Sabina Oberholzer studied with Livio Bernasconi, Sergio Libiszewsky and Bruno Monguzzi at the CSIA
in Lugano.
In 1983 Sabina founded the Studio di Progettazione Grafica with her partner Renato Tagli in Cevio,
in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland.
Oberholzer and Tagli are alive to the relationship between nature and creativity,
and sensitive to their responsibilities within the small community in which they live and work.
Driven not by economics but rather by a belief in quality and clarity of the message,
Oberholzer’s design philosophy is based on appropriateness and generally results in the elimination
of the superfluous, ornate or artificial.
In 1985, they won the contest for the creation of the corporate identity of the city of Locarno.
In 1987, they were responsible for the design of the newspaper Quotidiano,
for which the following year they won a prize from the Federal Scholarship for Applied Arts,
a feat they repeated two years later.
They were second in the contest for the best Swiss corporate identity in 1992.
In 1995 they created the new corporate design for Monte Verità.
In 1998 they began work on the corporate design for the Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna Ascona.
In 2002 they won the 3th price of the Deutsches Plakat Museum, Essen, Germany, “Children are the rhythm of the world”.
In 2005 they were invited by the Swiss National Bank to take part in a competition to design
a new series of banknotes.
In 2009 they won the 1st price of the Swiss Post Office postage stamp series “wishes” in circulation since September.
1st prize at the 5th Annual International Typographyy Poster at “Asma-ul Husna”, Tehran, Iran