Martina Brassel is a Swiss graphic designer working independently with her own studio in Zurich since 2016. Her work focuses on editorial and book design as well as visual identities and websites for national and international clients most often in the fields of the arts, architecture and design.
She’s currently working, inter alia, on the design for a book about Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, published by Steidl, an exhibition catalogue about bodies in the middle ages for Landesmuseum Zürich and the English edition of Jacqueline Burckhardt’s “commedia dell’arte”.
Birmensdorferstrasse 400
8055 Zürich
Switzerland
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Designer at Studio Marie Lusa, Zürich 2012–2015
BA in Visual Communication, Zurich University of the Arts, 2012
DAM Architectural Book Award: Toward a Concrete Utopia
DAM Architectural Book Award: African Modernism (with Studio Marie Lusa)
Gold medal Best Art Book FILAF d’Or: African Modernism (with Studio Marie Lusa)
Most Beautiful Swiss Books: African Modernism (with Studio Marie Lusa)
Most Beautiful Swiss Books: Gustave Courbet (with Studio Marie Lusa)
Richard Schlagmann Art Book Award: Toward a Concrete Utopia
She’s currently working, inter alia, on the design for a book about Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, published by Steidl, an exhibition catalogue about bodies in the middle ages for Landesmuseum Zürich and the English edition of Jacqueline Burckhardt’s “commedia dell’arte”.
STUDIO
Martina Brassel, Graphic DesignBirmensdorferstrasse 400
8055 Zürich
Switzerland
previous positions
Teaching Assistant, Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK, Dep. Visual Communication, 2015–2020Designer at Studio Marie Lusa, Zürich 2012–2015
BA in Visual Communication, Zurich University of the Arts, 2012
AWARDS
DAM Architectural Book Award: Baku. Oil And UrbanismDAM Architectural Book Award: Toward a Concrete Utopia
DAM Architectural Book Award: African Modernism (with Studio Marie Lusa)
Gold medal Best Art Book FILAF d’Or: African Modernism (with Studio Marie Lusa)
Most Beautiful Swiss Books: African Modernism (with Studio Marie Lusa)
Most Beautiful Swiss Books: Gustave Courbet (with Studio Marie Lusa)
Richard Schlagmann Art Book Award: Toward a Concrete Utopia