Neue Menschen

Neue Menschen: a fascinating book about youth by the highly talented Zurich photographers Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier (posted before @Shotspot), who love to portrait themselves in their dairy. The book was layouted by Zurich-Bale-based graphic design agency A  F  R  I  K  A.

"For two and a half years Rico Scagliola and Michael Meier took pictures and filmed teenagers, creating an archive of photographs and videos. Neue Menschen (New Human Beings) provides a glimpse into this project.

Teenagers today are the first generation to grow up with the picture-worlds of the Internet. Platforms of self-presentation such as Myspace and Facebook are a normal part of life to them. They learn at a young age how to present themselves in pictures. Meier and Scagliola use the young people’s visual sophistication and skilled self-presentation, integrating the projected pictures and fantasies into their own cosmos of images. The document and its presentation become one and the same. Neue Menschen offers an unusual view into a world in which pictures and life are intertwined ever-more closely—the home of digital natives. Neue Menschen presents views inside this brave new world in which the classical interests of youth and pop culture find a contemporary expression—sex and longing, perfection and reality, beauty and the abyss." (Martin Jaeggi)

© Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier

ewz.selection 2010

ewz.selection, the Swiss platform for contemporary photography, awards the eighteen best photographic works of the year this coming weekend. The exhibition with opening night party, panel discussions, sofa talks, pictures soirées, workshops and live shootings makes the ewz-eventhall a vibrant meeting place for photo lovers.

ewz.selection will be celebrating its 10th birthday with new photo prizes and the exhibition catalogue "Bilderwahn" newly designed by Tania Prill and Alberto Vieceli.

The nominees for the ewz.selection photo award are:

Reto Albertalli, Morbio Inferiore; Peter Bohler, Los Angeles; Annette Boutellier, Bern; Patrik Fuchs, Zürich; Denis Jutzeler, Petit-Lancy; Jonathan Heyer, Zürich; Irina Polin, Bern; Jacek Pulawski, Chiasso; Peter Püntener, Zürich; Nicolas Righetti, Genf; Meinrad Schade, Zürich; Nico Schärer, Zürich; Christof Schürpf, Luzern; Christoph Schütz, Fribourg; Gabi Vogt, Zürich; Nicholas Winter, Basel; Luca Zanier, Zürich; Andreas Zimmermann und Tobias Sutter, Münchenstein.


Photographs: © Gabi Vogt / Meinrad Schade

Photo 09

Photo 09, the annual exhibition of the best Swiss Photographs, will take place from January 15th to 18th at Maag Event Hall in Zurich.

All infos /// Exhibiting photographers

Photograph: © Ueli Alder, from Photo 08. Ueli's pictures can also be found here at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.

Raphael Yoshitomi

Exhibition opening in Zürich
Sodapix and DruckLive present a one-day pre-Christmas Exhibition of the photographer Raphael Yoshitomi in the arcade of Zürich's Helmhaus.

Exhibition: Wedensday
9. December, from 7pm
Where: Helmhaus Arcade

Raphael Yoshitomi is an artist who traps life and at the same time frees the frozen moment. Whether from a bird's eye perspective or from street level, his protagonists are captured - and together we observe, however we don't feel as a part of the observed. Raphael Yoshitomi is a master of the heat of the moment, his photographs seem to be formally staged, however by longer observation they turn out to be curiously-real and we become the silent witnesses. People become like props, populating the photographs and obeying a larger plan that is chaotically structured.

via Sodapix
Photographs: © Raphael Yoshitomi

uns ich er

uns ich er: is a new book from the linguist Beat Gloor, designed by Zurich-based designbureau Prill-Vieceli. The book is about word breaks, you can read the German words in two ways. The design of the book is kept simple with black letters on white paper, format A4 - which is suitable to the content. Great design, great book - you have to "read" it!
Salis Verlag Zurich, ISBN 978-3-905801-25-5
Pictures: © Prill-Vieceli

der:die:das:

der:die:das: is a brandnew monothematic magazine made in Zurich, which examines items, objects and various „things“ from everyday life. Next to their meaning in everyday life the items will be put in an art- and design-discourse, in order to reveal the bizzare and the established all at once.
der:die:das: assembles the various perceptions of different disciplines in art and design by various artists, designers and authors in one magazine. According to the alphabet the things will be selected, dissected and analysed. The first issue will start with the letter A for apple.
der:die:das: will be sold in selected magazine- book- and design-stores - or just drop a line to hallo@derdiedas-magazin.com.
Thanks to Kathrin
© der:die:das: (Nadja Aebi und Hin Van Tran)

