Automatico Studio is a Swiss-based design consultancy, founded by Demian Conrad in 2007. The studio develops visual identities, editorial projects and wayfinding systems for clients in architecture, watchmaking and industry, culture, and modern and contemporary art.

Automatico has developed long-term collaborations with institutions and brands including EPFL – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Christ & Gantenbein, Art Basel, Unternehmen Mitte Basel, Espazium Revue and Audemars Piguet among others.

The studio has received numerous international awards, including a Silver Cube at the Art Directors Club Global and a Gold Prize at the European Design Awards.

Its approach is conceptual, precise and system-oriented. Automatico helps organisations define a clear positioning, develop a compelling strategy, craft a distinctive narrative, and translate it all into visual systems across print, space and digital contexts. The studio’s work is shaped by typographic precision, proportion, and a quiet sense of elegance.

What distinguishes the studio is the way it combines editorial culture, typographic craft and a post-digital sensibility: an interest in how printed matter, materials and emerging tools continue to inform contemporary visual systems. This is reflected in the studio’s ongoing research, lectures and experimental publishing practice.

Since 2017, Demian Conrad → has been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) →, in recognition of his commitment and expertise in the field of graphic design and visual communication. He has also been a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Digital Communication Environments, FHNW Basel, since 2023. His personal website presents a more research-based practice, including critical essays, books and ongoing research into experimental printing techniques.

Recognitions

— Awards 2024TDC Tokyo, Packaging 20172nd Silver Cube, Art Directors Club Global 2017100 Beste Plakate 2016 2016Nominated at German Design Award 20131st Gold Prize European Design Awards 20121st Price, Swiss Post 2011100 Beste Plakate 2011 2010100 Beste Plakate 2009 20101st Price, Swiss Post 2009100 Beste Plakate 2008

— Press and Media 2026Neo Radiotelevisione svizzera 2025Designculture.it 2024SwissBalance, works 2024Architecture Suisse (AS), Graphisme du bâti 2023The Branding, Neuronal Scapes 2023Graphic, Swiss Design

— Conferences 2025Perspective on AI, Panoramai, Lausanne 2025Synthetic Graphic Design Experiments and Future Scenarios, EPFL-AMLD, Lausanne 2025La réproduction comme geste créative, Musée d'histoire, Lausanne 2025Printing, Galerie St. Hilaire, Fribourg 2024Works on simplicity, Acadis, Lausanne 2023Semplicità, Università di Bolzano 2023Spazio Murari, Stampa, ripetizione, noia e variazione, Milano 2023Willem de Kooning Academy, Post-digital Publishing, Rotterdam 2023Schweizerische Werkbund, Offsetprinting experiment, Courvasier, Biel/Bienne 2022Gestalter, Lehrer und Pädagoge, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, Basel 2022Graphic Design in the Post-Digital, 121+ Corraini, Milano 2022Graphic Design in the Post-Digital, Geneva 2019Gutenberg, Bubble Jet et LCD, Geneva 2017Center for Future Publishing, Geneva 2014Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny, Valencia 2014Design Days, Renens 2014Design Terminál, Graphifest, Budapest 2014UN/Limited, Museum of fine Arts, Le Locle 2013Selected Europe, Indexbook, Bilbao

Past Staff & Collaborators

Miles Böegli, Aladin Borioli, Luca Bunino, Edouard Cabrol, Romain Casier, Matthieu Gafsou, Sarah Garcin, Maria de Gibert, Alice Guarnieri, Sarah-Lea Hipp, Johnson / Kingston, Jackie Jeanneret, Nicolas Jodry, Sylvain Meltz, Stefani Mihailovic-Gillet, Emma Itria, Michala Kaalund Møballe, Jasmine Molano, Ilaria Moscufo, Katarzyna Nalband, Yann Ott, Elena Panetti, Dario Pianesi, Emilie Pillet, Maude Rion, Giulia Saya, Marie-Louise von Aarburg, Katja Widelska, Cedric Widmer, Laura Wohlgehaben and Maïra Zimmermann.

 

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UX concept, Automatico Studio
UX design and development: Maria Adelaide
Font: Automatico Text, Demian Conrad and Arnaud Chemin

Website development: Maria Adelaide and Luca Bunino
Content editing: Emma Itria