About Warja Lavater
Warja Lavater was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. She was a Swiss artist and illustrator noted primarily for working in the artist's books genre by creating accordion fold books that re-tell classic fairy tales with symbols rather than words. Lavater spent the first nine years of her life in Moscow and Athens. It was here that Lavater embarked on her first profession as a designer of symbols, logos, and trademarks. It was during this early period in New York that Honegger-Lavater became influenced by American street advertising and began to utilize pictograms as graphic representations of linguistic elements in her work.
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