Awarded

Prill & Vieceli: Tania Prill / Alberto Vieceli

Various publications

Graphic Design

Jury report

To the Point
For the sec­ond time in a row, the jury have de­cided to ho­n­our the work com­ing from the 'Prill & Vieceli' vi­sual com­mu­ni­ca­tion stu­dio; they also won the Jan Tschi­chold Prize in 2007. They un­der­stand their craft and have ac­quired an ex­tra­or­di­nary feel for the­matic pe­cu­liar­i­ties. Each and every pub­li­ca­tion has got its own in­di­vid­ual char­ac­ter, and the de­sign is adapted every time so as to be per­fectly suited to the con­tent: from for­mat to ty­po­graph­i­cal ex­e­cu­tion to vi­sual pre­sen­ta­tion, every book is given its own lan­guage. Those two graphic de­sign­ers from Zurich are equally versed in tra­di­tional book de­sign as well as de­sign trends, but they're never deaf to spe­cial re­quests from the client. All of these qual­i­ties are ap­par­ent in 'Arosa', which, as a tra­di­tion­ally de­signed non­fic­tion book with a Re­design look, res­ur­rects the idea of mod­ernism that char­ac­terised chic 1920s and 30s health re­sorts, and 'In der Mitte des Volkes', a pic­ture and re­port book, in­ter­na­tion­ally ac­claimed at this year's Leipzig Book Fair, shows its table of con­tents on the cover. The the­matic breadth is enor­mous. Artist mono­graphs on Nele Stecher or David Willen also at­test to the cre­ative di­ver­sity of their books as well as a trib­ute to the his­tor­i­cal Let­zi­grund sta­dium or the po­etry vol­ume 'Eine zornige Blume will ich sein' by au­thor Elis­a­beth J. Stirn­i­mann. To Tania Prill and Al­berto Vieceli it is not the recog­nis­abil­ity of their per­sonal style that mat­ters the most, but how they can make the de­sign ad­dress the con­tent and in­ter­act with it. With care and pre­ci­sion and a wealth of ex­cit­ing ideas, every book be­comes a for­mally beau­ti­ful ob­ject that you don't mind leav­ing in full view on the cof­fee table.
Ed­uard Hart­mann

Biography

Tania Prill
Born in
1969
Education
Graphic Designer
Group name
PrillVieceliCremers

also in

2007

2014

Alberto Vieceli
Born in
1965
Education
Graphic Designer
Group name
PrillVieceliCremers

also in

2007

2014

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