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Anna Haas is a graphic design and illustration studio. After Germany and The Netherlands, the studio is now based in Switzerland.
The work of Anna Haas ranges from editorial design to visual identities, digital applications, illustrations, poster design and different publishing activities in the fields of art, culture and science.
Between 2011 and 2014 collaborative works occasionally appeared under the name of Heé Haas. She is publisher and editor of Rivista Apparente, an independent art publishing venture. In 2014 Haas co-founded the association Illustratoren Schweiz. Since 2014 she teaches at Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts (HSLU), department of visual communication. In 2017 she initiated and is running the smartphone app Book Cities, a non-profit index of book stores.
Her work was awarded with the Swiss Design Award and the Grand Prix of the International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno.
Her publications where selected by Photo-Eye—Best Photobook and the Most Beautiful Swiss Books.
Member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) and Swiss Graphic Designers (SGD).
Find more works here: Drawing Room
Please get in touch for new projects, commissions, collaborations or a coffee break.
Interns:
Gina Burri (2022)
References
Education
• 2009 – 2011 Werkplaats Typografie, ArtEZ, Arnhem, NL
• 2003 – 2007 University of Applied Sciences and Arts, HGKL, Lucerne, CH
• 2006 Erasmus semester at Karel de Grote-Hogeschool, KdG, Antwerp, B
Selected clients
Bad Bonn, CH
Biennale di Venezia, I
Bloomberg, USA
Brandeins and Brandeins, Neuland, DE
Busan Biennale 2018, KOR
CCA Montréal, CAN
Der Spiegel, DE
Die Zeit, DE
Domus Magazine, I
Edition Patrik Frey, Zürich, CH
Fotostiftung Schweiz, CH
Kunstmuseum Bern, CH
Kunsthalle Wien, A
Lowdown Magazine, DE
MIT/ACT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, CH
Neon, DE
NZZ, CH
Palace St.Gallen, CH
Scheidegger & Spiess, CH
SternbergPress, Berlin, DE
Spector Books, Leipzig, DE
The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Wallpaper, GB
Witte de White, Rotterdam, NL
Selected collaborations
ABCDinamo, Beni Bischof, Billy Ben, Ines Cox, Valérie Favre, Silvia Gertsch, Krispin Hée, Rachel de Joode, Fabian Marti, Moiré, Corina Neuenschwander (Studio Noi), David Renggli, Cristina Ricupero, Simon Trüeb (Moiré), Nomeda & Gediminas Urobnas, Lukas Wassmann, Weltformat (CH)
Selected Talks, Juries, Teaching, Workshops at the following institutions
• Mut zur Wut 2021 (jury member)
• 100 beste Plakate 2018 (jury member)
• ADG Laus Awards (jury member)
• Poster Design Residence, Centre of Contemporary Culture SMENA, Kazan, RUS (Workshop)
• Redo 7, Pristina (Lecture)
• Typoclub HKB, Bern, CH (Lecture)
• ISBA, Besançon, FR (Workshop)
• Welformat Korea Symposium, Seoul, KOR (Lecture)
• Parsons, The New School of Design, New York City, USA (talk and external critic)
• MIT ACT, Cambridge/Boston, USA (talk and external critic)
• Cooper Union, NYC, ‹Swiss Style Now› (exhibition and symposium)
• HSLU, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst, CH (teaching position)
• AGI Open, Biel CH (talk)
• EAA CIFOM, La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH (workshop and teaching position)
• HkB, Bern, CH (external critic)
• HfG Karlsruhe, DE (professorship)
• Jury member of ‹Junges Weltformat› (2012), CH
• F+F, Zürich, CH (external critic, diploma jury member)
• Royal College of Art, London, UK (talk)
• Werkplaats Typografie, ArtEZ, Arnhem, NL (workshop)
• Kantonsschule Zürich Birch, CH (workshop)
Awards
• 100 beste Plakate Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, 2022
• 100 beste Plakate Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, 2021
• Bronze at ‹International Poster Triennal› 2021 Toyama, JP
• 100 beste Plakate Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, 2020
• Grand Prix of the 27th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno, 2016
• Awardee of ‹Swiss Design Award 2015›, 2015
• Nomination for the ‹Designpreis Deutschland 2011›, 2011
• Most beautiful Swiss Books 2010, twice awarded with ‹Oman 1971› and ‹The Detroit Diary›, 2011
• Photo-eye: Selection of the Best Photobook 2010 (‹Coney Island›), 2010
Featured in (selection)
• Notamuse: A New Perspective on Women Graphic Designers in Europe, Niggli, CH
• Interview on eyeondesign.aiga.org
• Shoplifters Issue 5, Actual Source, USA, 2017
• idea, international graphic art and typography. 376, 2017/1, J
• 27th Brno Biennale 2016, Catalog, CZK
• 26th Brno Biennale 2014, Graphic Design Education & Schools, Catalogue & Exhibition, CZK
• Page Unlimited 2, Innovation Layout Design (Sandu), CHN
• Graphic Magazine #19, KOR
• ‹The most beautiful Swiss books› 2010, Catalogue & Exhibition (Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft), CH
• ‹Behind the Zines, Self-Publishing Culture› (Gestalten Verlag), DE
• ‹Los Logos 5: Compass› (Gestalten Verlag), DE
• Kinki magazine #19, DH
• Eye Magazine #74, UK
• ‹Regular: Graphic Design Today› (Gestalten Verlag), DE
• Strapazin #93, CH
• idPure #16, CH
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