Thierry Blancpain

What I am working on at the moment.

Polyparty is the biggest student party of Switzerland. Each year, 5000 young people gather at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Shown below is the new corporate design and the sponsoring brochure for 2009. Main design coming soon.
Various Applications / With: Jonas Hegi

School is serious business. Thus we took stock images and advertisement language and transformed it with some of the manual tools available at our school–linocut and wood type printing. This results in a loud message to all those interested in joining our school: We don't take ourselves too seriously.
Posters, Flyer, Website / With: Katja Rüfenacht, Patrick Savolainen

A fifth of the worlds population does not have access to clean water. Soon enough, water will be the first important ressource of mankind to be in scarcity. And that is how thirst becomes war.
Poster, Postcard

Transformation of content of the online forum TheRoot42 into printed media. TR42 is an international design forum I am part of. The thread is called Tell TR42 about you. Posts in it spread over 2 years, each a snapshot of a personality at a certain point in time. 30 posts equal one book, the thread filled 6 books.
6 Books / 240 pages

Sandbox is a starting up global network for young talents of all kinds. Instead of never meeting or meeting when they are 50, Sandbox aims to create a network and conferences to connect those talents, to collaborate, innovate and exchange. Mirroring their idea, I worked with Louis Beaudoin (CAN) and Anthony Sheret (UK) to create the corporate design and identity system for Sandbox.
Various Applications / With: Louis Beaudoin, Anthony Sheret

Freelance projects for start-ups, mostly logos and basic printed matters.
– Keymo is a local event management company.
– Cassiber is an enterprise idea-management software company.
– Holstee is a t-shirt company formed in NYC, using recycled materials only. 100% of Holstee proceeds is given to non-profit micro-lending organizations in developing nations. Their T-Shirts sport a holster-pocket, thus you get to be a cowboy while helping the world.
– o10 is the work-in-progress name for a music festival in 2010. This is the logo they use until they finalize their brand.
Various Applications

My daily way to school and to my internship were things I saw very often but were still unknown to me because i never took much notice of the surroundings during commuting. The resulting book is a japanese bound endless record of what i found on my exploration.
1 Book / 48 pages

This poster series is built on three quotes of William Morris, each with its specifically designed typeface. William Morris (1834-1896) was a british artist, printer, writer and socialist. Morris was one of the founders of the Arts and Crafts Movement in England. He saw craftsmen as artists and despised industrial production taking the place of those artists.
3 A3 Posters

Various Type Experiments of the last few years.