Concrete poetry, which emerged simultaneously in Brazil and Switzerland during the 1950s, practically took the exploration of the morphology, repetition and rhythm of words to the limit, being one of the most efficient and genuine manifestations in the sense of freeing thought from the shackles of representation and create an independent domain for the language.

At the end of 2020, after one century of life, died Armin Hofmann, one of the sponsors of the famous Swiss Style created by Design School of Basel, where he started to teach with 27 years. His typographic principles, that revolutionized the graphic arts and elevated the country reputation to international standards, are main references for professionals and taught in school until today.