Gottlieber is an exclusive Swiss confectionery. Since its foundation in 1928, Gottlieber has been pleasing chocolate lovers with their unique Hüppen, a rolled wafer with delicious creamy filling. All ingredients are non-GMO, many are organic, fair trade (cacao & coffee) and free range (eggs).

I designed four different sleeves for the premium line, colour-coding the background to reflect the assortment – light/white for Coconut, cream for Amaretto & Irish Cream, brown for Chocolait, Cappuccino & Coconut and black/dark for Black Special Grand Cru.

In addition to these colors, the border and little Swiss cross were printed in gold, and the background pattern varnished with a transparent gloss.

Scope: Packaging Design
Client: Gottlieber Spezialitäten AG
Published: 2015
Photos by Gottlieber Spezialitäten

A Festive Approach to Infographics

The Singapore-ETH Centre currently frames two research programmes – Future Cities Laboratory and Future Resilient Systems – addressing the challenges of modern societies in urban surroundings and beyond.

Inspired by the Guardian-infographic on urban & rural population, I elaborated a visualisation bridging the abstract, scientific topic with the festive occasion. Each snowflake represents a country, with the size corresponding to its population size and the tone corresponding to the degree of urbanisation – the lighter the colour, the more urbanised.

The infographic is coded in D3, and generated with randomised parameters for the snowflakes, making each one unique.

Data Source: Worldometers, Data by United Nations, 2012
Snowflake Coding: Sergio Ordóñez
Data Processing: Lilia R. & Alex Erath
Client: ETH Singapore SEC Ltd
Published: 2015

Urban Design Research Exhibition

Two research institutes – Future Cities Laboratory (ETH) and City Form Lab (SUTD) – presented their urban design research at the URA Gallery in Singapore.

The visual identity was kept clean and unobtrusive, complementing the content rather than distracting from it. As a reference to the urban design context of the exhibition space – the building stands at a 38° angle to north – I used the same rotation for the text of the invitation card.

The invitation was stamped in glossy black on off-white cardboard.

Scope: Invitation Card, Flyer, Book Covers, Postcards, Table Labels
Client: ETH Singapore SEC Ltd
Published: 2014
Photos by Carlina Teteris
 

The Future Cities Magazine is a magazine published bi-annually by the Future Cities Laboratory. It serves as a format to showcase research, edited for the general public. Articles are usually about four to ten pages long, allowing the authors to give detailed insights into their work.

The overall look is light and ‘airy’, focusing on maximum legibility and the display of large format images. The layout allows a flexible arrangement of type and images, text can either be set up in a main column and an ‘additional info’-column, or in two columns of the same width, while images can be placed more freely.

Scope: Magazine (205 × 274 mm)
Client: ETH Singapore SEC Ltd
Published: 2013, ongoing
In collaboration with Uta Bogenrieder

Innovative Technologies Exhibition Space

For the Swiss Positions + Swiss Scales Exhibition at the Korea Foundation Cultural Centre in Seoul, South Korea, researchers of the Future Cities Laboratory were invited to present their research on different aspects of innovative and sustainable technologies for buildings, including solutions for air conditioning, sustainable building materials and robotically fabricated concrete walls for material efficiency.

A stylised high rise building marks the center of the space. Red threads lead from the researched part (of the building) to the four respective projects displayed in white "windows". The building is laser cut on white and applied directly to the black wall. Each window shows two large, detailed images on photo paper plus smaller explicative pictures, bi-lingual project descriptions in English and Korean and a pod with clips.

Scope: Exhibition Space, Concept & Design
Client: ETH Singapore SEC Ltd
Published: 2013
In collaboration with the researchers

Gottlieber is an exclusive Swiss confectionery. Since its foundation in 1928, Gottlieber has been pleasing chocolate lovers with their unique Hüppen, a rolled wafer with delicious creamy filling. All ingredients are non-GMO, many are organic, fair trade (cacao & coffee) and free range (eggs).

I designed miscellaneous products such as the ‘Morgensünde’ chocolate spread, the premium tea line and several tin boxes for their collections: the retro-tin ‘Gottlieben’ with the view of the lake and picturesque Gottlieben, the vintage ‘Arenenberg’-box, Gottlieber artist's tin Rolf Knie ‘Tigers’, and the decorative flower tins for spring and summer.

The logo and some framing elements were left unprinted, allowing the gold (or silver, respectively) of the tin box shine through. The nifty look is further enhanced by the embossing of these elements.

Scope: Packaging Design
Client: Gottlieber Spezialitäten AG
Published: 2015, ongoing
Photos by Gottlieber Spezialitäten

The ‘Orchestergesellschaft Zürich’ was founded in 1947 and consists of about 60 musicians. I was commissioned to design the visual identity from scratch.

The logo makes use of the fermata as a reference to music notation. The bracket symbolises community while the letters stand accurately apart as a reference to quality and precision. The ‘O’ forms the dot of the fermata. The logo-font is also used for headlines and complemented with a crafty serif font for best legibility.

For the visuals, I made use of the possibilities of generative design: I wrote a programme to generate «musical images», using notes instead of pixels. This allows the motives to be chosen freely while ensuring recognition of the visual language.

Scope: Visual Identity, Logo, Flyer, Poster & Programme Booklet
Client: Orchestergesellschaft Zürich
Published: 2014

Gottlieber is an exclusive Swiss confectionery. Since its foundation in 1928, Gottlieber has been pleasing chocolate lovers with their unique Hüppen, a rolled wafer with delicious creamy filling. All ingredients are non-GMO, many are organic, fair trade (cacao & coffee) and free range (eggs).

