Steff Geissbühler is among America’s most celebrated designers of integrated brand and corporate identity programs. His work has been honored with the American Institute of Graphic Arts Medal for his sustained contribution to design excellence and the development of the profession. He also served as the U.S. president of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and has been a member of the board of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He is past president of AIGA’s New York chapter. Steff received his diploma in graphic design from the School of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland in 1964. He has taught at the Philadelphia College of Art, Cooper Union, Yale University, School of Visual Arts, Savannah College of Art & Design and lectures throughout the country. Prior to being an independent design consultant, he was at Geigy Pharmaceuticals, Basel; Murphy Levy Wurman Architects, Philadelphia; Anspach Grossman Portugal, New York; a partner and principal at Chermayeff & Geismar Inc. for over 30 years, and co-founded C&G Partners in 2005. Geissbühler:design is an independent design consultancy.
Steff Geissbühler was born in Zofingen, Switzerland. At the age of eight, he moved to Basel. Entered the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule (The Basel School of Art and Design) in 1958, studying with Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder.
His first job was at the Promotion Department of Geigy Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland, designing promotional material, packaging, advertising campaigns and displays for chemical, pharmaceutical and dye products. Invited to teach as an Associate Professor in Graphic Design at the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts), In 1967 he moved with his family to Philadelphia and became acting chairman of the Graphic Design Department. Next to teaching, he worked as freelance designer for the college, Ayer Design, MIT Press and the architectural firms of Richard Saul Wurman in Philadelphia and George Nelson in New York, among others.
In 1973 he moved to New York to work with Anspach Grossman Portugal and in 1975 joined Chermayeff & Geismar Associates as Associate Partner and from 1979 to 2005 he was one of three partners in the firm.
In 2005 he co-founded C&G Partners with two principals from Chermayeff & Geismar Inc.
In 2011he founded geissbühler:design, an independent design consultancy andiIn 2015, moved to Hilton Head Island, SC, where he work out of his house and teach as an adjunct professor at the graphic design department at SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design).
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NBC Identity
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| NBC IdentityAll works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017 |
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Time Warner and Time Warner Cable
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| Time Warner and Time Warner CableAll works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017 |
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Crane & Company
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| Crane & CompanyAll works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017 |
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Darien Library
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HealthQuest
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Active Aging brand identity (Japan).
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Alhurra TV Network
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| Alhurra TV NetworkAll works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017 |
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Andrews Mc Meel Universal Identity
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Channel 13
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Charles Square and Charles Square Hotel, Cambridge, MA
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Centro de Convenciones de Cartagena
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Signature Theater Company.
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Telemundo Television
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Toledo Museum of Art
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Univision Graphics and branding Program
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Nonprofit Finance Fund
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Nonprofit Finance Fund
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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LOGO Brands
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LIIF, Low Income Investment Fund
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Hotel Mia and Top of the Port Restaurant
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And some posters
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A Nation of Nations Poster for a Bicentennial Exhibition National Museum of History
and Technology, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
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AGI Congress in Paris
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AIGA Competitions & Exhibitions
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AIGA NY Season
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BE IN BERLIN Poster for the Alliance Graphique Internationale Congress in Berlin, Germany
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Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Anniversary Poster
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IAAF Mobil Grand Prix
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New York and the Arts A Cultural Affair
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New York is Dance
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New York is Gardens & Zoos 1 of 8 posters for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
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New York is Theater
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Peace Poster commemorating 40 years since the bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
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Portfolio Center, Atlanta. GA Poster promoting a student lecture
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Protect and Preserve our Planet The Rights of Nature
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Punctuation (Neenah Paper)
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Steff in Georgia Promotion for a lecture "Making Connections"
at The Portfolio Center in Atlanta, Georgia
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Tolerance Poster
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Toulouse Lautrec 100 Anniversary poster at the nouveau salon des cent,
an international poster exhibit in hommage to Toulouse Lautrec
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Which came first? Poster with the theme of "Sequences" for Simpson Paper Company
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