Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, June 20, 2023: Stephan Bundi, a Swiss poster designer and graphic designer. [#1832]

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Artist of the Day, June 20, 2023: Stephan Bundi, a Swiss poster designer and graphic designer. [#1832]

Stephan Bundi (1950) studied from 1966 to 1971 at the Bern School of Applied Arts (today Bern University of the Arts) and then worked as a graphic designer in a Bern advertising agency. In 1973 he began his studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, where he studied i.a. under Kurt Weidemann. After completing his studies, he founded his own office in Bern in 1975. From 1980 he taught at the design schools in Bern and Biel. In 1999 he accepted a teaching position at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Bern. Since 2008 he has been a visiting professor at the Design College, Arts Institute Nanjing, China. He was admitted to the renowned Alliance Graphique Internationale in 2001 and has been President of the Swiss group since 2010.

Bundi is represented with his posters at many poster biennials and triennials, won gold at the 1989 International Poster Triennial in Mons and received the Icograda Excellence Award at the 20th International Poster Biennial in Warsaw in 2006. In 2010 he won gold at the 11th International Poster Biennial of Mexico and gold at the Joseph Binder Award, Design Austria. In 2011 he again won gold at the 2nd Chicago International Poster Biennial. In 2013 he was awarded the Grand Prix (Golden Poster) at the 7th International Triennial of Stage Poster Sofia. He has been nominated several times for the Swiss Poster Award, receiving gold twice, silver five times and bronze twice. He received further awards from the Art Directors Club New York, from the Type Directors Club New York as well as from the competition 100 best posters Germany Austria Switzerland. Graphis Poster Annual (New York) presented its posters with 8 platinum and 42 gold awards. His posters are represented in the most important international design collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Toyama (Japan), the German Poster Museum in Essen and the Bibliothèque national de France Muzeum Plakatu w Wilanowie, Warszawa. The Hermitage Museum, 21st Century Foundation, St Petersburg.[6]

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