Hong Kong in between

Edited by Géraldine Borio & Caroline Wüthrich
Published by Park Books & MCCM creations
Language: englisch, chinese
ISBN 978-3-906027-77-7

June 2015
Softcover with plastic dusk jacket, 150 x 210 mm, 248 pages
Typeface: PX Grotesk by Nicolas Eigenheer, available at www.optimo.ch
Print: Regal Printing, Hong Kong

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Siri Bachmann

Christ & Gantenbein Review N°3

Edited by Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton & Christoph Gantenbein
Published by Park Books
Language: german, englisch
ISBN 978-3-906027-63-0

June 2015
Hardcover, 330 x 250 mm, 228 pages
Typeface: Academica Text Pro
Print: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH, Altenburg

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Gregor Schreiter

The book presents the semester-work of the architecture office Christ & Gantenbein at the ETHZ. The content is, divided in three chapters: essays, a catalog of buildings (each displayed with floorplan, technical information and a picture) and finally a sequence of pictures that document the building in its urban context. This enables the reader to acces the different information and atmospheres just as he pleases.

Additionally, Rafael Moneo's historical essay "On Typology" provides a theoretical framework to the research. Typology—Paris, Delhi, Sao Paulo, Athens is the second volume after Typology—Hong Kong, Rome, New York, Buenos Aires, published by same authors in 2012.

Neue Silhouetten
Projekte von Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten
in City West Zürich

Edited by Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten
with contributions from Marcel Meili and Markus Peter, Patrick Gmür, André Bideau
and Martin Heller
Published by Park Books
Language: german

March 2015
ISBN: 978-3-906027-79-1
Softcover, 230 × 320 mm, 64 pages
Typeface: Stanley, available at www.optimo.ch
Printing: Gremper AG, Pratteln

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Gregor Schreiter
Photography: Mathilde Agius, Ludovic Balland, Florine Bonaventure & Jennifer Niederhäuser and Yoan Zerdoun

The Magazin “Neue Silhouetten” is a documentation of the apartment buildings City West/Zölly
from Meili, Peter Architekten.

Diversity, as a common characteristic of magazine designing, is an essential aspect
of the publication. It becomes manifest in the variety of the image sources. Besides the documentary images of the process and photographs of the final building, pictures
of the construction materials complete the collection. These material pictures reveal
through its specific macro presentation a new perception on the world of City West by
producing a distinct mood.

Day after Reading Issue N°2 — Valencia (CA)
Workshop at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts)

January 2015
Newspaper: 16 pages
Format: 13inch broadsheet (US Format)
Print: reel-fed offset
Five days Workshop at CalArts CalArts (California Institute of the Arts), Valencia (CA)

Author and editorial concept: Ludovic Balland
www.dar-news.com | info@dar-news.com
Design: Ludovic Balland with students of CalArts (California Institute of the Arts):
Javeria Ali, Jenny Earnest, Nick Humbel, Stedman Halliday, Miyu Shirotsuka,
Mallory Strong, Brian Thompsen, Monique Wilmoth, Jessie Zo, Dasol Jung
Teaching assistant: Jessica Lee
Interviews: Ludovic Balland, Jessica Lee
Photographs: Julie Cabral, Tyler Ferguson, Mallory Strong, Jenny Earnest, Ludovic Balland
Copy editing: Stedman Halliday, Javeria Ali
Transcription: Adriana Widdoes
Printed by American Foothill Publishing
Typeface: Stanley, available at www.optimo.ch
Web programation: Gaël Hugo
Supported by CalArts: www.calarts.edu

The editorial project “Day ­After Reading” is created by Ludovic Balland.
The second issue of “Day After Reading” took place for 5 days in Valencia, (CA)
for a workshop at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts). 

During five days five selected fellow citizen of Valencia (CA) (Ed Fella, american
graphic designer and former educator at CalArts; John Studden, lettering artist
and founder of L.A. signs and graphics; Laurene West, councilmember of Santa
Clarita; Luciano Perna, artist and photographer; Jim Holt, senior staff writer at Clarita
Valley Signal) get interviewed about what they read the day before, about their
readings habits and the city they are living. The interviews deals with how people
remember information perceived in the daily media. 

Every information exists according to a story, to a series of facts. Information in daily
media is defined by actuality. “Day After Reading” provides a new way of reading.
It‘s reader perceives news through the eyes of somebody else. The reader gets a personal
perspective of news and can relate to another personal memory. “Day After Reading”
emphasizes news from it‘s everyday use and highlights an individual time frame. The
remembered news are not anymore related or dependent on actuality, instead they are
part of somebody else‘s brain and eye. “Day After Reading” is a portrait of American
readers and of the context they are living in.

The workshop produced a printed newspaper of 16 pages including the interviews of
every personalities with documentary photographs and a series of poster with selected
statements. The interviews were also launch online everyday under:
www.dar-news.com.

During the workshop the students were divided into two groups. One was responsable for
developing a poster serial the other one was responsable for the layout of the newspaper.
The group of the newspaper created the the visual system, based on the existing grid
of the «Day After Reading» newspaper, that allowed them to emphasized some specific chapter
and quotes of each interview. Images were layouted separately in order to create an
interesting sequence for each interviewed personality. The group which was in charge of the
posters developed a typographic system and type set to emphasized a selected quote of
the interviewed personalities. The newspaper and the poster serial are both in black withe.

