Lecturer for Critical Design, Publication Design, Colour, and Drawing as well as Poster Design
Field of Activity
Leander Eisenmann teaches in the BA Visual Communication and Digital Spaces programme as well as in advanced education at CAS level. In the Editorial Design and Colour and Drawing modules, he draws on his many years of experience in applied poster and book design and the visual arts and focuses on gaining experience in application-related projects. In the Critical Design module, forward-looking design concepts are developed and tested in their application.
BA Visual Communication and Digital Spaces
Summer Workshop "Poster Design"
Leander Eisenmann graduated from the Graphic Design class at the Basel Academy of Art and Design in 1991. After completing his studies, he worked in Munich at the Siemens Design Centre, where he was involved in developing the corporate design for the Expo 92 world exhibition, and at Rolf Müller, where he was responsible for HQ, the graphic design magazine.
He returned to Switzerland in 1995 and studied Fine Arts at the Zurich University of Art and Design, graduating in 2000.
In 1997, in parallel with his training, he also began teaching Visual Communication at the Basel School of Design and opened his own design studio in Zurich, focussing on book and poster design. During this time, Leander Eisenmann worked closely with the Zurich Museum für Gestaltung, the Ulm Internationales Forum für Gestaltung, and C.H.Beck, the Munich publishing house. In the following years, his work was honoured several times with the awards Most Beautiful German Books and 100 Best Posters Germany, Austria, Switzerland. In 2002, he received a scholarship to Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben in Berlin. In 2003, he spent a year as a guest lecturer in Graphic Design/Book Design at the Lucerne School of Art and Design.
Since 2001, Leander Eisenmann has been working as a lecturer for the BA and MA programmes of the Institute Digital Communication Environments at HGK Basel in the field of Visual Communication. Since 2017, he has been increasingly active in the field of visual arts. His work has been shown at book and poster exhibitions in Berlin, Essen, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Lausanne, Lucerne, Seoul, Taipei, Frankfurt am Main, and Zurich, among others. In 2021, the 5-poster series Stop Assad was one of the 100 Best Posters Germany, Austria, Switzerland 2020. In 2022, he was nominated for a work grant from the Canton of Zurich as part of his artistic activities.
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- Eisenmann, Leander: Ausstellung der Arbeit «Probleme sind auch keine Lösung», Museum Haus Konstruktiv Zürich; Nominierung Werkbeiträge des Kantons Zürich 2022.
- Eisenmann Leander: Plakat-Ausstellung «Konvent für Demokratisches Design», Frankfurt/Main 2022.
- Eisenmann, Leander, in: 100 beste Plakate e.V., (Hrsg.), 100 Beste Plakate 2020, pp. 98–103, Hermann Schmidt Mainz, Mainz 2021.
- Eisenmann, Leander, in: Schweizer Jugend forscht, (Hrsg.), „21“; 55. Nationaler Wettbewerb/Gestaltung/Architektur/Künste; Würdigung durch den Experten, pp. 43, Schweizer Jugend forscht, Bern 2021.
- Eisenmann, Leander, in: Steven Heller, Gail Anderson, (Hrsg.), Type Speaks; A Lexicon of Expressive, Emotional, and Symbolic Typefaces, Abrams, New York 2019.
- Eisenmann, Leander: Me and Them, in: Le Cabinet SR:CH; Coline Jeanneret-Gris, Milica Pantelic, Théophile Glauser, Zeljko Loncar, Sébastien Doutaz, (Hrsg.), Other Side; An interactive poster project by balkan and Swiss artists, Le Cabinet SR:CH, pp 097–098, La Chaux-de-Fonds 2017.
- Eisenmann, Leander: Book Design, in: Neshan 29, The Iranian Graphic Design Magazine, pp. 34–37, neshanmagazine.com, Teheran 2012.
- Eisenmann, Leander: Tilting Ghadhafi, in: 000x.ch, (Hrsg.), 0019 bestien, pp. 43–51, Atelier du livre, Bern 2011.
- Eisenmann, Leander, in: Stiftung Buchkunst, (Hrsg.), Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2010, pp. 40–41 und 78–97, Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt a. M., Leipzig 2011.
- Eisenmann, Leander, in: 100 beste Plakate e.V., (Hrsg.), 100 Beste Plakate 07, pp. 091, Hermann Schmidt Mainz, Mainz 2008.
- Eisenmann, Leander, in: Hochparterre (Hrsg.), Daniela Kuhn, Bd. 6–7, Brennpunkt, Das Buch der Erkenntnis, pp. 28–29, Edition Hochparterre, Zürich 2008.
- Eisenmann, Leander: Gestaltungsmittel, in: Renate Stefan, Nina Rothfos, Wim Westerveld, (Hrsg.), U1 – Vom Schutzumschlag zum Marketinginstrument, pp. 170-171, Hermann Schmidt Mainz, Mainz 2006.
- Eisenmann, Leander: in: Stiftung Buchkunst, (Hrsg.), Schönste Deutsche Bücher 2005, Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt a. M., Leipzig 2006
- Eisenmann, Leander, in: Bundesamt für Kultur (Hrsg.), Schönste Schweizer Bücher 2004, pp. 9, 26, 31 u. weitere (Kap. 8 und 15), BAK, Bern 2005.
- Eisenmann, Leander: Positionierungen, in: 100 beste Plakate e.V., (Hrsg.), 100 Beste Plakate 03, pp. 78, Hermann Schmidt Mainz, Mainz 2004.
- Eisenmann, Leander: in: Stiftung Buchkunst, (Hrsg.), Schönste Deutsche Bücher 2003, Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt a. M., Leipzig 2004