Werner Jeker, graphic designer and co-founder of “Ateliers du Nord” in Lausanne. Member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), regularly collaborates with cultural and commercial institutions in Switzerland and throughout Europe —such as Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, Nespresso, Magnum Photos and Phaidon Press— for whom he creates posters, books, exhibitions, visual identities and other graphic documents. He was artistic director of communication for Weimar’99, cultural capital of Europe and completely conceived and realized the pavilion SIGNALDOULEUR of the Arteplage of Yverdon-les-Bains for the Swiss National Exhibition Expo 02. A recent documentary of his life and work can be viewed here.

The posters that make up this HMCT Archive collection consist of A0-sized posters (approx. 47 x 33″), all silk-screened or offset litho on paper unless otherwise noted.