Juerg Brühlmann

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Jürg Brühlmann [bry: lman] (born July 19, 1956 in Aarau ) is a Swiss industrial designer and exhibition curator . His best-known work is the Minibar Railway System for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). This serving trolley, designed in 1990, ran on all lines of the SBB and the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). In 1999 he was responsible for the development of the exhibition Read me on The World of Characters and Letters , which was conceived globally and shown in Europe and India. In 2001 he founded Spinform AG in together with Anja BodmerSchönwerd . From 2008 he designed the industrial culture collection of the Bally family . Brühlmann belongs to the third generation of Swiss industrial designers.

Life

Growing up in Aarau, Switzerland, Jürg Brühlmann was admitted to the preliminary course at the Zurich School of Applied Arts after attending primary and district school . He then did an apprenticeship as a structural draftsman in the Schneider und Wasmer architectural office in Aarau.

In 1978 he entered the interior design and product design class at the Zurich School of Applied Arts, where he graduated as a product designer in 1982. In 1982 Brühlmann made a study trip to Holland lasting several weeks and made the acquaintance of designers such as Friso Kramer Ahrend Group Amsterdam, Wim Quist Rotterdam, Vormgeversassociatie Arnheim and Paul Mijksenaar Amsterdam. In the same year he opened his own design office in Zurich. His first clients included the Zurich Museum of Design , the Camille Graeser Foundation Zurich, the architects Heidi and Peter Wenger Brig and the Swiss Dining Car Society Olten. In 1983 he became a member of the Suisse Design Association SDA (then SID), and from 1986 to 1999 he was its board member. In 1983 he received a grant from the Ikea Foundation Switzerland for the research and development of small pieces of furniture made of plastic sheeting. In 1984, Brühlmann received recognition from the Braun Prize Kronberg for the minibar trolley he designed. The exhibition curated by Brühlmann about the engineer Hans Hilfiker in the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich marked the beginning of the exhibition series Swiss Design Pioneers. The exhibitions Willy Guhl (1985), Hans Coray (1986), anonymous design (1987), Jacob Müller (1988) and Wilhelm Kienzle (1992) followed.

From 1986, Jürg Brühlmann had a second design office in Lenzburg and in 1989 he gave up his office in Zurich. From 1987 to 1989, Brühlmann designed prototype solar power plants in the canton of Graubünden together with the architect Peter Eberhard, the landscape architect Stefan Rotzler and the electrical engineer Markus Real and Elektrowatt AG on behalf of the EWZ Elektrizitätswerk der Stadt Zürich . The planning did not lead to realization. From 1990 to 1994 Brühlmann developed the exhibition concept for the panorama of Swiss history for the National Museum in Zurich. The architects were Scheitlin and Sifrig and Hans Steiner. In 1990 he began working with graphic designer and scenographer Anja Bodmer, and that year he also received the Swiss Design Prize for the minibar on the train.

In 1992 Brühlmann received a grant from the Swiss Confederation for applied design for the minibar of the Swiss Dining Car Company. For the anniversary of the Zehnder company in Gränichen, Jürg Brühlmann designed the book "Zehndergeschichte" in 1994 with the author Andreas Steigmeier. The book was recognized in 1995 by the ADC Art Directors Club New York . Since then, Brühlmann has been working as a design consultant in the company for special tasks, for example in 2000 for setting up the showroom or in 2014 for planning and setting up the Academy, the company's internal training center.

In 1999, Anja Bodmer and Adrian Frutiger opened the exhibition "Read me - with Adrian Frutiger through the world of signs and letters" curated by Jürg Brühlmann in the Kornhausform Bern with Federal Councilors Moritz Leuenberger and Pascal Couchepin . The exhibition traveled to Ahmedabad, India in 2000 and was shown at the NID National Institute of Design. At the time, Jürg Brühlmann and Anja Bodmer were guest speakers at the NID and had their own office at the NID. In the same year the exhibition «read me» was presented at the 19th Graphic Biennale in Brno .

The Brühlmann office was converted into a stock corporation in 2001, with Anja Bodmer and Jürg Brühlmann as the main shareholders, and it was renamed Spinform AG. One year later, in 2002, the company moved from Lenzburg to Schönenwerd to the former factory of Bally Schuhfabriken AG. Spinform designed the showrooms of Neuco AG Zurich 2005 and EAO AG Olten 2007. For R. Nussbaum AG Olten, Jürg Brühlmann and Anja Bodmer designed almost all graphic documents, exhibitions, anniversaries, trade fairs, showrooms, client houses and branches from 2000 to 2017. During this time Spinform AG had grown strongly. R. Nussbaum AG's design presence developed into a modern corporate design . In 2010, the Brühlmann-Bodmer duo designed the exhibition for the 100th anniversary of Geo Chavez's first flight over the Alps from Brig to Domodossola . Following this project, Jürg Brühlmann and Anja Bodmer were able to redesign the permanent exhibition Passage Simplon in the Stockalper Castle in Brig. At the same time, Jürg Brühlmann became a founding member of the Heidi and Peter Wenger Architects Foundation in Brig. In 2008, the collaboration with the Ballyana collection for industrial culture in Schönenwerd began . Under the direction of Philipp Abegg, Jürg Brühlmann and Anja Bodmer were able to set up the permanent exhibition and numerous special exhibitions and exhibition extensions, such as the Bally Monsieur exhibition, which opened in 2019. The preoccupation with signage and wayfinding for the city of Aarau, which began in 2005, continued in Lenzburg and found an equivalent in 2019 in the new signage for the city of Zofingen . In 2017, the collaboration with the Zurich Central Library also began for the signage in the freely accessible stacks in the basement.

