Julia Born is a Swiss graphic designer who studied at Amsterdam’s Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Her practice encapsulates an inquiry into the formats of editorial and exhibition design, challenging them and expanding the notion of design across media and disciplines. Language and its ambiguous qualities are at the center of her project, which she explores through commissioned and independent work, in close dialogue with artists, curators, and cultural institutions. Born teaches editorial design at Master Type Design at ECAL in Lausanne, and is a visiting lecturer at international art and design institutes. Solo exhibitions include All Capitals (MACRO—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, 2022) and Title of the Show (Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, 2009). She is the recipient of the Swiss Grand Award for Design, awarded by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture in 2021.

Sereina Rothenberger runs the graphic design studio Hammer in Zurich since 2008, together with David Schatz and Jana Hofmann. She held a professorship at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 2013 to 2019, latterly serving as a head of department. She a faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the US since 2015 and has also been joint head of the programme. Since 2020 she is an advisor at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and since 2021 she is the jury president of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books Competition.

Tan Wälchli is a historian and writer who received a PhD from the University of Zurich in 2006. He conceived a trilogy of booklets about controversial concepts from art theory under the name Whyart with Aude Lehmann (2004–08), as well as three Most Beautiful Swiss Books catalogues with Laurenz Brunner (2008–10). A Post-Doc at the University of Chicago (2008–12) and the University of Basel (2012–14), he has been a regular contributor to the Most Beautiful Swiss Books catalogues since 2011. Since 2016, he has been teaching in the BA Visual Communication at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and he has been a researcher and writer at Lineto.com since 2019.

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