Read the report of local newspaper signal: http://www.signalscv.com

Eva Afuhs — Windwürfel
Das künstlerische Werk

Edited by Marcel Meili, Martin Heller, Frank Zierau
Published by Scheidegger & Spiess
Language: german

May 2014
ISBN: 978-3-85881-425-8
Hardcover coated with printed linen, 224 × 298 mm, 240 pages
Typeface: Atlas Grotesk by Commercial Type
Printing: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH, Altenburg

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Gregor Schreiter

The posthumously published book gives an insight into the whole ­diversity of mostly
unpublished works by Eva Afuhs — artist, curator, cultural manager and former
director of Museum Bellerive, Zürich.

The book is like an open archive, which represents the workshop of the artist. The work is
arranged in a subjective, associative, or content related manner. In between these archive
"shelves", called "depot", other art pieces are grouped by topic. The pictures in the archive
are set to fill the height of the page, this gives the reader the mental picture of a filled
archive shelf. This system generates variable picture sizes and makes the layout dynamic.
A series of essays are spread through the archive.

TagesWoche
Weekly Newspaper

Published by Neue Medien Basel
Language: german

Since March 2014
ISSN: 9-772235-224407
Stapled newspaper, 224 x 300 mm, 48 pages
Typeface: Stanley by Ludovic Balland
Print: Zehnder Druck AG, Wil

Editorial concept and redesign: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

«[Ludovic Balland] has devised a radical editorial concept somewhere between a traditional newspaper and a magazine. He approached the comission as a piece of graphic structural engineering, making a hybrid publication that is printed on classic newspaper stock, 48.8gsm, cut to magazine size. One half is pure news, with rigorously laid out dense, text-heavy contents; the other half acts as a magazine section for background, interviews and portraits, with large images, generous headlines and big fonts. The contrast is arresting: to flip from dense news to a full bleed image is a surprise for readers of newsprint.»

From Form Magazine Nr. 253
Text by Angharad Lewis

Swiss lessons
TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE

Edited by Harry Gugger, Aurélie Blanchard, Gwendolyn Kerschbaumer, Götz Menzel
Published by Park Books and laba EPFL
Language: english

March 2014
ISBN: 978-3-906027-34-0
Softcover, 310 × 230 mm, 160 pages
Typeface: Plain by François Rappo
Print: Druckerei Grammlich, Pliezhausen

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Siri Bachmann

The book presents the 2 semester-work of the architecture master course of
Harry Gugger at the EPFL. The three-part structure concept of the book reflects laba‘s methodology:

Part one [Analysis] presents a detailed, inter-disciplinary analysis of the region.

Part two [Trip] documents a six-day field trip in the region.

In part three [Projects] architectural projects of the students are presented.

The three parts allowed three different layouts and designs. The first part is like an atlas,
the second part like a photography book and the third part is the combination of part one and
two. This structure supports the reader to focus on the different aspects of teaching.

THE DAY AFTER READING
Issue Nr.1—San Francisco

January 2014
Newspaper: 8 pages
Format: 12inch Broadsheet (US Format)
Print: reel-fed offset

Editorial Concept: Ludovic Balland
Design: Ludovic Balland and Gregor Schreiter
Photographs: Ludovic Balland

The editorial project THE DAY AFTER READING is created by Ludovic Balland, as part of the "All Possible Futures" exhibition running January 14 to February 13, 2014 at SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco, California. This project deals with how people remember information perceived in the daily media and aims to find out about personal reading habits. It illustrates remembered "leftovers" of the everyday consume of newspapers and visualises individual processing of published, written "facts." One San Francisco personality was interviewed on each of the first seven days of the exhibition.

Seven people were asked about their impressions and what details they remember from all of the news they had read the day before. The memories of the people portrayed were recorded and directly transcribed. The transcript served as the material to design and typeset one individual newspaper page to be printed on a large-scale format the very same day. Each of these pages were put on display at the exhibition venue the next morning, creating a series of seven different pages, which evolved during a oneweek period.

This eight-page newspaper has been printed and distributed in San Francisco. Each page presents one personal view of San Francisco readers and illustrates their perception of everyday media. The layout structure in five parts allows for the comparison of memories about stories, visual details, and advertisements, as well as individual reading practices and personal contexts. A documentation about readers.

Read the first issue online and order your own hard copy.

www.dar-news.com

Ulises Carrións Cultural Strategies
and communication Tactics

Edited by Juan J. Agius
Published by Ediciones la Bahia
Language: english

September 2013
ISBN-13: 978-84-939191-8-4
Softcover, 162 x 230 mm, 266 pages
Typeface: Monotype Grotesque
Paper: Maxi Offset, Terraset
Image post-production: Mathilde Agius
Print: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH, Altenburg
Print dustjacket: Druckerei Grammlich, Pliezhausen

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Clara Dutilleul

The projects of Ulises Carrión described in this book, involve processes and people.
None of them have what you would call the structure of a conventional artwork. They illustrate Carrión's strategies to take part in the wider territory of culture.

