Melchior Imboden

Melchior Imboden (born July 14, 1956 in Stans ) is a Swiss poster designer and photographer .

life and career

After an apprenticeship and first job as a decorator, Melk Imboden (as he is usually called) studied graphic design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences from 1984 to 1989 . He then worked as art director for a Zurich advertising agency in order to found his own design studio in 1992. He was accepted into the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1998. In 2001 the HfG Karlsruhe appointed him as a visiting professor for graphic design and photography. In 2004 he moved to the Berlin University of the Arts to take on the poster class there as a visiting professor, which he held until 2007. Imboden lives in Buochs (Switzerland).

Works and awards

Imboden's poster design work has received awards at many important poster exhibitions. He achieved gold in Brno in 1994, the 2004 Grand Prix in Seoul , silver in Mexico in 2002 and bronze in Tokyo (1998) and Toyama (2002). In his photographic work he portrayed the inhabitants of his homeland (“Nidwalden faces”, 1992), the jazz environment (“Jazz Portraits”, 1999) and in 2007 he presented a selection of his in his book Designer Portraits, which was published with the graphic artist Jiangping He Photos of the main graphic designers (mainly poster designers) together. In 1989 he received the Swiss Grand Photo Prize.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Short biography on the website of the Swiss Foundation for Photography . Retrieved March 26, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b} AGI website: Portrait Imboden  ( 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. . Retrieved March 26, 2012.  
3. ↑ Melchior Imboden / Jiangping He (eds.): Designer Portraits , Sulgen 2007, p. 524