Maximage is a design studio founded by Julien Tavelli and David Keshavjee, with offices in Switzerland and Paris. They provide a wide area of expertise including visual identities, digital solutions, books, posters, typefaces, artworks and consultancy.

Over the years, the studio has developed a strong interest on printing processes, color and the combination of analogue and digital techniques.

Members of the studio regularly teach in different Swiss design schools that led to the creation of Color Library, a project dedicated to exploring and documenting color in print. Maximage also operates Maxitype, a type design platform offering both retail and custom typefaces.

Maximage’s contributions to graphic design have been recognized with several awards from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture. In 2020, the studio received the prestigious Jan Tschichold Award, one of Switzerland’s highest distinctions in graphic design and typography.

Fusing graphic design, typographic research and print experimentation, their motto is “emotions and technology.”

Giliane Cachin is an independent graphic designer based in Zurich. She worked for the studio NORM, won the Swiss Design Award in 2015, before opening her own studio in 2017.

Her focus is on visual identities, editorial design and research-oriented projects. Her compositions, based on an analytical approach, are inspired by data sets and technical drawings.

Rhythmic sequences and a feel for detail and formal order characterize her work. Rather than seeing specifications as limitations, she uses them as a structural framework within which surprising design processes can unfold. She also teaches editorial design and typography in Swiss design schools.

Giliane Cachin’s work is defined by visuals that exhibit a certain complexity through architecture plans, model construction manuals, passport security patterns, geographical maps and an attraction to arranging as much information as possible in a defined space.

Founded in 2018 by Amine Ghorab and Scott Renau, Area of Work is a Paris-based creative studio specializing in creative direction, CGI, photography and film. Working across culture, fashion and luxury, the studio is known for blurring the boundaries between real photography and digital imagery through hyper-realistic visual compositions.

Recognized for its contemporary approach to image-making, Area of Work combines graphic precision with modern photographic direction. In 2024, co-founder Scott Renau received the Prix Met de Penninghen in Art Direction.

Their clients include Louis Vuitton, Audi, Chanel, Moncler and they also collaborate with Prada, Dior, and Phoebe Philo. Their work has been featured in Wallpaper, It's Nice That, Mold Magazine, and In Corpore Sano.

Founded in 2007 by Mirko Borsche, Bureau Borsche is a Munich-based studio known for its content-driven approach to design. Despite its international reputation, it’s a small and intimate group with a close-knit team.

According to Bureau Borsche, design is a source for learning, understanding and joy.

They work across culture, fashion and business, producing editorial design, branding, global campaigns and doing communication consultancy. Its clients include Zeit Magazin, Numéro Berlin and famous brands such as Nike, Apple, Adidas, Balenciaga, Givenchy, Rimowa and more.

Among its most notable achievements are the creative direction for Zeit Magazin since 2007, the development of a new and iconic contemporary visual identity for the Bavarian State Opera, and just weeks ago, Mirko Borsche has been named the new official director of the magazine 032c.

Founded in 2019 by Ramdane Touhami, Art Recherche Industrie is a contemporary creative manufactory with offices in Paris, Tokyo and Rome. The studio brings together brand creation, typesetting, film production, artisanal printing, screen printing, architecture, product development, retail scenography, commercial strategy and more.

Its fully integrated approach allows every stage of a project to be developed in-house, ensuring strong creative consistency and high quality control.

Art Recherche Industrie is notably behind the creative direction of the beauty brand Officine Universelle Buly and has collaborated with luxury and lifestyle brands including Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Christofle, Moynat, Zara and many more.

Based in London, Zak Group was founded in 2005 by Zak Kyes.

The studio’s work focuses on identity and creative direction for people, institutions and brands. Guided by a belief in the necessity of cultural expression, the office uses design as a masterkey to build bridges between ideas, disciplines and people. Projects take shape across the full spectrum of visual media, from books, websites, exhibitions and more.

Their landmark projects include the art direction for Frank Ocean's “Boys Don't Cry” zine, the book “Icons” exploring Virgil Abloh's partnership with Nike, and the art direction of the Architectural Association School of Architecture for 10 years. Zak Group also works with brands such as Prada, Paco Rabanne, Comme des Garçons, Vitra, and more.

Founded in 2023 and based in Paris, Permanent Files is a creative office led by Léonard Vernhet and Ramdane Touhami, combining over twenty years of experience working at the confluence of art, culture and commerce.

