Rendez-vous des créateurs 2017

Swiss designers Balmer Hählen were in charge of the invitation for Rendez-vous des créateurs. They won the TDC Prize of the Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2018 with this project.

For the 2017 invitation, printing takes surprising forms and pushes the limits of technology. She defies all rules and enjoys it, going so far as to tamper with paper to bring a new dimension to the object. Balmer Hählen designed this invitation with a starting idea: What’s going on if the impression took over the graphic design? Thus cut-outs, textures, glossy varnish and hot printed matter takes over and modify the typography. The materials confront each other to offer a perfect alchemy. The contrasts sublime by opposing their textures. The shiny effects reveal their luminosity by imposing itself on matte papers. — Balmer Hählen

Suisse Int’l is part of the Suisse typeface, available from Swiss Typefaces.