Awarded
Elena Rendina / Nazareno Crea / Joe Rohrer
'One Risk' (diploma work)
Graphic Design
Awarded
'One Risk' (diploma work)
Graphic Design
Earthquakes, avalanches and floods
We have before us a landscape in a parlous state. A little village is being struck simultaneously by an avalanche, a conflagration, a landslide, falling rocks, a flood and an earthquake. Soon one natural disaster or another will bury, swallow up, wash away or burn the last house in this village. This horrific scenario is the starting point for the work called 'One Risk' by the three designers Elena Rendina, Nazareno Crea and Joe Rohrer, who have been addressing the history and consequences of natural disasters in Switzerland. The distressing thing about the picture described above is that it looks like a tourist poster at first. An image of a perfect world, with sunshine, mountainous landscapes and houses with gable roofs. Just right for a picture postcard. If you look at it for longer, you discover one natural disaster after another. This crumpled landscape appears in various versions as a poster and as a book cover. Combined with type and graphic elements, the work draws our attention to various natural disasters and warns us about them. So it is not just simply a record of horror scenarios, but intended as a device for communicating risk, alongside posters, books and short films. The book is in eleven chapters, recording various aspects of natural disasters in text and image. The designers created a specific typeface for the book. They based it on the font used for older geological treatises, most of which were printed using a simple plotter that admitted only simply and purely geometrically constructed forms. Thus this linear, reduced and fine font was intended as a reminder of the scientific world. The four films were all shot in-house. They represent a kind of colourless still life, destroyed and shaken out of its repose by a tiny intervention. They indicate how simply something can be pushed off balance, even in the immediate vicinity.
Ariana Pradal
Nazareno Crea
Born in
1983
Education
designer HES en communication visuelle
Joe Rohrer
Born in
1979
Education
Designer FH, Studienbereich Visuelle Kommunikation,
Spezialisierung Wissenschaftliche Illustration