Christian Knöpfel Studio for Visual Communication is a Swiss graphic design studio based in Zurich. The work is characterized by typographic systems and content-driven solutions. Pop culture and modern times have a great visual influence on the work in the fields of art, culture and identities. The focus lies on printed matter, web design and animation. Please get in touch for any collaborative inquieries or a full portfolio.
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The Master’s programme in Environmental Natural Sciences at ETH Zurich celebrated its graduation ceremony in spring 2023 with the theme Put Into Perspective. Animations, invitations, posters and bags were created. The organic design is inspired by nature and complemented with a gold tone.
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In the spring of 2023, Hauser & Wirth Publishers made an exhibition to mark the 90th year after the book burning in Berlin, featuring books banned in Germany at the time and historical references to the building and Zurich as a publishing location. During the Second World War, Oprecht Verlag was in the building on Rämistrasse where Hauser & Wirth Publishers are today. Oprecht Verlag published books by exiled authors and the Oprecht couple also cared for authors who fled to Zurich.
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The Art Walk West are tours in District 5 of the city of Zurich. Every last Thursday of the month, a tour is led through three different art institutions. Most of them in and around the Löwenbräukunst area. There, tours are led through the current exhibitions and supplemented with commentaries by various people.
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The Zentralwäscherei is a cultural space in District 5 of the city of Zurich. To celebrate its first anniversary, a festival was organised that offered a broad programme with various performers, musicians, actors and other offers such as culinary delights over four days. As an interim use, the area is soon to be demolished, which is why the location will probably no longer be there in 2026.
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Luca Büchler is a Swiss artist based in Vienna. In his work he focuses on the expression of social and societal conditions. The exhibition A Fantasy, A Desire ran from 27 March to 7 May 2022 at the Lucerne offspace Sic! Elephanthouse. It addressed the broad spectrum of queer existence and invited various other artists to submit a contribution. The various exhibits were in dialogue with each other and with Luca's main work, three large picture board lamps, which switch on and off in a performance.
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Overprotected is a publication about Britney Spears’ conservatorship, which ended in November 2021. The publication guides the reader trough the book in different layers of texts, which consists of social media posts, song lyrics and the transcripts of both court hearings.
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In 1961 Masahisa Fukase’s first solo exhibition Kill the Pig was held in Tokyo. The exhibition consisted of two series of photographs: one titled “Kill the Pig” and another series titled “Naked”. The series “Kill the Pig” featured photographs set in a slaughterhouse in Shibaura, Tokyo. Huge numbers of ravens also congregated there, drawn by the odour of raw meat, as the air resounded eerily with their cries. The series featured photographs in black and white and in colour. The colour shots were mostly reserved for the scenes showing blood and death. Text by the Masahisa Fukase Archive. In collaboration with Edwin van Gelder at Mainstudio.
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Amsterdam Art Week is an annual event where galleries and art institutions hold openings, performances and guided tours for a week. The corporate design was made in collaboration with Loes Claessens and Edwin van Gelder.
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Mili’s Supperclub is a collaborative art project by Swiss-Vietnamese artist and photographer Thi My Lien Nguyen. A typography-based identity was designed for her Supperclub series, which showcases Vietnamese (food) culture. Thumbnail photographs by Joel Hunn and Raisa Durandi.
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Ausser Betrieb was an exhibition at the Zurich University of the Arts. The works were made from everyday objects and blocked with unusual materials. The material design was transferred to the materiality of the publication.
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For each vernissage of the diploma projects, the specialization Visual Communication publishes a publication. The publication for 2020 was realized in collaboration with Maurane Zaugg and Céline Nidegger.
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For the film series “La Comédie”, in which French comedies by female directors are shown, I designed this poster proposal. The well-known French stripe pattern has been cut up with the metaphor of the banality of a cut-up baguette.
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Creative Week is organised annually by the Art Directors Club Switzerland at the Toni Areal. Speakers from all areas of the creative industry flock to Zurich University of the Arts. The 2019 theme "Welcome to the Creative Circus" received its identity from Viltė Jurgutytė, Samara Keller, Stefan Hürlemann and me.
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Pierre Schwerzman is a Swiss artist from Nyon. Repetitive stylistic elements of his paintings are monochrome are monochrome, gradients and a strongly graphic graphic language. The introduction to the book is an interview, before moving on to the picture section. At the end there are essays by various authors. The Swiss brochure has a cover of cast-coated black paper, in the style of Schwerzmann's reverse glass paintings.
