nevin goetschmann

Graphic design · selected Work

emphasizing the overlooked Various

Animated black blocks moving horizontally over large black text on a white background, obscuring and revealing the text beneath intermittently.

Master Thesis ·  2026  · Mentor: Prof. Dr. Sarah Owens   ·  MA Visual  Communication ZHdK   ·  www.archive-oto.ch
In urban space, we are surrounded by a multitude of visual artefacts that shape its appearance, yet in their diversity often remain unnoticed. This thesis understands the city as an open archive and visual artefacts as its records. It examines them as palimpsestic structures; layered inscriptions that reveal overlapping traces of time, taking form as ghosts, dialogues, aberrations, accidents, and traces. Grounded in a theoretical framework spanning visual artefacts, urban space, and archive theory, these explorations are translated into Translations — a publication structured around the five categories serving as a visual homage to urban artefacts. Its Atoma binding mirrors the filtering principle of the accompanying digital archive: the spreads can be detached and freely recombined, reflecting the ever-changing configurations of visual artefacts in urban space. Together, they invite the viewer to move through the city as a flâneur, discovering the overlooked within the everyday.

Material Walk poster

Animated black blocks moving horizontally over large black text on a white background, obscuring and revealing the text beneath intermittently.

Minor Material & Matter ·  2026  ·  Format: A0  ·  Digital plot, thermochromic ink, heating cables  ·  Lecturer: Franziska Müller-Reissmann, Eva Wandeler  ·  MA Visual Communication ZHdK
During my minor “Matters & Meaning” at ZHdK, I explored thermochromic materials and designed two poster variations for the Material Walk using a simple setup (plot, heating cables, thermochromic paint, and a timer). In a 15-minute cycle, heat reveals hidden content that disappears again as it cools. The project explores how thermochromic inks can turn printed posters into dynamic, time-based experiences.

Grille Type Editorial

Open book with text arranged in large, diagonal V-shaped patterns across both pages on a black background, featuring German words and phrases spaced out artistically.

Studio 3 Module “Windows” · Lecturer: Christian Lange · 2025 · MA Visual Communication ZHdK
Inspired by window grilles and concrete poetry, I put some excerpts of Foucault’s “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison” and various texts of incarceration literature into form.

F+F Diplomausstellungen 2025 ci/campagne

Poster with black and bright green text and green circular dots of various sizes scattered across a white background, featuring German words including "F+F," "Abschlussausstellung," "Vorkurs," "Propädeutikum," dates 8.5. and 14.5., and year 2025.

Design of invitation cards and animation  ·  2025  ·    Client: F+F Schule für Gestaltung und Kunst ·  Scope: Einladungskarten, Animation und Blachen

Hello! poster

Digital art displaying a stylized DNA double helix in the center composed of red ASCII characters and binary code on a dark blue grid background, flanked by circular and atomic-like shapes and additional text elements in ASCII and binary formats.

Postercompetition ·  2025  ·  Client: collettivo.sc4  ·  Format: F4  ·  Digital print
Submission for the poster competition Verso l'altro. Competition text: “We are restarting the Arecibo Experiment (…). Through visual language, you are invited to express your vision of life on Earth by imagining contact with a hypothetical form of cosmic life.” Inspired by the coded constructed languages of astrolinguistics used for interstellar radio transmissions, I propose—using a humorous approach—to send cute ASCII artworks in order to invite extraterrestrials to visit Earth. Selected as one of 20 winning designs.

ARTWORK for Don Kashew various

A person holding a vinyl record cover with ornate black and white letters spelling Don Kashew on one side, and the back listing songs and showing a black and white photo of a person playing a wind instrument.

Artwork & Design for Don Kashew‘s LP “Bellows”  ·  2025  ·  Client: Subject To Restriction   ·  Offsetprint Black & Silver.  

Do not open! Editorial

Black and white image of an airplane trailing dense black smoke, depicted across two pages of an open book or magazine.

Studio 2 Module “New Ecologies: Fossils of the Anthropocene” · Lecturer: Carolina Marquez Bernard · 2024 · MA Visual Communication ZHdK
Airplanes link the world, leaving traces in their wake – visible and invisible. Contrails in the sky, greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, craters on the ground. Sitting in an aircraft separates us from the earth below, from time and distance—yet, at the same time, we are reshaping the future through their accelerating effects on global warming and globalization.

Am I in a high-rise building? video essay

Black background with the word 'AKO' written in white outlined uppercase letters in a modern, stylized font.

Design Process 1 Module “Thinking on Screen” · Lecturer: Joseph Popper · 2024 · MA Visual Communication ZHdK
In “Am I in a high-rise building?” I go in search of the secret door, an element from a recurring dream from my childhood. Between reality, fiction and memory, I try to get closer to the feeling of the dream.

Logotype Ako amo various

Black background with the word 'AKO' written in white outlined uppercase letters in a modern, stylized font.

