Samira Schneuwly is a Swiss type and graphic designer who blends conceptual thinking with experimental approaches, utilizing new technologies to challenge and redefine typographic conventions. With a focus on creating custom typographic solutions and a penchant for printed matters, she collaborates with clients across culture, music, art, and science. While she’s developing her own typefaces, she’s also a type designer at Dinamo Typefaces.
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Alia Farid, poster and custom typeface, Kunsthalle Basel, w/ Dagna Salwa
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Arbeit, Werkzeug, Produkt; editorial design (unpublished)
Arbeit, Werkzeug, Produkt; editorial design (unpublished)
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Online 24/7, lettering, t-shirt (sold out)
Online 24/7, lettering, t-shirt (sold out)
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terms of importance, 70th anniversary of UNHCR, unpublished [20]
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The book, the exhibition and interrelating practices; Master Thesis, ECAL[23]
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The Red Sun is High, the Blue is Low; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
The Red Sun is High, the Blue is Low; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
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Pedro Wirz, Monografie, Hatje Cantz, Act., Kunsthalle Basel, w/ Dagna Salwa[33]
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Strauhof, identity and custom typeface proposal, w/ Laura Csocsán[44]
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Lyga, typeface specimen[47]
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MA Type Design, L'école cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL)
BA Visual Communication, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
Polygrapher EFZ, Schule für Gestaltung Aargau (SfGA)
Experience:
Outline Online, w/ Laura Csocsán (coming soon)
Dinamo Typefaces, in-house Type Designer
Diadem — Studio for Visual Communication, w/ Dagna Salwa
Freelance Graphic and Type Designer
C2F Creative Studio, internship
Albrecht Druck AG, apprenticeship polygrapher EFZ
Teaching:
F+F School of Art and Design, Zurich (Type Design)
Selected Clients:
Institute of Contemporaray Arts (ICA), London
Kunsthalle Basel
form Design Magazine, Frankfurt am Main
Pedro Wirz, Zurich
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
Stall 6, Zurich
ELIA Artschools, Amsterdam
Kino Xenix, Zurich
Vermicelleria, Zurich
Occasional Papers, London
Talks & Workshops:
2024 (upcoming) Zamme, talk, Mexico-City (MX)
2024 (upcoming) Zamme, workshop, Mexico-City (MX)
2024 (upcoming) Typografische Gesellschaft, talk w/ Fabian Harb, Michelangelo Nigra (Dinamo Typefaces), Vienna (AT)
2024 (upcoming) AGI Open, Young Talents, talk, Basel (CH)
2024 F+F School of Art and Design, talk, Zurich (CH)
2023 ECAL Open Days, talk, Lausanne (CH)
2022 Kunstschule Lichtenstein, talk, online
Awards/Nominations/Mentions:
2024 Prix Françoise Champoud, shortlisted
2022 Mention Très Bien, L’école cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL)
2019 Weltformat Newcomer Award, shortlisted
2018 Promotional Award, shortlisted, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
2017 Cultural Award, Anzeigerverband Bucheggberg-Wasseramt
Exhibitions:
2023 Mastering Type 2021/22, Typostammtisch, Berlin
2022 ECAL X ON, On Running, Zurich
2021 We, Ourselfs, and US, Weltformat, Lucerne
2019 Tools & Rules, Weltformat, Lucerne
2017 Kulturförderpreise, Anzeigerverband, Biberist
Contact:
mail[at]samiraschneuwly[dot]ch
@samiraschneuwly
Gibelinstrasse, 4500 Solothurn, Switzerland