Christian Etter, Working Life

Born 1982 in the mountains of Switzerland, growing up in Zurich where he studied precise Swiss Typography.

Christian Etter founded his first multimedia design company in 2000, while working for various Swiss advertising agencies, and teaching classes in Interactive Design and Film Editing.

Later, he closed his company down and worked as a Counselor for children at the skateboard recreation centre in Lausanne. He then continued counseling in Bogotá, working with sexually exploited children.

After returning from Colombia he worked as a Multimedia Producer in Bern before settling in Milan as Art Director for Saatchi & Saatchi.

Later, Christian joined the Visual Communication Department of Fabrica, which is United Colors of Benetton’s Communication Research Centre located near Venice, where he was later working as Consultant.

He then moved to London to work as an Interactive Director for unit9.

In 2007 he was invited to join the Advisory Board of Design21, a social design network by Felissimo and UNESCO, based in New York City.

He moved back to Switzerland in 2008, where he launched Etter Studio, an interdisciplinary design and research company.

2010 Christian Etter founded a creative collective, an old window factory on the hills of Zurich, called Fensterfabrik.

Nowadays, aside from running his own studio in Zurich, Christian is working as remote Director for unit9 in London.