inch newspaper
furniture catalogues

Edited by Yves Raschle and Thomas Wüthrich
Language: german, english

2010, 2013
313 x 440 mm, 8 pages
Typeface: Suisse text regular, Stanley

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

Buchner Bründler
Buildings

Edited by Andreas Bründler and Daniel Buchner
Published by GTA
Language: german, english

September 2012
ISBN: 978-3-85676-298-8
Hardcover, 230 × 270 mm, 338 pages
Typeface: Plain by François Rappo
Print: Druckerei Grammlich, Pliezhausen

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Gregor Schreiter

Winner "Most Beautiful German Books 2013"
Winner "Best Book Design from all over the World 2014" (Stiftung Buchkunst)

"Buchner Bründler Buildings“ is the first monograph of Basel based architects
Daniel Buchner and Andreas Bründler. The book is structured into three main parts:
A text part with interviews, that also works as an extended index by highlighting
key words that are linked to images of the projects. This index gives the reader
an associative approach to the content of the book. The second part is the main part,
with 16 selected Projects that features generous picture sequences and fold out pages
with plans, and the last part is the archive of the eintire work of Buchner Bründler
including built and unbuilt projects, layouted like an atlas mixing different sources of
information.The pictures focus not only on the whole building but also on the surfaces
and materiality, the space and context of the building.

Statement of the jury "The Most Beautiful German Books":
"Schon der Einstieg in diese zu visueller Poesie geronnenen Architektenmonografie ist außergewöhnlich: Auf dem breiten Buchrücken lesen wir nicht nur den Titel, sondern auch den hierhin gestellten Waschzetteltext in der gleichen nüchternen, aber feingliedrigen Typographie, die das gesamte Buch trägt. Die Titelprägung über abstrakt monochromem Bildausschnitt auf dem Vorderdeckel ist elegant silbern unterlegt und kündet vom disziplinierten, aber extravaganten Geschmack von Architektur und Buch. Und auch die Möglichkeiten von Inhaltsverzeichnissen werden erweitert: Hier erstreckt es sich über 29 Seiten, verbindet die unter Mottos zusammengefassten Inhaltsgrüppchen mit Interviews, und erhebt diesen für gewöhnlich schlicht funktionalen Bereich eines Buches regelrecht zur literarischen Gattung. Dies ist aber erst der Anfang. Das Buchkonzept hält die Präsentation der einzelnen Bauwerke möglichst textfrei, die Fotografien auf matt saugendem Papier – meist monochrom, manchmal farbsättigungsreduziert – hinterlassen ihre Eindrücke durch die kontemplative Inszenierung. Und zwischen den Projekten ein kaum größer denkbarer Kontrast: Auf Dünndruckpapier als Ausklappseiten laden die Konstruktionszeichnungen geradezu zur Werksspionage ein. Und das Buch hält dafür sogar noch ein Werkzeug bereit – ein Lesezeichen mit den Skalen der verschiedenen Maßstäbe. In den hinteren Buchteilen folgen Beschreibungen in Text und Lage- oder Detailplänen und die Vorstellung des Architekturbüros samt Mitarbeitern."

Barents lessons
TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE

Edited by Harry Gugger, Nancy Couling, Aurélie Blanchard
Published by Park Books and laba EPFL
Language: english

September 2012
ISBN: 978-3-906027-17-3
Softcover, 310 × 230 mm, 156 pages
Typeface: Plain by François Rappo
Print: Druckerei Grammlich, Pliezhausen

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Siri Bachmann

Winner "Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2012"
Winner "Most Beautiful German Books 2013"
Nomination for the "German Design Award 2014"

The book presents the 2 semester-work of the architecture master course of Harry Gugger at the EPFL. The three-part structure of Barents Lessons reflects laba‘s methodology:

Part one [Analysis] presents a detailed, inter-disciplinary analysis of the region under five research themes and resulting in five "Territorial Constitutions" for the Barents Sea.

Part two [Trip] documents a ten-day field trip in the region in February 2012.

In part three [Projects] 13 architectural projects are presented as a synthesis of the knowledge and experience gained.

Maps and graphics conceived and designed especially for this book — some of them on large- size fold-out pages — visualize the analysis, striking photographs document the field trip, and numerous plans and images show the architectural projects.

Statment of the jury "The Most Beautiful German Books" :
"Man hat den amerikanischen Schutzumschlag abgenommen und ausgebreitet, die detaillierte Seekarte überflogen, das Inhaltsverzeichnis am Rand der Karte gesichtet und widmet sich nun der gefälzelten Klebebroschur. Man liest noch kaum zwei Sätze, bezirzen die Fülle und Attraktivität der Karten und Diagramme die ordnungsliebenden visuellen Sinne. Die wissenschaftliche Neugier, das ästhetische Bedürfnis und die Gierde nach Visionen werden angereichert. Man sieht, schaut, staunt, fragt, begreift – schlägt sich zunächst immer noch durch die drei so unterschiedlichen Kapitel, die so klar durch das gestanzte Kopfregister getrennt sind, dass es klarer nicht geht. Nach der ersten Orientierung glaubt man, eine tausendseitige Studie durchblättert zu haben; es sind aber nur 156 – plus fünf eingeklebte Faltkarten. Das architekturwissenschaftliche Projekt beschäftigt sich mit den Ressourcen der arktischen Barentsee und breitet nicht nur eine komprimierte Analyse aller möglichen Umweltfaktoren aus, sondern zeichnet auch in einer fotografischen Reise das Bild der landschaftlichen Stimmungen und klimatischen Lebensbedingungen – die teils sehr kräftige, unmittelbare Typografie überträgt die Atmosphäre von Rauheit, Kälte und Unwetter auf die gedruckte Schrift. Der dritte Teil stellt die architektonischen Projektentwürfe vor, die den Zugang zu, den Umgang mit und den Aufenthalt in der Barentsee möglich machen sollen. Die Evidenz dieser geopolitisch relevanten Studie ist so hoch, dass das Inhaltsverzeichnis zur Marginalie wird."

