CINÉMATHÈQUE SUISSE
Compelling story of a film archive

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Focus
Branding, Editorial Design, Poster Design, Web Design, Environmental

Website
live.cinematheque.ch

Following the successful visual identity initiated by Jannuzzi Smith, I designed pieces of collateral material such as an XML design system for a bi-monthly booklet and the new Swiss cinema archive signage. The identity is now living and growing autonomously.

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Poster series.

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Bi-monthly publication compiled in XML.

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Calendar based website.

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Signage for the archive in Penthaz.

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The Cinémathèque Suisse’s complex in Penthaz—expanded and designed by EM2N architects—consists of atmospheric and underground storage areas encased by a shell of rusting steel.

Agency
Jannuzzi Smith

Images
Isabelle Huppert in “La Dentellière”, Claude Goretta, 2002. Cinémathèque Suisse, EM2N Architects, by Roger Frei

The Swiss Film Archive is a non-commercial foundation collecting, protecting, studying and presenting film archives based in Lausanne. It is recognised as the 6th film library in the world, collecting all media defined as ‘Helvetic’ in the cinematographic and audiovisual fields.

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