Johnson / Kingston

From Switzerland
http://johnsonkingston.ch/

Johnson / Kingston is a design studio based in Bern / Luzern. Ivan Weiss and Michael Kryenbühl started their studio in 2012. In self-initiated as well as commissioned projects and their teaching, they focus on the intersection of design and technology in contemporary graphic design. In a long-term project on digital publishing they explored the potential of web-based and networked media in design, and with an interest in coding and tool building they develop projects in digital and printed media, custom workflows and typefaces. In client work they focus on contemporary forms of identities for cultural and educational institutions and explore new aesthetic and technical approaches in image-making. Their work has been shown internationally and won the Swiss Design Award twice, in 2017 and 2010; from 2017 to 2023 they held a professorship for communication design with a focus on new media at Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, and they teach at various Swiss art schools.