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ECAL Open Day,29.11.2025,ECAL, Renens

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ECAL Open Day,
29.11.2025,
ECAL, Renens

ECAL opens its doors and invites you to discover its activities in the fields of Fine Arts, Cinema, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Digital Design, and Photography.

ECAL at GIFF Festival 2025,31.10–09.11.2025,Genève

EXHIBITIONS

ECAL at GIFF Festival 2025,
31.10–09.11.2025,
Genève

From 31 October to 9 November, ECAL will be present at the GIFF Festival 2025.

EXHIBITION ECAL DIPLOMAS 2025,30.10–05.12.2025,ECAL, Renens

EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBITION ECAL DIPLOMAS 2025,
30.10–05.12.2025,
ECAL, Renens

From 31 October to 5 December, ECAL presents the Diploma Projects 2025. Opening on Thursday 30 October at 6 pm.

Screening of diploma films 2025,28.10.2025,Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne

PROJECTION

Screening of diploma films 2025,
28.10.2025,
Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne

On Tuesday October 28, the ECAL presents the graduation films of the Bachelor Cinema at the Cinémathèque Suisse.

ECAL AT KIKK FESTIVAL 2025,23–26.10.2025,Namur, Belgique

EXHIBITIONS

ECAL AT KIKK FESTIVAL 2025,
23–26.10.2025,
Namur, Belgique

ECAL Bachelor Media & Interaction Design is taking part in the KIKK Festival 2025 in Namur (Belgium) from October 23 to 26, 2025 with a selection of projects.

Masterclass ECAL – JAZMÍN LÓPEZ,15.10.2025,Auditoire Leenaards, ECAL

LECTURES

Masterclass ECAL – JAZMÍN LÓPEZ,
15.10.2025,
Auditoire Leenaards, ECAL

ECAL Cinema Department welcomes Argentine filmmaker and artist Jazmín López for a lecture as part of her ECAL residency at La Becque.

ECAL × JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: SPORT - CORPS

PHOTOGRAPHY

ECAL × JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: SPORT - CORPS

with Florence Tétier, Nicolas Coulomb

"Le Mâle" - 30th anniversary In 2025, "Le Mâle" will celebrate its 30th anniversary. With this in mind, students have been working on the brand's fragrance. Reflections on masculinity and different representations of the body in 2025.

ECAL × NNORMAL

PHOTOGRAPHY

ECAL × NNORMAL

with Nicolas Poillot

In September 2024, the start of the academic year at ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne, was highlighted by the beginning of our collaboration with trail equipment manufacturer Nnormal. At the same time, not far from our university, Kilian Jornet, the founder of the brand, gave our teams a taste for exploits by linking 82 peaks in the Alps over 4,000 meters high, shattering all records in the process. In trail running, as in photography, you need passion, discipline and endurance. Our Bachelor Photography students at ECAL are not all great sportsmen and women, but they are driven by the desire to achieve visual exploits. Trained in technical mastery, conceptual development and risk-taking, they spent three years in a field of exploration that allows them to seek out limits and chart their path. It's essential for them to get off the beaten track and find a visual language that sets them apart from the vast quantity of images that overwhelm us. ECAL has a long tradition of collaborating with top-level brands and professionals who, in addition to their own activities, wish to pass on their skills and experience to a passionate young generation looking for guidance in unfamiliar territory. Among them is Régis Tosetti, artistic director of Nnormal, who has a strong link with ECAL, where he trained for a degree in Visual Communication in 2005. Régis kicked off this collaboration with head coach Nicolas Poillot, also an art director. Nicolas forged his raw and elegant style by taking fashion towards the documentary. A guest lecturer at ECAL for several years, he has guided students tirelessly, with pragmatism and rigor, through the mapping of the brand and its visual expression. In a polluted, noisy world, saturated with superimposed stimuli, it is difficult to concentrate, to focus on a clear objective, a goal to look forward to. The opportunity offered by the collaboration between ECAL and Nnormal has encouraged a young generation of photographers to turn to the mountains. Nature is a terrain of escape, communion and adventure for an essential imagination made up of bodies and landscape. The main subject is the mediating element between these two components, the shoes that allow us to go further in this union. But there's much more than shoes in the work of Nicolas and his students: there are values of ecology, dry and wet atmospheres, solar and nocturnal lights, technical and organic textures, muscles and tense faces that achieve deliverance through their exploits. And finally, in trail running as in photography, despite sood technical and mental preparation and systematic study of the forecasts, there are unforeseen circumstances that force us to come up with improvised solutions that reveal new forms of beauty.

