The Basel School of Design



		Welcome to The Basel School of Design The Basel School of Design and its students have influenced the international Graphic Design community since the 1960’s. Under the direction of Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder courses for Graphic Design and Typography were developed. They were outstanding models for a modernist design education. Since the year 2000, the Swiss educational system has undergone an astonishingly rapid process of adapting its educational institutions to the international standards of the Bachelor and Master curricula at the University level. In this process the Visual Communication department became a separate institute from the vocational level School of Design (Schule für Gestaltung Basel). We are now part of the University system of Northwest Switzerland and have developed a curriculum for the University level with international accreditation. This University level institute is officially called the “Visual Communication Institute/ The Basel School of Design” and forms together with seven other Design- and Art oriented Institutes the Academy of Art and Design Basel (HGK Basel) as a Department of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). > www.fhnw.ch/hgk/ivk Today the Visual Communication Institute/The Basel School of Design offers a Bachelor’s Degree program > www.fhnw.ch/hgk/ivk, and two international Master’s Degree programs 1. > Master of Fine Arts UIC/HGK information and application , > web 2. > Master Arts in Visual Communication and Iconic Research as well as international Summer Workshops www.fhnw.ch/hgk/ivk/summer-workshops-2008, and is involved in many national and international research www.eikones.ch and development projects www.weallplugin.org. We are proud of what our institute has achieved during the past few years. The institute has a curriculum for today and tomorrow’s design world continuing the rich tradition of Swiss Design and Typography.
		Faculty	Visiting Faculty
		Viola Diehl Marion Fink Leander Eisenmann Fabian Kempter Angelo A. Lüdin Reinhard Manz Mathias Remmele Michael Renner (Head of the Visual Communication Institute The Basel School of Design) Roman Schnyder Philipp Stamm Nicolaj van der Meulen Gregory Vines Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Weingart (faculty member until 2004, Professor Emeritus)	Majid Abbasi, Teheran Rayan Abdullah, Berlin Ludovic Balland, Basel André Baldinger, Paris Dan Boyarski, Pittsburgh Elise Co, Los Angeles Pierre di Sciullo, Paris Alan Fletcher, London Richard Feurer, Zürich Karin Fong, Los Angeles Keith Godard, New York Hamish Muir, London Helmut Schmid, Osaka Ahn Sang Soo, Korea David Tartakover, Tel Aviv Wendelin Hess, Basel Laurent Lacour, Frankfurt Jiry Oplatec, Basel Peter Vetter, Zürich Franz Werner, Providence