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  • .HBC, Germany

    September 2010

    .HBC Berlin - Preview

    Design of a new visual identity for .HBC – a new club and restaurant in Berlin

  • 2raumwohnung, Germany

    August 2009

    2raumwohnung "Lasso": album, singles, vinyl

  • Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem

    October 2010

    Via Khan Al Zeit

    The artist book is a publication of "Home Sweet Home" a collaborative multi-city art project by Youmna Chlala & Jeanno Gaussi

  • Arch+, Germany

    June 2007

    Documenta 12 – The Making of Your Magazines

  • Archis Foundation, The Netherlands

    January 2010

    Beyroutes

    Beyroutes is the field manual for 21st century urban explorer.

    April 2008

    Supplement Volume#15: Secure City – Public City

  • Bauhaus Universität Weimar

    July 2010

    Ménage à 3

    Summer term 2010: Nicolas Bourquin and Thibaud Tissot were visiting professors at the Bauhaus University Weimar.

  • Beckmans College of Design, Stockholm, Sweden

    February 2007

    Magazines in space

    22.–24.02.2007: etc. publications host a workshop about magazines in space at the Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm, Sweden.

  • Berghs School of Communication, Stockholm, Sweden

    October 2007

    Content as experience

    05.–06.10.2007: etc. publications host a workshop about content as experience at the Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm, Sweden.

  • Biennial of Tehran, Iran

    April 2008

    Urban Jealousy – Humboldt, Between The Lines

  • Birkhäuser Verlag, Switzerland

    July 2009

    Smart Surfaces and their Application in Architecture and Design

    October 2009

    Extra – Encyclopaedia of Experimental Print Finishing

    Betty Page in relief!

    November 2010

    Old & New

    Design Manual for Revitalizing Existing BuildingsOut Now!

    July 2009

    Limited editions "Smart Surfaces"

    The linocuts were developed and produced (cut by hand and mechanically) for the book project "Smart Surfaces" to visualise components, processes, production methods or application of diverse surfaces.

    October 2007

    Space Time Play – Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level

  • BIS Publishers, The Netherlands

    November 2010

    Spontaneous City

    A bookazine on spontaneous urban developments.

  • BlingCrete

    June 2011

    BlingCrete – light reflecting concrete

    Visual identity for the new material BlingCrete, a light reflecting concrete

  • Callwey Verlag, Germany

    March 2009

    Was das Leben schöner macht

  • Campus Bielefeld, Germany

    July 2010

    Campus Bielefeld Pitch – Visual Identity and Slogan

    onlab's proposal for the visual identity of Campus Bielefeld

  • Commune de Tramelan, Switzerland

    September 2007

    City of Tramelan – Logo

    onlab created the new logo of the city of Tramelan in Switzerland

    September 2007

    City of Tramelan – CI/CD

    May 2010

    City of Tramelan – signage

    2 years after the completion of the new visual identity of the city, the municipality implemented the extensive signage system for buildings and public space.

    January 2009

    City of Tramelan – Photography

    September 2007

    City of Tramelan – gazette

    October 2007

    City of Tramelan – practical guide

    January 2007

    City of Tramelan – website

    September 2007

    City of Tramelan – exhibition of the Chamber of Commerce

    October 2007

    City of Tramelan – video CEP Exhibition

    May 2008

    City of Tramelan – CI-presentation at Typo Berlin 08

  • Commune di Valdagno, Italy

    October 2010

    Commune di Valdagno

    onlab and Salottobuono give to Valdagno the guidelines for a further development, where the municipality have the chance to transform itself into a laboratory.

  • Dan Pearlman, Germany

  • DAZ, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Berlin

    December 2011

    DAZ – New Means of Communication

    The new curator at DAZ, Matthias Böttger, asked onlab to develop a new design for the institute's event communications.

  • Deutsche Bank AG, Corporate Citizenship - Art

    February 2013

    Sachsen - Werke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank

    Exhibition catalogue

  • Domus, Italy

    April 2008

    Domus redesign – global view

    Comparability and data visualisation of the contents within the issue and through the year

    February 2009

    Domus Redesign

    Following the severals redesigns (Ettore Sottsass, Alan Fletcher, Simon Esterson), onlab create the new domus starting with its April 2008 issue.

    April 2010

    Domus Covers

    April 2008 – March 2010

    April 2010

    Domus Intersections

    From March 2009 till March 2010, onlab designs the monthly section of the Domus magazine called Intersections.

  • etc publications Berlin, Germany

    September 2009

    Quarry Workers

    Documentary photographs published in 6 different newspaper editions.

    March 2003

    Peace etc.

    Reader in newspaper format, "Peace etc." try to define what peace means in the 21st Century.

