We are committed to meaningful visual communication that will endure, avoiding the trivial and combining creative ingenuity with serious thinking focused on our client’s needs.
People
We are a pool of diversity. At present, 7 professionals with complementary skills and at times contrasting opinions, bring their insightful and strategic focus to brand-oriented issues.
Marco Cassino
Senior graphic designer. Education Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia. Joined CCRZ in 2008.
Eugenio Castiglioni
Creative director. Education Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano. Co-founder of CCRZ in 2007.
Paolo Cavalli
Creative director. Education Politecnico di Milano, Faculty of Architecture. Guest lecturer at SUPSI Lugano. Co-founder of CCRZ in 2007.
Sabrina Cerea
Senior graphic designer. Education
Supsi, Lugano, Communication Design. Joined CCRZ in 2018.
Ludovica Niero
Architect. Education Università IUAV di Venezia, B.Arch; ENSA Paris Belleville; Politecnico di Milano, Master of Architecture. Joined CCRZ in 2016.
Daiana Riva
Senior graphic designer. Education Supsi, Lugano, Communication Design. Joined CCRZ in 2012.
Marco Zürcher
Creative director. Education CSIA, Lugano. Guest lecturer at SUPSI Lugano. Co-founder of CCRZ in 2007.
Clients
We take the utmost care in listening to our clients because we believe that the success of a project is built on a deep understanding of its objectives. We always seek individual solutions and often establish long-term relationships.
Andina Maker
Florette edizioni
Gallotti&Radice
Securlift
Tapisan
1h Clean
Altaeco Group
Cetra Alimentari
Check-up
Cinex Brazil
Desalto
Dexo
Domus
Dow Chemicals
Edizioni Casagrande
EFG Bank
Fioroni design
GSI
Humboldt Books
Kappaventotto
Leaf
Luceplan
Making Stands
Mandarin Oriental
MDF Italia
Migros Ticino
Modaluce
Momò
Phaidon
PPM Industries
Prodir
Q1
Quadro Vehicles
Quodlibet editore
Ratti
Rawstove
Schertler
Sparton
Victorinox Italia
Chiasso Letteraria
Chiasso_Culture in Movimento
Fondazione Monte Verità
Museo cantonale d’Arte Lugano
Prix Oppenheim
Studio CCRZ
Trickster-p
Archivio Cattaneo
Associazione Danza Contemporanea Svizzera
Biennale dell’immagine
Collezione Olgiati
Fondazione Archivio Donetta
Holcim Foundation
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura
MASI Lugano
Museo Civico Villa dei Cedri
Museo d’Arte Lugano
Museo d’Arte Mendrisio
Museo di Val Verzasca
Percento Culturale Migros
Teatro del Tempo
Villa del Grumello
Ufficio Federale della Cultura
Accademia Architettura Mendrisio
Camera di Commercio di Como
Città di Lugano
Comune di Balerna
Comune di Chiasso
Comune di Rossa
FAS, Federazione Architetti Svizzeri
Giovani Industriali di Como
Kiefer Hablitzel Preis
Lura Ambiente
PVP Piano Viabilità del Polo Luganese
Scuola Club Migros
Supsi
Ticino Film Commision
Unione Industriali di Como
Univercomo
USI Università della Svizzera italiana
Studio Ivano Gianola Architetto
Act Now
Alpe del lupo
Anthology Film Archive
Architetti Brambilla Orsoni
Assistenza e Cura a Domicilio
Associazione Biblioteca Salita dei Frati
Associazione Svizzera degli editori e dei librai
Associazione VivaChiasso
ATFMR
Bettina Mengani Enggmann
BSI Contemporary Art Collection
Comitato Balerna Sì
Dr. Chattanooga
L’Ideatorio
Libreria Agorà
Mariapia Borgnini
Pardo al Parco
Specimen
Torricelli Zwerger
Verdi di Lugano
Zürcher Balmelli & Partners
Competencies
We are versatile and multidisciplinary, and synchronize our competencies with trusted creative specialists when the project requires.
Art Direction
Strategy
Web
Graphic design
Identity design
Corporate design
Exhibition design
Editorial design
Book design
Product design
Packaging design
Signage design
Shop design
Web design
Multi-channel marketing
Publishing
Storytelling
Content creation
Copywriting
Naming
Campaigns
Photography
Video
Commercials
Motion Graphics
Styling
Architecture
Business Model Generation Workshops
Coaching
Awards & Distinctions
With great clients, great things happen. For them and for us. Here are some winning moments.
Awards & Featurings
2010
Best Cover Design, Rockport Publishers
2011
Italian Design Is Coming Home. to Switzerland, William Georgi and Tommaso Minnetti, Actar Publishers
2013
Red Dot Award, Corporate Identity, Be Pure Campaign, Prodir
2014
Swiss Poster Award
2014
Type Plus, Adrian Shaughnessy and Tony Brook, Unit edition
2014
100 Beste Plakate 2014, Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz, by Verlag Hermann Schmidt
2014
IF Design Award, Corporate Communication, PVP, City of Lugano
2014
NiVo, Revue pour l’architecture et le fibres-ciment, Éditeur FibreCem Holding SA
2014
Form, (in no. 253), Land of Design – Switzerland,Peter Wesner Publisher
2015
50 Books/50 Covers, published by Observer Edition with AIGA, American Institute of Graphic Arts
2015
Transparent. Transparencies in design, Victionary
2015
Trnava Poster Triennal, Jan Koniarek Gallery in Trnava,Slovensko
2015
Idn International design Network (vol.22 no.1), Sistem Design Limited, Hong Kong
2015
Novum, World of graphic design, Stiebner Verlag
2015
Signage & Wayfinding Design, Designersbooks, Beijing
2015
New Signage Design. Connecting People & Spaces, Promopress
2016
Holistic Retail Design, Frame Publishers
Exhibitions
2014
100 beste Plakate 14. Deutschland Österreich Schweiz, Staatliche Museum in Berlin
2014
Senza meta. Il libro come pensiero fotografico, curated by Elio Grazioli (nell’ambito di Fotografia europea), Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia
2015
50 Books/50 Covers, AIGA national conference, New Orleans
2016
Swiss Style Now, 41 Cooper Gallery (Cooper Union), New York
News
Chiassoletteraria 2019
The title of the 14th edition takes its origin from the novel by Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and it means to be an opportunity to reflect on changes that are transforming the contemporary world. The imagery linked to literature and popular science-fiction movies and the epopee of space conquest are the inspiration for this year’s visual identity project.
Awareness campaign – Città di Lugano
A production of four TV commercials on urban cohabitation issues. A project curated by CCRZ, Studio 9010, Communication Agency of the City of Lugano.
Milano – Design week 2019
In occasion of the Milano Design Week 2019 CCRZ presents Krefeld, a modular box produced by the design furniture brand Fioroni, at the Key Gallery in via Borsieri, Milan. A container inspired by industrial wooden transport crates.
Contacts
Would like to get in touch? For business enquiries please contact studio@ccrz.ch
If you are interested in applying for an internship please email cv@ccrz.ch with your digital portfolio or link.
Switzerland
CCRZ s.a.
via Silva, 5
6828 Balerna
+41 (0) 91 690 50 10
studio@ccrz.ch
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Italy
CCRZ s.r.l.
via Roma, 14
22040 Anzano del Parco
+39 031 619 219
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