Huber Sterzinger

Awarded

Gregor Huber / Ivan Sterzinger

Various printed matters

Graphic Design

Jury report

The Outsiders
Gre­gor Huber and Ivan Sterzinger - both of whom pre­vi­ously worked in dif­fer­ent fields - have been run­ning a graphic art firm to­gether for twelve years. Gre­gor Huber stud­ied media arts at the Zurich Uni­ver­sity of the Arts, whilst Ivan Sterzinger stud­ied psy­chol­ogy, jour­nal­ism and art his­tory at the Uni­ver­sity of Zurich. For this year's com­pe­ti­tion, they have sub­mit­ted their joint pro­jects from the past few years: an edi­tion of a news­pa­per, two books and three posters.
These pro­jects are united by a com­mit­ment to de­sign that is rooted, in the best pos­si­ble sense, in the cul­tural sci­ences. This is shown in par­tic­u­lar by the way the duo han­dle pic­tures. The busi­ness of im­ple­ment­ing a de­sign is in­sep­a­ra­ble from the tasks of con­sid­er­ing, re­search­ing and se­lec­tively edit­ing the con­tent, and this was how the duo ap­proached their as­sign­ment to cre­ate the con­cept and photo es­says for a spe­cial se­ries on meth­ods and strate­gies in art, de­sign, lit­er­a­ture and music for the Rote Fab­rik cul­tural cen­tre in Zurich. From 2010 to 2012, "Modes of Prac­tice" ap­peared in Rote Fab­rik's 'Fab­rikzeitung' pub­li­ca­tion in five in­stal­ments. Each in­di­vid­ual in­stal­ment looked at a par­tic­u­lar artis­tic method, with ex­am­ples of its ap­pli­ca­tion and re­cep­tion. The spec­trum in­cluded William S. Bur­roughs's cut-ups, Jean-Luc Go­dard's edit­ing tech­nique and ap­proaches to the use of the alter ego (that of JT LeRoy, for in­stance), plus processes of de­struc­tion in the works of Jean Tinguely and the tech­nique of de­pict­ing dreams in the works of David Lynch.
Huber and Sterzinger were re­spon­si­ble for the de­sign and the en­tirety of the il­lus­trated sec­tion for 'Kul­tur dig­i­tal - Be­griffe, Hin­tergründe, Beispiele', a hand­book of al­most 400 pages pro­duced by Mi­gros Cul­ture Per­cent­age. They re­lieved the text-heavy char­ac­ter of the pub­li­ca­tion through adept use of im­pres­sive pic­ture ma­te­r­ial. The in­sights into the media world of­fered by this book are sup­ple­mented by texts ex­plain­ing var­i­ous terms, strate­gi­cally in­ter­spersed among the es­says by the de­sign­ers.
The small pub­li­ca­tion 'The Art of De­sign - Vol­ume 2' was cre­ated dur­ing the run of the ex­hi­bi­tion 'Prix Fédéraux de De­sign' as part of the larger event 'Art ou de­sign?' at mudac, Lau­sanne, in 2009. Over its 200 pages, this book printed on Bible-type paper brings to­gether ad­ver­tis­ing slo­gans that use (or rather mis­use) the terms ‘de­sign' or ‘art'.
The posters sub­mit­ted to the com­pe­ti­tion were all cre­ated in a music con­text. And like all the works of Gre­gor Huber and Ivan Sterzinger, these posters show in­tel­li­gent re­search of the sub­ject mat­ter and an in­ten­sive en­gage­ment with the pic­to­r­ial lan­guage.

Biography

Gregor Huber
Born in
1978
Education
Designer FH, Studienbereich Neue Medien
Group name
Glashaus

Web

also in

Ivan Sterzinger
Born in
1977
Education
MA of Science
Group name
Glashaus

Web

also in