He was born on the 3rd of October 1977, and grew up in Sempach, Switzerland. In 1990, at the age of 13, he started his career with he foundation of Mix Pictures, an organisation for short film productions and cultural events. After a typography apprenticeship near Lucerne [1994-1998] he began an apprenticeship in graphic design at the studio of Niklaus Troxler in Willisau [1998-2002]. Then Erich moved to Germany where he did an internship at MetaDesign Berlin. Back in Lucerne he founded his own graphic design studio Mixer. Since 2007 he’s a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale [AGI]. 2009 he was co-founder of the poster festival Weltformat in Lucerne and started the regular exchange meeting for graphic designers called Show & Tell in 2012. +41 79 783 36 63erich@mixer.ch 2016Silver Prize, Public Service Category, Swiss Poster Award 2015 (Welcome to Lucerne)2015Bronze Prize, Cultural Category, Swiss Poster Award 2014 (Midsummer Night’s Dream)3rd Prize, Trnava Poster Triennial, Slovakia (Midsummer Night’s Dream)Winner, 19th Biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition (Salzhaus)TPDA Award, Taiwan International Graphic Design Award (Midsummer Night’s Dream)2014First prize, Grafia Tapani Aartomaa Prix, Lahti Poster Triennial, Finland (The Matterhorn is beautiful)2013TDC Prize
, Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2013 (Between me and tomorrow)Nomination Design Preis Schweiz1st Prize, Int. Biennial of Theater Posters Rzeszow, Poland (Demons)Bronze Medal, Taiwan International Poster Design Awards (Between me and tomorrow) 2012Golden Bee Award, Golden Bee 10, Moscow (Between me and tomorrow) 2010The Best Posters, Vibre Poster Festival 2009, Iran (Macbeth) 2009Bronze Prize, Cultural Category, Swiss Poster Award 2008 (Die rote Zora)Bronze Prize, Category Identity Company Implementation, ED Awards (Patient Diagnostics)Distinction, B2C Launch, Corporate Design Award 2009 (Patient Diagnostics) 2008The most beautiful German Books 2007 (100 best Posters 06)Grand Prix, Swiss Poster Award 2007 (Die arabische Nacht)Merit, ADC Awards, New York (100 best Posters 06)2nd Prize, Concours international d’affiches, Chaumont (Die arabische Nacht) 2007The most beautiful Swiss Books 2006 (Emil Manser)Silver Bra, Magdalena Festival, Slovenia (Sennentuntschi)Grand Prix, Lahti Poster Biennial, Finland (Sennentuntschi)2006Radio 3fach Kick Ass Award, Lucerne: Geilstes Monatsplakat (Treibhaus-Posterconcept)Type Directors Club New York: Certificate of Typographic Excellence (im Schtei-Book)Gold Prize, Cultural Category, Swiss Poster Award 2005 (Sennentuntschi)2nd Prize, Trnava Poster Triennial (Sennentuntschi) 2005Honorary Mention, Int. Biennale of Theatre Posters Rzeszów (Sennentuntschi)2004Honoured Prize of Józef Mroszczak, Int. Poster Biennale Warsaw (Theatersport 3)Red Dot Award
: Communication Design (with distinction) (Im Schtei Poster Series)2003The most beautiful Swiss Books 2002 (Agrovision Burgrain)Bronze Prize, Cultural Posters Section, China International Poster Biennial (Schöner als du) 2002Design Prestige – Int. Award for Design, Int. Biennale of Graphic Design, Brno (Theatersport 1)Gold Prize, Student Section, Korea International Poster Biennale (Schöner als du)Where to be born in 2013Warren Buffett, probably the world’s most successful investor, has said that anything good that happened to him could be traced back to the fact that he was born in the right country, the United States, at the right time (1930). A quarter of a century ago, when The World in 1988 light-heartedly ranked 50 countries according to where would be the best place to be born in 1988, America indeed came top. But which country will be the best for a baby born in 2013?To answer this, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister company of The Economist, has this time turned deadly serious.
It earnestly attempts to measure which country will provide the best opportunities for a healthy, safe and prosperous life in the years ahead. Its quality-of-life index links the results of subjective life-satisfaction surveys—how happy people say they are—to objective determinants of the quality of life across countries. Being rich helps more than anything else, but it is not all that counts; things like crime, trust in public institutions and the health of family life matter too. In all, the index takes 11 statistically significant indicators into account. They are a mixed bunch: some are fixed factors, such as geography; others change only very slowly over time (demography, many social and cultural characteristics); and some factors depend on policies and the state of the world economy.A forward-looking element comes into play, too. Although many of the drivers of the quality of life are slow-changing, for this ranking some variables, such as income per head, need to be forecast.
We use the EIU’s economic forecasts to 2030, which is roughly when children born in 2013 will reach adulthood.Free health cover for Britons in Europe is under threatWhere others gawked, John Samson looked with genuine curiosityDonald Trump’s “America First” budget would make deep cuts to domestic programmesHundreds of thousands of people have fled South Sudan for UgandaAn array of churches opposes Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to foreign aidSouth Koreans are fighting over their flagDespite the global economic crisis, times have in certain respects never been so good. Output growth rates have been declining across the world, but income levels are at or near historic highs. Life expectancy continues to increase steadily and political freedoms have spread across the globe, most recently in north Africa and the Middle East. In other ways, however, the crisis has left a deep imprint—in the euro zone, but also elsewhere—particularly on unemployment and personal security. In doing so, it has eroded both family and community life.
Where to be born in 1988What does all this, and likely developments in the years to come, mean for where a baby might be luckiest to be born in 2013? After crunching its numbers, the EIU has Switzerland comfortably in the top spot, with Australia second. Small economies dominate the top ten. Half of these are European, but only one, the Netherlands, is from the euro zone. The Nordic countries shine, whereas the crisis-ridden south of Europe (Greece, Portugal and Spain) lags behind despite the advantage of a favourable climate. The largest European economies (Germany, France and Britain) do not do particularly well. America, where babies will inherit the large debts of the boomer generation, languishes back in 16th place. Despite their economic dynamism, none of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) scores impressively. Among the 80 countries covered, Nigeria comes last: it is the worst place for a baby to enter the world in 2013.Boring is bestQuibblers will, of course, find more holes in all this than there are in a chunk of Swiss cheese.