Diplomas 2025

Every year, our graduates leave ECAL with a unique set of skills: a highly concentrated mix of experience, know-how and curiosity, ready to be projected into the world with boldness and inventiveness.

Throughout their studies, our students have researched, experimented, layered practices and pushed beyond conventions. They have learned to mix colours, raise the temperature and launch intensive cycles where materials, ideas and cultures rub shoulders – sometimes until they are thoroughly wrung out. This vibrant, sometimes unsettling but always stimulating process has shaped unique and resilient profiles, ready to redefine the contours of design and contemporary art.

Their projects demonstrate high standards, constant curiosity and an ability to question the world relentlessly. In a changing environment where reference points are shifting, they have developed personal visual languages, mastered complex tools and constructed sensitive, meaningful narratives.

Beyond their diploma, they now have access to a genuine network: ECAL alumni community, which provides solid, stimulating and internationally-oriented support. Congratulations to our 2025 graduates! Keep questioning, provoking and inventing — the world needs this creative alchemy.

Bachelor

BA Visual Arts

All diplomas

FINE ARTS

Amina Loumachi – Pleaser Flamingo-808G 8 inches schlong

by Amina Loumachi

This performance play with themes of spaces. Through sexualities, the artist questions power dynamics, creating a link amongst the bioluminescence concept as a visibility strategy and queer activism. With heels dancing and a neon atmosphere, the project explores the way of inhabiting the space which could either be intimate or the public. The artist amplifies the echo of their heels, which draws the silence while lighting up the space with each clack. A dialogue is created with the public, still but here. A biocenosis takes place where a space-sound landscape exists creating a tangible discomfort. Bodies become a vector of memories, breathing as the performance goes. A shared heritage gets distributed but also reverses the positions of everyone.

FINE ARTS

Anna Cocimarov – De deux choses l'urne (qui rit), l'autre c'est le sommeil...

by Anna Cocimarov

Laughter on TV was recorded in the 1950s. Today, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.” This line from the novel Berceuse by Chuck Palahniuk feels like an urban legend — half true. It echoes Bruce Nauman’s Partial Truth, a cold, minimalist stele shaped like a dead TV screen. Television, too, builds partial truths: cutting, filtering, reframing reality. We watch the news like a sitcom, between forced laughter and banalized tragedy. This installation reflects this fractured perception: two urns — one laughs, the other sleeps. Vessels of memory, they embody both absurdity and numbness. Between laughter and sleep, death and spectacle, the boundary fades — like truth itself.

FINE ARTS

Baptiste Schaerer – La Vanrac

by Baptiste Schaerer

A bull's voice, a linnet's head, an elephant's memory, BANG! a viper's tongue, an ostrich's stomach, a lion's heart, a monkey's grin, as sharp as a blackbird, POUET! as nasty as a caterpillar, BOOM! as stubborn as a donkey, as cunning as an old monkey, as talkative as a magpie, as cowardly as a rabbit YOUPIII

FINE ARTS

Caroline Bischoff – Daisy Selfie

by Caroline Bischoff

I want to go out but I also want to stay in.

FINE ARTS

Céleste Meylan – Duels

by Céleste Meylan

If you come looking for me, you will find me.

FINE ARTS

Charlie Schaer – gastro-sensuelles comorbidités (...)

by Charlie Schaer

The installation comes with a poem printed on paper, which is also the title of the piece. materials : clay, aluminium, condoms, dental dams, string, cherries, industrial wax & clay wet with testosterone gel, aluminium, candle wick, bees wax

FINE ARTS

Clara Luna – Réverbères

by Clara Luna

What happens between lightning and thunder? Distance (d) = Seconds’’ : 3 The Lamposts are located somewhere (...) The evasive measure of time; the experience of atmosphere and doubt. 1,6 km

FINE ARTS

Diego Mühlematter – Anybody Out There ?

by Diego Mühlematter

Interested in photographic devices and images, the artist tries to make them coexist by using camera backs as windows. He explore the gray area inside the camera and tries to map this wandering.

FINE ARTS

Duna György – One hour is much more than you think

by Duna György

everybody dries their shit under the sun

FINE ARTS

Emma Blanc-Germser – Noce de pigeon

by Emma Blanc-Germser

We're off to tell our own stories, piecing together the crap that surrounds us to make beautiful structures while gradating the shades of brown, beige, black, ochre, khaki, that it offers us. Because when the tears stop coming out, everything ends up coming out through the buttocks. And there's nothing left to do but to go in the quest of love.

FINE ARTS

Eulalie Félix – Il est parfois nécessaire de faire une scène.

by Eulalie Félix

My first is hollow and clangs softly when struck by a wandering step. My second is barely a word — just a pause, a breath between thoughts. My third hides in the dark, curled in warmth, five to a foot. My whole lies quiet beneath the earth, waiting to feed with no pride, only patience.

FINE ARTS

Jamie Soria – eddy

by Jamie Soria

once upon a time a little vampire lost himself in the forest...

