INSPIRATION from the
2011 BASEL SUMMER DESIGN WORKSHOPS EUROPEAN TRAVEL and
photographed & compiled by Matthew Wizinsky
BOOKMAKING HISTORY 2
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Book and book-making samples from Basel’s book-making history, Historisches Museum Basel. Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst 3
continues and updates Basel’s typographic and publication traditions into the present.
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LEANDER EISENMANN
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Leander Eisenmann shares samples of his book projects. Scientific images are used as navigational elements. Literature series with 1, 3
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conceptual jacket designs. Color activates dull imagery. Multiple covers in one book. Contents displayed on back cover as diagram. 4
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SWISS BOOKS
Window display at bookstore near the University of Basel. Predominantly typographic book cover designs.
SLOVENIAN BOOKS
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Table display at bookstore in Ljubljana. Covers make use of illustration and expressive typography and imagery. Covers for books 2
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by Ljubljana philosopher Slavoj Zizek. A book on SlovenianCroatian-relations (I think) illustrated by a borderline of pins. 3
SWISS POSTERS 2
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Changing colors & textures in poster by Claudiabasel. Implied collage advertisement. Morphing images in a theater poster. 2
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Meta-poster by Valerie Wirz implies motion through anticipation. Varied posters for exhibitions at Museum f端r Gestaltung, Z端rich. 3
CZECH POSTERS 2
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Bright, vibrant, lively imagery and typography across posters for variety of Czech cultural events. Highly illustrative poster 2
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advertising a sandwich shop. Humorous poster on a serious topic. Magenta! 3
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SLOVENIAN POSTERS
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Poster for an architecture exhibit(?) uses multiple approaches to image and type are mixed toward an overall impression of subject.
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Great Dictator in Legos. Octagonal poem poster for Joze Plezik. Poster column with cultural event announcements. 3
LJUBLJANA GRAFFITI
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Audience participatory political question. Wheat paste poster cultural statement. Variations on a theme (multiple colors and 2
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patterns of this tag seen across town). Deer-heart / dear-heart language game through image? The illustrative crowd. 4
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VIENNA STYLE
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Dramatic sculpture meets a dramatic sky. Leisure-chic gentleman enjoying an evening in the Royal Gardens. Poster for dance 2
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festival focuses on negative spaces formed by moving bodies.
PHYSICAL TYPE
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Huge letters as signage for architecture school. Armin Hoffmann type in concrete at HGK Basel. Type bent over sculptural forms. 2
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Letters cut from steel cube sculpture in Basel. Sculptural typography signage at Franz Kafka Museum, Prague. 5
IMAGE + PERCEPTION 2
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Large brass cube sculpture with portrait on two sides (unknown subject) in Ljubljana. Collaged and pasted image of potted plant 3
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on bridge, Basel. Wallpaper with icons merge into large image of cloudy sky from distance, at VitraHaus. 4
PLAYFUL POSSIBILITIES
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House of Cards by Charles & Ray Eames. Balancing man sculpture on hilltop house in Basel. Illustrated cement mixing truck 2
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in Prague—why not? Cynical optimism and Czech humor at play in hanging man sculpture. 4
DISPLAY
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Furniture displays toward you in Jean ProuvĂŠ exhibition, Vitra. Chair display at furniture store in Winterthur. Delineation of 4
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three-dimensional spaces in VitraHaus. Playful table display with glass and apple paperweights, Ljubljana Castle. 5
ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURE 1
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Mosaic wall covering, VitraHaus. Large scale image on glass at Colmar train station. Painted architectural features in Colmar. 2
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Palace with etched patterns in faux plaster ‚blocks› at Prague Castle. Character silhouettes interact on a building in Basel. 4
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ILLUSTRATIVE ARCHITECTURE 1
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Hunched men support the building, Prague. Giant birds as columns guarding entry to Italian Embassy, Prague. Several small 2
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mosaic features create a larger mosaic pattern. Expressive keystone sculptural details, Basel. 4, 5
PERSONAL ARCHITECTURE
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Nature meets city as pathway fades into grass, Joze Plezik House, Ljubljana. Love locks on modern Butcher’s Bridge, Ljubljana. 2
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Miniature and full-scale column models at Joze Plezik House. Romantic graffiti: brass plaque in cobblestones by Basler Münster.
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INTERNAL SPACE
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Nature meets building at Vitra’s Conference Pavilion by Tadao Ando. outside the courtyard? A tight squeeze builds anticipation and Indirect pathway invites slowed pace and meditation. Inside or unique vistas. Space for quiet contemplation or conversation. 3
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SURFACE + TEXTURE
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Rhythm through alternating materials on exterior of National Library, Ljubljana, Plezik. Two leaf prints in concrete wall at 2
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Vitra Conference Pavilion, Ando. Textured surfaces on Corbusier’s cathedral at Ronchamp and University of Ljubljana, Plezik. 3, 4
RHYTHM + REPETITION
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Pattern of banners, city and state, Basel. Informative repetition of exhibition posters at Fotomuseum, Winterthur. Small parts 2
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suggest the bigger whole, Fabiola exhibition, KirchgartenHaus, Basel. Composition with columns, Vitra Fire House, Zaha Hadid. 4, 5
RE-PURPOSED MATERIAL 2
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Small rail cars re-purposed as public planters in Winterthur, Switzerland. Corten display furniture at a Ljubljana florist. 2
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Bicycle assemblage as sculpture, Winterthur.
CONCEPTUAL SCULPTURE 2
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Franz Kafka statue: Who is the author’s subject? Is it you? The metronome constantly sways from left to right and back—
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just like politics, Prague. Louise Bourgeoise’s giant spider: weaver, builder, mother. Zürich. 3
CONCEPTUAL SCULPTURE 1
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Richard Serra’s Intersection at the Theaterplatz, Basel. Enormous curving steel forms bend both real and perceived space and create
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varying physical sensations. Beyeler Foundation exhibition. American-Gothic: unexpected juxtapositions with the environment. 2
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PASSING TIME
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Roman numeral sundial, Ljubljana. Morning and evening sundials on Basler MĂźnster. Large scale sculptural sundial with 2
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etched stone numerals, Ljubljana Castle. Prague’s complicated Astronomical Clock keeps time in multiple methods. 5
CITY AT NIGHT
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Dramatic nighttime lighting along the Ljubljanica riverfront, Ljubljana. Floating dance platform under pedestrian bridge, 2
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Ljubljana. Color and light nighttime display in Basel storefront. Vienna’s City Hall clock tower at dusk. 3
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FOUNTAINS
Culmination of public art, civic function, cultural and/or social expression, and bringing a cool breath of nature into the city.
Jean Tinguely’s Fasnachtbrunnen on Basel’s Theaterplatz: discrete mechanized figures are characterized with playful personalities.
FOUNTAINS
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Cooling off in Colmar at the fun and functional meeting point within International Plaza. Detail of a monkey face on fountain 2
along Ljubljanica River, Ljubljana.
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FOUNTAINS
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Tinguely’s constantly playing characters in Fasnachtbrunnen. Spitting/spewing dragon fountain sculpture outside Zürich’s
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Hauptbahnhof. Two hip-swaying figures urinating outside Kafka Museum, Prague. Mannekin Pis grown up? Pissing in the wind? 3
TRAVEL ITINERARY June 20 —July 11
Basel, Switzerland 2011 Summer Design Workshops at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel
July 12
Colmar, France
July 13—16
Prague, Czech Republic
July 17
Vienna, Austria
July 18—20
Ljubljana, Slovenia
July 21
Zürich, Switzerland