The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is the leading museum for design and visual communication in Switzerland. The exhibition programme covers a broad spectrum of themes and monographic positions from the fields of industrial and product design, ...
Before attending, double-check the required language skills on the organizer's website.
Avant-garde – Modernism in poster design during the interwar period
| The publication *Avant-Garde*, Poster Collection 38, illustrates the emergence of graphic design as an independent creative discipline. The poster served as a medium for propaganda and public education, promoting new products and technical achievements, and inviting people to engage with debates on new architecture and living, as well as to attend photography, film and advertising exhibitions. Graphic designers, typographers and photographers sought to actively engage with everyday life and experimented with progressive means appropriate to contemporary society. The poster thus became a manifesto of universal modernism. With Patrick Rössler, communications scholar and curator, and Bettina Richter, curator of the poster collection and the exhibition, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich In cooperation with the ‘Zürich liest’ book festival. |
To this organizer's website
Thursday, October 22, 2026
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Ausstellungsstrasse
18:00 - 19:30 o'clock
Free
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Ausstellungsstrasse
Ausstellungsstrasse 60
8005 Zürich
Accessibility:
Infos Zugänglichkeit:
Für Informationen rund um Barrierefreiheit an der Ausstellungsstrasse steht Manuela Moor gerne zur Verfügung: +41 43 446 67 35, manuela.moor@zhdk.ch