FINE ARTS

Louis Fontaine – Figures de Contraite

by Louis Fontaine

This two-sculpture project develops hybrid forms drawn from the silhouettes of basket gowns, medieval armor, liturgical garments, and feudal Japanese firefighters’ clothing. The work explores the notion of apparatus and its evolving relationship to the body, addressing themes of identity, ritual, and constraint. A dynamic tension emerges between protection and rigidity. Influenced by the tactile richness of Olga de Amaral and the sculptural textile innovations of Jeanne Vicérial, the sculptures inhabit a liminary space where body, structure, and narrative converge.

FINE ARTS

Marsaili Venus Haas – untitled (composition no. 12)

by Marsaili Venus Haas

Sheep and cows and hares and ventilators and angels and humans and grandmas and trees and foxes.

FINE ARTS

Mayalène de Roquemaurel – Honte excitante

by Mayalène de Roquemaurel

Exciting shame. The body split, as if divided into several pieces. The pasty thing in the mouth. It runs through my nails, my nose, my epithelial tissue. Tiny cells swarming in the belly, some empty, others full. They try to swell and escape, flowing like a stream through the limbs, awakening the stirred viscera. An endless thread that knots and unknots itself.

FINE ARTS

Mykolya Churmantaiev – Post-Post-Kontrapost

by Mykolya Churmantaiev

Post-Post-Kontrapost explores a collapsed body — part painting, part sculpture — dissolving into fragments. There’s no action left, only trace. A figure has broken out of a holding space; what remains is absence. Birds surround it — not hostile, just present. Their quiet gaze becomes psychopolitical: always observing, never intervening. The painting hangs low, not for the viewer, but the figure — which is already leaving. The black jacket renders the body heavy, depersonalized. A doorway, echoing Clyfford Still, offers artificial calm. The system rejects exhaustion and apathy, but this work lingers there — in the after. The birds don’t leave. They follow.

FINE ARTS

Nayla Younes – Please Keep Disobeying

by Nayla Younes

Take a break during a lull in the action.

FINE ARTS

Oana Cuozzo – Mise en pièce

by Oana Cuozzo

The elac gallery becomes a multi-dimensional space. Dissected, manipulated, walls become boards and boards become walls, which in turn become shadows. The piece is an “in-between” state, neither a photograph, nor a sculpture, nor a frame. Elac becomes both an operating theatre and the subject undergoing surgery.

FINE ARTS

Olivia Handschin – EUREKA

by Olivia Handschin

A few years ago, a winnie the Pooh Sock tumbled underneath her bed. The mattress was too small for the frame, causing things to fall regularly between the wooden panels. Winnie hoped the little girl would look under the bed, but kids are often terrified of looking there, invoquing an innate fear of the darkness and all of its monsters. In fact, what lay beneath was a peculiar place, one that collects all those forgotten bits and pieces that slip between the panels— a kind of portal to a forgotten realm, buried beneath dust and old storage boxes. It was the worst fate any household item could endure— a kind of limbo— and depending on the household, it may take a long time before you are found again, if you are ever found at all.

FINE ARTS

Paul Reachi – Take It All In!

by Paul Reachi

"Take It All In!" is a 2-channel video installation positioned between documentary and fantasy. It investigates how entertainment influences labor, psychology, and shared imagination. Blending real life stories, fictional scenarios and animal presence, it reflects on generational and cultural attitudes toward passion, work, and existential meaning. Filmed along the Mediterranean and the Lemanic coasts — where leisure and labor often intersect — the piece examines layered realities. The 2-channel format captures this simultaneity also offering material at once hi and lo-fi, mirroring a fragmented overlapping experiences of image, representation, purpose and identity.

FINE ARTS

Zuzana Baková – and she said, it loops when you’re not looking

by Zuzana Baková

Water distribution and the infrastructure responses devised for the transmission of its stream, such as irrigation canals, artificial rivers, holding reservoirs, hydroelectric dams, etc., are reframed through the formal attitude of circular sculpture, containing water. A discourse on the control over, allocation of, and access to the resource. Circular shapes and motions allude to temporal constructs such as loops, time capsules, and atemporality. Time and space are treated as variables in this equation.

BA Cinema

All diplomas

FILM STUDIES

Antonin Dutoit – À perte de vue

by Antonin Dutoit

An old man dies slowly, cared for by a home aide. A young man watches them, in silence.

FILM STUDIES

Aurélie Chételat – Lumpaz

by Aurélie Chételat

One, two, three… statue. Will the bear play with me? Where is he? What is he?

FILM STUDIES

Camille Surdez – L'Avant-Poste 21

by Camille Surdez

Between doubts and awkwardness, three roommates go through a night marked by the abortion of one of them.

FILM STUDIES

David Gonseth – Noirs matins

by David Gonseth

The youngest in a family gradually senses a quiet unease lurking in their ordinary daily life.

FILM STUDIES

Lanna Melissa Nebie – Rémanence

by Lanna Melissa Nebie

A young woman seeks to save her father's soul, guided by a blind man to a forbidden place.

FILM STUDIES

Louis Richalet – De l'eau qui bout au fond de la terre

by Louis Richalet

Deep underground, Alexandre follows voices and sounds, which arise from and lead him to a lost woman.

FILM STUDIES

Serhii Tykhoniuk – Nostos

by Serhii Tykhoniuk

In a hotel room, a Ukrainian filmmaker in exile has his isolation disrupted by the unexpected return of his former partner, who is about to leave for Ukraine to be with her ailing father.