    June 2004

    etc. serie

    2003–2004

    October 2006

    Joël Tettamanti – Local Studies

    January 2006

    Jens Risch, Seidenstück 1

  • Federal Agency for Civic Education, Germany

    January 2006

    Fanshop of Globalization – Logo

    Visual Identity of the exhibition touring Germany during the football world cup in 2006

    January 2006

    Fanshop of Globalization – Mapping

    Mappings of the exhibition touring Germany during the football world cup in 2006

    January 2006

    Fanshop of Globalization – catalogue

    Catalogue of the exhibition touring Germany during the football world cup in 2006

    January 2006

    Fanshop of Globalization

    Exhibition touring Germany during the football world cup in 2006

  • Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs, Germany

    December 2008

    Updating Germany – German Pavillon at the Venice Biennale 2008

  • Fondazione Nicola Trussardi

    May 2010

    What Good is the Moon? The Exhibitions of the Trussardi Foundation

  • Forsbergs Graphic design School, Stockholm, Sweden

    January 2005

    Create Your Magazine in 30 minutes

    18.01.2005: etc. publications host a workshop about creating newspaper and magazines at the Forsbergs Graphic design & Advertisement School, Stockholm, Sweden.

  • Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Germany

  • Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

    October 2011

    Galerie C: Visual Identity

    Visual identity for the brand new Galerie C, space dedicated to contemporary art in Neuchâtel (CH)

    October 2011

    Galerie C: 2011–2012 season

    Posters and flyers for the 2011–2012 exhibtions

  • Gestalten, Germany

    October 2006

    Logos trilogy

    2002, 2004, 2006 – los, dos, tres logos

    October 2006

    Altitude – Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design

    March 2010

    Data Flow 2 – Visualizing Information in Graphic Design

    Expanding the definition of contemporary information graphics.

    April 2008

    Arabesque – Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia

  • Gingko Press Inc., New-York

    November 2005

    Marshall McLuhan Unbound

  • Graft magazine

    April 2013

    Graft Magazine

    onlab presents the first issue of GRAFT – a new magazine-in-magazine on materials

  • Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany

    January 2005

    Shrinking Cities

    September 2008

    Updating Germany – 100 projects for a better future

  • HEAD – Haute École d'Art et de Design, Genève, Switzerland

    November 2011

    4 Jours 20 Minutes

    Workshop – redesign of the free newspaper "20 Minutes" in 4 days

  • Hyperwerk, FHNW Basel, Switzerland

    April 2009

    Toten Tanz

    Cadavre Exquis

    March 2010

    Schnitzeljagd

    Poster Design Workshop: scavenger hunt

    March 2011

    Datendruck

    Workshop about data visualisation and screen printing hosted by Nicolas Bourquin and Sven Ehmann.

    April 2009

    Déjà-vu

    onlab hosts three workshops with the students of the FHNW Basel to establish a basis and the layout for the annual publication of Hyperwerk.

  • International Photographic Festival Biel-Bienne, Switzerland

    January 2006

    Die Rückkehr der Physiognomie

    Magazine of the international Photographic Festival of Biel-Bienne, Switzerland

    January 2006

    Catalogs International Photographic Festival of Biel-Bienne

    2004, 2005, 2006 – catalogue design

  • Kunst Meran | Merano Arte, Italy

    February 2012

    New Architecture in South Tyrol 2006–2012

    Exhibition catalogue

  • La Cambre – Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels, Bruxelles

    November 2011

    Affiches Indigènes

    Workshop – Design of posters about various quarters of the city of Brussels made out of found type.

  • Landeshauptstadt Kiel

    September 2011

    Kieler Woche – Competition

    We were invited to pitch at the Kieler Woche - one of Germany's most significant and honorific poster design competitions.

  • LargeNetwork

    December 2012

    Reflex Magazine

    Since 2011, we are collaborating regularely with the science magazine of the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL) and developing, together with LargeNetwork, a series of infographics.

    April 2013

    DADI Magazine

    We are collaborating regularely with the swiss design magazine DADI and developing infographics, together with LargeNetwork.

    May 2013

    Swissquote Magazine

    We designed this infographic together with Largenetwork for the swiss economic magazine Swissquote.

    March 2013

    WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization

    Together with Largenetwork, we developed this infographics' triptych for the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization).

  • Lavazza, Italy

    November 2011

    Lavazza – Con Te Partirò

    In the past 20 years Lavazza has been creating calendars with photography from internationally renowned photograpers. This body of work is presented in a comprehensive catalogue designed by onlab.

  • Lecool, Spain

    April 2012

    'A Smart Guide to Utopia'

    Urban guide to European cities.

  • Lucerne Festival, Switzerland

    September 2001

    Lucerne Festival – Annual Books 2001

    "Summer" and "Composer in Residence"

  • MOD.org – Urban Action Research Collective

    July 2010

    MOD.org – Urban Action Research Collective

    onlab offered consultancy on the development of a new architectural magazine for India.

  • Musée d'Ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Switzerland

  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

    October 2010

    Museum of Fine Arts La Chaux-de-Fonds: Corporate Design

    Visual communication for the Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds

    October 2012

    L'expérience de la ville

    Exhibition catalogue

    February 2012

    Claude Loewer. Les couleurs du géomètre

    Poster designed for the exhibition 'Claude Loewer. Les couleurs du géomètre' at the Museum of Fine Arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds.

