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50 years Swiss Posters selected by the Federal Department of Home Affaires, 1991

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  • Format Book
  • Designer/s Odermatt & Tissi
  • Year 1991
  • Client/Publisher Federal Department of Home Affaires
  • Size 251mm x 340mm
Odermatt & Tissi
Odermatt & Tissi was a Zurich-based graphic design studio founded by Siegfried Odermatt and Rosmarie Tissi in 1968. Working outside the strict grid-based work of Swiss International Style, they developed a more intuitive, expressive approach to Swiss design, using asymmetry, playful typography, and unexpected visual relationships. Their studio work and teaching influenced a generation of designers and helped establish a more pluralistic understanding of what Swiss graphic design could be. Explore related designers including Siegfried Odermatt and Rosmarie Tissi. See also International Typographic Style and Swiss graphic design history.
Rosmarie Tissi was born in Schaffhausen and attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. From 1968, with Siegfried Odermatt, she founded the Zurich graphic studio that bears their names  With Odermatt, Tissi also exhibited at shows and events in New York and Stuttgart. Explore related designers including Siegfried Odermatt and Armin Hofmann. See also Swiss International Style, Swiss graphic design history, and 1960s graphic design history.
Siegfried Odermatt was a self-taught designer.  Born in 1926. He ran his independent studio in Zurich from 1950 to 1968, when he joined forces with Rosmarie Tissi, expanding the studio's work to include launch strategies and image programs, as well as various forms of illustration and other graphic interventions for Swiss manufacturers and companies. Explore related designers including Rosmarie Tissi and Josef Müller-Brockmann. See also Swiss International Style, Swiss graphic design history, and 1950s graphic design history.

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50 years Swiss Posters selected by the Federal Department of Home Affaires, 1991
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