FILM STUDIES

Victor Cateau – Ceux qui restent

by Victor Cateau

In an Alpine village shaken by the arrival of a controversial ski resort project, a man disappears into the night. Overwhelmed by the events, Marie, the mayor, tries to understand the forces at play.

BA Graphic Design

All diplomas

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Alfredo Venti – Points de rencontre/Treffpunkte

by Alfredo Venti

Points de rencontre/Treffpunkte is an inclusive graphic system designed to make sociocultural resources more visible and accessible to people facing linguistic isolation, or to anyone seeking to join a social network. Inspired by educational tools used with non-native speakers, it combines pictograms, color coding, visual keywords, and modular signage. Installed at the entrances of community centers through interchangeable panels, and complemented by poster campaigns (print and web), it brings these structures into public view for those looking for a service, a network, or simply a welcoming place.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Amélie Bertholet – a room of our own

by Amélie Bertholet

a room of our own is an editorial project born from the relationship between my flatmate, Flavia, and myself. This book explores how a relationship lives and evolves within a shared space: our apartment. Often seen as a transitional phase, cohabitation here becomes a long-term space of emancipation and sisterhood. Nurtured by feminist references—beginning with its title, borrowed from "A Room of One’s Own" by Virginia Woolf—the project questions the place of women within spaces of creation and intimacy. Through symmetry and collection, the book translates the experience of a lived space into an editorial object. The layout's grid, drawn from the apartment’s floor plan, creates shifts in scale and layout to reflect the transformation of 3D space into the 2D printed page.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Candice Aepli – Brindille et Azilise

by Candice Aepli

Brindille et Azilise invite you to imagine children's space differently, by offering a lively, playful universe in their bedrooms. Here, the story is not read between the pages, but lies on the floor and climbs up the windows. It slips under an arm. It tucks in dreams. It's a whole world at children's level, where ecosystems come to life through furniture, transforming everyday life into a playground for exploration. Le jardin, collection no. 1 The gardener has slipped seeds into the soil, the bright sun warms the petals, the mouse nibbles on the sly, and in this corner full of life, everyone is busy and smiling.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Constance Mauler – Club Kid

by Constance Mauler

My project explores the Club Kid scene. Born in the 1980s in New York, this movement emerged as a radical response to artistic and social elitism. Led by queer and marginalized individuals, it transformed nightlife into a space of freedom, resistance, and self-invention. This publication aim to create a dialogue between the original generation of Club Kids and the contemporary scene, to show how this movement continues to challenge norms, invent new codes, and assert liberated identities. An immersion into a flamboyant and deeply political subculture.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Coraline Beyeler – 5R

by Coraline Beyeler

5R is a documentary book explores the contrast between urban and rural agriculture, focusing on developments driven by new generations. It addresses issues related to pollution as well as social, health, and economic challenges.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Cyprien Valenza – Patterna

by Cyprien Valenza

Patterna is an experimental variable typeface designed around two axes: Weight and Weaving. Inspired by Cassandre's Bifur from the 1930s and the arrangement of threads on Jacquard looms, Patterna is based on a rigorous grid that structures shapes and spacing. Its modular layering system allows for graphic experimentation with variations, making each composition dynamic. Numerous alternates reinforce its formal richness. Patterna challenges fashion conventions by offering a modular, dense typeface designed as both a graphic tool and a writing system.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Delphine Brantschen – What Remains to Be Stitched

by Delphine Brantschen

What Remains to Be Stitched is an interactive website shaped as a memory palace. Through her mother's oral accounts, the graphic designer weaves together Brazil's past into 3D icons and narrative fragments. No objects or images have been preserved from this life — only words. These words are my only inheritance. But what remains when even she no longer remembers them? Blending graphic design, modeling, point clouds and spatial storytelling, the project explores a poetic form of transmission, stitching memories to preserve a fragile link between memory, culture and identity.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Diego Steiner – Hybrid Modules

by Diego Steiner

Hybrid Modules explores the link between traditional craftsmanship and contemporary technologies through the creation of a 3D-printed modular typographic tool for use with a manual letterpress. Designed on a grid, the modular alphabet becomes a set of physical dies, which can be inserted by hand into the press. The slow, repetitive process becomes an integral part of the visual language, making visible the time and care of the gesture. A series of A2 posters promotes a series of fictitious conferences entitled “ART, CRAFT & TECHNOLOGY - Guests in Switzerland”.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Dorian Pangallo – Sublime Démocratie

by Dorian Pangallo

In an era where crises follow one another and justify a state of permanent exception, Sublime Democracy is a critical multimedia campaign portraying democracies stripped of their foundations, yet upheld by persistent symbols sustaining the illusion. Designed as a contemporary fable, the work draws on precise presidential speeches and polished visuals, integrating AI as the engine of a critical process where falsehood becomes language. By playing with the codes of power, it questions our habituation to fear, authority, and dominant narratives.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Eliot Dubi – JUST IN CASE

by Eliot Dubi

At the individual level, we can neither predict nor prevent the next disaster; we can only arm ourselves with the right reflexes to face it. JUST IN CASE is a website that gathers, through four scenarios — large wildfires, dam failures, industrial accidents and earthquakes — the key actions to remember when everything turns upside down. A clear tree-like navigation, concise texts and flat-style illustrations keep learning accessible without resorting to sensationalism. A triptych of posters promotes the site to the wider public. Designed for a generation flooded with anxiety-fuelled alerts, the project turns worry into simple, immediate actions — just in case.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Emilie Müller – Librarynth

