. With texts by Leza Dosch, Melchior Fischli, Dorothee Huber, Daniel Kurz, Claude Lichtenstein and Bruno Maurer.
Typeface: ABC Oracle by @abcdinamo
Assistance design: @danielaspack@mariapeskina@yalechat
Image editing: @marjetamorinc
Printing: @druckerei_odermatt_ag@gtaverlag@museumgestaltung
#karlegender #swissarchitecture #architecturalmonographs #bookdesign #editorialdesign
Am kommenden Montag, 20. November, feiert Jurczok 1001 Premiere seines neuen Spoken Word-Programms J–U–R–C–Z–O–K im sogar Theater. Dabei gehts u.a um die Frage, warum so viele Menschen Mühe haben, (s)einen Namen richtig zu schreiben. Wir sind gespannt! Und danken, dass wir den Flyer dazu gestalten durften. It was a pleasure!
Text, Musik, Performance: @jurczok1001
Wo: @sogar_theater
Weitere Daten: 27.11. und 29.1.
Mitarbeit Design und Fotos: @maria.peskina
