Barbara Stauffacher
Barbara Stauffacher was born in 1928 in San Francisco, California. She is a graphic designer, landscape designer, and writer, who is best known for the enormous supergraphics she designed inside of buildings by mixing Swiss Modernism and West Coast Pop. Barbra’s work uses scale, color, and illusions to completely transform the feel and look of a space.
Before getting into art, she worked and trained as a dancer in San Francisco and it wasn’t until her husband died in 1956 that she went to Basel in Switzerland to study graphic design under Armin Hoffman at the Basel Art Institute. She then later also studied architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. It is quite clear that her studies in architecture helped her with her supergraphics, as her work uses a mix of architecture, interior design, environmental design, and graphic design.
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Published by artkrawler View all posts by artkrawler, et al. “Supergraphic Innovators: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon.” Atrin Yazdani-Biuki | A Design Blog, 23 Apr. 2017, artkrawler.wordpress.com/2017/04/23/supergraphic-innovators-barbara-stauffacher-solomon/.