Mifflin-Schmid Design is a small company with big clients. We are structured to ensure that every client deals directly with one or both of our partners, Lize Mifflin and Kaspar Schmid, who manage a select group of designers and assistants. Because of our size, the direct access it guarantees clients, and the reputation our client list insures, large corporate clients happy to avoid bureaucracy are attracted to us. They are as carefully attended to as the small companies we also serve.
When we are asked to create building signage that serves the needs of users, we base our design solutions on the architects' values, using graphic design to support and enhance architectural integrity.
SANAA Building, Fabrikstrasse 4 Novartis Campus, Basel, Switzerland
Diener & Diener Building, Forum 3, Novartis Campus, Basel, Switzerland
Kino Plaza Cinema, Zürich, Switzerland
University of St. Gallen Library, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Our strength in corporate design is our ability to use design to help execute business strategy. An additional strength is message management: structuring, writing and supervising text content in English.
Novartis
McKinsey & Company
Egon Zehnder International
Venture
Interio
Capital Dynamics
EFG International
Jacobs Holding AG
The Jacobs Foundation
Femit
Saxos Informatik AG
Recruiting campaigns require ingenuity. They're one part international corporate design seen by clients, one part seduction of the right strangers in the student world, and one part public performance for the eyes of the general public. We have had the good fortune to do a variety of successful recruiting campaigns for McKinsey & Company, Switzerland.
Denkpause 1997
Stoffwechsel 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Motion 2001
Venture 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006
Dive 2004, 2005, 2006
In 2005 and 2006, we advised interio not only on the strengths and weaknesses of their catalog and web designs, but also on their in-store graphics. We introduced a new typefont for all in-store and catalog graphics.
interio AG
Being a small business ourselves, we warmly welcome start-up and small companies, who are given exactly the same professional attention as our larger clients.
Weludos
Kino Bar Plaza
Feissli & Gerber
Bergli
Rialto
ktc Netzwerk
Book design is a uniquely interesting, time-consuming effort. Of the various books we've designed and illustrated, we are particularly proud of the following three.
One Long Weekend in Woodstock & London
Henri Schmid: Stationen
Venture
In collaboration with interio’s ad agency Cosmic, we were given the opportunity to redesign Switzerland’s beloved interio catalog. A wholly enjoyable and constructive collaboration ensued, in the course of which we provided the new format, typeface and layout concept, while art directing the first three catalogs.
interio Summer catalog 2005
interio Fall catalog 2005
interio Summer catalog 2006
Mifflin-Schmid Design was founded in 1986 by partners Kaspar Schmid and Lize Mifflin who collaborate together on all projects, Kaspar Schmid leading design decisions, Lize Mifflin leading concept development. Both work closely with our select group of designers, all of whom are graduates of notable design schools.
Kaspar Schmid, designer, is Managing Director and Co-Creative Director�of Mifflin-Schmid Design. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich and worked in several Z�rich agencies before being hired by Pentagram Design, where he worked for seven years as a designer in London and New York. He has won various design awards, including Best Swiss Book Design in 2000.
Lize Mifflin, design consultant, is Concept Director and Co-Creative Director of Mifflin-Schmid Design. After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, she worked at Pentagram Design in New York as assistant to Colin Forbes. She received a Master's degree from Columbia University Teachers College in New York, before co-founding Mifflin-Schmid Design. Ms. Mifflin lectures at the Z�rich Museum of Design's Poster Collection on the history of Poster design.�
We are honored to have provided design services to the following companies, whose collaboration is what makes our profession an enjoyable one.
If you have sound professional experience and would like to work for large corporate clients in our small, closely knit company, we would be interested in seeing your work. Please send your portfolio to us at
We are always interested in seeing the accomplishments of talented designers with less professional experience. If you would like to show us your work, we hope you, too, will send your portfolio to the address above.
We look forward to meeting you!
Mifflin-Schmid Design is conveniently located near Central, a Zurich hub for tram and bus lines just across from the Zurich Main Train Station. If arriving by car, you will find parking places outside our office.
Mifflin-Schmid Design
Auf der Mauer 7
8001 Zurich
Switzerland
TEL +41 44 266 68 80
FAX +41 44 266 68 81
box@mifflin-schmid.com