Zürich · Leipzig — Studio for print, identity and type

Zürich · Leipzig

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Selected work, 1998–2026.

Selected work, 1998–2026.

Ten case studies from museums, bakeries, stations and opera houses. Filter by discipline or read them in order.

a harbor filled with lots of cranes under a cloudy sky

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Hafenlicht Museum

2026

Exhibition

A museum about harbours needed a voice that could carry both ship manifests and family letters. We set every label on one 12-column wall grid and reserved Fraktur for the ten room numbers.

Empty modern art gallery with bright overhead lights

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Rotunde Gallery

2025

Exhibition

Four shows, four catalogues, one system. Each book uses a different paper but the same margins, so the season shelves as a set.

Three loaves of rustic bread with sunflower seeds and wheat stalks on wood

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Schwarzbrot Cooperative

2026

Identity

A bakery owned by fourteen bakers wanted to look like one voice. We drew a small Fraktur S for the loaf stamp and set everything else in plain grotesque caps.

Molten metal pouring from a furnace into a large industrial ladle

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Kupferwerk Foundry

2025

Identity

The foundry casts door handles, church bells and machine parts. The identity borrows the rectangular shapes of casting flasks and the Fraktur of the pattern-maker's stamps.

An open brochure with text and images on a wooden surface

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Der Setzer Quarterly

2025

Editorial

A journal about type had been set in a face the readers disliked. We rebuilt it on a six-column grid and gave the masthead back its Fraktur.

Grand theater interior with ornate balconies, red seats, and stage

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Sonnenberg Opera

2026

Editorial

Ten productions, one poster grid. Each title is set in grotesque caps and each composer's name in Fraktur, so the season reads at a glance from across a platform.

Empty train station platform with arched roof structure

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Lindenau Station

2025

Wayfinding

A station with four levels and three entrances needed signs that work in one look. We used black on white, arrows drawn on the 12-column grid, and no ornament at all.

Collage of vintage concert posters and flyers on wall

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Nachtfalter Festival

2026

Lettering

A festival that starts at midnight asked for a mark that glows in a dark street. We drew the name in Fraktur capitals and printed it black on black with a single blue overprint.

Rows of white archive boxes on wooden shelves

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Feldmann Archive

2026

Digital

Forty thousand prints, one search box. The site is a table with hairlines: every row is a print, every column is a fact, and nothing moves that does not need to.

People working at desks in a modern library with curved shelves in Zürich

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Campus Nord Library

2025

Wayfinding

A library where the stairs are the building. We numbered every floor in oversized figures and gave each reading room a Fraktur letter, so students remember A to F.

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Zürich

Thole Marr Studio

Kanzleistrasse 14

8004 Zürich

+41 44 555 01 98

Leipzig

Thole Marr Atelier

Spinnereistrasse 7

04179 Leipzig

+49 341 555 0142

Studio notes

One letter a season: new work, new type, one recipe.

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