Poster Collection 11: Handmade presents works whose makers have used their own hands for a variety of reasons — autonomy, spontaneity, independence, or delight in experiment. Contemporary design arbiters like Stefan Sagmeister show you how it’s done.

As an exhibition venue the Museum of Design Zurich has an outstanding collection of its own posters.

“Typotecture” takes a look at posters from various countries and periods, which share a special feature of typography: the tendency to break out of the two-dimensional space of lettering and establish hybrid links with architecture.

Poster Collection 07 gathers the most important posters of Armin Hofmann, and shows them – corresponding to his fundamental importance as a graphic design teacher – in a context with works from his most famous students, who continued his methods.

While people tend to assume that the graphic design world will be brightly colored, this compilation of international posters dating from the last forty years is out to prove that there is an advantage to be hard in working without color.

Ralph Schraivogel is one of Switzerland’s best-known contemporary poster designers. He made a name for himself very quickly in the early 90s with experimental posters combining classical manual work with computer-assisted design methods.