Jan Henrik Hansen

My dear Zurich-based friend Jan Henrik Hansen is currently materialising a number of musical pieces or parts of them, including melodies, rhythms or even single sounds/chords for an exhibition in 2010. Above find a polyuretane sculpture translated from a bassline of five modulated notes. Music known to the author. Size 1.8 m in length. Henriks sculptures are translated from various musical pieces with custom tools invented and patented some years ago.
Find more information on www.janhenrikhansen.com
© Jan Henrik Hansen

ED-Awards 2009: Gold for Formdusche

The four book-journals for 'project 68/89' from Berlin-based design office Formdusche were awarded Gold in the category book layout at the European Design Awards festival 2009 in Zürich.

Further Gold winners 2009:
Vidale-Gloesener Sarl, Lava grafisch ontwerpers, Bleed, Fuenfwerken Design AG, a part, Dietwee, Vier für Texas, Jäger & Jäger, Studio Laucke, Creative Inc, Sole 24 ore Spa, Moving Brands, Nomint Motion Design, Punchcard, Aer visual studio, Remo Caminada graphic design, Edenspiekermann, Designbolaget, Thijs Verbeek grafisch ontwerp, Enric Jardí disseny gràfic, KMS TEAM GmbH, Susanne Stahl & André Gottschalk, Suitcase Type Foundry, Graphic design studio by Yurko Gutsulyak, Ando bv, Bendita Gloria, bauer konzept & gestaltung gmbh, Adrian Frutiger

Ester Vonplon: winner of the Swiss Photo Award 2009

Swiss photographer and former skateboarder Ester Vonplon, born 1980 in Switzerland and living in Berlin, is the winner of the Swiss Photo Award 2009. Her grainy and atmospheric black-and-white photographs of a village in Kosovo convinced the jury. An interview with Ester about this Kosovo project is published here. Further prize winners are Jonathan Heyer, Andri Pol, Vanessa Püntener and Roger Eberhard. The exhibition can be seen until May 17th at ewz Selnau in Zürich.
via fotointern
Photographs: © Ester Vonplon from the series 'wenn das wetter nicht mehr kaputt ist, werden wir spazieren gehen'

Sophie Brasey: 'vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis' winner 2009

GLOSSY DREAM, ECAL 2008. COLLABORATION WITH ANNE-MARIE PAPPAS


PRISM, SUMMER 2008. COLLABORATION WITH YANN GROSS


ECAL 2007

Yesterday the 'vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis' (Swiss award for young photographers) was awarded. Sodagrapher Ueli Alder was one of the nominees, the 2009 winner is Sophie Brasey, born 1985 and just finished ECAL. The exhibition will be shown until May 21th at BINZ39 in Zürich.
Photographs: © Sophie Brasey

ED-Awards / ED-Festival 2009

The ED-Awards (European Design Awards) is the comprehensive annual awards organization acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and multimedia design in Europe. Last year's award winner in the category magazine was Netherlands-based agency Lesley Moore with 'MARK', an inspiring architecture mag.
The ED-Festival 2009 takes place in Zurich and will include the ED-Conference (15-17th May), the ED-Award ceremony (17th May), several Design Walks and other design events. The program is published here.
via PAGE

geschossen + gedruckt 2009

The printing house Seltmann from Lüdenscheid/Germany produces extravagant books & catalogues and awards advertising photos for the 4th time. C/O Berlin, The Cultural Forum for Photography, shows the 'geschossen + gedruckt' ('shot + printed') exhibition between April 18th and May 17th, 2009. Opening and award presentation will be held on April 18th, 2009.
Above image is the winning photo from geschossen + gedruckt 2007 in the 'Product in Use' category by Zurich photographer Gabi Vogt. The image was shot during an 'Artist in Residence' stay in Romania and shows a Dacia hulk.
via PAGE
Photograph: © Gabi Vogt