In 2016, the tradition line was gently revamped. While the general layout (dark brown vertikal stripe on light background) remained, a lot of detailes were adjusted and modernised: the background colour (from a bright to a subtle yellow), the red ribbon, the background (new with the pattern similar to the premium line), and all information on the back (ingredients, address, etc.).

The logo is embossed and printed in gold, and the background pattern varnished with a transparent gloss.

Scope: Packaging Design
Client: Gottlieber Spezialitäten AG
Published: 2016 – 2017
Photos by Gottlieber Spezialitäten

Natural Ventilation Revisited

I designed and layouted the Special Issue of the Future Cities Magazine by the chair of Prof. Marc Angélil, edited by Sascha Roesler. It's a 166 page compendium of their research on Natural Ventilation in Singapore and on Sumatra.

It was a challenging task to assemble the very rich material, brush up the graphics and images, and layout the content in order to purposefully communicate the research findings.

The photographs of artist Katja Jug were printed full bleed on uncoated paper, contrasting the elaborate content full of details with a lavish and colourful insert.

Scope: Magazine (205 × 274 mm), 166 pages
Client: ETH Singapore SEC Ltd
Published: 2015
Research Team: Sascha Roesler, Karoline Kostka, Marcel Jäggi & Ani Vihervaara

Window Artwork in Office Space

The Future Cities Laboratory is a research programme that aims to develop new knowledge, technologies, and approaches for a sustainable urban future. Glass walls subdivide the whole office space – about 130 meters in total.

I elaborated the window design to be applied to the glass walls. Taking into consideration the FCL's international research community focussing on cities worldwide I chose to ‘cut around the world’, ‘unrolling’ it to a very long ribbon. I first generated a black and white image which I then converted with processing into a 130 meter long grid of circles. These circles were laser cut individually in white adhesive tape and applied to the walls. All cities on which research is being done are marked in red, with their coordinates.

Scope: Installation Design & Programming
Client: ETH Singapore SEC Ltd
Mounted: 2012

The Future Cities Laboratory led a forum at the World Cities Summit in Singapore, discussing and debating ‘5 Propositions for Sustainable Future Cities’.

I designed a series of five promotional postcards, one for each of the five lectures + the invitation card. To make the cards work as a series, I elaborated a system of lines which visually segments each card individually but follows certain parameters. Therefore it is possible to put each card next to another in no matter which direction with their lines connecting. When assembled, the yellow lines on black resemble a city grid by night.

Scope: Series of 5 + 1 Postcards (105 × 210 mm)
Client: ETH Singapore SEC Ltd
Published: 2012

Kaspar and Annina Rohner are two veterinaries, he's specialised in small, she in farm animals. Although their practice goes by the same name, their work is very different. The concept of the website is to show this connection/separation: On the landing page the user can choose to either navigate left (small animals, blue area) or right (farm animals, green area). Common topics like ‘philosophy’ are located in the middle.

The illustration on the bottom shifts when the user navigates to one side or the other, showing small or farm animals. Also the different buildings the vets work in are shown, helping visitors to recognise the places when they get there for the first time.

Scope: Concept, Website, Illustration
Client: Tierarztpraxis Rohner
Published: 2009
A teamwork at LOGLAN, Zürich

After having worked for several renowned theatres in Germany, actress Melanie Schmidli moved to the independent scene, realising her own production, curating a platform for performing artists and working on several other projects.

For the visual language I chose the look of a stencil as a metaphor for live performance: every show is basically the same but always slightly different. In the header of the website this is illustrated by a slow animation of different versions of Melanie's face. When scrolled to the bottom, her full length portrait appears behind the curtain. With the user friendly CMS concrete5, she can edit all content easily and keep the site up to date.

Scope: Concept, Logo, Business Card, Website (Design & Programming)
Client: Melanie Schmidli
Published: 2012

The art collective agent provocateur rewarded CHF 20,000.– to a provocative project: to launch a cantonal referendum to lower the gauge of Lake Zürich. New public space would be created where now the private houses of the wealthy few stand.

The logo plays with the words ‘Meer’ (sea) and ‘Mehr’ (more), a drop of water made the third letter illegible. Visual metaphor is the map, and the contour lines reference to the change of topological occurrences. The pictograms are used illustratively as well as informatively and hint at what could be … The website contains a discussion forum and a section for fund-raising. Printed matter includes the official signature form, postcards and a contest.

The project was published in the book ‘Was uns ärgert und warum nicht’.

Scope: Concept, Logo, Website, Printed Matter
Client: Heller Enterprises
Published: 2008
A teamwork at LOGLAN, Zürich

Sol de Primavera is a politically and religiously neutral project based in Quito, Ecuador, which offers education and guidance to urchins and provides a medical centre for people living in deprived areas.

The website is a tool to familiarise potential sponsors with the country, as well as the many aspects of the project. It is structured into five sections, each coloured differently. Instead of emphasising misery and need for money, the gay look and feel underlines the positive impact the institution has on the lives of the people. Special attention is drawn to the teaser column by little animations of a rising sun (sol) and growing flowers, and statements from youths about how Sol de Primavera has changed their lives.

Scope: Webdesign
Client: Verein Primavera Zürich
Published: 2008
A teamwork at LOGLAN, Zürich