Theater Basel
Saisonvorschau 2012 / 2013

Published by Theater Basel
Distributed by Theater Basel
Language: german

May 2012
Hardcover, 225 x 270 mm, 200 pages
Typeface: Theater Basel Regular by Ludovic Balland with Yoann Minet
Print: Schwabe AG

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet
with Marton Oroszlan and Adrien Moreillon

Designed as a diary, the season-preview of the Theater Basel presents all seasons‘s
premiers as well as general information on the theater. This information faces a
conversation in form of a facebook sitcom edited by Ed Fornieles and Max Luz which is
called "Happy Days in Basel“.

The reader is invited to follow both contents parallel which may lead to surprising
collissions. While the theater track goes on for one season (10 months from september
2012 to june 2013), the facebook sitcom runs only 3 weeks. So the left pages, dedicated
to the facebook sitcom, follow another timeline than the ones of the Theater Basel.
The exciting feature is the interaction of the two narrations: The pages on the theater
are naturally descriptif and focused on information while the facebook sitcom mixes
(in the end) fiction and reality.

Although the layout of the sitcom-conversation follows other rules, the same grid and
typeface is used for the whole book. For the theater pages, we designed and used some
visual elements in order to structure the content. This new set of forms is also used
for poster and other medias. It is part of our re-design for the communication of the
Theater Basel. The typeface "Theater Basel“ is a new font based on an older typewriter
source, named "Jury-Regular“. Keeping the geometric forms of the typewriter enables us
to generate an unexpected rhythm and a strong visual structure of the text once composed.
The new font of the Theater Basel is used for every media.

Theater Basel Newspaper

Edited by Stephanie Gräve
Published by Theater Basel
Distributed by Basellandschaftliche Zeitung
Language: german

2012–2013
470 × 315 mm, 12 to 16 pages
Typeface: Theater Basel by Ludovic Balland with Yoann Minet
Print: AZ print

Art direction and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet, Basel
Photography by Mathilde Agius

As a part of the visual identity of the Theater Basel, this monthly newspaper was
edited from september 2012 to june 2013. The newspaper follows the concept and uses
the typographical elements of the Saisonvorschau (N°8). We wanted to avoid using
typical theater stage pictures for the newspaper. To represent the diversity of the
programme, typical for the Theater Basel, which has Ballet, Opera and Comedy under
the same roof, the pictures were specifically made for every new premiere mixing
journalistic pictures, with still lives and collages.

Christ & Gantenbein Review N°2

Edited by Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton & Christoph Gantenbein
Published by Park Books and ETH Zurich
Language: german, englisch

April 2012
Hardcover, 330 x 250 mm, 208 pages
Typeface: Academica Text Pro
Print: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH, Altenburg

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet
with Siri Bachmann and Adrien Moreillon

Winner "Most Beautiful German Books 2013"

The book presents the semester-work of the architecture office Christ & Gantenbein at the ETHZ. The content is, divided in three chapters: essays, a catalog of buildings (each displayed with floorplan, technical information and a picture) and finally a sequence of pictures that document the building in its urban context. This enables the reader to acces the different information and atmospheres just as he pleases.

Statment of the jury "The Most Beautiful German Books":
"Ein Lehrbuch für Architekten: die Typologie urbaner Bautenstrukturen am Beispiel von vier Metropolen. Sein Gebrauchswert zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass die Buchgestaltung in ihrer ästhetischen und didaktischen Qualität die Untersuchungsmethode der Studie unter der Maxime der Vergleichbarkeit visualisiert. So erklären sich das Buchformat und der Kontrast von Kleinteiligkeit und Großzügigkeit – im typologischen Teil auf den rechten Seiten kompakte Information in geringem Schriftgrad als Konsultationsgröße mit untertourigem Zeilenabstand – und auf den linken Seiten die essenzielle Informationsquelle für den Architekten, luftig präsentierte Grundrisse der typischen Bauwerke. Im zweiten Teil des Buches sinkt das Auge des Betrachters durch eine üppige Strecke doppelseitig komponierter Fotografien in den Stadtbildern der besprochenen Großstädte: Lackmustest für die vorher ausgebreiteten Thesen. Nüchterne Informations- und opulente Schauwerte sind in dieser Publikation nicht zu trennen, und sie steigern die Evidenz dieses architekturwissenschaftlichen Unternehmens. Es ist ein Buch für Liebhaber rigider Ordnung und Reduktion, die dennoch nicht auf Fülle verzichten wollen. Erstes Indiz dafür ist das besondere Inhaltsverzeichnis auf verkürztem Blatt: eine Synopse dieser ganzen Bauten-Typologie."

