01 Studio Raster — Zürich & Basel
Grid systems for brands that need to be understood.
We build identity systems, editorial layouts, wayfinding, and typefaces on strict typographic grids — no ornament, no noise, no guesswork for the teams who inherit them.
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One structure, applied everywhere.
Identity Systems
Grid-based logotypes and structured brand systems, applied consistently across every touchpoint — never redrawn twice.
Editorial & Print
Grid-driven layouts for annual reports, catalogues, and long-form print, set in a single weight family from cover to colophon.
Wayfinding & Signage
Modular signage systems built on strict typographic hierarchy — legible from a corridor's length, in every language a site needs.
Type Design
Custom grotesk typefaces cut for legibility at every size, from a signage cap-height down to an 8pt footnote.
03 Selected work
Four systems, four institutions.
04 Process
Four steps. No shortcuts.
Brief
Define the grid's constraints: content, context, and audience, in writing before a pixel moves.
Grid
Establish the column count, margins, and baseline that every later decision has to answer to.
Type
Set hierarchy in one grotesk family, sized on a modular scale — weight and size carry meaning, nothing else does.
Ship
Deliver specs, not decoration: files, rules, and a grid any team can extend without calling us back.
Studio principle
Style is not decoration. It is structure made visible.
— A. Vogt, founding principal, Studio Raster
Systems in active use
05 Studio
Nine designers, one grid.
Founded in 1987 by three graduates of the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich, Studio Raster has kept the same working method for four decades: one typeface family, one column grid, one set of rules — applied without exception across every project we ship.
- How long does an identity system take?
- 8–14 weeks
- Do you design outside the grid system?
- No — one method, every project
- What do we receive at handoff?
- Grid specs, type files, rules
- Do you take on ongoing retainer work?
- Yes, by quarter
06 Start a brief
Tell us what needs structure.
We take on a limited number of new systems each quarter. Send a brief and we'll confirm a first working session within three business days.