Urs Lehni
As a graduation project at Fachklasse Grafik in Lucerne, Urs Lehni (*1974 ) initiated ‘Transport’, an off-space for graphic design activities with Rafael Koch, Peter Körner und Markus Wohlhüter in 1999. One of their on-site projects, a playful font based on the the design of Lego™ bricks, was published through Lineto the same year. Urs then joined Cornel Windlin’s studio and, together with Gilles Gavillet, collaborated on the Schauspielhaus Zürich project. In 2000, he developed a vector-based online drawing suite called vectorama.org, with his brother Jürg Lehni and with Rafael Koch.
An independent Zurich-based designer since 2001, Urs joined forces with Lex Trüb in 2005 to form Lehni/Trüb. For one of their many publication projects, they asked Aurèle Sack to create a new typeface referencing Johnston Sans and Super Grotesk, an endeavour which eventually lead to Aurèle’s further development of LL Brown (2011). In 2008, Urs also founded the publishing unit Rollo Press, and he co-initiated the exhibition space Corner College, both in Zurich. He won a prestigious Jan Tschichold Award in 2015.
Urs served as a Professor of Communication Design at HfG Karlsruhe from 2013 to 2018. Since 2019, he has been Head of BA Visual Communication at Hochschule der Künste Bern, Switzerland.
Urs Lehni
As a graduation project at Fachklasse Grafik in Lucerne, Urs Lehni (*1974 ) initiated ‘Transport’, an off-space for graphic design activities with Rafael Koch, Peter Körner und Markus Wohlhüter in 1999. One of their on-site projects, a playful font based on the the design of Lego™ bricks, was published through Lineto the same year. Urs then joined Cornel Windlin’s studio and, together with Gilles Gavillet, collaborated on the Schauspielhaus Zürich project. In 2000, he developed a vector-based online drawing suite called vectorama.org, with his brother Jürg Lehni and with Rafael Koch.
An independent Zurich-based designer since 2001, Urs joined forces with Lex Trüb in 2005 to form Lehni/Trüb. For one of their many publication projects, they asked Aurèle Sack to create a new typeface referencing Johnston Sans and Super Grotesk, an endeavour which eventually lead to Aurèle’s further development of LL Brown (2011). In 2008, Urs also founded the publishing unit Rollo Press, and he co-initiated the exhibition space Corner College, both in Zurich. He won a prestigious Jan Tschichold Award in 2015.
Urs served as a Professor of Communication Design at HfG Karlsruhe from 2013 to 2018. Since 2019, he has been Head of BA Visual Communication at Hochschule der Künste Bern, Switzerland.