HELVETIA 100 – Herbert Matter

 

During a workshop at the Academy of Art and Design (FHNW, HGK, Basel)

led by "Hauser, Schwarz" I created this stamp in honor of the great Swiss graphic designer and photographer Herbert Matter.

 

Requirements:

 

Choose a well known Swiss personage

Color: 4-color print plus special color

Text: HELVETIA 100, name of the personage,

year of birth and year of death

 

Vertical format (in mm)

Picture: 25 x 29.2, entire stamp: 28 x 32.2

Horizontal format (in mm)

Picture: 30 x 24.2, entire stamp: 33 x 27.2

 

 

 

 

A glance into my working process

 

The final version

 

 

 

 

Some color variations