Before, while, after.

Founded in the mid-1990s at the Schule für Gestaltung Biel/Bienne, where they all met as students. SILEX brought together Anna Albisetti, Bastien Aubry, Dimitri Broquard, Dimitri Bruni, Manuel Krebs, Gregory Gilbert-Lodge, and Aude Lehmann as an experimental publishing and editorial illustration platform. Since then, its members have developed highly influential international practices across typography, graphic design, publishing, arts and visual culture.

SILEX (1995–2004), 20 issues + multiple specials, all written and drawn by hand, produced with the most high- and lowtech printing and binding techniques, and always following the “logic of the applied system”.

The stones, pin-up as calendar, special hallucination, Cain and Abel, before & after, the story of the forest, the haircuts, to heal, body fluids and their circulation, midland, do it yourself, misfortune, Gagarin, the bones of the forearm, Silex S, annual report, quartet, my way, vogue, the truth, sex, pink genesis and this is the end,…