Rosmarie Tissi

Rosmarie Tissi lives and works in Zurich, was educated at the Zurich School of Design and completed a four-year graphic design apprenticeship before opening her graphic studio together with Siegfried Odermatt in 1968 in the very heart of Zurich, with a beautiful view of the river Limmat.
O&T – a mark of excellence, as Albert Schwarz once wrote in the foreword to their book – Odermatt & Tissi Graphic Design.
She has been a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique International) since 1974 and won several prizes and gold medals for her work in Poland, Russia, Germany and Japan. Rosmarie Tissi is a member of juries in various poster competitions, Poster Biennial and Triennial in USA, Germany, Japan and Switzerland. Her exhibitions in Galleries, National Museums of Modern Art, International Centers of Typographic Arts are outstanding.

Born in Schauffhausen, Switzerland. Trained as a graphic designer in Zurich. Shares a studio in Zurich with Sigi Odermatt since 1968. Numerous distinctions and awards, among them:

1st prize and gold medal at the 11th International Poster Biennale in Warsaw, 1986.

1st prize in the competition for the poster and visual image of the Kiel sailing week, 1990.

2nd prize in the competition for the new Swiss banknotes, 1989.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec silver medal at the 6th International Poster Triennial in Essen, 1990.

Bronze medal at the 4th international Poster Triennial in Toyama, Japan, 1994.

One of the lecturers at the 2nd International Design Conference in Acapulco, Mexico, 1995; at the International Congress of Architecture and Graphic Design at La Salle university in Mexico City, 1996, and at the AIGA conference in San Diego, 2000.

Exhibitions, together with Siqi Odermatt:

Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main, Germany, 1984. Reinhold-Brown Gallery (GGG), Tokyo, 1998.

Member of the AGI since 1974.

Posters by Rosmarie Tissi