Chiasso Letteraria 2023

Chiasso Letteraria is an annual literature festival held in Chiasso, Switzerland. The seventeenth edition, held in 2023, was themed “L’ultima spenga la luce”, or in English: The last one will turn off the lights”.

From the festival website (auto translated from italian):

Inspired by a Berlin graffiti that accompanied the fall of the wall – “Der Letzte macht das Licht aus” – the title evokes themes of dissidence, conscious opposition to totalitarianism, and nonviolent struggle in defense of the rights of people and the planet.

Sometimes you reach a point where you can no longer transform reality. One must then abandon the old one and create a new one. Dissidence is also the raison d’être of some (great) literature, in contrast to the dominant models. Chiasso Letteraria thus wants to pay tribute to the many authors whose writing and commitment struggle uncompromisingly for a better world and for greater equity and justice. If the dissidence of hearts has begun, it will be the one to save the world.

For the festival’s visual identity, Studio CCRZ chose to work with LL Blankenhorn Formal as the main typeface, supported by Knockout and Sentinel.