Robert Lzicar

Robert Lzicar is a communication designer, professor and researcher. He is based at the Bern University of the Arts, where he directs the MA Communication Design course, researches at the Department of R+D Communication Design, and teaches design history. He earned a Master of Arts in Research on the Arts at the University of Bern, and is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of the Arts, Bern. As an undergraduate he was trained as a visual designer at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd and at the Zurich University of the Arts. Since 2006 he is partner of the design studio STVG – Mahrer, Lzicar in Zurich. He organized the symposium Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland (2014), as well as initiated and co-coordinates the research project Swiss Graphic Design and Typography Revisited, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Sinergia programme from October 2016.