by Emilie Müller

It is good to believe that the library is resilient. Not as a relic of the past, but as a presence that reinvents itself, oscillating between the tangible and the intangible. It's not a question of denying the digital, nor of clinging to our yellowed pages. But to understand that if we accept the library as a moving space, an organism that mutates with the times, then its future may not be so bleak. My diploma is a non-linear immersive library, conceived as a virtual house. Each piece evokes one of six themes from the Jan Michalski Foundation's Varia collection. In the form of a web interface, the project celebrates the serendipity inherent in physical libraries, while questioning how digital technology can translate the book experience.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Flora Hayoz – FACE À FACE

by Flora Hayoz

FACE À FACE is an exploration of loneliness through two mediums: dance and graphic design. This project brings together two practices to give shape to a hybrid creation. On one hand, a choreographic piece co-choreographed with Gaia Menchini, centred on states of loneliness and then captured on video. The second medium is a publication that extends the piece. By questioning the book as an object, it is designed to be read by two people and becomes a tool for dialogue and listening. The publication thus diverts from its usual uses, creating a sensory experience. The two media interact with each other, inviting us to experience solitude both in movement and in the sharing of reading. Thus, FACE À FACE offers an experience where solitude becomes the starting point for an encounter.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Hugo Scholl – Modulat – 2025

by Hugo Scholl

MODULAT is a variable typeface designed around the concept of a musical visualizer. Starting from a neutral design, it branches out into multiple character sets, each allowing adaptation to different graphic and sonic worlds. Its variation axes enable it to adjust to a wide range of display formats, making it suitable for use across various digital platforms. Conceived as a modular tool, it questions how a typeface can accompany music while maintaining visual coherence. The project combines formal experimentation with a search for graphic adaptability.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Léa Corin – Neither Fully Free, Nor Fully Captive

by Léa Corin

Neither Fully Free, Nor Fully Captive explores the theme of day parole. Through a video installation and a book, this project archives and documents the activities of an association dedicated to reintegration. The projection, conceived as an emotional archive, combines experimental videos with sound testimonies from individuals on day parole supported by the association, revealing the complexity of this transition. The book, as a complement, adopts a documentary and sensitive approach, blending stories and visual creations. This project transcends graphic form to foster social dialogue and shed light on an essential yet often overlooked issue.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Lidia Molina González – Toilet Break Magazine

by Lidia Molina González

It all started with taking a break. A pause. A moment alone in a shared space: quiet, ordinary, a little strange. Toilets might not be the first place you’d look for big ideas, but that’s why we chose them. Toilet Break uses this overlooked space to explore how we live together, take space, and connect. This first issue is about in-betweens: between public and private, inside and outside. It gathers voices from Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, across generations and practices. A place where ideas circulate freely, where serious things can be said with a wink. A collective and personal space to test new editorial forms, listen more carefully, and believe in detours as a way forward. To take, quite literally, a moment to reflect and sit with things.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Marc Facchinetti – The Swiss Climate Report

by Marc Facchinetti

The Swiss Climate Report is an editorial design project that explores climate change through data. Based on recent meteorological records, put into perspective with historical averages sometimes dating back more than 150 years, the book is supported by plugins custom-developed for InDesign. These tools translate scientific data such as temperatures, UV radiation and Dobson units into typographic variations and ASCII forms. This experimental approach offers an alternative reading of climate information. The project offers a raw and precise computer graphics perspective.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Mathilde Driebold – Ce qu'il reste de nous

by Mathilde Driebold

This book exists for what remains of us—and perhaps, of you. Fragments of an intimate past inscribed in, and lost within, a social context that goes beyond us. This diploma project takes the form of an editorial narrative, blending personal stories and social archives. Through this work, I explore the traces left by addiction within a family setting, bringing individual and collective memory into dialogue. Ce qu'il reste de nous also demonstrates that graphic design can be used as a tool to question social realities, give shape to sensitive subjects, and break the silence.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Paul Paturel – Modulat – 2025 #2

by Paul Paturel

Grime Index is an interactive VJ-ing project that centralizes, visualizes, and enables navigation through iconic moments of grime — a chaotic genre born on London’s pirate airwaves. By turning audio data into visual identity and live signage, the project makes a performance-based, oral, and improvised culture more readable. Designed for both newcomers and longtime fans, it is built around three interchangeable modules — MC, instrumental, and lyrics — honoring the culture of sampling, MCing, and mixing. Diarization, transcription, dynamic typography, and real-time effects combine to reveal grime’s living and navigable memory.

