Bruno Monguzzi spoke at the AIGA/NY Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer’s Introspection on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at the Bumble and bumble auditorium.

Bruno Monguzzi is an extraordinary designer, typographer and teacher. After studying in Geneva and London he began his career at Studio Boggeri in Milan in 1961. In 1983, in association with Visuel Design Jean Widmer, he won the international competition for the signage system and corporate identity for the new Musée d’Orsay in Paris. In 1987 begins his 17 years long collaboration with Museo Cantonale d’Arte in Lugano, creating a stunning series of posters.

His many awards include the Bodoni Prize, the Gold Medal from the New York Art Directors’ Club, the Prix Janus in Paris, the Bronze, Silver and Gold Medals at the Toyama Poster Triennial. Bruno Monguzzi was the first non-Japanese designer to receive the Yusaku Kamekura Award. In 1994 he was elected Best Swiss Typographer of the year and in 2003, in London, Honorary Royal Designer for Industry (the other six Swiss designers are Jan Tschichold, Herbert Matter, Walter Herdeg, Armin Hofmann, Joseph Müller-Brockmann and Karl Gerstner).

A member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale since 1979, he is the author of Lo Studio Boggeri,1933-1981 and Piet Zwart: the typographical work, 1923-1933. Bruno Monguzzi solo exhibitions have been held in Switzerland, France, Poland, England, USA, and Japan; monographs on his work have been published in France, USA, China and Japan.

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Bruno Monguzzi

Bruno Monguzzi. Fifty Years of Paper

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AIGA/NY Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer’s Introspection

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