As part of the planning process for the development of the current banknote series, a competition was launched at the beginning of 2005. Twelve artists were invited to present their designs for all six denominations on the theme 'Switzerland open to the world'. The jury met in November 2005 to evaluate the submissions and to decide on the winning designs. These were presented at a news conference in Berne on 23 November 2005. You can view them by clicking on the names of the individual designers.

Competition results

Manuela Pfrunder was commissioned to design the new series of banknotes.

Additional participants:

Unfortunately, one of the participants had to withdraw from the competition.