Federal jury

Sereina Rothenberger
Chair of the Jury

Sereina Rothenberger was born in 1981 and has run the graphic design studio Hammer in Zurich since 2008, together with David Schatz, in 2020 Jana Hofmann joined. She held a professorship at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 2013 to 2019, latterly serving as a head of department. She has been teaching the Master programme in Graphic Design at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the US since 2015 and has been joint head of the programme from 2020 to 2023. She has also been an advisor at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht since 2020.

Mathias Clottu

Mathias Clottu, born in 1985, is a Swiss designer from the French-speaking part of Switzerland based in London. He specializes in graphic design, typography, and art direction. After graduating from ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne) in 2009, he joined the core team of John Morgan Studio in 2011. In 2016, he founded Studio Mathias Clottu, from which he develops graphic projects that combine typographic precision with contemporary art direction, mainly in the cultural and editorial fields. He regularly teaches and hold jurys (RCA, Kingston School of Arts, La Cambre, ECAL, ETH Zurich)

Julie Peeters

Julie Peeters was born in 1983. She is a designer and creative director based in Brussels. She studied at Sint-Lukas in Ghent, Jan van Eyck Academie and Werkplaats Typografie. She is the founder and creative editor of BILL, an annual magazine of photographic stories and a publishing project focusing on the printed image. In 2021 she presented her first solo exhibition, Daybed, at MACRO, Rome. In 2015 she was awarded the Golden Letter in Leipzig. Peeters has taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, HFG Karlsruhe and currently teaches at KASK (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) in Ghent.

Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton

Tasheka Arceneaux Sutton is a graphic designer, educator, and writer based in Austin. She is an associate professor of graphic design at the University of Texas at Austin and teaches in the MFA graphic design program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Founder of the studio Blacvoice Design, she specializes in branding, electronic media, and editorial design. Her research explores Black figures omitted from graphic design history and the representation of Black people in media and popular culture. Her essay A Black Renaissance Woman: Louise E. Jefferson appears in Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History. She is co-author of the forthcoming book Black Design in America. Tasheka holds an MFA in graphic design from the California College of the Arts and a BA in English from Loyola University New Orleans.

Marco Walser

Marco Walser, born in 1978, has been running the graphic design studio Elektrosmog in Zurich since 1999. After graduating as a visual designer from the Zurich School of Design (now ZHdK) and completing an internship in London, his work has focused on art, theater, film, and architecture. Elektrosmog received the Jan Tschichold Prize in 2005 and collaborates with institutions such as Kunsthaus Glarus, Theater Chur, and the architecture magazine «werk, bauen + wohnen». Since 2024, the studio has been responsible for the visual identity of Zurich’s Filmpodium cinema