Christ & Gantenbein Review N°1
Pictures from Italy

Edited by Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton & Christoph Gantenbein
Published by Park Books
Language: german, englisch

2011
Hardcover, 330 x 250 mm, 208 pages
Typeface: Academica Text Pro
Print: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH, Altenburg

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

This personal fotographic protocol of a investigative journey through Italy forms the first part of their book series about architectural research.

belgrade formal informal

Edited by ETH-Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute
Published by Scheidegger & Spiess
Authors: Roger Diener, Marcel Meili, Christian Müller & Milica Topalovic
Language: german and english

January 2012
ISBN: 978-3-85881-254-4
Hardcover, 245 x 175 mm, 276 pages
Typeface: Warsaw Book / Warsaw Poster by Ludovic Balland
Print: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg GmbH, Altenburg

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet
with Christian Lange and Julia Marti

The book displays the content in a lexical manner. Since the book is set in two languages, the images are grouped at the beginning of each chapter, to avoid repetition. In the texts the captions replace the images and link them to the image group. This editorial system allows to focus either on the images or the texts. To mark the chapters, four image trailers with earth- coloured pictures serve as an introduction, while in shorter texts pictures are directly placed next to the text.

Book series for the
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Published by Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Distributed by The University of Chicago Press
Language: english

2011—2014
Softcover, 195 x 138 mm
Typeface: Ludwig Pro, Jury Regular
Print: ARGRAF Sp. z.o.o., Warsaw

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

Ongoing series of books for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw for which we
supervise the visual communication since 2009. A simple grid and distinct concept
for the use of reference images and artist works creates the editorial identity
for all volumes.

ABC Teaching architecture
3 Positions made in Switzerland

Softcover, 210 × 149 mm, 144 pages
Concept: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet, Basel

Winner "Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2010"
Winner "Swiss Federal design Award 2011"
Honorary appreciation in "The Best Book Design From All Over the World" at the Stiftung Buchkunst Leipzig 2011
Shown at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich during the exhibition "100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design", 2012

A
Hong Kong Typology
Edited by Emanuel Christ, Nele Dechmann, Victoria Easton & Christoph Gantenbein
Published by GTA publishers, ETH ZH
July 2010
ISBN: 978-3-85676-287-2
Typeface: Suisse Sans Special
Print: Gremper AG, BS
Book design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Yvan Weiss

B
Important Buildings
Edited by Andreas Anton Amodio, Romina Grillo & Raphael Zuber
Published by Kaleidoscope Press, Milan
September 2010
ISBN: 978-88-97185-01-7
Typeface: Suisse Sans Special
Print: Gremper AG, BS
Book design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Jonas Oehrli

C
Radical Mix in Hanoi
Edited by Ludovic Balland, Ulrich Kirchhoff, Louise Low & Toru Wada
Published by Kaleidoscope Press, Milan
October 2010
ISBN: 978-88-97185-04-8
Typeface: Suisse Sans Special
Print: Regal Printing Limited, Hong Kong
Book design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Toru Wada

The project presents 3 different positions in architecture as a semester-work of 3 different architecture schools in switzerland. Each position consists of 3 parts: a poster, a catalog and an exhibition. The poster carries the information on the semester- theme and the exhibition title, the catalogues for each school come in the same format and range and present the research-work. Finally, the exhibition was the result of each school‘s work. It was held at the swiss institute in venice.

VITRA catalogue
HOME COLLECTION 2010 & VITRA CITIZEN OFFICE 2011

Published by Vitra
Language: german, english

2010
Softcover, 200 × 300 mm, 80 pages / 108 pages
Print: GZD, Ditzingen

Art direction and book design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet
Furniture photography: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti, Daniela Droz
Black and white Photography: Didier Jordan

The Home collection 2010 and the citizen office furniture catalogue, offer 3 different views of the home and office furniture collection. The first view is documentary, shot inside the showroom, showing the interaction between the visitors and the furniture. The second view is arranged, also shot inside the showroom but with light arrangements and in specific angles. The last view, is a pure view of the object, presenting every piece on a white background.

Schweizer Pavillon Expo 2010 Shanghai

Published by Buchner Bründler AG
Language: german

2010
Softcover, 610 × 430 mm, 101 pages
Printed in Shanghai, China
Print: on demand

Book design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Ivan Weiss
Photography: Iwan Baan

The idea for the catalogue was to overprint the preliminary design drawings of the pavilion with a text explaining the concept and the project of the pavilion itself and some pictures of Iwan Baan, that he took during the exhibition in Shanghai. The overprint was made in magenta and black.
By overlapping these elements, an interaction is created between the beauty of the technical drawings, the narrative aspect of the project as well as the reality of it shown in the photographs of the pavilion in use.

