designers

practitioners who extend the swiss line—moving grids, ratios, and typographic logic into contemporary digital frameworks.

armin hofmann

graphic designer & educator

shaped basel’s visual logic—clarity, restraint, and controlled tension—while teaching a generation of designers through his foundational principles.

ethan marcotte

designer

introduced responsive web design, carrying swiss modular thinking into flexible, device-adaptive digital layouts.

max bill

designer & architect

merged mathematics with visual form, giving swiss design its clean geometry and disciplined typographic logic.

josef müller-brockmann

graphic designer

formalized modular grid systems that defined the international typographic style and reshaped communication design.

emil ruder

typographer

championed legibility and asymmetric balance, grounding swiss typography in functional clarity and visual discipline.

luke wroblewski

product & interface strategist

reframed digital hierarchy with mobile-first thinking, redesigning structure for the smallest screens first.