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A working library of design, type, and visual culture.
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2014Graphic Design: Wunderbar design from Swiss publishing masters Ilg/Trüb!
2014
Poster
2012Theatre poster design with real flair from Swiss-based Erich Brechbühl
2012
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2016Olafur Eliasson’s installation The Open Pyramid dominates the Long Gallery in Shanghai
2016
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2023Artist Yin Ming uses ping pong as a metaphor for the act of code switching
2023
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2019Agua Viva portrays the immigrant experience of a Chinese manicurist in Miami
2019
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2013Swiss studio C2F bring their brilliant work to the fore on new website
2013
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2018Mak Kai Hang discusses the typographic differences within Chinese graphic design
2018
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2018Xiaoxiao Xu's tranquil and intimate photographs explore her immigration from China to The Netherlands
2018
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2016True Print: the work of Swiss designer Dafi Kühne catalogued in fantastic new monograph
2016
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2020Shining a positive light on Asian voices, Chuntian is a guide to spring inspired by the philosophy of Chinese medicine
2020
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2015Meet Swiss studio Stosh, AKA Stephanie Cuérel and Josh Schaub!
2015
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2021An illustrative portrait of rapidly changing Shanghai by Jeffrey Hsueh
2021
Motion
201530 years of film posters from underground Swiss cinema Kino Xenix
2015
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2020Katharina Shafiei-Nasab’s portfolio is not just Swiss graphic design, it’s a hybrid of everything that she’s learned, seen and experienced
2020
Poster
2018The posters for Switzerland’s first ever spaghetti bolognese festival look tasty as hell
2018
Motion
2017High octane Nike China animation gets kids to wear their bandages as a “badge of honour”
2017
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2020Systematic and inventive, Swiss graphic designer Kevin Hoegger draws on his background in industrial design
2020
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2019Da大 by Beijing-based ori.studio reimagines the format of the interview
2019
Identity
2019Sarula Bao’s Real Chinese Food is a zine about take-out, shame and diaspora identity
2019
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2018Can Yang's graphic design style is deep-rooted in her Chinese heritage
2018
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2012Sweet Swiss studio Claudiabasel have a deliciously diverse portfolio
2012
Identity
2019Sean Alexander Geraghty talks identity and traditions with Cuba’s diminishing Chinese population
2019
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2013Three new pieces from Swiss artists Zimoun prove he's the master of the manic masterpiece
2013
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2022Suzy Chan’s kitsch and sparkly project explores the children who grow up in China’s factories
2022
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2019Genuine collaborations inform Swiss design studio Omnigroup's broad practice
2019
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2019Atelier Pierre Pierre is like a graphic design Swiss army knife with its skill and execution
2019
Publication
2014Eric Hu's book features 1,000 unique Chinese character illustrations
2014
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2011What's On: Art Basel Miami Beach
2011
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2024A traditional Chinese dessert brand inspired by plastic collectible toys
2024
Publication
2018Designer Can Yang's book visually presents ancient Chinese elixir recipes
2018
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2020Based between Toronto and Beijing, Meat Studio creates work that bridges cultures
2020
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2016Zhang Kechun encapsulates the oblivion of China's mysterious Yellow River
2016
Poster
2012Fun, sporting graphic design in the Zürich London Poster Exhibition
2012
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2012Chloe Dewe Mathews: China's Wild West
2012
Motion
2018Josh King directs video for Khruangbin featuring a lady hula-hooping her way through Shanghai
2018
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2013Photography: Mengxi Zhang's 350km/h is a portrait of a new high-speed China
2013
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2024Siting Yao’s bilingual dictionary translates Chinese lesbian slang
2024
Publication
2012Genre-bending, era-defining graphics in a book of 20th century Chinese design
2012
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2015Swiss Studio Aurèle Sack makes typographic erotica with 50 Shades of LL Grey
2015
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2017Balmer Hählen takes a traditional Swiss design approach to its projects
2017
Poster
2013Awesome screen printed gig posters from Swiss designer Comet Substance
2013
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2015Sun Kai Qiang documents the quiet moments at a Chinese art school
2015
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2021Illustrator Chenyue Yuan digs deep into social histories to tell the story of Chinese labourers living and working in factories
2021
Poster
2015Funny project documents China’s strange public service announcement posters
2015
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2014Getting eggy with prolific and somewhat fascinating Swiss artist, Urs Fischer
2014
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2014Miscellaneous: A webcomic based in China's version of Google Maps
2014
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2019Marilyn Mugot's photos capture the neon melancholy of China's streets
2019
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2016QWSTION: the Swiss brand putting functionality first
2016
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2015Shanghai's Ka Xiaoxi captures basketball kids for Nike
2015
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2016Swiss Style Now: a cliché-busting cross-section of Swiss graphic design
2016
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2013Nike devotees get yourselves to Beijing, your retail dream awaits!