The studio develops conceptual and visual projects that extend across publishing, exhibitions, events and creative strategy. Its work aims to create culturally relevant projects that transcend trends and engage contemporary audiences.

Permanent Files has collaborated with leading brands and institutions including Moncler, On, Bottega Veneta, Adidas, Saint Laurent, Paris 2024 Olympics, Christofle, Salomon, Rimowa, The North Face, KNWLS, Vogue Italia and more.

Based in Bergamo (Italy) Studio Temp was founded in 2007 by Guido Gregorio Daminelli, Fausto Giliberti, and Marco Fasolini, a trio of lifelong friends.

Their practice focuses on various aspects of graphic design : visual identity, type design, editorial design, art direction and web design.

Temp’s visual research focuses on a process of simplification of form, influenced by popular graphics. They employ and manipulate the specific visual references of their city, Bergamo, to avoid the risk of standardization that characterizes many online graphic designs. They held their solo exhibition named Tempus Fugit, at the MACRO Museum in Rome.

In 2014, designer Sébastian Strapazzon launched Avnier, a fashion label co-founded with French rapper Orelsan. He also has his own fashion brand named Strapazzon.

Avnier designs functional clothing for film and audiovisual professionals, a positioning often described as "audiovisual workwear." The brand is widely recognized for the functionality of its clothing, designed for use on film sets or concert tours, without compromising on style. Avnier has collaborated several times with the famous sneaker brand Salomon.

The label has secured a prominent place in the technical wardrobes of creatives from all backgrounds and was among the winners of the Role Model Awards of the French Federation of Women's Ready-to-Wear in December 2025. Strappazzon is also known for external collaborations, notably a capsule collection for the sportswear brand named Umbro, for Spring-Summer 2022.

Founded in 1999, NORM is a Zurich-based design studio specializing in book design and typeface development, directed by Dimitri Bruni, Manuel Krebs and Ludovic Varone.

The studio created popular typefaces such as LL Simple, LL Replica, and LL Riforma. Since 2019, NORM has led the visual identity of Triennale Milano and serves as a regular exhibition design consultant for the LUMA Foundation.

Recognized for its rigorous and programmatic approach, and strict modernist typography with postmodern influences, NORM is particularly known for the project about the typography for Cologne Airport. The studio has received many awards, including the Swiss Confederate Design Award and the Jan Tschichold Prize, and was featured in Gary Hustwit’s 2007 documentary about Helvetica.

Jan Abellan is a multidisciplinary designer whose work spans all five continents. He has received several awards, including the Swiss Design Award.

Having a multicultural background, he does not identify with any particular nation, as he does not recognize national borders as defining identities. Instead, he sees the world as a fluid and open space for exchange, supported by strong and legitimate micro regional governance.

He completed military service to learn weapons handling and self-defense techniques, while also taking the opportunity to study the visual languages of utilitarian design and functional graphic systems. He later became Head of Media for an entire military division and took the opportunity to study propaganda communication.

Although he is not aligned with any political ideology, he immersed himself in far-left groups, far-right groups, apolitical underground movements, and participated in multiple demonstrations, in order to better understand the postmodern mechanisms of social belonging, as well as the visual codes and graphic aesthetics that emerge from them.

This research and experience translate into his designs for this project.

Abellan works in graphic design, type design, illustration, photography, video, animation, packaging and bottle design, painting, sculpture, graffiti, and close collaboration with printers and manufacturers.

Founded in 2015 by Ali-Eddine Abdelkhalek, Pierrick Brégeon, and Clément Rouzaud, Eurostandard is a graphic design collective based between Paris and Lausanne.

Combining graphic, media and interaction design, the studio develops custom computational tools to create unique visual identities, primarily for cultural projects.

Eurostandard is known for its experimental and process-driven approach, notably through its long-term visual identity for Les Urbaines art festival in Lausanne, where design became an integral part of the festival experience.

The collective has received recognition from the Graphic Design Festival Scotland, while its book Early Video Art and Experimental Films Networks was selected among the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2017. Eurostandard is also hailed for its innovative typography, including a custom typeface created for The Face magazine and collaborations with Maximage on type design projects.

Faye and Gina is a graphic design studio founded in Paris in 2016 by Helena Kadji and Rocío Ortiz.

The studio provides creative solutions in the fields of music, fashion, cinema, and art, with a focus on art direction, consultancy, and graphic design. Their practice concentrates around editorial design and art direction. They have collaborated with musicians such as Moodoïd and Paradis, and also participated in independent editorial projects like the fanzine Hello Moto.