EXPOSITION DU PRIX PLATEFORME 10 X ECAL: Gary Sandoz – Reminix,27.09–21.12.2025,Plateforme 10 – Les arcades

EXHIBITIONS

EXPOSITION DU PRIX PLATEFORME 10 X ECAL: Gary Sandoz – Reminix,
27.09–21.12.2025,
Plateforme 10 – Les arcades

From 27 September to 21 December 2025, Reminix, the exhibition by Gary Sandoz, winner of the Plateforme 10 × ECAL Prize, can be discovered under the arcades of Plateforme 10.

Cuvée Pierre Keller 2025,25.09.2025,Saint-Saphorin

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Cuvée Pierre Keller 2025,
25.09.2025,
Saint-Saphorin

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.

EXHIBITION OF THE PRIX IMAGES VEVEY X ECAL: LEA SBLANDANO,24.09–21.12.2025,L'Appartement – Espace Images Vevey

EXHIBITIONS

EXHIBITION OF THE PRIX IMAGES VEVEY X ECAL: LEA SBLANDANO,
24.09–21.12.2025,
L'Appartement – Espace Images Vevey

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.

The most beautiful swiss books 2024,23.09–03.10.2025,ECAL, Renens

EXHIBITIONS

The most beautiful swiss books 2024,
23.09–03.10.2025,
ECAL, Renens

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.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS 2024

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS 2024

A dozen personalities with links to the ECAL - graduates, professors or lecturers - were honoured at the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2024" awards

LET THE DATASET CHANGE YOUR MINDSET - 2025

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

LET THE DATASET CHANGE YOUR MINDSET - 2025

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.

Deemed Visionless

FINE ARTS

Deemed Visionless

ECAL × micasa

PARTNERSHIP

ECAL × micasa

HOMEWORKS: a limited collection designed by ECAL's Bachelor of Industrial Design programme for the swiss brand micasa

Video Clips – 2025

GRAPHIC DESIGN

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

PHOTOGRAPHY

Video Clips – 2025

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.

Dynamic Identity - 2025

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Dynamic Identity - 2025

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.

Type Design BA1 S1 2024/2025

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Type Design BA1 S1 2024/2025

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.

Betaverse 2025

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Betaverse 2025

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.

Genius Loci - Spirit of the place

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Genius Loci - Spirit of the place

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.

Information Design

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Information 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.

AWARDS & GRANTS 2025

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

AWARDS & GRANTS 2025

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!

Two ECAL photographers honoured with the Dior Prize for Photography 2025

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

Two ECAL photographers honoured with the Dior Prize for Photography 2025

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.

ECAL label for the Vaud Parliament wine

PARTNERSHIP

ECAL label for the Vaud Parliament wine

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.

Of the 28 ECAL graduates who were finalists for the 2025 Swiss Design Awards, 13 received awards

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

Of the 28 ECAL graduates who were finalists for the 2025 Swiss Design Awards, 13 received awards

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

A Graduation Film Selected at Annecy Animation Film Festival 2025

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

A Graduation Film Selected at Annecy Animation Film Festival 2025

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.

Manor Cultural Prize 2026 awarded to Lucas Erin

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Manor Cultural Prize 2026 awarded to Lucas Erin

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.

ECAL × EHL

PARTNERSHIP

ECAL × EHL

When gastronomy meets design to elevate the dining experience

ECAL at the World Expo 2025 in Osaka

PARTNERSHIP

ECAL at the World Expo 2025 in Osaka

HUG: ECAL's Swiss chair for the World Expo 2025 in Osaka from 13 April to 13 October 2025.

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