2013
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2021Wu Lie Wei’s work is an ode to the Chinese youth
2021
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2012Welcome to the beautifully-designed world of Swiss studio Atlas
2012
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2022Breathtaking and arresting, Livien Yin’s series Paper Suns explores the “desires, uncertainties and pleasures” of Chinese American immigrants
2022
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2014Photography: Olly Burn's snowy Swiss series makes him king of the mountains
2014
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2014Graphic Design: Swiss Studio SW are so good that even their rejected work is magnificent!
2014
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2014Swiss studio Ilg/Trüb's cracking catalogue for recent art exhibition
2014
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2015Seriously fun photographs from Swiss Lukas Wassmann
2015
Photograph
2018Chinese photographer, Feng Li's series White Night is a flip book of strange scenarios
2018
Publication
2020Flip phones, vintage selfies and kitschy graphic design: Meet 1413 magazine, a “tickle fight” with Chinese culture
2020
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2015Rolf Sachs energetically captures the Swiss-Italian Alps from moving train
2015
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2015Jonny Seymour’s cute and strange photo series of six-year-old Chinese kids’ “graduation”
2015
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2022Studio Lava Beijing is erupting with puns and playful designs
2022
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2016Swiss publishing houses Nieves and Rollo release zine archiving Wesley Willis’ Truck drawings
2016
Garment
2015Claudia Basel’s avant-garde graphic design for Doing Fashion Paper
2015
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2014Frank and Patrik Riklin build enormous picnic blanket in the Swiss Alps
2014
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2020Introducing the monochromatic and spooky portraits of Chinese artist Jingze Du
2020
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2012Jaw-droppingly beautiful installation work from Swiss studio Detektiv Bureau
2012
Publication
2020The Type covers the history, development, conventions and transcultural contexts of Chinese typography in three new volumes
2020
Garment
2019Using props, backdrops and lavish clothing, Weishan Hu captures the aestheticism of a postmodern China
2019
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2022In Smart Kids, Alex Huanfa Cheng explores the demise of a lost Chinese subculture
2022
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2015Dina Kelberman's I'm Google is a visual game of Chinese Whispers
2015
Publication
2021This collection of “ghost signs” shows how the Chinese written language has changed over the last century
2021
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2016Swiss zine highlights the many times The Simpsons has predicted the future
2016
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2016Studio Feixen celebrates its expansion with a swish Swiss redesign
2016
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2019Sascia Reibel explores the popularity of Ikea Beijing and three iconic female coders
2019
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2012Sushi fans beware, these Chinese fish factory shots are beautiful but graphic
2012
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2013Photography: Albert Elm captures Russia and China with a rose-tinted lens
2013
Motion
2021Annie Lai thoughtfully photographs young Chinese women in an exploration of emotional and physical home
2021
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2019Ronghui Chen photographs the young people of China's forgotten “Freezing Lands”
2019
Publication
2021Kaleidoscope magazine's latest issue is its biggest to date, designed by Swiss studio Kasper-Florio
2021
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2015M.I.A and Gener8ion's new vid features 36,000 Chinese fighting school kids
2015
Publication
2011Swiss Photobooks
2011
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2016Snapshots of commuters during China's typhoon season by Wiktoria Wojciechowska
2016
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2016ETH Zurich students and Studio Tom Emerson construct the Pavilion of Reflections
2016
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2018Studio Willen go behind the scenes of Switzerland’s “private high-end aquarium scene”
2018
Motion
2012Jake Davis and K-Swiss Japan ask what style is in this series of great short films
2012
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2019In Visions of Qinghai, Arnaud Lin depicts a diverse and rapidly changing Chinese province
2019
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2019Dual Room’s Emmanuel Crivelli on the influence of Swiss graphic traditions on his practice
2019
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20221413 is back with another playful ode to Chinese culture – this time focusing on medicine and wellness
2022
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2019Shuwei Liu combines David Bowie and Chinese mythology with a planet mushroom
