Sereina Rothenberger
Faculty, MFA in Graphic Design
Profile
Sereina Rothenberger (1981) runs together with David Schatz the Zurich-based studio Hammer, working across the fields of art direction and graphic design.
Sereina Rothenberger runs the graphic design studio Hammer in Zurich since 2008, together with David Schatz. In 2020 Jana Hofmann joined the duo. Their studio has been awarded with the Swiss Design Award for Graphic Design in 2020 and with the Swiss Design Award for Mediation in 2018. Their work is part of the following collections and archives: Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich / Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris and the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, New York.
She held a professorship at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design from 2013 to 2019, latterly serving as head of department. She is a faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts since 2015 and has also been the co-chair of the program. Since 2020 she is an advisor at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, a Post-Academy for Art, Design and Reflection. Since 2020 she teaches at the University of Arts and Design in Zurich. Since 2021 she is the jury president of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books Competition