I heard that Buro Destruct is a great sympathizer for Japan. When you come to Japan for the exhibition in Tokyo, do you want to go any particular places? Or do you want to do anything special?

For me it is the 4th time to visit japan. Next to Tokyo we did visits to Sapporo and Kyoto. This time we like to visit Osaka and maybe Kyoto again. Of course we will do snowboarding in the skidome again. For us, this is kind of sureal, because we live so close to the mountains were we can snowboarding in the real nature. Also we are looking forward to meet all our friends in Tokyo. To have drinks together and play pachinko or karaoke 😉

“Buro Discount” Shop design, Graphics-Gallery-Gimmics-Gadgets

Please tell us about the shop Buro Discount that you opened in Zurich last year. How was a process from making up ideas to opening the shop?

HGB Fideljus, one of the co-founders of Buro Destruct has got the option to rent a cool shop in Zurich. Then he asked us if we would like to participate to create a bd-shop concept to sell graphic design goods and doing exhibitions with other designers.

Products: inflateable dolls, books, magazines, posters, postcards, balloons, stickers, t-shirts, discotec-vinyl-single, fonts, cds, laptop-bags, sweets, toys and figures.

What kind of customers visits your shop?

Zurich is the best place in Switzerland to have a shop like this. It is close to the main airport of Switzerland. So we have a lot of visitors from abroad. But also Swiss people who are interested in graphic design, architecture or art. Unfortunately I don’t have the time to serve in the shop. This is the work from HGB Fideljus and his wife Mina. Maybe you can compare it to Shift in Sapporo. You have a webzine and a coffee house… but you need to seperate the responsibilities. Otherwise you get crazy.

Buro Discount Shop design, Graphics-Gallery-Gimmics-Gadgets

From a designer’s point of view, what kind of city is Zurich ?

Zurich is like Tokyo for Sapporo-people – Bern is like Sapporo for Tokyo-people. Bern is cosy, and friendly, the city is not too big to get lost. Zurich is busy and a bit proud.

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Buro Destruct
Address: 7 Wasserwerkgasse, CH -3011 Bern, Switzerland
Fax: +41 (0)31 312 6307
bd@bermuda.ch
https://www.burodestruct.net

Buro Destruct Exhibition
Date: September 3rd – 16th, 2003
Open: 10:00 – 21:00
Place: LOGOS GALLERY
Address: B1F Shibuya Parco Part1, 15-1 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Tel: +81 (0)3 3496 1287 (dgv Japan)
https://www.parco-art.com