2019
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2018Paris Syndrome: photographer Francois Prost explores a replica city in China
2018
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2017Catherine Hyland explores the vast, yet eerily barren tourist destinations of China and Mongolia
2017
Project
2022How you can win an original Melissa Kitty Jarram painting inspired by Beijing Silvermine
2022
Publication
2018XXL Studio is an iconic Chinese graphic design studio producing exceptional book design
2018
Identity
2019Neo Neo's identity for NOF is a cheeky wink to that classic Swiss graphic design style
2019
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2020Daniel Peter adds colour and personality to traditional Swiss graphic design
2020
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2014Swiss design agency CCRZ marry furniture and graphic design for Fioroni
2014
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2020Teju Cole on photographing Switzerland, instead of adding to the “endless books about Mexico”
2020
Publication
2012Swiss Studio Rubic are ones to watch for their beautiful book works
2012
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2015Chinese animator Lei Lei reflects on sadness
2015
Identity
2024Kevin Högger’s identity for a Zurich eatery draws inspiration from its old neon signage
2024
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2017Zhiyuan Yang's photos of her parents scrutinise China's nuclear family dynamics
2017
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2017Zurich-based Büro 146’s sophisticated and colourful portfolio
2017
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2021From the Alps to the Andes, type foundry Altiplano merges Swiss design with its founder’s South American heritage
2021
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2014Photography: Incredible shots of China's busy coastline from Zhang Xiao
2014
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2013Ultra-polished satire from Swiss-American design studio Avalanche
2013
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2017Swiss undergrad Dominik Junker's portfolio of minimal graphic design
2017
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2015The bold, ambitious design practice of Switzerland’s A3 Studio
2015
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2018Lukas Wassmann turns his lens on the well-groomed animals of the Swiss Alps
2018
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2022Mischelle Moy’s pleasant and dreamlike photography pays tribute to her Chinese heritage
2022
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2018Eating the Other explores the western fascination with Chinese traditional dress
2018
Project
2012Beautifully bewildering floral photographs from Swiss/Danish artists Putput, and an ice-cream treat to boot
2012
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2020Extraset is a new Swiss foundry bringing together four leading type designers under one name
2020
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2019Sacred Shanghai: Liz Hingley photographs the spiritual renaissance of the city
2019
Project
2013Lee Mawdsley shoots Qatar for CBQ and make us want to emigrate, fast.
2013
Project
2019Yunying Huang challenges the Eurocentric perception of techno-culture in China
2019
Motion
2021Shanghai-based studio KauKau returns with a striking and multifaceted rebrand for Strong Noodle
2021
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2018Yang Qi’s work expresses a strong Chinese and German cultural background
2018
Garment
2018Hailun Ma returns to China to document the vibrant and startling fashion of her hometown
2018
Project
2020Luo Yang captures China’s Generation Z through an intimate lens
2020
Identity
2016Twelve studio’s rippling identity for Beijing new media studio
2016
Publication
2015Design with Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters explored in new book
2015
Garment
2012Breathtaking fashion photographs from Swiss photographer Namsa Leuba
2012
Typeface
2019Swiss Typefaces re-issues Type Life with new content and a design revamp
2019
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2013Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner is back with his latest retina-straining work Black Hole
2013
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2014Graphic Design: More impeccable print work from Swiss studio Claudia Basel
2014
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2012Swiss design studio Neo Neo on a roll with host of great new updates
2012
Motion
2019Mark Parascandola documents the scenery and sets of China’s booming film industry
2019
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2017Photographer Noah Sheldon captures the “pride and physical confidence” of Shanghai Tower construction workers
2017
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2012Italian designers Artiva live and breathe Helvetica like the Swiss designers of old – and they're brilliant
2012
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2018Vivien Hoffmann mixes Swiss design with drop shadows, metallic effects and touches of humour
2018
