Hans Frauchiger

Viscom Diploma Publication

2025

Editorial Design
Editing

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Context

Mentorship

Luca Bode
Marc Röcker

BA Viscom ZHdK
extracurricular

Jonas Vögeli
Lea Michel

The 2025 edition of the Visual Communication graduation publication revolves around the core concept of perspectives. It celebrates the graduating class and explores questions of style and the ZHdK’s influence on its students. Alongside glimpses of the diploma projects, it brings forward voices from graduating students, alumni, and current peers. It’s not a polished publicity brochure, but an unfiltered glimpse into the school’s culture. Opinions are printed as they were spoken – raw and unvarnished. This attitude is reflected in the book as an object: it breaks with conventions and explores radically unpolished approaches to printing and binding.

Sangster int’l

2024

Type Design
Editorial Design

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Mentorship

Size

BA Viscom ZHdK
Type Design 2

David Keshavjee
Giliane Cachin
Clément Rouzaud
Sylvan Lanz

A4

Sangster Int’l is a typeface that fuses two of my deepest obsessions: Swiss typographic tradition and the island of Jamaica. More precisely its language Patois, the story of which is not just one of linguistics, but one of colonial oppression and post-liberation class struggles. Sangster Intʼl is presented as part of a fictional corporate manual for the University of the West Indies where in 2002 the only standardized written form of Patois was devised. The manual puts Patois first in order to fight sociolinguistic discrimination. The typefaces introduces special ligatures to make the phonetic spelling system appear compact and easy to read.

Ausserordentlicher Hausdienst

2024

Performance Art
Editorial Design

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BA Viscom ZHdK
Experimental Design

Mark Niederer

Hans Frauchiger

Im Modul «Experimentelles Gestalten» haben wir uns zunächst mit Bruno Webers Torskulpturen auseinandergesetzt. Wir kamen zum Schluss, dass ein Tor seine Bedeutung erst durch die Welten, die es trennt und verbindet erhält. Auf der Suche nach einer anderen Welt haben wir zunächst die der ZHdK definiert. Dazu haben wir den ausserordentlichen Hausdienst samt Büro, Briefkasten und Formularen ins Leben gerufen und damit eine mehrwöchige Kunstperformance gestartet. Ohne dies geplant zu haben, fanden wir die Gegenwelt in den Menschen am Toni und unsere Aufgabe darin, dieser durch zahlreiche Interventionen Raum zu geben. Schlussendlich stellten wir fest, dass die Rolle des Tores dabei wir selbst übernommen hatten.

Viscom Showreel

2024

3d-Animation
Typography
Music Production

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Music

BA Viscom ZHdK
extracurricular

Noah Leimgruber
Yannik Gorges
Adah-Lynn Lanfranconi
Janina Katumbwe

Jan Meldau
Hans Frauchiger

Since 2017, the Visual Counication program has presented a showreel at the yearly information day for prospective students, offering an impression of the past VC year. While previous editions focused solely on showcasing student work, ours also features the Toni Areal itself–staged as the setting of a virtual exhibition unfolding along the everyday paths through the school building. Large parts of the building were scanned and com bined with 3D data from Google Earth to create this experience. The tour culminates in the Viscom studio and ends in the very auditorium where the showreel was shown. I used my own typeface, Sangster int’l, for the typography.

Giardino di Lambrusco

2025

Photography
Editorial Design

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BA Viscom ZHdK
Module Photography 2

Luca Bode
Luka Trifkovic

Luca Bode

195 × 260 mm

Giardino di Lambrusco reflects on current technological developments and translates a personal perspective into an experimental artistic visual language. Through a series of staged interventions, we sought to depict the juxtaposition of technology and nature beyond the clichés of sci-fi dystopia and utopia. We saw technology itself become a force of nature: untamed, fearsome, and at the same time beautiful–like a raging river or an overwhelming mountain range. This is the feeling we set out to capture. An accompanying book adds a textual layer to the project, incorporating an excerpt from David Abram’s essay Magic and the Machine.

Disko Poster Series

2024

Poster Design
Branding

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Comission

Disko Nº 1

Disko Nº 2

Disko Nº 3

Disko Nº 4

Animation

Disko
(self-initiated)

Niclas Funk
Dennis Vugts
A3
Digital print

Jakob Galler
Finn Stillhart
SRA3
Digital print

Jakob Galler
Dennis Vugts
470 × 670 mm
Letterpress

Anaïs Peter
375 × 603 mm
Screen printing
Hans Frauchiger

The event series Disko positions itself against the zeitgeist of musical uniformity: raw, authentic, and exuberant. The dual role of co-organizer and graphic designer allows this attitude to be translated directly into visuals – through posters pasted guerilla style and reels derived from them. All posters are created analog, in collaboration with a rotating group of contributors. Digital tools, if used at all, only come in during refinement. Printing is done by hand, always in black on the reverse side of discarded posters. Tear-off tabs are mandatory. Beyond that, the design is open–there is no logo. The series evolves as it grows and references itself along the way.