Büro Grid Work Method Contact
DE EN

schedule,
then ship

Büro Grid builds identity, wayfinding, and editorial systems for institutions that plan in decades. We draw the grid first, so every decision after it has somewhere to stand.

Basel, since 2009
Working in DE / EN


Structure before surface

  1. Practice

    Identity systems, signage programmes, and editorial grids. Each project begins as a set of rules, never as a single picture.

  2. Method

    Fixed modules, one measure, a single accent. The system has to survive twenty years of new hands, new content, and new signage.

  3. Standort

    Based in Basel, working across the institutional landscape in German and English. On site whenever the building itself needs us.


Index of selected work

  1. 01 Kunsthalle Basel Wayfinding system · 2024
  2. 02 Rheinhafen Authority Identity & signage · 2023
  3. 03 Universität Basel Press Editorial grid · 2023
  4. 04 Kantonsbibliothek Identity system · 2022
  5. 05 Tramnetz Nord Platform signage · 2021
  6. 06 Museum für Gestaltung Type & grid manual · 2020

Position

A grid is not decoration. It is a decision made once, in public, so that every decision after it can be smaller, calmer, and easier to defend.


Start something that outlasts its brief

Steinenvorstadt 12
4051 Basel, Switzerland

New commissions for 2026 open from September.