Contact
Studio address
Fuel Tank Unit B103
8-12 Creekside
London SE8 3DX
Research and writing
I completed a PhD in art history at the Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities at the University of Bern. I am now working towards publishing my thesis, which I submitted under the title The Prize of Success: The Swiss Design Awards 2002 relaunch and the networks of promotion.
I worked as a research assistant and PhD candidate on the research project Swiss Graphic Design and Typography Revisited (SGDTR) at the HKB. The project, which was funded by the SNSF, culminated in a four-volume open-access publication, Swiss Graphic Design Histories. I co-edited one of its volumes and contributed several chapters to the publication.
I have written articles for the Swiss Design Awards, RadDar, Progetto Grafico, Revue Diorama, Poster Tribune, Weltformat magazine and IDPURE. I have also written academic articles in peer-reviewed publications, which are listed on my Google Scholar page.
Graphic design
I currently work part-time for Atelier Dyakova as a designer and studio manager.
I have worked as a freelancer for the Architectural Association, Cameron Mackintosh, COS, Idea is Everything, John Morgan studio, Jonathan Hares, Hauser & Wirth, and Studio Veronica Ditting.
My studio clients include artists such as Amy Croft, the Demystification Committee, The Walking Reading Group and institutions such as ECAL, MACBA, Musées Cantonaux du Valais, RCA and the Whitstable Biennale.
Projects
I co-curated and moderated the Weltformat Graphic Design Festival symposium with Miriam Koban in 2019–2020, and with Isabel Seiffert in 2021.
I co-organised Behind the Books, an exhibition of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books in London, with Mathias Clottu between 2019–2021. We also organised a series of talks accompanying each year’s exhibition.
Teaching
I work as a lecturer at ECAL. Since 2012, I have been teaching Critical History of Graphic Design to first year students on the BA Graphic Design. Since 2016, I also offer a Design/Research class to second year students. Finally I teach Graphic Design History to foundation and year one BA students across all disciplines since 2021.
I am a visiting lecturer on the Graphic Design BA at Kingston School of Art and on the MA Graphic Design Communication at UAL Camberwell.
I have previously taught, given workshops, talks or guest critiques at the following institutions:
Bern University of the Arts (HKB), MA Design
Bristol University, BA Graphic Design
Camberwell School of Art, University of the Arts London, MA Graphic Design Communication
ECAL, BA Graphic Design
EPFL+ECAL Lab
Falmouth University, MA Graphic Design
HEAD Geneva, MA Fashion & Accessories Design
Kingston University, BA Graphic Design
Parallel School Lausanne
Royal College of Art, MA Visual Communication
SUPSI (Lugano), BA Graphic Design
Usine Kügler (Geneva)
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), MA Visual Communication
Education
2012 | BA | Visual communication/Graphic design, ECAL |
2015 | MA | Visual communication, Royal College of Art |
2021 | PhD | History of art, University of Bern |
Credits
Typeset in Uher and Beelden by Julien Mercier / Acme Type Foundry