Jan Tschichold
General informations
BAK (Federal Office of Culture) awards one person, a group or a institution with the Jan-Tschichold-Award for outstanding achievements in book design since 1997. This year the winner of the award is Ludovic Balland. The jury found Balland had developed a unique graphic methodology, within different subjects like publishing, typography and academia. By contemporarily reformulating the thoughts of Basel School regarding formal and typographical research, he was able to combine the heritage of Basel School with current graphic design. Balland's book design provides a conclusive portrait of the architecture field in Switzerland now. His numerous monographs of renowned architects (such as Herzog & de Meuron, Buchner Bründner, Meili) as well as non-fiction books (Teaching and Research in Architecture) show a simultaneously ambitious and obsessive approach, that influenced book design beyond the swiss boarder.
