*11.03.1947 - †03.11.2024 Jürg Zysset was born in Langenthal. He went to school and trained as a graphic designer in Berne. In 1964, when he was still in training, he received a Swiss Art Award (Eidgenössischer Preis für freie Kunst). In 1969 and 1970, he made two six-month trips, one via Morocco and Algeria to the southern Sahara, and another via South Africa to Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenia, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Egypt. After opening a studio for graphic design in 1972, he traveled in eastern Africa for DEZA to produce a photo-documentation of their projects. After his last trip in Africa in 1980, to Timbuktu, from 1982 to 2018 he spent several months every year in Brazil, where he organized communication strategies and their implementation for the largest company doing environmental rehabilitation work; at that time, he traveled extensively in Amazonia and throughout Brazil. In 1987/1988, he organized a 2-month sailing trip from Ushuaia to Antarctica. In 1991 he founded the company Push’n’Pull Communication for visual communications and marketing. The company’s design and realization of the official suits of the Swiss ski team with the cheese hole design attracted a great deal of attention throughout the world. The company has received national and international awards for corporate and graphic design. From 2007, Jürg Zysset reduced his workload at Push’n’Pull and turned to drawing and painting. 2012, he handed the firm over to the staff in order to draw and paint full-time. He continues his conceptual work Zeichen / Signs.