Herzog & De Meuron
Monograph N°4

Edited by Gerhard Mack
Published by Birkhäuser
Language: english, german

May 2009
German ISBN: 978-3-7643-8639-9
English ISBN: 978-3-7643-8640-5
Hardcover, 330 x 242 mm, 352 pages
Printed in Germany

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet
with Natacha Kirchner and Claudio Casutt

Winner "Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2008"

The monograph presents the work of Herzog & De Meuron between 1997 and 2001. Selected projects are displayed in 3 different forms: archive-data, plans and photographs. In the archive- or project-chapters sketches and different design-stages of buildings are presented, embedded in a personal and a scientific text. The chapter "plans" shows large-sized black-and-white- plans of each project. The last chapter, photography, presents all buildings in their urban context. This clear structure enables the reader to find a very specific content. All chapters are, according to the content, especially visual designed. In doing so, the book offers three different approaches to the spectacular projects of Herzog & De Meuron.

inch
living is private

Edited by Yves Raschle and Thomas Wüthrich
Language: german, english

November. 2008
213 x 150 mm, 96 pages
Typeface: Suisse, Basilea, Bembo Schoolbook
Paper: MultiArt gloss
Print: Offsetdruckerei Karl Grammlich GmbH
Lithography: Georg Sidler

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

Marcel Meili, Markus Peter
1987-2008

Edited by Marcel Meili and Markus Peter
Published by Scheidegger & Spiess
Language: english, german

May 2008
German ISBN: 978-3-85881-221-6
English ISBN: 978-3-85881-714-3
Hardcover, 275 x 200 mm, 512 pages
Print: Druckerei Grammlich, Pliezhausen

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet
with Natacha Kirchner and Claudio Casutt

Winner "Most Beautiful German Book 2008" Nomination for the "German Design Award 2009"

This Monograph is the first of the Zürich-based architects Marcel Meili and Markus Peter. It presents more than 20 years of work,from 1987 to 2008, as well as the office philosophy.

The book is edited chronologically, every selected project is presented with a short introductory text as well as a site map and a reference image.

The pictures of the projects are layouted with a system that enables to show the development of the project through images.

Next to the presented projects, there is a complete chronology of their work and discussions with different personalities.

5TH BERLIN BIENNIAL
when things cast no shadow

Edited by Adam Szymczyk & Elena Filipovic
Published by JRP Ringier
Language: english, german

April 2008
ISBN: 978-3-905829-58-7
Softcover, 270 x 200 mm, 592 pages
Print: Musumeci S.p.A., Quart (Aosta), Italy

Book concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabine
with Daniel Barbiero, Natacha Kirchner and Claudio Casutt

Nomination for the "German Design Award 2008"

The Berlin Biennial catalogue contains a list of essays, a description of the four exhibition venues and two double spreads for every artist to present his inspiration and reference material.

The catalogue is in english and german, the two languages are set parallely. Images related to the essays are set between the two languages, as a separate chapter and linked to the texts, in order to avoid repetitions.

Throughout the essays, the image captions work as a link to the images, they are set big, as if they were filling the space of an actual image. The three categories of content are set in three different layouts based on the same grid.

Stadtkino Basel
Monthly Programme

Edited by Nicole Reinhard & Beat Schneider
Distributed by Stadtkino Basel
Language: german

Since June 2007
Softcover, 230 x 315 mm, 24 pages
Typeface: Baskerville
Print: Gremper AG

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

Winner "Federal Swiss Design Awards 2011"
Special distinction "Type Directors Club New York"

The programme for Stadtkino Basel includes the timetable for all films
as well as two essays on the subject, a summary of each film and
corresponding photos or images. In order to organise the different
information, we propose the programme in two parts: The first part
provides the film calendar. Each spread gives an overview of the week.
The calendar is divided into two columns flanking the spread. These columns
are perforated which enables readers to remove the pages they are interested
in and to put them into their agenda or wallet. In the second part, the films
are listed according to the two monthly themes. The essays on the themes, a
summary of each film, its technical data and the schedule can also be found.
The two parts of the programme are interactive. The idea is to offer the readers
three different ways of choosing their film. They can either be tempted by the
full-sized images, browse and select via the calender or discover interesting
topics by browsing the programme.

ALL DESIGN
LEBEN IM SCHWERELOSEN RAUM

Edited by Erika Keil and Christina Reble
Published by Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Language: german

2001
ISBN: 3-907065-90-5
Softcover, 240 x 170 mm, 320 pages
Print: Schwabe Basel

Book design: Ludovic Balland & Jonas Vögeli

stanley

Design: Ludovic Balland with Yoann Minet, 2012

'Stanley' is a new typeface by Ludovic Balland, inspired by 'Times New Roman', one of the most classic typefaces of the 20th century.

Stanley Morison, after criticizing the British newspaper 'The Times' of being typographically outdated was then commissioned to create a new font. In 1932 the typeface was released under the name 'Times New Roman' and would become a superlative typeface due to its refined aesthetic and legibility qualities.

Sharing comparable qualities with its inspirational precursor, 'Stanley' offers excellent legibility and incredible sharpness at very small sizes. The drawing of the typeface is characterized by wide and sharp counter forms as well as short ascenders and descenders, generating neat text arrangements. The very graphic shape of the serifs benefit from a maximum of contrast. With five cuts, 'Stanley' fulfills versatile needs from footnotes to headlines. The particular drawing of the capitals gives a unique tone to text and can be used to create an additional typographic hierarchy.

