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On Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 5pm, the 7th edition of the limited cuvée "lâche-moi la grappe" will be tasted and sold at the Vinothèque du Château de Glérolles.
EXHIBITIONS
From 24 September to 21 December 2025, as part of L’Appartement – Espace Images Vevey, Lea Sblandano, winner of the Prix Images Vevey x ECAL 2024, presents Neijuan, her Bachelor Photography project.
EXHIBITIONS
The books awarded by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (OFC) take part in numerous book fairs as well as a travelling exhibition in Switzerland and abroad, including a stop at ECAL from 23 September to 3 October 2025.
EXHIBITIONS
Some ECAL graduates are featured in the exhibition Gen Z. Shaping a new gaze, presented at Photo Elysée.
LECTURES
ECAL presents a talk on new sustainable imaginaries with Emma Piau and Alban Mayne, questioning the role of creatives in addressing ecological and societal challenges.
EXHIBITIONS
A collective exhibition, conceived by artist Miriam Laura Leonardi, which offers an unstable space, without a central theme or linear path, inviting visitors to wander and reflect.
EXHIBITIONS
ECAL is taking part in Designer's Saturday in Oslo with the project Sound & Vision, created in collaboration with Swedish brand Offecct.
LECTURES
The Master Photography at ECAL welcomes British artist Alan Warburton for a lecture on his work with Computer-Generated Imagery and Artificial Intelligence. Warburton’s practice, bridging art, industry, and academia, critically examines and deconstructs cutting-edge technologies.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
by Steve Bouillant, Teo Grajqevci, Yann Müller
Data has the power to reshape the way we interpret the world. Starting from a simple question or hypothesis, this project explores how visualization can reveal patterns that are not immediately visible. The result is a fully functional data visualization experience with an interactive interface, including a mobile controller that allows users to manipulate the display in real time. Designed and programmed by second-year Bachelor students in Media & Interaction Design as part of a course taught by Gaël Hugo, the project demonstrates how interactive visualization can make complex data more accessible and engaging.
EXHIBITIONS
Deemed Visionless is a group exhibition by students from ECAL’s Master Fine Arts, conceived as a free, off-programme experience in collaboration with the Parisian gallery Treize.
EXHIBITIONS
During the 2025 Zurich Design Weeks, ECAL will exhibit HOMEWORKS, its limited edition collection created for micasa, and take part in a talk on creative entrepreneurship alongside Pro Helvetia and ZHdK.
PARTNERSHIP
HOMEWORKS: a limited collection designed by ECAL's Bachelor of Industrial Design programme for the swiss brand micasa
GRAPHIC DESIGN
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
PHOTOGRAPHY
with Sami Benhadj
Music video projects created within the framework of the Sequence course supervised by Sami Benhadj. Each 2nd-year student in the Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design & Photography Bachelor programs produced an individual music video. Taking an existing track as a starting point, every project sought to translate the music into images, exploring visual storytelling, rhythm, and staging. Students were encouraged to experiment and develop a creative and personal approach, resulting in original graphic worlds where sound and image resonate with one another.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Angelo Benedetto
First-year students designed visual identities for fictional museums. As part of the Dynamic Display course led by Angelo Benedetto, this project led them to create graphic universes that that express the character of each imaginary exhibition site.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Mario Von Rickenbach
Using a mixed reality headset, the students used their surroundings as playground. Through creative gestures, each experiment proposes a way of interacting with the environment.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
with Nicole Udry
Genius Loci, or the spirit of the place, refers to the unique identity or essence of a location. In architecture, this principle suggests that the specific characteristics of a place should be reflected and extended in a design. In the case of the second-year graphic design students, they have applied this principle to communication projects focused on promoting or extending the identity of a particular place through design. Their work likely explores how to visually capture and communicate the essence of a space, using graphic design elements that resonate with the architectural features or history of the place.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
with Robert Huber
Designing a logotype means defining a strong visual identity anchored in a specific context. First-year Graphic Design students developed a hand-drawn logotype based on a subject, theme, or environment of their own choosing. This creation was informed by prior research in typographic archives. Each student produced a reference booklet and a specimen system based on six or more typefaces, to ground their visual and conceptual exploration. Balancing typographic culture and contemporary expression, each project investigates what makes a visual identity truly distinctive.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
with Angelo Benedetto
During the information design course the students of the second year have been asked to design a cartographic poster based on a film in the road movie genre, in a direct or abstract representation.
FILM STUDIES
with Alessandro Comodin
The 2025 documentary film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by french italian director Alessandro Comodin.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
with Alain Bellet
Fictional mobile apps based on the "Show more / Show less" theme, offering new ways of consulting, communicating, creating, playing, discovering and learning. Students in their 2nd year of Bachelor Media & Interaction Design designed a dedicated experience and graphic interface via interactive prototypes on Figma.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
with Alice Franchetti
During this workshop, each student was tasked with designing a poster inspired by the architectural legacy of Richard Neutra. Drawing from his modernist philosophy and formal principles — clean lines, transparency, strict geometry, and integration with the landscape — each student visually reinterpreted Neutra’s ideas within a 2D graphic format.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
The graduation ceremony held on 27 June 2025 was also an opportunity to highlight many diploma projects through the awarding of Grants and Prizes. Congratulations to all the graduates and award winners!
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
Sara de Brito Faustino and Aline Savioz, respectively a graduate and student of the Bachelor's programme in Photography at ECAL, are among the winners of the 2025 edition of the prestigious Dior Prize for Photography and Visual Arts for Young Talents.
PARTNERSHIP
To celebrate the collaboration between the three branches of government, the Vaud Parliament is unveiling its very first vintage wine – adorned with a label designed by ECAL.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
Following the nomination of 28 of its graduates as finalists for the Swiss Design Awards 2025, ECAL is proud to announce that 13 have been awarded this prestigious distinction by the Federal Office of Culture. This strong representation once again demonstrates the quality and diversity of the talent trained at the university
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
The animated short film Qui part à la chasse by ECAL graduate Léa Favre has been selected for the official competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
Congratulations to artist Lucas Erin, ECAL graduate, who has been awarded the 2025 Manor Cultural Prize for the canton of Vaud. The jury was impressed by his approach, both precise and poetic.
PARTNERSHIP
When gastronomy meets design to elevate the dining experience
PARTNERSHIP
HUG: ECAL's Swiss chair for the World Expo 2025 in Osaka from 13 April to 13 October 2025.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
Klaudia Reynicke and Mégane Brügger win the ‘Best Feature Film’ and ‘Best Graduation Film’ awards respectively.
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