Faye and Gina is known for its playful, image-led editorial work and their ongoing collaboration with illustrator Pol Anglada. They are also currently art directors of the esteemed art publication Magma Journal.

Founded in 2013 by Swiss-Dutch designers Joris Landman and Harry Bloch, Studio Harris Blondman is an Amsterdam-based design studio operating in graphic design and digital experimentation.

Specializing in websites, publications, motion graphics and exhibition design, the studio combines editorial design expertise with creative coding to create interactive and playful digital experiences. Their work is known for experimental layouts that adapt and reorganize in response to user interaction.

Studio Harris Blondman has received multiple Swiss Design Awards, including Graphic Design (2018) and Media & Interaction Design (2024), recognizing its innovative approach to digital and visual communication. Their clients include Médecins Sans Frontières, Adidas, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Hubertus Design is a studio specialized in unique visual communication solutions within the art, architecture, culture, education, and political sectors. Based in Zurich and New-York, it was co-founded by Jonas Voegeli and Kerstin Landis.

Awarded the Swiss Federal Prize for Design in 2003 and 2009, Voegeli’s work has consistently been recognised by Swiss and international design competitions. Head of Visual Communication at the Zurich University of the Arts, he is also a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).

Their services extend across all media from books, magazines, corporate identity, branding, typeface design, exhibitions and online applications.

Hubertus Design strives to capture the magic of the timeless and tends toward narrative and durable design. Clients have included EPFL Lausanne, Greenpeace, the Swiss Socialist Party, the Helmhaus Zurich, and ZHdK. They have been repeatedly recognised by The Most Beautiful Swiss Books, and designed the catalogue for its 2016 edition.

Dual Room is essentially a one-person studio, founded in 2010 by the Swiss graphic designer Emmanuel Crivelli.

Dual Room works for clients in both cultural and commercial fields, with a focus on editorial design and brand identity. The studio's philosophy has a clear manifesto : "attractive presages, structured visions and radical phantasms". His working methodology is to create an image or visual concept that teases the eye or pushes the viewer to question things, through structured design and radical hierarchizing of information.

The Swiss graphic tradition plays an important role in his work, especially its precise approach to typography. Like a musician working with synths searching for new sounds through accidents, he looks for new aesthetics based on strong, clear, and simple ideas.

Crivelli holds the Swiss Federal Design Award (2012) and the award for The Most Beautiful Swiss Books (2016). He also designed the visual identity for the 2018 Swiss Design Awards. More recently, Dual Room designed the 2024/25 identity for Maison Saint-Gervais, a theatre in Geneva.

Born in 1977 in Tokyo, Goro Nakatsugawa aka GORO is creative director, graphic designer, and store owner who has become one of the quieter but more influential figures in Japanese streetwear culture.

Nakatsugawa opened his shop and brand MIN-NANO in the Ikenoue neighborhood of Tokyo in 2009. He runs it essentially alone. So the shop is either open with him, or closed. 

He has built a reputation for bringing lesser-known overseas brands into Japan before anyone else, using his own eye and instinct rather than following trends, and supports emerging Japanese designers by stocking their work and giving them a physical retail presence.

MIN-NANO has also done high-profile collaborations with brands like WTAPS, Porter, Dickies, Beams and New Era.

In 2020 he also opened a dedicated bicycle shop in Ikenoue, reflecting his personal interest in bikes, heavily influenced by the old Urahara Tokyo lifestyle, which extended beyond clothes into furniture, bikes, books, and film.

Goro is a great example of the kind of behind-the-scenes tastemaker who shapes a scene less through personal fame and more through curation, relationships, and consistency over nearly two decades.

Launched in 2010 by Florence Tétier and Jeanne-Salomé Rochat, Novembre Magazine is a print publication that appears every nine months, dedicated to the vibrancy of contemporary life, blending art and fashion with a deliberately maximalist and provocative sensibility.

Beyond the magazine itself, Novembre operates within Novembre Global, a wider platform for expression that supports both individuals and professionals seeking inspiration, new aesthetics, and emerging cultural trends. It acts as an incubator for talent and a catalyst for interdisciplinary collaborations.

Novembre Bureau, its creative agency drawing on the network, talent, and ecosystem developed by Novembre Global to design bespoke creative projects for media outlets, independent labels, institutions, and major international luxury houses. They have collaborated with such houses as Cartier, Gucci, Givenchy, Dior and Officine Universelle Buly.