On Display: How Graphic Design Shapes Us

Graphic design is everywhere. Whether it’s food packaging, digital interfaces on our smartphones, or advertising spaces and wayfinding systems in public spaces—everything in the visual media that surrounds us is graphically designed and intended to have an effect. In this way, graphic design shapes how we perceive, understand, feel and act—often without us even realizing it. Drawing on the design approaches of Robin Coenen and Danielle Rosales, Aline Bavier and Sophia Becker, as well as Anja Kaiser and Rebecca Stephany, the exhibition “On Display. How Graphic Design Shapes Us” explores the social dimension of graphic design and examines its influence in times of political, technological and social upheaval.