On the 25th of March 2025, WYSIWYG Seminar #2 was addressed by Michael Renner, Head of the Institute Digital Communication Environments at the Basel School of Design – FHNW, and member of WYSIWYG Advisory Committee. In a room filled with students of the HGK Basel, Michael had gathered printed material of several decades, including the portfolio he had brought with him to the United States in the …

On 26 February 2025, Clémence Imbert presented the WYSIWYG project at the Actualités de la Recherche seminar, co-organised by Anthony Masure (HEAD - Geneva) and Giovanna Zapperi (UNIGE). In her presentation, Clémence Imbert went back over the origins of the WYSIWYG concept, pointing out that it is more a marketing promise than a technical reality. Between the mid-1980s and the 1990s, desktop …

On September 19, 2025, researchers Clémence Imbert and Julie Blanc presented an initial overview of the project at Automatic Design Type 3 at ANRT (Atelier National de Recherche Typographique) in Nancy, France.

The talk was a general presentation of the project, with a particular focus on the legacy of the WYSIWYG paradigm (common to both type design and graphic design software) and a reflection …

On 29 January, for the first session of WYSIWYG seminar in Geneva, we had the pleasure of welcoming Maddalena Dalla Mura (Università Iuav di Venezia) and Monica Pastore (Politecnico di Bari) to discuss their recent research on the digital turn of graphic design in Italy.

Maddalena Dalla Mura is a graphic design historian. In 2016 she co-edited an issue of the journal AIS/Storia Ricerche (vol. 4, …

On 16 October 2024, the research team and its scientific committee met in Geneva for the kick off of WYSIWYG research project. The event provided an opportunity for all those involved to get to know each other in person, and to continue the virtual exchanges that have been taking place over the past few months, both before and after the SNSF-funding application and the recruitment of 4 …