Animated logotype & graphic design for Ako Amo's debut LP “What's the Sound of a Dream?”  ·  2025  ·  Client: Ako Amo   ·  Artwork by Anna Balint

neues kino Basel poster

Three artistic rectangular posters side by side on a black background. The left poster has a yellow background with a black and white photo of a hand holding a dish of macaroni pasta, with large black text reading 'WOHN GEN SCHAFTEN.' The middle poster has a teal background with a black and white abstract image casting shadows in diagonal lines, overlaid with large black text, including 'LIEB BE NACH BARN.' The right poster has a purple background and shows an overhead view of people casting long shadows walking across a zebra crossing, with large black text reading 'DIE STRA SEN ER ÄH LUNG.' Each poster includes smaller text elements and dates.

Design of program posters  ·  2015–on going  ·   Client: neues kino basel  ·  Format: A2 (Silo Kino) and A3 (neues kino)  · Offset print

Say swiss architecture yearbookeditorial

Publication  ·  2023  ·  Claudiabasel  ·  Publisher: Park Books  ·  Client: S AM and Werk, Bauen + Wohnen  ·  Format: 22 x 32 cm

100 Beste plakate 21 D/A/CH ci/campagne

White calendar with three black speech bubble icons labeled 'HIPHOPPE,' 'SURE,' and 'DUPPE' set against a black background, accompanied by several sheets with black and white labels featuring various German words.

Annual design  ·  2022  ·  Claudiabasel  ·  Client: 100 Beste Plakate E.V.,  ·  Scope: Exhibition posters, invitations, stickers, stationery, animations for social media and the web, exhibition catalog

S AM Swiss architecture museum poster

Two colorful posters side by side on black background. Left poster features red concentric spirals overlaying large dark green letters that spell '25.3 IN CHE STIMEM AM' with smaller red text words such as 'ADAPTIEREN' and 'NUTZEN' arranged along the spirals; the text includes German words and references to architecture and a Master's prize. Right poster shows a collage of urban photos: a blond person in a navy sailor outfit making a peace sign, a man standing near posters, and a person sitting outside by a building; overlaid text in green and red reads 'HOMO URBANUS SAM,' with additional smaller event and location details at the top.

Poster design · 2015–2023 · Claudiabasel · Client: S AM · Format: F4 · Silkscreen print

Meret Oppenheim, Geheimnisse editorial  

Open book showing text and images discussing Meret Oppenheim and surrealist art. Left page features a wooden art piece resembling a face with hair made of wooden shards titled 'Vorgefundenes, Einfaches.' Right page contains smaller images: a surreal sculpture, a black fabric-covered object, and a metal sculpture of a figure lying on a silver tray, with accompanying German text about surrealist objects and artists Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Meret Oppenheim.

Publication  ·  2018, Claudiabasel  ·  Client: Simon Baur  ·  Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess  ·  Format: 16.5 × 24 cm

Gerold wiederin. es ist was es ist editorial

Publication  ·  2018  ·  Claudiabasel  ·  Client: Simon Baur  ·  Publisher: Park Books  ·  Format: 21 × 32.5 cm

kaserne basel ci/Campagne

A diverse visual collection of printed materials including brochures, flyers, posters, and business cards with repeated branding 'Kaserne' showcasing colorful geometric designs and portraits in black and white overlaid with colored shapes on a black background.

Pitch, corporate identity/campaigns  ·  2018–2023  ·  Claudiabasel  ·  Client: Kaserne Basel  ·  Scope: Concept & execution of seasonal campaign, project management + execution of applications  ·  Photography seasonal campaign: Tristesse, Basel

museum tinguely: len lye ci/campagne

Triptych of colorful posters for Museum Tinguely's 'Lenyly' motion composer exhibit, displaying the dates 23.10.19 to 26.01.20, with abstract circular and feathery designs in red, yellow, and green color themes on a grid layout with blue text.

Exhibition campaign and catalog  ·  2019  ·  Claudiabasel  ·  Client: Museum Tinguely  ·  Scope: Exhibition posters F4 and F12, various analog and digital applications, animation, exhibition catalog

bewusster kontrollverlust various

A complex visual flowchart or mood board with multiple small images and text blocks arranged in a branching network on a black background, connected by thin lines, with three labeled question mark nodes on the right side.

Bachelor Thesis Visual Communication  ·  2014  ·   HGK FHNW Basel
In my bachelor's thesis at HGK FHNW Basel, I investigated analog random processes as creative catalysts. The fictional exhibition title “Beyond Paradise” served as the basis for the investigation. By consciously relinquishing control, I wanted to surprise myself and challenge myself as a designer. My conscious reaction followed various random processes. Chains of associations were generated that are linked either formally or in terms of content. The result is a variety of posters that are not based on an overall concept, but rather take up new approaches again and again and could be continued at will.

About

A complex visual flowchart or mood board with multiple small images and text blocks arranged in a branching network on a black background, connected by thin lines, with three labeled question mark nodes on the right side.

Hi! I'm a Swiss graphic designer based in Zurich. I'm passionate about the smell and feel of paper, vibrant colors, storytelling, simplicity, finding answers, not always following the rules, and my four-legged assistant, Tamo. I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Visual Communication from HGK FHNW Basel in 2014 and worked as a graphic designer at Claudiabasel Grafik + Interaktion for almost ten years (2015–2024). In 2026, I completed my Master's degree in Visual Communication at ZHdK in Zurich. Today, I work as a freelance graphic designer and part-time as an in-house graphic designer at Moods Jazz Club. I'm always open to collaborations, projects, or chatting over coffee.

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