BA Industrial Design

All diplomas

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Lélie Guiochet – Colette

by Lélie Guiochet

Colette speaks of an intimate object worn directly against the skin, and yet one we abandon without remorse: the bra. It is an object that becomes obsolete, that is not resold second-hand and that is only rarely recycled. It accompanies us only for a few years, before wearing out or becoming too small. So Colette imagines a system that adjusts over time: a bra made of separate parts, cups, underband, straps, fasteners, underwire, to assemble, replace independently, readjust and personalize. The different parts are 3D-knitted, seamless and industrially compostable. The underwire and the fasteners, for their part, are infinitely recyclable. It is no longer the bust that adapts to the object, but the object that evolves with it.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Alexandre Li – Diego

by Alexandre Li

Sport has become a key social driver in today’s society, with more and more city dwellers gathering downtown to practice together. Diego is an urban furniture concept designed to tap into this dynamic by bringing football back into the heart of the city. Designed for underused public squares and parks, this project invites people to come together and share public space through sport. With a simple tilt, Diego transforms from a bench into a football goal. Thanks to integrated wheels, it can be easily moved and rearranged to suit the users’ needs. A single module invites spontaneous play, while several combined form a real pitch with goals at each end and seatings for spectators on the side.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Eva Reymond – Amaretto

by Eva Reymond

Amaretto celebrates siesta, slow life and the art of outdoor living. This modular garden structure is designed to create peaceful, shared moments of rest. Composed of three parts, it offers a choice of a wooden platform and two deckchairs, which can be positioned either side-by-side or face-to-face. The seats offer two positions, including a semi-recumbent position ideal for napping. Thanks to a system of screwed connectors, the structure is solid, removable and adaptable. It allows you to freely compose islands of relaxation, in the garden or by the water.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Alice Graff – Tijolo

by Alice Graff

In many parts of the Global South, especially in Brazil, building a home sometimes means building it yourself with few tools, limited means, and whatever is at hand. Tijolo was born from this reality. A kit of raw earth bricks, air-dried and made from soil, water, and recycled paper. They interlock in a staggered pattern, without mortar or heavy tools. On their surface, two volumes: designed to clip in cables or pipes no drilling, no breaking. You can change your mind. You can also seal them up, leaving a mark, a rhythm.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Jeremy Loup – Nestwork

by Jeremy Loup

This collection of three artificial bird nests addresses specific needs for cohabitation between birds and human environments. Each model is designed to be functional, accessible, and easy to reproduce. The tit nest supports natural regulation of pine processionary caterpillars. The grebe nest offers a floating structure for ports, preventing the birds from settling on boats. For common swifts, the nest is designed to be mounted on balconies, significantly reducing the high costs of traditional installations. All three nests follow the same construction logic : a cork shell for thermal and acoustic insulation, combined with Paulownia panels, a durable and weather-resistant wood. Their simplicity allows for production and assembly within sheltered workshops.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Aurélien Clerc – Mirabilis

by Aurélien Clerc

Mirabilis is a research project focused on educational optical instruments designed for naturalist observation. Each tool in this collection is dedicated to a different field of exploration: what lies in the distance, what is very small, and what can be found beneath the surface. It represents a shift in how we look at nature, this time in a literal sense, through visual instruments aimed at supporting curious observers of fauna and flora. The collection includes a monocular, a hand lens, and an aquascope, each of which plays with the principles of optical physics while also illustrating its properties with an educational intent.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

François Ader – INTERVALL

by François Ader

Why settle for an ordinary fit-out when your pop-up store deserves something exceptional ? INTERVALL is a modular structure system made from extruded aluminium, designed for emerging fashion brands looking to stage their pop-up stores. Based on two aluminium profiles, it allows for a wide variety of assemblies to create clothing racks, fitting rooms, tables or counters, adapting to any space while respecting the brand’s identity. Easily dismantled, transportable and reusable, it operates on a temporary rental principle, reducing costs and constraints. More than just a functional solution, INTERVALL is a sleek and refined support designed to enhance the universe of emerging brands.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Charlotte Jobin – Paco

by Charlotte Jobin

Paco is an urban water fountain designed for both humans and dogs, who are often forgotten in traditional fountains found in cities and parks. To reduce waste, a foot pedal controls the flow : as long as pressure is applied, water is dispensed. Any unused water is collected in a bowl located below, allowing a companion animal to drink. When the user lifts their foot, the water stops, and the bowl empties slowly to prevent stagnant puddles and overflow. Made of cast iron, a durable, weather-resistant material, Paco blends into the public space while strengthening the bond between people and pets.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Abla Bolassi Owoussi – Mira

by Abla Bolassi Owoussi

Mira is an interior lamp that explores modularity through a pulley system that allows for adjusting light intensity. The lampshade, made of veneer, subtly transforms depending on the position of the mechanism, playing on both light and shape. This project reflects a need for flexibility in the domestic space and reflects a personal research on the evolving object, halfway between discreet technicality and poetic expression of the material.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Toscane Jourde – Enveloppe – 2025

by Toscane Jourde

Enveloppe is an extendable table whose transformation affects its size, shape, and materiality. When closed, it serves everyday needs: a rectangular laminate table for four. When opened, it becomes a diamond-shaped oak table for eight to ten guests. This project extends a reflection developed in the designer's thesis on the notion of the collective — both as a value embedded in daily life and as a condition for creation. Enveloppe also explores spatial economy and the way furniture can influence human (social) interactions.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Christophe Ascençao – EC Knit

