Poster Design

Leander Eisenmann started his career as a graphic designer at pre-school age, so to speak, when he drew a bare climbing tree for monkeys, which had fascinated him during his last visit to the zoo, instead of a pretty tree with apples for a school enrolment test: reduced to the max... In fact, that’s why he was not allowed to enrol right away, though it did not detract from his passion for design and creativity.
After some stays in Munich (as a designer at the Siemens Design Center and in the office of Rolf Müller), Amsterdam, and Berlin (as guest artist at Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben), he has been working in his Zurich studio since 1997 focusing on poster and book design, drawing, painting as well as targeted artistic interventions. Since 2002, he has been a lecturer in Visual Communication for both the BA and MA programmes at the Institute Digital Communication Environments IDCE at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.
He organizes workshops and gives lectures in Switzerland and abroad, and his work has been shown in book and poster exhibitions in Berlin, Essen, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Lausanne, Lucerne, Seoul, Taipei, and Zurich, among other places.
In 2021, his poster series Stop Assad was among the “100 Best Posters Germany, Austria, Switzerland 2020”. In 2022, he exhibited at the Haus Konstruktiv museum in Zurich as part of the Förderpreis Bildende Kunst of the Canton of Zurich.

The Institute Digital Communication Environments (IDCE) offers workshops for students, educators and graphic designers.

The workshops afford insights into topical themes of visual communication for analogue and digital communication channels in a study programme reflecting the rich tradition of the Basel School of Design. Practical exercises with a high level of professionalism form the core of the workshops focus. Reflection as well as contextual knowledge will be conveyed by way of input sessions, allowing participants’ work to be judged within a contemporary, future-oriented context relevant to professional practice. The trinational Rhine River Valley is a unique cultural environment with easy access to France and Germany and to sites such as the Vitra Design Museum (G), the Isenheimer Alter (F), or Ronchamps (F). In Basel, the Fondation Beyeler, Tinguely Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Schaulager, and Museum of Contemporary Art are world-renowned. Besides its museums, Basel offers a rich mixture of cultural events.

Multiple Bookings:
 2 ECTS  CHF   900.-
 4 ECTS  CHF 1700.-
 6 ECTS  CHF 2400.-
 8 ECTS  CHF 3000.-
10 ECTS CHF 3500.-

20% discount with a valid student ID. This must be sent in with the registration (pdf)

Terms of participation (PDF)
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Continuing education regulations of the universities FHNW (fhnw.ch/DE)