Available at www.optimo.ch

theater basel
CORPORATE TYPEFACE

Design: Ludovic Balland with Yoann Minet, 2012
Photography: Mathilde Agius

When I was asked to redesign the whole visual identity of the Theater Basel in 2011, the main goal was to make the theatre more visible in the context of the city. I therefore proposed a mainly typographical concept, also to create a contrast with the usual theatre poster aesthetic, that often makes use of stage images. The theatre font was designed for this concept, it needed to be easy to read in both small and big sizes. We knew that the font would be used for long texts as well as for big poster headlines. We wanted to create a font that expresses the classical antiquity period, where the Greek and Roman societies flourished and wielded great influence throughout Europe and the Middle East. The western theatre originated in Athens if we consider Aristotle to be the first theoretician of theatre (384-322 BC). The font offers very classical drawings and open counter-spaces, making it sharp in small sizes and very elegant in big sizes.

Available soon.

5TH BERLIN BIENNIAL
corporate typeface

Design: Ludovic Balland, 2008

The concept of the 5th Berlin Biennial corporate Typeface was to design a typeface
that connects objects and places of Berlin directly to the letters, creating a collective
memory of the city.

The objects we used are from the archive of the german "Werkbund - Museum der Dinge", Berlin, a museum founded in 1906 that collects plenty of produced as well as unproduced objects. The places we used are photographs of famous and unfamous places that we took during a trip through the city. By mixing images of the city and objects of this archive, we generated a font that isn't just postscript data, but a time document related to the citizens.

JURY
monospace typewriter font

Design: Ludovic Balland, 2002

'Jury' was designed in order to have a new monospace typeface that combines serif-lower cases and sans serif uppercases. Having this two different styles in the same cut, allows to create two different textures in the same text, which can be very helpful in many different typographical situations.

The very low ascendant and descendant make the setting of very compact text blocks possible. The font also contains an underline cut.

Available soon.

zoo basel
CORPORATE TYPEFACE

Design: Ludovic Balland, 1998
Photography: Mathilde Agius

'Zoo Basel' is a corporate typeface designed in 1998 for the zoo in Basel and used for its signage as well as for headlines in printed matter. The font was designed to go with 'Trade Gothic', the zoo's typeface used for texts and captions in printed matter and for the nameplates inside the zoo attached next to the animal cages. The font 'Zoo Basel' was also used to write the logo.

Available soon.

Type Specimen

2011
Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

Type Specimen for the first version of the "Swiss Art Awards" typeface.

Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography
Competition Entry

Competition Entry (not achieved)
March 2015
Various formats
Typeface: Warsaw by Ludovic Balland

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet
with Pierre Benoit and Raphaela Haefliger

Visual Identity for the annual photography festival of Biel/Bienne, including logotype, poster and leaflet.

The concept of the logotype is based on the similarity of the word „photo“ that is used
in the three languages of the festival. This allowed us to build a photographic
composition by playing with the presence and absence of the common letters „O“ and „T“.
The posters are developed around the same idea, suggesting or describing the images rather
than revealing it in its entirety.

Festival Antigel
Visual Communication

January 2015
Various formats
Typeface: New Clarendon by François Rappo
Printing: silkscreen by Serigraphy Uldry AG, Hinterkappelen and offset
Photographs: Alain Grandchamp

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet
with Gregor Schreiter and Dario Mutter

Visual communication for the Festival Antigel for dance and music in Geneva, including logo design and various media such as posters in diverse formats, leaflets, flyers, etc. The whole design concept is based on the combination of the logo split-elements «an» «ti» «gel» that offer a basis for all media formats.

www.antigel.ch

ERACOM POSTER WORKSHOP
«ÉCRIRE L’ERACOM [DE] DEMAIN»

June 2014
Poster size: 1280 × 895 mm
Printing: Silkscreen

Workshop concept: Ludovic Balland at Eracom
(école romande d'arts et communication) in Lausanne

In this five days workshop questions like "will books only have one page?" or "will mails be public?" guided the students to reflect upon media and their profession in the future. In groups the students developed texts and a system of graphic compositions to design different poster series as propositions of future professions to their own school. The posters were printed silkscreen and exhibited in the school.

www.eracom.ch

UNION DINER
RESTAURANT

September 2014
Size: 1280 × 895 mm
Printing: Creaplot AG Münchenstein

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet
Photography: Mathilde Agius
Photopgraphy interior shot: Mark Niedermann

Poster series and murals for burger restaurant "Union Diner".
Each motive combines props of references movies, burger ingredients,
and large-scale fragments of the logo.

MUZEUM WARSAW
CO WIDA

Febuary 2014
Size: 700 × 1000 mm
Print: Offset
Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

Poster for the exhibition: "As You Can See. Polish Art Today"
at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw 14.2.—1.6.2014.

SWISS ART AWARDS

2012–2014
Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet
Typeface: Swiss Art by Ludovic Balland with Yoann Minet

Visual Identity for the annual Swiss Art Awards Exhibition including signage, invitation, inserts and poster. The Font "Swiss Art" was especially designed for this project.

Theater Basel
Redesign Visual Communication

2012-2013
Typeface: Theater Basel Regular & Bold by Ludovic Balland with Yoann Minet

Concept, art direction and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet
with Emmanuel Crivelli, Marton Oroszlan & Adrien Moreillon

The new visual communication of the "Theater Basel" is based on the corporate typeface that was especially designed by Ludovic Balland. It's combination with a set of geometric elements creates a sharp visual language that enables to structure, shape and identify all media of the theater. The corporate typeface is based on an older typewriter source—by keeping the structure of the typewriter we generate an unexpected rhythm and a strong visual recognition.

