Rene Wanner's Poster Page / 8. Tehran International Poster Biennial 2004

WEB POSTER EXHIBITION - 8. Tehran International Poster Biennial 2004

Melk Imboden
Melk Imboden's exhibition was part of an exhibition of Young swiss graphic design that included Martin Woodtli and Megi Zumstein.

1988, Take care of the forest! The poster at left was Melk Imboden's first, designed while he still was a graphic design student at the school for Art and Design in Lucerne, Switzerland. For him it was a rough first draft only, but one of his teachers encouraged him to send it in, and it promptly won him a first prize at the swiss student poster competition "Take care of nature".
Imboden, born 1956, is not only a graphic designer, specialized in posters and book design, but also a professional photographer, and his fields of interest often overlap, when he designs posters for his photography exhibitions for example, or books for photographers from his neighborhood.
Many of the posters he does are for small cultural institutions just around the corner from where he lives, in the tiny mountain village of Buochs, and sadly his clients are hardly aware that he wins prizes for them in Helsinki, Brno, Warsaw, New York and Japan.
Melk is a very friendly and open guy, and I owe a lot to him. Most of what I know in photography I have learnt by talking to him and imitating him.

Posters for the art market of a local artist group

1990, Kunstmarkt Innerschweizer Kuenstler
1992, Kunstmarkt Innerschweizer Kuenstler
1994, Kunstmarkt Innerschweizer Kuenstler
1996, Kunstmarkt Innerschweizer Kuenstler

Posters for his own photo exhibitions

1994, Melk Imboden South America photo exhibition
1998, Toni Kunz Jewelry, Melk Imboden Photos
1999, Jazz faces
1999, Zeitbilder, Melk Imboden photo exhibition

Posters for art exhibitions

1997, Annual art exhibition of artists from Ob- and Nidwalden
1999, Reopening of the cultural center "Ermitage" in Beckenried
2000, Art market for artists from central Switzerland

Posters for exhibitions of other photographers
Odermatt, Troxler and Imboden are common names in central Switzerland, and the photographers below are not related to poster designers.

1989, Leonard von Matt exhibition
1993, Arnold Odermatt exhibition
(Odermatt was a policeman and a gifted amateur photographer)
1995, Franz Troxler
(it's a pig, poking it's nose through a gap in the fence)
1996, Martin Imboden, a forgotten photographer