Prill Vieceli Cremers design catalogue about Bauhaus director Hannes Meyer

For a few years now Prill Vieceli Cremers, the Swiss studio founded by Tania Prill, Alberto Vieceli and Sebastian Cremers, has been regularly featured on It’s Nice That for its diverse work. Showing great range, more serious-minded work for esteemed cultural institutions has typically sat alongside the more playful (“Just buy your posters and tickets and shut up,” reads one recent exhibition poster).

This catalogue about architect Hannes Meyer, the second Bauhaus director, was designed to accompany an exhibition at the pioneering German arts school in Dessau. The show, which closed in October, looked at the concept of collective design or the “co-op principle,” and shed light on why Meyer deliberately never developed projects alone. It also explored co-operative societies, sharing communities and questions about society and design which were fundamental to Bauhaus teaching.

In decidedly modernist tradition, Prill Vieceli Cremers’ catalogue design is all monochrome with bright red details, and pairs archive photographs with bold type choices detailing the names of people in various collectives.