Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Bettina Richter (eds.)

Self-Promotion

Poster Collection 30

Self-Promotion, the 30th edition of the Poster Collection series, features a compilation of posters the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich has commissioned over the years to promote their own exhibitions. Most of them were designed by Swiss designers, though there are some exceptions by international artists, giving the collection a global profile.

Ever since the 1910s, Zurich’s Kunstgewerbemuseum – which was founded in 1875 and is known today as the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich – has been focusing on producing high-quality posters. They serve to project the museum’s visual identity into the public space while at the same time documenting the variety of themes represented. The posters' high recognition factor is achieved not through rigid corporate design but by means of graphical quality, versatile design approaches, and meticulous printing.

The collection can be regarded as a brief history of both Swiss poster and Swiss graphic design. The whole range is covered: From the pictorial scenes used in the 1920s and the graphic and typographic solutions following the lead of the Russian Constructivists to the Swiss Style, which dominated the Swiss cultural poster until the 1960s, and more experimental approaches from the 70s. Today, innovative designs by young talents deliver surprising contemporary posters.

Self-Promotion, the 30th edition of the Poster Collection series, features a compilation of posters the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich has commissioned over the years to promote their own exhibitions. Most of them were designed by Swiss designers, though there are some exceptions by international artists, giving the collection a global profile.

Ever since the 1910s, Zurich’s Kunstgewerbemuseum – which was founded in 1875 and is known today as the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich – has been focusing on producing high-quality posters. They serve to project the museum’s visual identity into the public space while at the same time documenting the variety of themes represented. The posters' high recognition factor is achieved not through rigid corporate design but by means of graphical quality, versatile design approaches, and meticulous printing.

The collection can be regarded as a brief history of both Swiss poster and Swiss graphic design. The whole range is covered: From the pictorial scenes used in the 1920s and the graphic and typographic solutions following the lead of the Russian Constructivists to the Swiss Style, which dominated the Swiss cultural poster until the 1960s, and more experimental approaches from the 70s. Today, innovative designs by young talents deliver surprising contemporary posters.

This book is part of the Poster Collection series. Get the complete series here.

Edited by Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Bettina Richter

With essays by Christian Brändle, Kerry W. Purcell, Corinna Rösner

Design: Integral Lars Müller

16,5 × 24 cm, 6 ½ × 9 ½ in

192 pages, 323 illustrations

paperback

2018, 978-3-03778-558-4, German
English
CHF 30.00

Bettina Richter

Bettina Richter studied art history in Heidelberg, Paris and Zurich and obtained her doctorate in 1996 with a thesis on the antiwar graphics of Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen. From 1997 to 2006, she served as a research associate at the Poster Collection of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, and in 2006 became its curator. Bettina Richter lectures at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and works as a freelance writer. She is the editor of the publication series "Poster Collection" and has published articles and essays on art history, literature, and the subject of posters.

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