If you keep shouting, you are not making communication any better. You are only removing talking and whispering from the system. I find our society a bit noisy. I just would like to contribute a little silence.

One of the world’s most highly regarded Swiss graphic designers, Bruno Monguzzi was born in Mendrisio in 1941. He moved to Geneva with his family and attended the Graphic Design Course at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. In 1960, he traveled to London and attended Gestalt psychology, typography, and photography courses at Saint Martin’s School of Art and the London College of Printing. In 1961, he joined the renowned Studio Boggeri–Italy’s leading design and advertising agency at the time. In 1965, he joined the Charles Gagnon and James Volkus agency in Montreal, where he designed nine pavilions for the Expo 67 World’s Fair. Since the early 1970s, he has worked from his studio in Meride, a small village in southern Switzerland.

His most significant projects have included the visual identity of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris (no longer in use) and the posters for Museo Cantonale d’Arte in Lugano (1987-2004). Among his numerous awards, Monguzzi received the Premio Bodoni in 1971, the Gold Medal from the New York Art Directors Club in 1990, the Yusaku Kamekura Award, and the gold medal at the Toyama Biennial in 2000. In 2003, he was awarded the distinction of Honorary Royal Designer for Industry (by the Royal Society of Arts, London), and he received the international design award at the Madrid Design Festival 2020.

Photo: Bruno Monguzzi in his Meride studio, 2022