Familie Bühler follows seven siblings from 1920's St Gallen through lives led across Switzerland and beyond.

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This keepsake and family record also speaks to wider trends across its decades—of hopes held and hurdles faced, especially by women. Catharina, Elisabeth, Anna, Maria, Frida, Ernst, Gertrud and Hedwig each have a dedicated chapter, family history and personal tree that details descendants through to the present day.

These chapters converge in their layout behaviours, with timelines that grow from left to right and decreasing sizes of the typeface OT Alpha marking each generational step. Photographs are displayed as objects with captions placed to follow their wide variety of shape a proportion.

They diverge through colour-coding, with individual hues selected from the flags of the different Swiss cantons in which the siblings settled (with one drawn from Athens). This spectrum follows through onto divider pages and out onto the cover as foiled forenames. This forms a typographic counterpart to the whole-family photograph found on the endpapers within.

Edited by Silvan Abicht
Printing and binding by Bubu
OT Alpha by Omnitype