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, 8 professionals of different age, gender and background, with complementary skills and at times contrasting opinions, bring their insightful and strategic focus to brand-oriented issues.
Marco Cassino
Senior graphic designer. Born in Locarno, 1976. Education Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venezia. Joined CCRZ in 2008.
Eugenio Castiglioni
Creative director. Born in Milano, 1972. Education Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano. Co-founder of CCRZ in 2007.
Paolo Cavalli
Creative director. Born in Cantù, 1970. Education Politecnico di Milano, Faculty of Architecture. Guest lecturer at SUPSI Lugano. Co-founder of CCRZ in 2007.
Ludovica Niero
Architect. Born in Vicenza, 1988. 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. Born in Morbegno, 1986. Education Supsi, Lugano, Communication Design. Joined CCRZ in 2012.
Daniele Walker
Junior designer and photographer. Born in Faido, 1992. Education Ecal, Lausanne, Industrial design. Joined CCRZ in 2017.
Marco Zürcher
Creative director. Born in Lugano, 1969. 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
Fioroni design
GSI
Humboldt Books
Kappaventotto
Leaf
Luceplan
Making Stands
Mandarin Oriental
Migros Ticino
Modaluce
Momò
Phaidon
PPM Industries
Prodir
Q1
Quadro Vehicles
Quodlibet editore
Ratti
Rawstove
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
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
AACD
Act Now
Alpe del lupo
Anthology Film Archive
Architetti Brambilla Orsoni
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
There is no such thing as silence.
Something is always happening that makes a sound.
(John Cage)
Visual identity for the 13th edition of Chiasso Letteraria
Taboo is this year’s specific theme of the great literary festival of Chiasso. Therefore the visual identity it’s all about going beyond the rules. Massive title speaks in a loud voice using classic colours of prohibition black and red, accompanied by bizarre forms of censorship, erasure, and mysterious images, maybe a sort of subliminal messages. Between sacred and profane.
Graphic and exhibition design for Città di Lugano
The city offers plenty of possibilities of professional training and job opportunity. For the biennial Expo dedicated to young people we designed a special visual identity based on flashy colours, statuary letters, abstract symbols.
Publication for the exhibition at Teatro dell’Architettura
The new building by Mario Botta in the Architecture Academy campus opened with the exhibition “Sette Architetture Automatiche e altri esercizi” by the Atelier Blumer. The book recalls the overall approach to this exhibited design practice: think, experiment, play.
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 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
studio@ccrz.ch
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