Monday, September 25, 2017

Artist of the day, September 26: Steff Geissbuhler, Swiss-American graphic designer

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).





Mr Steff Geissbuhler

NBC Identity
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

NBC IdentityAll works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Time Warner and Time Warner Cable
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Time Warner and Time Warner CableAll works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Crane & Company
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Crane & CompanyAll works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Darien Library
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

HealthQuest
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

 Active Aging brand identity (Japan).
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Alhurra TV Network
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Alhurra TV NetworkAll works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Andrews Mc Meel Universal Identity
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Channel 13
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Charles Square and Charles Square Hotel, Cambridge, MA
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Centro de Convenciones de Cartagena
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Signature Theater Company.
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Signature Theater Company.All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

 Telemundo Television
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Toledo Museum of Art
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Toledo Museum of Art All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Univision Graphics and branding Program
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Nonprofit Finance Fund
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Nonprofit Finance Fund
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

LOGO Brands
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

LIIF, Low Income Investment Fund
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Hotel Mia and Top of the Port Restaurant
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

And some posters



A Nation of Nations Poster for a Bicentennial Exhibition National Museum of History
and Technology, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

AGI Congress in Paris
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

AIGA Competitions & Exhibitions
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

AIGA NY Season
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

BE IN BERLIN Poster for the Alliance Graphique Internationale Congress in Berlin, Germany
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

 Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera Anniversary Poster
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

IAAF Mobil Grand Prix
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

New York and the Arts A Cultural Affair
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

New York is Dance
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

 New York is Gardens & Zoos 1 of 8 posters for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

New York is Theater
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Peace Poster commemorating 40 years since the bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

 Portfolio Center, Atlanta. GA Poster promoting a student lecture
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

 Protect and Preserve our Planet The Rights of Nature
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Punctuation (Neenah Paper)
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Steff in Georgia Promotion for a lecture "Making Connections"
at The Portfolio Center in Atlanta, Georgia

All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Tolerance Poster
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

Toulouse Lautrec 100 Anniversary poster at the nouveau salon des cent,
an international poster exhibit in hommage to Toulouse Lautrec

All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017

 Which came first? Poster with the theme of "Sequences" for Simpson Paper Company
All works © Steff Geissbuhler 2017


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