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Erich Brechbühl [Mixer] is a Lucerne based independent graphic designer focused on poster and corporate design.
He was born on the 3rd of October 1977, and grew up in Sempach, Switzerland. In 1990, at the age of 13, he started his career with the foundation of Mix Pictures, an organisation for short film productions and cultural events. After a typography apprenticeship near Lucerne [1994-1998], he became an apprentice graphic designer at the studio of Niklaus Troxler in Willisau [1998-2002]. Subsequently, he founded his own graphic design studio Mixer in Lucerne. In 2009 he was co-founder of the Weltformat Graphic Design Festival in Lucerne and started the regular exchange meeting for graphic designers called Show & Tell in 2012.
For his posters he won numerous international awards and since 2007 he’s a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale [AGI].
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Solo Exhibitions
24.08. – ??.??.2020 Yale Graphic Design, New Haven USA
06.11. – 30.11.2018 Ecuador Poster Bienal, Quito EC
23.11. – 07.12.2017 Bienal del Cartel Bolivia BICeBé, La Paz BO
22.01. – 22.04.2017 Fix & Eri, 3sec.gallery, Breda NL (with Felix Pfäffli)
06.03. – 06.06.2016 Xi’an Design Union CN
Awards
2021
Silver Award, Motion Poster Category, Shenzhen International Poster Festival (The Notwist)
Bronze Award, Cultural Poster Category, Shenzhen International Poster Festival (Perplex)
2020
Silver Prize, Digital Out of Home Category, Swiss Poster Award (Innerschweizer Filmpreis)
Winner, Graphic Designers of the Year, Switzerland Prestige Awards
Grand Prize, Ecuador Poster Bienal (The Notwist)
2019
Jury-Award of Hajime Tsushima, China International Poster Biennial, Hangzhou CN (Five Rings)
Bronze Prize, Essence 19, Best of Swiss Graphic Design (Innerschweizer Filmpreis)
2018
Gold Prize, Digital Out of Home Category, Swiss Poster Award 2017 (Welcome to Lucerne)
Gold Prize, Swiss Print Award (Plan Lumière)
Visitor’s Award, Int. Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno (Open Club Day)
Golden Bee Award, Category A: Fresh Wind, Golden Bee 13, Moscow (Open Club Day)
2017
Winner, Typography Video Contest, Typomania 2017, Moscow (Be Water)
Winner, 20th Biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (A few messages to space)
2016
Silver Prize, Public Service Category, Swiss Poster Award 2015 (Welcome to Lucerne)
2015
Bronze Prize, Cultural Category, Swiss Poster Award 2014 (Midsummer Night’s Dream)
3rd Prize, Trnava Poster Triennial, Slovakia (Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Winner, 19th Biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (Salzhaus)
TPDA Award, Taiwan International Graphic Design Award (Midsummer Night’s Dream)
2014
First prize, Grafia Tapani Aartomaa Prix, Lahti Poster Triennial, Finland (The Matterhorn is beautiful)
2013
TDC Prize, Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2013 (Between me and tomorrow)
Nomination Design Preis Schweiz (4 posters from 2012)
1st Prize, Int. Biennial of Theater Posters Rzeszow, Poland (Demons)
Bronze Medal, Taiwan International Poster Design Awards (Between me and tomorrow)
2012
Merit, Graphis Poster Annual 2013, New York (Under Milk Wood)
Golden Bee Award, Golden Bee 10, Moscow (Between me and tomorrow)
2010
The Best Posters, Vibre Poster Festival 2009, Iran (Macbeth)
2009
Bronze Prize, Cultural Category, Swiss Poster Award 2008 (Die rote Zora)
Bronze Prize, Category Identity Company Implementation, ED Awards (Patient Diagnostics)
Distinction, B2C Launch, Corporate Design Award 2009 (Patient Diagnostics)
2008
The most beautiful German Books 2007 (100 best Posters 06)
Grand Prix, Swiss Poster Award 2007 (Die arabische Nacht)
Merit, ADC Awards, New York (100 best Posters 06)
2nd Prize, Concours international d’affiches, Chaumont (Die arabische Nacht)
2007
The most beautiful Swiss Books 2006 (Emil Manser)
Silver Bra, Magdalena Festival, Slovenia (Sennentuntschi)
Grand Prix, Lahti Poster Biennial, Finland (Sennentuntschi)
2006
Radio 3fach Kick Ass Award, Lucerne: Geilstes Monatsplakat (Treibhaus-Posterconcept)
Type Directors Club New York: Certificate of Typographic Excellence (im Schtei-Book)
Gold Prize, Cultural Category, Swiss Poster Award 2005 (Sennentuntschi)
2nd Prize, Trnava Poster Triennial (Sennentuntschi)
2005
Honorary Mention, Int. Biennale of Theatre Posters Rzeszów (Sennentuntschi)
2004
Honoured Prize of Józef Mroszczak, Int. Poster Biennale Warsaw (Theatersport 3)
Red Dot Award: Communication Design (with distinction) (Im Schtei Poster Series)
2003
The most beautiful Swiss Books 2002 (Agrovision Burgrain)
Bronze Prize, Cultural Posters Section, China International Poster Biennial (Schöner als du)
2002
Design Prestige – Int. Award for Design, Int. Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno (Theatersport 1)
Gold Prize, Student Section, Korea International Poster Biennale (Schöner als du)
Jury Member
2021
Hong Kong International Poster Triennial
Typomania Festival, All-Russian Typography Posters, Moscow
B.I International Poster Art Biennale, Korea
2020
Ukrainian Design: The Very Best Of 2020
2018
Typomania Festival, Moscow
Shenzhen International Poster Festival, China
Ecuador Poster Bienal, Quito
2017
Mut zur Wut, Heidelberg, Germany
Lahti International Poster Triennial, Finland
Taiwan International Graphic Design Award
BICeBé, Bienal del Cartel Bolivia
2016
Golden Bee 12, Pre-Selection International Jury, Moscow
2015
Graphic Design Festival Scotland, Glasgow
2013
Baarer Bier Etikettenwettbewerb, Baar
Vibre Poster Festival, Iran
China International Poster Biennial, Hangzhou
2012
ESAG Penninghen, Paris
2011
100 best Posters 10 – Germany Austria Switzerland
Weltformat 11, Student Competition
2010
Plakatwettbewerb Tierversuchsfreie Forschungsmethoden, Geneva
Identity: Best of the Best 2010, Moskau
2009
Kulturplakat, Neues aus Basler Ateliers, Basel
Umweltplakate, Kunstmuseum Luzern (with Hans Erni)
2008 – 2011
Swiss Poster Award
2008
Mark Zeugin Preis, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
2007
Denkzettel 07/08, APG / Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
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