new heritage

Rosmarie Tissi’s style has been evolving throughout her career: from pure functionality of the grid-based Modernist design to a very individualistic aesthetic with vivid colors, peculiar proportions and experimental layouts. Way too abstract for the “Swiss style”, her works also were too Swiss to be mistaken for something else — that trait Tissi shared with Wolfgang Weingart.

 

 

 

more inventive, more imaginative, and above all, more subtle. —wolfgang weingart

Rosmarie Tissi in her studio

Rosmarie Tissi in her studio, 1958. Photo Sigi Odermatt.

life-long partnerships

After joining Odermatt, Tissi didn’t become an extension of his style. They were very different types, and their collaboration was based on mutual criticism rather than mutual work: they created things separately and exchanged feedback in the process. They were doing print and type design, mostly for cultural institutes and publishing houses. Over time Tiss and Odermatt also became life partners.

Cover for UCLA/Extension (University of California Los Angeles) Winter Quarter