Bildrausch Filmfestival
Identity

2011—2014
Poster: 1280 × 895 mm / 594 × 420 mm
Booklet: 95 × 148 mm
Typfaces: Antique, Dante New
Printing: Gremper AG, Basel; Creaplot AG Münchenstein

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Peter Ruch

Visual identity for the annual Bildrausch Filmfestival in Basel including logo, posters,
programme brochure, adverts, etc.

The logo design is a merge of the letters "B" and "R", inspired by moving image sequences
and cinema related vintage graphic design. Each year the large scaled logo is complemented
with a new, distinct image concept.

muzeum warsaw
w sercu kraju

May 2013
Booklet:138 × 195 mm
Poster: 700 × 1000 mm

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

Booklet, poster, flyer and invitation for the exhibition: "In the Heart of the Country"
at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw 14.5.2013—6.1.2014.

Warsaw under construction 2014
festival of the museum of modern art in warsaw

2014
Flyer size: 420 × 594 mm, folded, offset print
Booklet size: 138 × 195 mm, folded, offset print

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Siri Bachmann

Visual communication for the annual "Under Construction Festival" of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, including various medias such as posters, billboards, exhibition flyers, newspaper ads, exhibition catalogue, etc.

Warsaw under construction 2013
festival of the museum of modern art in warsaw

2013
Billboard size: 8000 × 5000 cm, digital print
City light poster size: 905 x 1280 mm, digital print
Flyer size: 420 × 594 mm, folded, offset print

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Romy Strasser

Visual communication for the annual "Under Construction Festival" of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, including various medias such as posters, billboards, exhibition flyers, newspaper ads, exhibition catalogue, etc.

Warsaw under construction 2012
festival of the museum of modern art in warsaw

2012
Billboard size: 8000 × 5000 cm, digital print
City light poster size: 905 x 1280 mm, digital print
Flyer size: 420 × 594 mm, folded, offset print

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Adrien Moreillon

Visual communication for the annual "Under Construction Festival" of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, including various medias such as posters, billboards, exhibition flyers, newspaper ads, exhibition catalogue, etc.

Warsaw under construction 2011
festival of the museum of modern art in warsaw

2011
Billboard size: 8000 × 5000 cm, digital print
City light poster size: 905 x 1280 mm, silkscreen
Flyer size: 420 × 594 mm, folded, offset print
Ad: various sizes, offset print

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

Winner "Swiss Federal Design Awards 2012"

Visual design for the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, including various medias such as posters, billboards, exhibition flyers, newspaper ads, exhibition catalogues

Kunsthalle Basel
X2

November 2011
Size: 895 × 1280 cm
Typeface: Agenda by Ludovic Balland
Silkscreen: Uldry SA, Hinterkappelen

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

ABC Teaching Architecture
3 positions made in Switzerland

Summer 2010
Size: 100 × 70 cm
Typeface: Suisse Sans Special
Silkscreen: Uldry SA, Hinterkappelen

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

The project presents 3 different positions in architecture as a semester-work of 3 different architecture schools in switzerland. Each position consists of 3 parts: a poster that comes with the catalog and an exhibition. The poster carries the information on the semester-theme and the exhibition titel, the catalogs for each school come in the same format and range and present the research-work. The result of each school's work was exhibited successively at the swiss institute in venice.

IL TEMPO DEL POSTINO
EXHIBITION POSTER

June 2009
Size: 895 × 1280 mm
Print: silkscreen

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

Poster design for the group show "Il Tempo del Postino", performed by a wide range of contemporary artists at the Theater Basel during Art Basel 2009.

BUILDING VITRA, NEW PROJECTS
EXHIBITION POSTER

September 2008
Poster size: 40 × 100 cm, silkscreen 3 colors
Invitation: 31 × 45 cm, offset
Typeface: Antique by François Rappo

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

5TH BERLIN BIENNIAL

Mai 2008
Curated by Adam Szymczyk & Elena Filipovic
Size inserts: various
Billboard: 608 × 434 cm
Citylight poster: 58 × 64 cm

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet with Simon Palmieri

The Berlin Biennial communication was printed on a large range of differents formats. Every printed matter included "B" and "5" in order to activate the reader and to make the different objects and places that are inserted in the letters visible.

STADTKINO
MONTHLY POSTER AND FLYER

Since 2007
Poster size: 1280 × 895 mm
Flyer size: 310 × 230 mm
Typeface: Akzidenz Grotesk and Baskerville

Concept and design: Ludovic Balland Typography Cabinet

ELECTROTEC
Concert POSTER AND FLYER

2003
Poster size: 460 × 640 mm
Print: offset on newspaper

Concept and design: The Remingtons (Jonas Voegeli & Ludovic Balland)
Type Design: Ludovic Balland

Winner "Swiss Federal Design Awards 2003"

ELECTRAVISION
Concert POSTER AND FLYER

2003
Poster size: 460 × 640 mm

Concept and design: The Remingtons (Jonas Voegeli & Ludovic Balland)
Type Design: Ludovic Balland

Winner "Swiss Federal Design Awards 2003"