I. Opening Vignette

A countryside studio for considered & unhurried design.

cbdc.studio is a small atelier working at the quiet seam between Swiss typographic discipline and the soft grammar of a wildflower meadow. Every page is a pressed specimen — arranged with care, kept for its colour.

II. Portfolio Garden

Pressed flowers
from the studio.

N° 01

Hollerberg Verlag

Editorial identity · 2025

An independent publisher of botanical monographs. Grid, colophons, and a set of letterpress endpapers.

N° 02

Almwiese Kitchen

Identity, packaging · 2025

A seasonal alpine restaurant. Menus hand-bound in linen, with a rotating signage system of pressed flora.

N° 03

Feldblau Bibliothek

Digital library · 2024

A quiet reading platform for rare botany manuscripts. 6-column grid, hand-tuned serif pairings, no algorithm.

N° 04

Rosenau & Söhne

Wine label system · 2024

A family vineyard in the Jura. Twelve cuvées, twelve pressed roses, one typographic skeleton.

N° 05

Firnglanz Festival

Poster series · 2023

A chamber-music weekend in Appenzell. Ten posters on Munken cream, one for each glacier.

N° 06

Edelweiss Briefpapier

Stationery system · 2023

A small paper goods line for a mountain apothecary. Six envelopes, two nibs, one cream.

III. Philosophy Passage

Design, for us, is a form of pastoral husbandry — patient, seasonal, tended with tools passed down from Basel and from grandmothers with herbariums.

We believe the grid is not a cage. It is a garden wall — something that keeps the meadow from running into the road, nothing more. Inside it, the work may be soft, rounded, a little wild at the edges.

Swiss rigour in service of warmth. Every grid line drawn
with the care of someone tending a garden.

Our palette is borrowed from the jewel cases of antiquarians — amethyst, emerald, sapphire, ruby, topaz — but we never let the gems sit on black velvet. They rest on cream linen, catching the afternoon.

We take few clients, and we take our time. A brand identity is not a sprint; it is a season. Please come in the spring, and stay, if you can, until the light turns in late October.

— the atelier
IV. Contact Alcove

Leave a note
on the sill.

The atelier opens commissions in late spring and autumn. Tell us who you are and what season you'd like to be ready by.

Studio Rue du Meadow 14
1920 Martigny
Hours Mon — Thu · 09—17
by appointment
Correspondence atelier@cbdc.studio
+41 27 000 00 00