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2016Badesaison - the Swiss design studio that can handle everything from Dada to music
2016
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2021Zoe Lowdermilk-Oppenheim’s moving project documents young Chinese women adopted into British families
2021
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2019Another Design creates a vibrant visual system for Guangzhou Triennial
2019
Project
2022Chuqiao Liu's powerful photography offers a glimpse into contemporary China
2022
Project
2019Patrick Wack's photos of Xinjiang show beauty and despair on China's new frontier
2019
Publication
2021“I am trying to show what home looks like for me”: Illustrator Dom Campistron shines a light on queer stories from Basque culture
2021
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2013More impressive Swiss design from enormously talented Daniel Peter
2013
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2017Anthony Velen uses drones to build an alphabet from Swiss architecture
2017
Publication
2015Lost Magazine explores global travel from a uniquely Chinese perspective
2015
Publication
2015More sharp, strange work from Qiu Yang for T Magazine China
2015
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2017Diane Deschenaux’s abstract images explore Switzerland's farming industry
2017
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2018More envyingly good graphic design from Swiss studio Badesaison
2018
Project
2018Leslie Zhang's sentimental series Little Flexes is a "beautiful glimpse of China"
2018
Identity
2016Swiss studio Neo Neo creates toothpaste-inspired identity for cultural festival
2016
Publication
2022Jaeyou Chung’s rebrand for Beijing’s X Museum features a type inspired by twisted dimensions and chair legs
2022
Publication
2017Hubertus Design on the daunting task of designing a book of The Most Beautiful Swiss Books
2017
Publication
2025Dancing In Utopia captures the trance-like communion of public square dancing in China
2025
Project
2020Hannah Yoon’s Restaurant Kids documents the children growing up in Chinese restaurants
2020
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2024The Filial Daughter孝女 by Mengyu Zhou is a tender story of Chinese womanhood
2024
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2020Suzy Chan left London’s academic design bubble to return to China to “do something and talk to people”
2020
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2012Zaha Hadid wows us again with stunning new Beijing development
2012
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2017The epitome of Swiss style: Grilli Type refreshes GT Walsheim
2017
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2017Elsa Guillet’s enchanting depiction of “paradise” in Switzerland
2017
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2019The Beijing Silvermine now consists of over one million photographs of Chinese history
2019
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2016Scott Newett’s eerily quiet, ethereal portraits of Chinese utopia
2016
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2018Luo Yang photographs modern Chinese girls in their natural habitats
2018
Project
2019Stephanie Lüscher turns the food of The Netherlands into the mountains of Switzerland
2019
Publication
2021Designed to mirror a physical experience, Oriental Silk documents the first Chinese silk importing business in the US
2021
Project
2019Cian Oba-Smith looks at China’s copycat architecture in his latest series
2019
Publication
2013Meet Swiss font foundry Grilli Type and their excellent collection of faces
2013
Poster
2015Confident, brooding poster designs from Swiss studio Johnson / Kingston
2015
Poster
2015Raphael Schoen's cheerfully chaotic posters for a Swiss youth club
2015
Typeface
2020Willie Liu’s Dinkie Bitmap fits Chinese characters into a seven-pixel grid
2020
Project
2018Wang Wei’s series Young Wild & Free captures the fresh energy of Beijing youth
2018
Project
2018Zett is the slick Zurich-based university paper for and about aspiring students
2018
Project
2012Extraordinary work as Jonathan Frantini photographs Shanghai acrobats
2012
Publication
2014Illustrator Anne Simon's new comic book is a sinister ode to a Chinese Empress
2014
Project
2019Design 360°’s editors discuss the illustration and media scene in China
2019
Identity
2016Bob Design creates simple and impactful identity for Swiss bookbinding company Bubu
2016
Project
2013Misfits and The Clash get the Swiss design treatment thanks to Mike Joyce
2013
Project
2016Larry Hallegua captures the humour and whimsy in China’s Chengdu
2016
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2022Provocative and playful, Beijing-based studio UDL takes creative control of a toy brand
2022
Photograph
2020Michael Bodenmann’s latest book creates a non-linear pictorial tapestry of his time in China
2020
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2017Swiss creative agency Raffinerie displays expertise in graphic and type design
2017
Project
2024“The veiled and poetic subtlety of love between boys”: Yifei Xiang explores the Chinese queer experience
2024
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2012A pic-N-mix of beautiful aesthetics here from Holland's Ming Sing Ho!