by Christophe Ascençao

EC Knit is a knitted bed designed for overnight trains, offering a lighter, more ergonomic, and intimate alternative to traditional sleeping compartments. Developed in collaboration with the TextielLab, the TextielMuseum’s professional workshop, this project makes use of 3D-knitted textiles produced on a circular knitting machine. The technique allows for precise control over support zones, adapting to the body's contours with padded areas and more flexible sections. The knit extends into panels that reduce noise, filter light, and create a sense of privacy in shared cabins. By lowering weight and simplifying maintenance, EC Knit is a washable textile system that provides a more comfortable and sustainable way to travel by night.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Gaia Vitali – Vela

by Gaia Vitali

Vela is a wooden structure designed to be installed in the Ticino River, which is currently undergoing renaturation. Intended for the newly designated swimming areas, Vela invites people to step into the water and experience the river during its calmer moments. Its backrest-like shape is welcoming and offers an immersive pause in the heart of nature. But the Ticino can suddenly become dangerous: when the current strengthens, Vela opens up to reveal colorful signage that warns of the risk. It is an object that combines comfort and safety, designed to bring people closer to the river in a simple, intuitive, and responsible way.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Matteo De Carlo – SOFT-ROLL

by Matteo De Carlo

“SR-QUIET-55” is a suitcase designed for versatility, compact storage, and everyday adaptability. Its structure focuses on three key aspects: modular functionality, space efficiency, noise reduction and the transformation of the inner bag into a standalone accessory. A lightweight, perforated shell supports a suspended interior bag, reducing friction and wear. The suitcase can be disassembled, with components that nest for minimal storage. The inner bag detaches easily and functions as a backpack, suitable for both travel and daily use. Wheels are engineered with a honeycomb structure and sound-dampening materials to reduce noise during movement.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Isaure Nicolet – Doll Chair

by Isaure Nicolet

Doll Chair is a seat imagined as a body to be dressed. Each textile element is independent, buttoned onto the structure, forming a collection of interchangeable cushions. The fabric, draped rather than stretched, echoes the familiar gesture of covering a seat to hide its wear. This chair reverses traditional hierarchies: here, visible finishes become structure, and dressing becomes a ritual. Inspired by the intimate gestures of the boudoir, Doll Chair extends a reflection on the object in a state of transformation—between model and furniture.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Joab Schneiter – Brum

by Joab Schneiter

Brum is a sustainable toy car designed for children aged 5 to 7 — a durable alternative to typical RC cars, which are often hard to repair and prone to breaking. Its cork body absorbs shocks, while a removable drivebox houses all electronics for easy maintenance. A paper shell lets kids customize the look of their car. The steering system uses a central axle and a self-centering elastic band, avoiding small, fragile parts. Wheels pop off easily for cleaning. Brum encourages creativity, repairability, and a more responsible approach to play.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Jean-Elie Matile – JEM-3

by Jean-Elie Matile

Environmental, energy, and urban planning issues in Switzerland, as in the rest of Europe, raise questions about our modes of mobility. In this context, microcars are re-emerging as a relevant solution. JEM-3 is a single-seater electric microcar designed to meet daily transportation needs in both urban and rural areas. Covered in textile, its bodywork is as light and modular as a tent, adapting to the weather and the user’s preferences. Its minimalist platform enables the design of the body and interior by actors outside the traditional automotive industry. Depending on the materials and manufacturing processes used, JEM-3 can take on multiple forms and adapt to various contexts.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Mael Sandoz – Staccato

by Mael Sandoz

Staccato is an articulated desk lamp with magnetic connectors. The connectors that make up the joints of this lamp operate through a system of notched wheels held in place by magnets, offering a wide range of motion. These magnets also serve to transfer electrical current from one end of the articulated arms to the other. The arms are assembled simply by magnetic attraction, so no screws, springs, or welding are required. The base, on the other hand, is made from conductive plastic, which allows the lamp to be turned on and off with a simple touch. The result is a simple, sleek lamp that requires minimal assembly and offers solid, durable joints with no risk of breakage.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Julie Tena – Velum

by Julie Tena

Velum is a pendant lamp designed to modulate light above a table, offering dual functions : soft, diffuse illumination or direct, precise lighting. Its sliding textile, gently undulating, creates volumes and shades that influence the room’s atmosphere. Intended for spaces where boundaries between work, meals, and relaxation blur, Velum allows users to adapt light to their needs and moments, supporting the fluctuating rhythms of daily life.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Maëlle Roten – Loo

by Maëlle Roten

Loo is a collection of three summer shoes entirely made of knit, including the sole. The project explores the possibilities of ornamental knitting by repurposing decorative stitches to reveal their structural and functional qualities. The upper combines a dense and elastic garter stitch for support with an openwork knit that allows air to circulate, ideal for the summer season. Thanks to the bubble stitch, the jute sole gains volume, durability, and comfort. Each bubble acts like a cushion of material, and their repetition creates a textured profile. Inspired by moccasins and espadrilles, Loo blends an artisanal look with industrial production potential. Their crochet assembly allows easy disassembly, extending their lifespan and facilitating recycling.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Salla Vallotton – Celcius

by Salla Vallotton

Terracotta is a natural thermally efficient material that has been used for centuries in both heating and cooling applications. Its high thermal inertia allows it to absorb heat slowly and release it gradually, making it ideal for maintaining a stable temperature over time. While heating systems are typically unused during the summer, Celcius explores how they could serve a dual purpose, integrating a passive cooling function, to extend their utility year-round.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Noah Stanley – Ovis

by Noah Stanley

Ovis highlights wool, particularly its natural properties for use in sports. Drawing on the traditional Russian boot known as the valenki, it reimagines the role of wool in a hybrid shoe, designed for both hiking and daily wear. The shoe consists of a thermoformed EVA foam upper that houses a felted wool inner boot. Its modular design allows for easy removal of the inner boot for cleaning or replacement, ensuring hygiene and durability while offering comfort and performance.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Chiara Corno – Hanami

by Chiara Corno

Hanami is a collection of metal flower holders, designed to elegantly display and enhance fresh flowers in a harmonious way. Made from treated steel rods, these minimalist structures allow you to place an entire bouquet in a vase and simply hang it on the wall. This makes it easy to remove the whole arrangement to change the water, then replace it in one simple gesture. With Hanami, you reduce your flower consumption and extend their lifespan. After enjoying a fresh bouquet, you simply hang it upside down to dry naturally. Once the flowers are dried, just flip the flower holder to reveal a long-lasting arrangement. You can admire your floral composition for up to two years, like a beautiful painting on the wall.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Titouan Longatte – Volut

by Titouan Longatte

Conceived as a response to noise pollution in urban environments, Volut is a window shutter that incorporates acoustic insulation to shield living spaces from external disturbances. The insulation is provided by removable panels that block noise by absorbing sound waves. The panels pivot to allow light and air into the room while preserving their acoustic properties. The structure relies on standard aluminium profiles and sheet metal, enabling easy adaptation to different window dimensions and seamless integration into façade frames. The shutters are devoid of any superfluous elements; the hardware is concealed within the profiles, resulting in a minimal architectural element that evokes silence both visually and acoustically.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Oriana Gonzalez Fernandez – Enveloppe – 2025 #2

by Oriana Gonzalez Fernandez

Today, cafés have become popular workspaces — but this shift brings challenges. Customers often occupy tables for extended periods, and most venues lack accessible charging ports. While some cafés have introduced 60-minute limits on laptop use, these rules are difficult to enforce. Elio offers a solution : a compact device offered by the café that tracks time with a ring of LED lights and provides a USB-C port for charging laptops and mobile devices, functioning as a portable battery. Its smooth, rounded form is tactile and stackable on a shared charging base. Managed through an app, Elio allows cafés to customize usage settings, offering a balance between customer comfort and efficient space management.

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MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Alexine Sierro – Spira Memoriae

by Alexine Sierro

In a world where ecosystems are dying out and certain smells are evaporating, what is happening to the places and stories that gave them form? Spira Memoriae is an immersive olfactory experience in virtual reality that invites users to journey through a fragmented sensory world. Original fragrances, created in collaboration with perfumer Tennessee Macdougall, extend the reflection through the language of odours. Beacons of an abstract landscape, they reveal rare materials, sometimes extinct, but still present in our collective memory. Spira Memoriae explores the tensions between disappearance and persistence, industry and territory, reality and reconstruction. Smell becomes a vehicle for storytelling, transmission and shared fiction.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Aryana Noorani – Check-out / Check-in

by Aryana Noorani

In this point-and-click game, players take on the role of a maid on her first day in a luxury hotel. Each level consists of a messy room left behind by guests. The player must remember the list of tasks and complete them in the correct order to restore the room. The gameplay relies on simple, repetitive actions, where order and memory are key, with no room for error in such meticulous surroundings. Through repetition, the actions become mechanical, but the slightest mistake forces the player to start over. Guided by the overbearing voice of a manager, the experience combines curiosity, frustration and a quiet sense of absurdity in a simple game loop.

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Ayten Gönel – Tied Realities

by Ayten Gönel

Tied Realities is an interactive virtual reality (VR) experience that questions the relationship between material and immaterial space. In VR, physical space is rarely considered a constraining parameter in the creation of the environment. the project seeks to reverse this logic by integrating a physical constraint at the heart of the virtual experience. Plunged into an oppressive environment, each participant is invited to interact with an device that binds their wrists and restricts their movements. This device acts as a material representation of the discomfort felt by the protagonist in VR, which becomes the central element of the narrative, structuring the environment and interactions. Tied Realities then allows to experience the friction between digital freedom and physical limits.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Baptiste Godart – L'anarchisme n'est pas une invention des Sex Pistols.

by Baptiste Godart

The first international anarchist organization appeared in 1871—not in London, but in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland. Who would have thought? If you think anarchism is all about chaos, crust punks, or masked rioters, this web documentary will shatter those stereotypes. You’ll discover how the Jura watchmakers organized to unite their peers across borders and confront the domination of the bourgeois, capitalist class. The Jura Federation is a key chapter in the history of anarchism. The art direction combines the fanzine aesthetic of the late 20th century with a modern interface design. Visual work is a major part of the documentary, with most of the imagery being original creations.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Elena Biasi – Magnetic Fragments

by Elena Biasi

Before the rise of digital technology and social networks, everyday moments were captured on analog media and watched with family in one uninterrupted flow. These long VHS tapes, composed of successive sequences, gradually disappeared, victims of their obsolescence. Magnetic Fragments offers a way to rediscover these forgotten memories through a three-dimensional web interface, where each bubble represents a memory to explore and comment on. Designed for a private circle, the collaborative platform allows free navigation, revisiting each memory fragments in a dynamic way and breaking with the monotonous structure of past viewings. Magnetic Fragments thus becomes a space for intergenerational transmission, where the past is shared in the present.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Emilie Maier – Moji

