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.
Foldable Poster, Per Diem, New York
The Red Sun is High, the Blue is Low; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
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Lyga, typeface specimen[53]
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Pedro Wirz, Monografie, Hatje Cantz, Act., Kunsthalle Basel, w/ Dagna Salwa
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Online 24/7, lettering, t-shirt (sold out)[35]
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Alia Farid, poster and custom typeface, Kunsthalle Basel, w/ Dagna Salwa
terms of importance, 70th anniversary of UNHCR, unpublished [29]
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Claudia Cardinale, poster proposal, Filmpodium Zurich, w/ Dagna Salwa[23]
The book, the exhibition and interrelating practices; Master Thesis, ECAL[22]
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Strauhof, identity and custom typeface proposal, w/ Laura Csocsán[13]
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Arbeit, Werkzeug, Produkt; editorial design (unpublished)[10]
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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
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)
ZHdK, Zurich University of the Arts (Assistant for Type Design and Typography)
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
Per Diem, New York
Talks & Workshops:
2025 Typostammtisch, talk, Zurich (CH) (Upcoming)
2025 Out of Office Lecture, talk w/ Laura Csocsán (Outline Online), ABK Stuttgart (DE)
2025 Bauhaus-Universität, talk w/ Laura Csocsán (Outline Online), Weimar (DE)
2024 Zamme, talk, Mexico-City (MX)
2024 Zamme, workshop, Mexico-City (MX)
2024 Typografische Gesellschaft, talk w/ Fabian Harb, Michelangelo Nigra (Dinamo Typefaces), Vienna (AT)
2024 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
Contact:
mail[at]samiraschneuwly[dot]ch
@samiraschneuwly
Werkhofstrasse, 4500 Solothurn, Switzerland