Büro Discount

In 1994, graphic artists' collective "Büro Destruct" makes its first appearance, the brainchild of HGB Fideljus (Fidel Berger, 1971) and Lopetz (Lorenz Gianfreda, 1971). It is a development from the existing "Destruct Agentur", founded in 1992 to promote young artists. Over the next few years the initial interest group grows into an internationally acclaimed design studio. Today, the four-man outfit comprises of MB (Marc Brunner 1970), H1reber (Heinz Reber, 1971), HeiWid (Heinz Widmer, 1967) und Lopetz (Lorenz Gianfreda, 1971). Since 2002, the initiator behind the original "Destruct Agentur", HGB Fideljus, has been running the "Büro Discount" gallery and shop in Zurich. In 1999, subsequent to a publication of their own, a first comprehensive work collection is released by Berlin-based publishing house "Gestalten". The book, «Büro Destruct», illustrates a new interpretation of once highly regarded Swiss graphic design. The book has been a source of inspiration in design agencies ever since, and is used as teaching material in schools. From the start, Büro Destruct has kept open the boundary between art and commercial graphic design, as is testified to by the number and variety of techniques and materials employed, and reflected in projects for clients from widely differing fields. The two publications that follow, "Büro Destruct II" (2003) and "Büro Destruct III" (2009), document typeface design, Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph.