Hyper Super: when old Swiss books become wall art

A yellowed page, pulled from a book once destined for oblivion, becomes a poster you hang on the wall. That’s the whole idea behind Hyper Super, a Swiss workshop that designs and makes upcycled vintage posters made from authentic pages of antique books. The brand sums up its approach with a phrase of its own: ‘art between the lines’.

An idea born from old paper

Hyper Super doesn’t start with a blank sheet, but with a book that’s already been written, already read, already lived. Rather than turning to new paper, the Swiss workshop sources its raw material from old books. This approach flips the usual order of creation on its head: here, the finished object begins with an object that already has a story, and it’s precisely that story the brand seeks to reveal through its posters. According to the brand, the aim is to position itself as a creator and custodian of old books and works from the past — a way of saying that nothing is ever truly lost, that everything can be read and seen anew.

The range: posters with a past

Hyper Super’s catalogue rests on a simple idea: upcycled vintage posters made from authentic pages of antique books. Each piece therefore carries, in its very fabric, the trace of a work that existed before it. This makes it a natural choice for anyone looking for décor unlike anyone else’s, since the source material can never be reproduced in exactly the same way twice. Alongside this range sits a bespoke personalisation option, which goes beyond simply buying an existing poster to allow customers to commission a piece designed for a specific use or space.

The craft: working with what already exists

What Hyper Super does lies less in inventing a new image than in choosing and transforming a material already rich with meaning. Working from authentic pages of antique books calls for a particular relationship with the making process: nothing is produced as an identical series, but rather composed around what the old paper itself offers. Production takes place in Switzerland, which grounds this upcycling work in a local setting rather than an outsourced one. For whoever hangs a Hyper Super poster at home, this changes the very nature of the object: it isn’t an image printed on a neutral surface, but a piece built from a material that carries its own past.

What the brand stands for

Hyper Super sees its role as going beyond simply selling posters. According to the brand, it positions itself as a creator and custodian of old books and works from the past, through a concept it calls ‘art between the lines’. The phrase captures the intention rather well: not erasing what came before, but reading between the lines of an old book to draw out something new. It’s a way of championing a form of continuity between the past and the contemporary object, rather than a clean break from what existed before.

Bespoke: a poster made for you

Beyond its existing creations, Hyper Super also offers bespoke personalisation. This option opens the door to a commission that isn’t limited to choosing from a fixed catalogue: it allows for a poster designed around a specific request. In an approach that already starts from pages of antique books — inherently unique materials — going bespoke takes that logic even further. Each personalised piece is then doubly unique: through the original book, and through the request that gave it its final form.