Manuela Pfrunder

Manuela Pfrunder (born March 25, 1979 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss graphic artist .

Act

In 2000 she completed her training in the graphics class in Lucerne at the Fach- und Wirtschafts- Mittelschulzentrum (FMZ) Lucerne. Her thesis, The Continuation of Creation , won the 2000 advancement award from the Swiss Association of Graphic Art (SGV) and the “Willy Guhl Prize for Communication Design ” at the 2001 Swiss Design Prize . Based on this, the book project Neotopia was created , which was published by Limmat-Verlag in 2002 with the support of UNICEF . Her work has been shown at several exhibitions in Zurich , Berlin and Vienna .

Pfrunder is a member of the design network switzerland (dns) and has been working as a freelance graphic designer in Zurich since 2003 .

Redesign of the Swiss banknotes

50-franc note of the ninth series

The Swiss National Bank commissioned Manuela Pfrunder to design a new series of Swiss franc banknotes . The new banknotes were originally supposed to go into circulation in 2010, which has been delayed. The first to be presented to the public at a media conference on April 6, 2016, was the new 50 note. It was issued from April 12, 2016. It was voted the most beautiful note of 2016 by the International Banknote Society. The remaining notes are to follow at intervals of six months or a full year by spring 2019.

This was preceded by an ideas competition for a series of banknotes on the subject of “Switzerland open to the world”, in which Manuela Pfrunder was awarded a 2nd prize on November 23, 2005. In the further development of the work submitted by the three award winners, Pfrunder's designs proved to be particularly suitable for implementation. That is why the Bank Council of the Swiss National Bank decided on February 23, 2007 to commission Manuela Pfrunder with the further development of her designs until mid-2008.

literature

• Manuela Pfrunder: Neotopia. Atlas on the equitable distribution of the world . Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85791-405-X . Second edition 2003.

Web links

• Literature by and about Manuela Pfrunder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Manuela Pfrunder
• Project Neotopia
• Project new banknotes on the website of the Swiss National Bank
• Current version of the new banknotes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Switzerland Lands 2016 IBNS Bank Note of Year Award. Retrieved June 5, 2017 . 
2. ↑ snb.ch: Media talk with Fritz Zurbrügg, Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Swiss National Bank (PDF), December 10, 2015
3. ↑ Press release from the SNB of February 26, 2007: Preparation of a new series of Swiss banknotes. PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.