Jürg Lehni
In 1999, Jürg Lehni (*1978) participated in the various design activities of the ‘Transport’ off-space in Lucerne, such as the creation of the Lego Font and Play, which were released through Lineto in the same year. After studying interaction design at Hyperwerk Basel (1999–2001), Jürg graduated from ECAL in 2002. His thesis project was a vector drawing machine running on a self-devised software called Scriptographer, which was also released as a free plug-in for Adobe Illustrator.
With Cornel Windlin, Jürg set up the new Lineto website in 2003/04. A second vector drawing machine, Viktor (2006), operates with chalk on blackboards and is now in the collection of SFMOMA. Working on a number of collaborative projects with Alex Rich, Jürg designed an exhibition as well as the official website of Konstantin Grcic, a.o.
In 2011, Jürg launched an extension of Scriptographer, called Paperjs.org with interaction designer Jonathan Puckey. He was an Arts Council Visiting Professor at UCLA (2012–13) and an Associate Professor at Parsons in New York (2016–17). Returning to Switzerland in 2017, he contributed to the design and oversaw coding for the new Lineto website (2019).
Jürg Lehni
In 1999, Jürg Lehni (*1978) participated in the various design activities of the ‘Transport’ off-space in Lucerne, such as the creation of the Lego Font and Play, which were released through Lineto in the same year. After studying interaction design at Hyperwerk Basel (1999–2001), Jürg graduated from ECAL in 2002. His thesis project was a vector drawing machine running on a self-devised software called Scriptographer, which was also released as a free plug-in for Adobe Illustrator.
With Cornel Windlin, Jürg set up the new Lineto website in 2003/04. A second vector drawing machine, Viktor (2006), operates with chalk on blackboards and is now in the collection of SFMOMA. Working on a number of collaborative projects with Alex Rich, Jürg designed an exhibition as well as the official website of Konstantin Grcic, a.o.
In 2011, Jürg launched an extension of Scriptographer, called Paperjs.org with interaction designer Jonathan Puckey. He was an Arts Council Visiting Professor at UCLA (2012–13) and an Associate Professor at Parsons in New York (2016–17). Returning to Switzerland in 2017, he contributed to the design and oversaw coding for the new Lineto website (2019).