Since its beginning in 1995, we have designed the visual identity of the Fantoche film festival, including all print materials. Every year, a new “Fantoche” mascot arrives on the scene, lending that edition of the festival a distinctive face.

• All Fantoche posters since 1995

• Auftrag:

  Fantoche, Internationales Festival für Animationsfilm, Baden

• Konzept und Gestaltung:

  Siri Bachmann, Natalie Bringolf, Kaia Gränicher, Matthias Huber, Kristin Irion, Elias Müller, Carla Petraschke, Micaela Salgado, Yvonne Schneider, Judith Stutz

• Sujet und Plakat 2023:

  Matthias Huber

• Realisation:

  2023

The architectural firm Burkhalter Sumi Architekten is now Oxid Architektur. The newly named firm is led by Yves Schihin and Urs Rinklef, long-term partners at Burkhalter Sumi. Bivgrafik worked with copywriter Florian Stenschke in the name-finding process and designed Oxid’s new visual identity, including its website.

The firm’s name forms the geometrical basis for the graphic elements. In combination with the colour palette used in its structure, it engenders a clear yet generous formal interplay between the various graphic products. The concept is supplemented by the two-part wordmark, which arcs across each different format.

• Commissioned by:

  Oxid Architektur, Zurich

• Concept and design:

  Natalie Bringolf, Siri Bachmann, Matthias Huber, Rahel Imboden, Kristin Irion, Yvonne Schneider

• Text:

  Florian Stenschke, Berlin

• Realisation:

  2020

• Programmed by:

  Marcel Stadelmann, Winterthur

With the “Zollhaus”, a vibrant space for living, working, culture and community life was created in Zurich’s Kreis 5 district. In the second housing development of the Kalkbreite cooperative, diverse and new ways of living together are being tried out and practised. Alongside 50 flats, various cultural, gastronomic and commercial spaces can be found in the building.

Distinctive signage guides visitors and tenants, providing an overview of the wide range of services and offerings in the development.

• Typosculpture Zollhaus

• Address:

  Zollstrasse 111/115/117/121, 8005 Zurich

• New build:

  2021

• Architecture:

  Enzmann Fischer und Partner, Zurich

• Commissioned by:

  Genossenschaft Kalkbreite, Zurich
  

• Project team:

  Siri Bachmann, Natalie Bringolf, Matthias Huber, Kristin Irion, Laura Moor, Elias Müller, Yvonne Schneider

• Photography:

  Luis Hartl, Erlinsbach

The exhibition “3D Lettering on Buildings” at the Zurich Museum für Gestaltung (Design Museum), located at the Toni Areal, ran from 7 December 2018 to 14 April 2019. Several Bivgrafik projects featured in the show. For the duration of the exhibition, the museum gave us free rein to play with the “north face” of the large entrance hall to the Toni Areal. The wall – twenty metres wide by seven metres high – is located next to the entrance to the museum’s exhibition rooms. The arrangements we created on the wall served a dual purpose: they were an advertisement for the exhibition as well as an independent project exploring the topic of lettering in architectural space.

We took advantage of the opportunity to let negative space come to the fore. We added colour as the mood struck us, and we set lettering elements without regard for creating legible text. With their powerful presence, the 71 counters set the tone in the entrance hall. As of June 2019, a selection of the various arrangements can be viewed in the “Schaudepot” at the museum’s previous location.

• Commissioned by:

  Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich

• Concept and design:

  Natalie Bringolf, Kristin Irion, Laura Moor, Elias Müller, Mirjam Murer, Yvonne Schneider

• Realisation:

  2018

• Photography:

  Bivgrafik

In the new “Mozaïk” building, the institutions for health and social services and the general directorship at the Fribourg campus of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland are united under a single roof. In addition to lecture halls, classrooms, offices, a cafeteria and a common library, the building also has special simulation rooms for clinical lessons.

The narrow yet pronounced metallic lettering provides a contrast to the generous architectural space and sand-blasted concrete façades. Depending on the fall of light, the delicate letters cast a different, more robust shadow. In the interior, the tilting letters mark the main areas in French; otherwise, the signage is in German and French.

• Address:

  Route des Arsenaux 16a, 1700 Freiburg

• New build:

  2018

• Architecture:

  Armon Semadeni Architekten, Zurich

• Commissioned by:

  Canton of Fribourg, Hochbauamt

• Projektteam:

  Sarah Bähler, Natalie Bringolf, Milana Herendi, Kristin Irion, Elias Müller, Yvonne Schneider, Ramona Tschuppert

• Fotografie:

  Bivgrafik; Roman Keller, Zurich (image 4)

With the new building, the Naturmuseum St.Gallen (museum of natural history) was able to move into its own quarters for the first time. In seven exhibition spaces, different themes of nature in eastern Switzerland are presented and explained. In addition to the exhibition spaces, the building houses a Museum Café, a lab for young people and two event halls.

On the façade, metre-high letters emerge subtly from the fluted concrete to subtly reveal the museum's name. Depending on the light and weather, the letters, when brightly illuminated, burst forth or recede into the façade. Inside, the building's signage references the careful architectural style. On and next to the wall cladding made of local sedimentary rock, brass letters guide visitors from the entrance to the museum foyer and up through the exhibition.

• Address:

  Rorschacherstrasse 263, 9016 St.Gallen
  

• New build:

  2016
  

• Architecture:

  Armon Semadeni Architekten / Michael Meier Marius Hug Architekten AG Zürich

• Commissioned by:

  Hochbauamt Stadt St.Gallen
  

• Project team:

  Natalie Bringolf, David Bühler, Kristin Irion, Elias Müller, Yvonne Schneider

• Photography:

  Bivgrafik