About Coande GmbH
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Coande Communication and Design develops sustainable design 
solutions in the field of identity and branding. Our projects for swiss and global clients, are characterized by careful, strategic and long-term orientation. In addition to the project work for our international clients, we are also involved in lecturing and research and have authored various publications and held conferences and workshops on identity, branding and design history.  
 
Founded: 1996 in Zurich and New York, since 2012 in Männedorf
 
Founded jointly by Peter Vetter and Katharina Leuenberger in 1996, the Studio Coande, for identity and brand development, has been successfully realizing projects for various international clients for years. Among others La Rinascente, Milan; BMW Group, Munich; Landis & Gyr, Zug; BMW Japan, Tokyo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Clifford Chance, London; Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern; Ministero della Cultura, Rome; Autorità Portuale di Palermo and City Rapperswil-Jona.
 
Coande usually works in medium to long-term relationships together with its clients. Only these kinds of in-depth and on-going processes, including dialogue and an atmosphere of mutual trust, can determine and develop sustainable and innovative solutions.  
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Katharina Leuenberger,
CEO and responsible for project management and research
​k.leuenberger@coande.com

Peter Vetter,
Designer and Consultant
Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Zurich University of the Arts
p.vetter@coande.com
 
Coande Network 
Our network, which we have carefully built up over years of cooperation, includes consultants for strategy, copyright, research, legal competence etc. and also partners for print, online and interactive media. Out of this network, a qualified team for a specific requirement of project can be assembled. It combines proven, entrepreneurial-minded professionals and provides optimal solutions, to meet the expectations of demanding clients. 
 
International Collaboration
A number of projects have been created in collaboration with Vignelli Associates in New York. In the Italian market, Coande collaborates with two partner studios in Milan under the name D/C/P. Riccardo Soffientini, DA Centro per il disegno ambientale and Roberto Priori, Studio Priori & Co.
 
Team
The following collaborators were involved in the projects published here: Mischa Leiner, Iver Knebel, Simone Torelli, Christoph Frey, Till Ramstein, Jacqueline Kübler, Caroline Demuth, Kathrin Urban, Brigitte von Arx, Stefanie Aberer and Ilias El Mezouari.
 
Links to some friends:
www.c2f.ch
www.olivierotoscani.com
www.kognito.de
www.studiopriori.com