2012
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2011China 2011: An artistic snapshot
2011
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2017Wang Zhi-Hong’s work aims to highlight the “importance of text in Chinese graphic design”
2017
Identity
2015Lukas Ackermann’s playfully abstract identity for new Zurich culture hub
2015
Typeface
2017Sharp Type creates punchy typeface inspired by Swiss designer Adrian Frutiger
2017
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2025The legacy of Swiss design and how On is writing a new page in its history
2025
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2008Oglivy & Mather Beijing
2008
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2013Graphic Design: Swiss-born Erik Nitsche was the king of modernist design
2013
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2015Great update from Swiss design studio Kasper Florio
2015
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2010Art Basel Miami Madness
2010
Project
2017Meet the Swiss duo behind graphic design agency Cécile + Roger
2017
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2015Samuel Zeller’s painterly photographs of a Swiss botanical garden
2015
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2023Challenging the female radical characters of Chinese with artist Zoe Cui
2023
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2022Inside the Beijing Silvermine: A unique archive of everyday China captured through discarded photography
2022
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2019In photographing the American west, Andong Zheng uncovers hidden traces of Chinese history
2019
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2014Swiss type past and present combined in Fermin Guerrero's Genève face
2014
Publication
2019The Shanghai Art Book Fair 2019 welcomed the creative industry’s big-wigs this weekend
2019
Typeface
2017Daniel Reed’s new typeface is inspired by the Chinese word “Kong”
2017
Project
2014Pascale Kueng takes us on a fishing trip to the Swiss Alps
2014
Project
2019Zurich-based Dorothee Dähler is a research-focused designer who strives for “little to no hierarchy”
2019
Project
2020Who made the objects in your house? Ivy Li explores the vernacular visual language of Chinese migrant workers
2020
Project
2016Very slick, very Swiss graphic design from Supero
2016
Identity
2016Zurich-based Atlas creates exhibition identity using found visuals
2016
Project
2019Interior Lives documents the unassimilated lives of the largest Chinese population outside of Asia
2019
Project
2013Swiss designers BKS create fun 3D looking rugs thanks to asymmetrical fringing
2013
Project
2013Juicy, almost palpable photography from Switzerland's Nicolas Polli
2013
Poster
2015Swiss designer Dennis Moya’s pared-back and sleek poster work
2015
Poster
2022Xinmei Liu takes inspiration from vintage Shanghai advertisements and Chinese propaganda posters
2022
Project
2020Explore Muge’s unique approach to large format photography based on ancient Chinese philosophy
2020
Project
2024Ming Hsun Yu uses graphic design and art to ask questions, seeking “constant joy”
2024
Publication
2017Graphic designer Aurelia Peter is continuing the Swiss skill for typography
2017
Photograph
2012Things brings us antennae, Swiss climbing walls, odor-tastic magazines, a beautiful selection of photography, and the many faces of Bart Simpson
2012
Identity
2015A Swiss designer's festival identity based on the headliners' vibrations
2015
Project
2011Zara Arshad: Design China
2011
Publication
2019Xiaopeng Yuan reinterprets the Chinese fable, The Butterfly Lovers, in a series for Télévision magazine
2019
Project
2021Xiaoxiao Xu takes us on an eye-opening journey of everyday life along the Great Wall of China
2021
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2019Alex Huanfa Cheng photographs the beautiful contradictions of contemporary China
2019
Publication
2015Swiss typography and superb monochrome graphic design from Michel Egger
2015
Project
2015ECAL Interaction Design students' innovative Beijing documentation
2015
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2015China returns passport to artist Ai Weiwei after four years
2015
Project
2018Amelie Kahn-Ackermann's latest series is an ode to one of China’s most remote regions
2018