Sandra Bischler

Sandra Bischler-Hartmann is a design historian and communication designer (MA in Art and Design Science, 2015). After a traineeship as a curatorial assistant at the Zurich Museum für Gestaltung, the Swiss museum for design and visual communication, she worked on her thesis and was involved in the research project Swiss Graphic Design and Typography Revisited from 2016 till 2020. Since 2020, she has been a Research Associate at IDCE and handles the scientific support of the institute archive and the Basel Design History Lab. Since 2024, she has been conducting research as part of the project WYSIWYG – an investigation in the uptake of graphic design software in Switzerland and France, 1980 – today, a collaboration with HEAD Genève. She also is a lecturer in the History of Design (at HKB, Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, and others) and works as an author and curator, most recently for Rid the Grid – Women in Swiss Graphic Design 1900–1980 at the Basel Poster Collection.

Rid the Grid – Frauen im Schweizer Grafikdesign 1900–1980, 15.09.–06.10.2024, Plakatsammlung Basel.
ridthegrid.ch

Armin Hofmann – Die pädagogische Dimension, 20.10.–27.11.2020, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel.
erahofmann.ch

My Own Private Swiss Graphic Design History, 05.–27.07.2018, AMBIT Exhibition Space, London. 06.–30.06.2018, erlesen – Raum für gedruckte Feinkost, PROGR, Bern.
sgdtr.ch/journal/my-own-private-swiss-graphic-design-history

Welten bauen – Modelle zum Entwerfen, Sammeln, Nachdenken, 15.07.2016–08.01.2017, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.
emuseum.ch/exhibitions/1806/welten-bauen