Hans-Rudolf Lutz – Publisher

The visual designer Hans-Rudolf Lutz (1939–1998) founded his own publishing house in Zurich in 1966. By 1996, he had published around 33 books. The first were dedicated to local artists. After that, the content also became political: Lutz gave the controversial Zurich F+F design school a platform in 1972, let the socially critical photographer Luc Chessex have his say in 1972, and in 1980 published his own history book. Lutz was a member of the Verlagsgenossenschaft (publishing cooperative) and for many years designed the gta book series for ETH Zürich.