Field of Activity
As a lecturer, Prof. Philipp Stamm teaches in the Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Master of Design programmes. In the fields of advanced education, he offers two design workshops for professionals and students, which are also available as components of the CAS Visual Literacy: in summer, the module Schriftgestaltung / Type Design and in winter the module Grundlagen Typografie – Schriften kombinieren / Typography Basics – Combining Typefaces.
At IDCE, he also co-ordinates the BA aptitude assessment in Visual Communication and Digital Spaces.
Biography
Philipp Stamm (1966) completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter at Meier+Cie AG in Schaffhausen (1982-1986). His employment as a text designer at DokMan AG in Zurich-Höngg marked a further technological change – from lead and phototypesetting to desktop publishing (1987-1990).
After working for four years, he felt the need to study: Typographic Design at the Basel School of Design (1990-1992) and Visual Communication at Basel Academy of Art and Design (1992-1995) – with André Gürtler, Wolfgang Weingart, and Reinhart Morscher, among others. In his type-design diploma project, he focussed on the Expansion of the Latin Alphabet for the German Language.
He then worked as a freelancer in Basel, a.o. for the GGK advertising agency and at Reinhardt Verlag for the satirical magazine Nebelspalter, before becoming self-employed (1998-2008). Together with Heidrun Osterer, he founded “feinherb”. For their book project Adrian Frutiger – Schriften. Das Gesamtwerk, he conducted numerous interviews with the Swiss type designer. And for his book Schrifttypen – Verstehen | Kombinieren, he developed a renewed and expanded font classification. At the same time, he taught (from 1996) Typographic Composition, Detailed Typography, Type Design, the History of Type and Typography, and Corporate Design at SPRI and at the Zurich Gewerbeschule – and since 2000, at the Basel Academy of Art and Design.
In terms of methodology and didactics, he is interested in eye training as well as the aspects of openness in limitation, richness in reduction, unity in diversity, and playfulness in systematics.
Projects
Type design projects (selection)
- Corporate Type – E. Gutzwiller & Cie AG, Banquiers, Basel (2000).
- PhonogrammeF – Zeichensatzerweiterung für die deutsche Sprache, basierend auf der Schrift Frutiger Roman von Adrian Frutiger. Diplomprojekt, HFG Basel (1995).
- Logo: GVK Gewerbeverein Klettgau (1994).
- Wortmarke: stamm Grafisches Unternehmen, Schleitheim (1993).
- Zeitungskopf (Überarbeitung): Schleitheimer Bote / Anzeiger vom Oberklettgau (1993).
Book design projects (selection)
- Andreas Meier: wah wah – grand slam lyrics. Pako-Verlag, Rain 2022.
- Philipp Stamm: Schrifttypen · Verstehen | Kombinieren. Schriftmischung als Reiz in der Typografie. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2020.
- Heidrun Osterer, Philipp Stamm: Adrian Frutiger – Schriften. Das Gesamtwerk. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2008. Auszeichnungen: Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher 2008 / Schönste Bücher Deutschlands 2008.
- Jörg Mollet: Dem Sehen einen Körper geben. Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel 2003. Gestalterische Zusammenarbeit mit Heidrun Osterer.
- Andreas Meier: Tinas Trip im Cyberspace. Pako-Verlag, Kastanienbaum 2003.
- Patrick Fluri: Panalpina Forwarding Manual – 3rd Edition. Panalpina (Logistik), Basel 2001. Gestalterische Zusammenarbeit mit Heidrun Osterer.
- Andreas Meier: Affenschwanz – Trilogie einer virtuellen firma. Pako-Verlag, Kastanienbaum 1999. Auszeichnung: Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher 1999.
Exhibitions (participations)
- Frische Schriften / Fresh Type. Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, 2004.
- postscript – Zur Form von Schrift heute. Künstlerhaus, Wien 2002.
- Read Me – Mit Adrian Frutiger durch die Welt der Zeichen und Schriften. Wanderausstellung durch verschiedene Städte Europas und Indiens, 2000.
- Junges Schweizer Design – 7 Designer zeigen ihre Arbeiten (im Rahmen der Präsentation des VW Lupo). Forces Motrices (Altes Wasserkraftwerk), Genf 1998.