Awards

  • 1983: Braun Prize, Kronberg, DE
  • 1991: Scholarship for applied design, Bern
  • 1992: Federal grant for applied arts Minibar-Railway-System for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)
  • 1992: Swiss Design Prize , Solothurn
  • 1993: Design Review New York City
  • 1995: Good Design , Chicago
  • 1996: Art Directors Club NYC
  • 1997: Design Austria, Vienna
  • 1999: Contribution to the exhibition “read me - through the world of characters and letters with Adrian Frutiger ”, presentation abroad Pro Helvetia , Zurich
  • 2000: 19th Int. Graphic Biennale Brno, CZ
  • 2002: Graphic Design Istanbul, TR
  • 2008: Swiss Grafic Design, Friborg

Publications

  • Domus Nr. 771, Milano 1995: Article about the folding kayak, development, construction, design p. 66
  • Made in Switzerland. Verlag Hochparterre, Federal Office for Culture, 1997. (Portrait and article about the designer Jürg Brühlmann and the Minibar Railway System) ISBN 3-9520855-5-3 , p. 130
  • 19th Int. Biennale of Graphic Design, Moravian Gallery, Brno CZ, 2000. (Presentation of the exhibition "Read me"), ISBN 80-7027-076-4 p. 200
  • Hans Werner Bossert - designer and friend. In: Hochparterre, No. 6/7, 2006. (Portrait of a fictional Swiss design pioneer)
  • Edited with Anja Bodmer: Read me - with Adrian Frutiger through the world of characters and letters. Verlag Hochparterre, 2008, ISBN 978-3-909928-09-5 .
  • Ed .: https://www.1815.ch/rottenverlag/shop/heidi-peter-wenger/ Rotten Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-905756-69-2 . (Architectural monograph about the architect couple from Brig)
  • In: The station clock, a design myth in Switzerland. Publication of Mondaine watches about the watch by Hans Hilfiker, 2013. (Article about the encounter with Hans Hilfiker), ISBN 9783909928217 p. 26
  • In: The true story of the Landistuhl. Special issue raised ground floor for Vitra about Hans Coray and the Landistuhl. 2014. (Article about the design by Hans Coray)
  • In: Baukultur im Kanton Wallis 1920 to 1975 Publication Kanton Wallis, 2014. (Numerous articles on buildings by the Wallis architects Heidi + Peter Wenger), ISBN 978-3-909928-25-5 p. 84, p. 112, p. 115
  • In: 800 years Brig. Publication on city history. 2015. (Article and portrait about the architect couple Heidi and Peter Wenger from Brig) ISBN 978-3-906118-39-0 p. 225
  • In: International Graphic Design Exhibition Book on the occasion of exhibitions held on 9 - 17 May 2002 at MSU Osman Galleries, p. 203
  • In: Series Schweizer Design-Pioniere 5 " Jacob Müller - Handwerk, Technologie, Experiment" in the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich ISBN 3-907065-32-8 p. 11
  • In: Federal Scholarship for Applied Arts 1992 p. 34

Web links

  • All exhibitions eMuseum: Museum of Design Zurich, Archive Zurich University of the Arts exhibitions
  • Exhibitions eMuseum: Museum of Design Zurich, Archive Zurich University of the Arts Exhibition Remmidemmi from Burundi
  • Swiss Design Pioneers 6 series, eMuseum: Museum of Design Zurich, Archive Zurich University of the Arts Exhibition Wilhelm Kienzle
  • Spinform AG

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography eMuseum: Museum of Design Zurich, Archive Zurich University of the Arts Jürg Brühlmann, biography
  2. ↑ objects in eMuseum Museum of Design Zurich, Archives Zurich University of the Arts minibar Railway System
  3. ↑ Read me - the world of signs and letters , eMuseum: Museum for Design Zurich, Archive Zurich University of the Arts Exhibition documentation
  4. ↑ series Swiss design pioneers 1, eMuseum Museum of Design Zurich, Archives Zurich University of the Arts Exhibition Hans Hilfiker - engineer and designer
  5. ↑ series Swiss Design pioneers 3, eMuseum Museum of Design Zurich, Archives Zurich University of the Arts Exhibition Hans Coray - artists and designers
  6. ↑ series Swiss design pioneers 5, eMuseum Museum of Design Zurich, Archives Zurich University of the Arts Exhibition Jacob Müller - crafts, technology, experiment
personal data
SURNAME Brühlmann, Juerg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss industrial designer and exhibition curator
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau