Lena Windisch is a multidisciplinary designer and visual researcher working between Switzerland and Franconian Switzerland, Germany. Her practice focuses on experimental and spatial typography, exhibition graphics, visual identities, and moving images. She studied Communication Design at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and earned a master’s degree in Information Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Her professional experience includes projects in wayfinding and exhibition graphics in Germany (Hamburg, Stuttgart) and Switzerland (Zurich, Winterthur).
2025
2018
2016
2022
2021
2020
2019
2017
2016
2025
2020
Awards
Werkbeitrag Stadt St. Gallen (CH)
Werkbeitrag Kanton St. Gallen (CH)
tdc. New York Certificate of Typographic Excellence (US)
Art Directors Club, Award (DE)
Joseph Binder Award, Gold (AT)
Art Directors Club, Bronze (DE)
Exhibitions
Museum of the Future (NL)
Moving in Stasis (NL)
The Fields of Algorithms Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (NL)
DAE Graduation show Eindhoven (NL)
Typomania Moscow (RU)
TDC traveling exhibition, USA, Japan, Russia, China, South Korea
Art Directors Club Hamburg (DE)
IMM Cologne (DE)
Dutch Design Week Eindhoven (NL)
Look at me Hamburg (DE)
Winners! Winners! Winners! Vienna (AT)
Art Directors Club Hamburg (DE)
Publications
Slanted, Experimental Type 3.0 (DE)
Neuwerk Magazin (DE)
2025
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
Film Screenings
LEFF Leiden Essay Film Festival (NL)
OSINT Investigation and Arts Paris (FR)
Electricdreams Intl. Film Festival Mailand (IT)
Bunter Hund München (DE)
Aaretaler Kurzfilmtage (CH)
CineGlobe at CERN Genf (CH)
Milan Machinima Festival (IT)
The One Minutes (NL)
Museum of the Future Enschede (NL)
Het Nieuwe Institut Rotterdam (NL)
Museum Hilversum (NL)
Remise Amsterdam (NL)
Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam (NL)
Lift-Off (WWW)
3rd Benin City Film Festival (BJ)
African Smartphone Intern. Film Festival (NGA)
Beijing Intl. Short Film Festival (CN)
Fotogenia Mexico (MX)
Ce l’ho Corto Bologna (IT)
The Design Film Festival London (GB)
Black Star Film Festival Ghana (GHA)
Moscow Intl. Doc. Film Festival DOKer (RU)
Besides the Screen Brazil (BRA)
European Media Art Festival Osnabrück (DE)
Mecal Pro Barcelona (ES)
Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg (DE)
Moscow Shorts (RU)
Bamberger Kurzfilmtage (DE)
Alternative Film Video Belgrade (SRB)