Good Design, Good Business

Markus Löw, 'Acaralate 2E Geigy', ca. 1967, Photo: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Umberto Romito © ZHdK

The J. R. Geigy A.G. chemical concern was the starting point for a great moment in the history of Swiss graphic art and advertising. "Research for tomorrow" – the former Basle-based company also lived up to this forward-looking slogan in its communication: its design was intended to increase sales of products "made in Switzerland". The exhibition 'Good Design, Good Business' from 4.2. – 24.5.2009 at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is the first comprehensive show of this important Swiss contribution to the history of design, presenting works from well-known Swiss designers like Gottfried Honegger, Max Schmid, Herbert Leupin and Karl Gestner. More pictures can be found here at werbewoche.ch.
'Corporate Diversity – Schweizer Grafik und Werbung für Geigy 1940-1970' is the well designed publication accompanying the exhibition, edited by Karin Gimmi, Andres Janser, Barbara Junod, R. Roger Remington and Yvonne Zimmermann. Design by norm.

Karl Gerstner, 'Neocid – eine Schranke dem Hausungeziefer!', Werbeblatt. DE ca. 1953, Armin Hofmann, Luzern

Tilt-Shift-Maker

"Tilt-shift photography refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium format cameras. Miniature faking is a post-processing technique, which involves selectively blurring a photo to simulate the narrow depth of field found in macro photography and some tilt-shift photography, making the image appear to be of a miniature model." (Wikipedia)
You can fake this with photoshop - or more easily with tiltshiftmaker.com. The above photograph of Zurich was processed on this website within a few seconds.
Photograph: © shotspot

Martin Parr: Luxury

Zurich gallery Nicola von Senger will host a Martin Parr exhibition from 07.02.09 to 21.03.09. A selection from his decadent series 'Luxury' will be shown, for more informations and pictures click here. UK-based Martin Parr is one of the most influential contemporary photographers and member of Magnum Photos.
thanks to Nora
Photograph: © Martin Parr, Luxury England, Cambridge, C-Print 50.8 x 76.2 cm, 2005

Appenzell by Ueli Alder

Impressively photos of landscapes in Appenzell (Switzerland) from Ueli Alder, a young artist from Appenzell who studied photography at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste). Pictures from Ueli are available at young at art and at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.
Photograph: © Ueli Alder

Fuhrimann & Hächler architects

Stunning residential building in Zurich by Fuhrimann & Hächler architects from 2005. The task was to create reasonably-priced residential space with high standards of living comfort for four differently sized parties. In the processs, each party was to profit as much as possible on the one hand from the south-facing environs, and on the other from the north-facing view of the city. (Text: archdaily.com, more informations and pictures are to be found there)
This is no brand-new architectural news, but I've visited this building recently for the first time. Besides, another good example of presenting architecture with a very nice vintage car, a Citroën SM from 1972 with a Maserati V6 engine. Picture found at jetzt.de, unfortunately without a reference to the photographer. If anybody knows, please write a comment.

Rico & Michael

Zurich photographers Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier study photography at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste).

"We shoot young people aged between 13 and 20, Emos, HipHopper, Nu Ravers, Tecktonics, Punks, Metals, Indies, Gothics, Rockabillies, Visus, Skaters, Gangstas, Horrors, Scenes, Dandys, Mods, Hippies, New Wavers, Poppers, Ravers, Slackers, Grinders, Bolos, anybody..." (Rico & Michael)
Photograph: © Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier

photo 08

Die photo 08 ist die grösste Werkschau für Schweizer Fotografie. Über 100 Fotografen aus der ganzen Schweiz zeigen ihre liebsten Bilder rückblickend auf das Jahr 2008.
Die Messe findet vom 27. - 30. Dezember in der Maag EventHall statt.
Ausstellungskatalog: http://photo-schweiz.ch/08/kata.php
Foto: Valentina Verdesca, Ohne Titel, 2008

DESIGN+DESIGN 08

http://www.designunddesign.ch/