On the occasion of the Design Preis Schweiz/Prix Design Suisse awards ceremony last weekend in Langenthal, ECAL graduates have won six awards. The prizes are awarded to products, projects, services and concepts from all business-relevant design disciplines. Research projects and diploma theses are also eligible for the competition. Thus, four ECAL graduation projects completed in 2020 were honoured and two projects developed by alumni were also awarded by the jury.
Young Professionals Category
RobustNest by Fabien Roy, Master Product Design diploma project, ECAL, 2020 (Product Investment Subcategory)
Tofu-to-Go by Yu-Ying Wu, Master Product Design diploma project, ECAL, 2020 (Product Consumer Subcategory)
Cima by Benjamin Bichsel, Master Product Design diploma project, ECAL, 2020 (Textile Subcategory)
Furniture Category
Lotte by Sarah Hossli, Master Product Design diploma project, ECAL, 2020
TENSE by Panter&Tourron, MAS in Design for Luxury & Crafstmanship graduates
Going Circular Economy Category
Cyclon by On with
Thilo Alex Brunner (Head of Design by On), MAS in Design
for Luxury & Crafstmanship graduate and Head of Master Product Design at ECAL from 2014 to 2017 (Established Subcategory)
More information: https://designpreis.ch
Sarah Hossli
Fabien Roy
Benjamin Bichsel
Yu-Ying Wu (with Dorian Tosca)
Panter&Tourron
Thilo Alex Brunner (on the right – with Thomas Bell et Martin Rüegg)