Design and whole grain design illustrate walls
Since the beginning of December, a large-scale wall design has adorned the staff restaurant of the Zürcher Kantonalbank on Bahnhofstrasse. Gestalten and Vollkorn Design are responsible for this work - painted directly onto the wall as a live event.
It is actually the employees of Zürcher Kantonalbank who are responsible for the fact that today, in the staff restaurant at the headquarters, two large murals depict the history of the bank. After all, it was they who suggested "1870" - the year the company was founded - as the name for the restaurant as part of an internal competition.
So it was only natural that the bank's history should form the basis for the wall design. After careful evaluation, a working group from the Infocenter and the historical company archive commissioned the Zurich agency Gestalten to design the wall.
In addition to the convincing creative concept of Gestalten, the special technique for the realization was also decisive for this decision. Contrary to the general trend, and entirely in the tradition of craftsmanship, the creative people from Grubenstrasse decided to paint the wall directly using paint and brushes.
In this way, the employees of Zürcher Kantonalbank were able to follow live how the history of their employer took shape day by day. The illustrators from Vollkorn Design were responsible for the image idea and design of the illustration as well as for painting the wall, and they ensured precise implementation in close cooperation with Gestalten. The wall design was inaugurated at the beginning of December during a festive morning with invited guests.