    July 2009

    L'industrie

    Poster design for the eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds and the Museum of Fine Arts of Le Locle

    October 2010

    Pulsations. Catherine Gfeller

    Poster design for the eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds

    May 2010

    Le Monde en Noir et Blanc

    Poster design for the eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds

    March 2010

    Portrait de L'artiste en Motocycliste

    Poster design for the eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds

    January 2011

    Parcours. François Ditesheim

    Poster design for the eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds

    May 2011

    Oskar Kokoschka. Cabinet de Curiosités

    Poster design for the eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds

    September 2011

    1001 Bols

    Poster design for the eponymous exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds

    September 2012

    Contruire l'image: Le Corbusier et la photographie

    Exhibition design – life and work of Le Corbusier in photographs

  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland

    May 2009

    Alexandre Joly, polyphonie animale – exhibition catalogue

    October 2009

    Limited Edition Poster Series

    This is not a poster

    March 2010

    Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle

    Two complementary exhibitions about Industry and Art

  • Partizan Publik

    September 2009

    Microrayon Living

    Supplement to the magazine Volume 21 the newspaper is an inventory of everyday life strategies and D.I.Y. practices in the Post Soviet Microrayon.

  • PHBern

    May 2010

    Design from outer space

    Shares of a whole

  • Raumtaktik, Germany

  • Reporter Ohne Grenzen e.V

    May 2012

    Reporter Ohne Grenzen

    onlab has been designing the year book since 2010. The 2012 issue is out now!

  • School of Applied Arts La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

    January 2010

    Exercices de style

    Restaging Raymond Quenau's "Exercises in style"

    February 2007

    15 ways to do a book

    29.01.–02.02.2007: etc. publications host a workshop about making books with 15 students at the art school in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

  • Ski-Club Tramelan, Switzerland

    February 2008

    Ski-Club Tramelan – 100 ans

  • Soirée graphique, Komet AG, Bern, Switzerland

    October 2012

    Oh! Bloody Mary!

    Contribution to the exhibition 'Soirée graphique' at Kunsthalle Bern.

  • SoundCloud, Germany

    April 2008

    SoundCloud

    onlab creates the logo and the visual identity of the cloud.

  • Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Germany

    April 2009

    Quotes and Statements

    Editorial Design Workshop: magazine in 5 different parts

  • Stylepark

    September 2011

    Audi Urban Future Summit – Animated Infographic

    An animation for the Audi Urban Future Summit at the IAA Frankfurt

  • Substitut Berlin, Germany

    April 2013

    Substitut Berlin

    A Publication in 16 Hours printed on a Risographer

  • Summer School

    August 2011

    onlab Summer School 2011

    workshops, lectures and discussions

    September 2011

    onlab Summer Conference 2011

    Datatorial – All the Data That's Fit to Print: public conference september 3rd, 7 pm @ HBC in Berlin with Francesco Franchi and Stefan Fichtel

    September 2011

    Summer School 2011 – Publication

    Chronology of a Failure – The publication developed and produced during our Summer School 2011

    October 2012

    onlab Summer School 2012

    Love - Intimacy and Seduction in Urban Landscape

    October 2012

    onlab Public Conference 2012

    "Love - Intimacy and Seduction in Urban Landscape" October 20th, 7 pm @ DAZ Berlin – a conference with Beatrice Galilee (curator) and Milo Keller (photographer)

    November 2012

    Summer School 2012 – Publication

    "Love – Intimacy and Seduction in Urban Landscapes" the publication developed and produced during our Summer School 2012

    May 2013

    onlab Summer School 2013

    Deadline to submit you applications: May 31st 2013

  • University of the Arts (Burg Giebichenstein) Halle, Germany

    February 2011

    Daily Headlines

    Teaching assignment (Experimental Typography) for Nicolas Bourquin

  • University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin, Germany

    November 2008

    Design Reaktor Berlin

    The publication won the German Prize for Young Book Designers 2009!

  • University of the Arts Bremen, Germany

    April 2009

    Editorial Design

    3 years after the first workshop on magazine design hosted in Bremen, the students visit us at our studio in Berlin to pursue the discussion about editorial design.

    November 2009

    Filter – Editorial Design

    Workshop with students of the 1st semester from november 03rd - november 13th 2009

    February 2010

    Sex – Editorial Design

    Teaching assignment from october 2009 till february 2010

    November 2005

    Magazine workshop

    25.11.2005: etc. publications host a workshop with the students of the "magazine team" of the University of the Arts Bremen, Germany

  • Wallpaper*

    November 2011

    Wallpaper* – Mapping

    After mapping graphic design in Berlin, Wallpaper* commissioned us once again. This time we mapped out art in Dubai. The graphic diagram offers an insight into Dubai’s most interesting art galleries.