by Emilie Maier

A simple password can be cracked in a matter of seconds. Many people reuse the same password for years, or entrust all their passwords to specialized software, counting on not having to remember them themselves. Moji offers a playful and accessible alternative for strengthening our digital security, without the complexity. Designed for people who are less at ease with these issues, the application accompanies the user step by step, guided by Moji — a little character who simplifies the creation of passwords and makes their memorization more intuitive. The whole experience is designed to be fluid and non-anxious, transforming an often tedious task into a simple, guided and reassuring moment.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Livia Schmid – Trail Sync

by Livia Schmid

In remote alpine regions, access to reliable information — such as trail conditions or weather alerts — becomes difficult in the absence of network coverage. Trail Sync addresses this challenge through a participatory and decentralized approach: local information boxes, integrated into hiking infrastructure, are passively updated by hikers using an offline mobile application. Each person passing near a box synchronizes contextual data, leaving a digital trace that benefits those who follow. Reinforcing existing signage without increasing technological dependency, the system is rooted in the mountain values of collective responsibility and solidarity.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Olivia Capol – How Do They Know ?

by Olivia Capol

We all use ChatGPT. But why? Perhaps because it seems to have an answer to everything. How Do They Know ? is an interactive experience that invites us to follow the path of each question we ask an AI, from the moment it enters the system until a truth is delivered to us. Three guides are available to take us to the heart of language model mechanisms. Their points of view, sometimes opposing, intersect and contradict each other. What if the way algorithms respond to us influences what we believe? Behind each exchange lies our relationship to human knowledge, what we expect from machines, what they learn from us, and what we decide to believe.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Quentin Kohler – EnhancedCrops

by Quentin Kohler

“At EnhancedCrops, we aim to create the apple of the future.Thanks to our exclusive technology, which promises to revolutionize the future of agriculture, we are about to develop an apple tree capable of surviving the hottest heatwave as well as the latest spring frost. No matter what parasite clings to it, our Tungsten apple tree will always resist. And that’s not even counting that it will produce the perfect apple, available year-round. Humanity is accelerating climate change? It doesn’t matter! We have the solution. It’s up to us to help it surpass itself. At EnhancedCrops, we’ve made it our mission. Join us, and let’s cultivate a sweeter, ever more fruitful world together.” A story of a failure foretold.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Thomas Gaudin – UnBubble

by Thomas Gaudin

Unbubble is an interactive installation in which a robot explores a user’s smartphone to analyze their Instagram usage. This intrusive act highlights a paradox: if it’s rare to hand one’s phone to a machine, we nonetheless do so every day by letting algorithms collect our data. Our online habits shape a tailor-made reality that filters, sorts, suggests, and sometimes limits our horizons. Unbubble questions how our digital traces construct a fragmented image of ourselves — one that is then used to guide our choices, desires, and attention. The installation invites us to become aware of these mechanisms and opens up a space to imagine other narratives, other ways of navigating, and other worlds to explore beyond the paths laid out by algorithms.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Valère Zen-Ruffinen – Memoria

by Valère Zen-Ruffinen

“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.” - Roy Batty, Blade Runner (1982). Many of the moments we share with our loved ones fade from memory when nothing brings them back to life. Little by little, they disappear. Memoria is a photo album application that explores the fragility of memory, and how we maintain — or allow to fade — our connections through it. Through a process of gradual disappearance, the people in our photos slowly fade if no new memories shared with them are added. To keep their faces visible, users are invited to regularly enrich their album with new shared moments.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Mathias Liniger – Just a game?

by Mathias Liniger

Just a game? is an interactive project that explores how war video games contribute to the trivialization of violence through their game design. Why are weapons perceived as desirable objects? How do customization, visual and sound effects make the act of killing satisfying? What remains of a body after death in a video game? And what does this say about our relationship to violence? In these games, nothing is left to chance: pleasure, oblivion, hostility — it's all a question of design. Through a series of classic combat scenes, this immersive documentary invites viewers to observe, question and understand the systems that transform war into a playful experience.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Adel Debabéche – Ouled El Bahdja

by Adel Debabéche

Ouled El Bahdja offers an intimate glimpse into Algerian youth, caught between waiting and the desire to leave. This project explores the mental and physical space of a generation dreaming of elsewhere, in a country where the future feels suspended. It is a portrait of a fragmented daily life, where time stretches into boredom, yet a quiet tension remains—between resignation and hope. An attempt to capture those in-between moments, those gazes turned toward Europe—a collective fantasy, a promise of recognition, but also an uncertain path... Ouled El Bahdja sheds light on a youth that, despite sociopolitical constraints, seeks to build a meaningful existence. A gesture to make visible the dreams and desires for emancipationborn in the shadows.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Belinda Kiela – Bana Ya Mbòka

by Belinda Kiela

The images in this edition are fragments of an immersion at the University of Kinshasa : a glimpse into student life in a vibrant, ever-moving capital. Through laughter, doubts, and encounters, the photographer has learned to anchor herself in a daily life far removed from the one she knows in Europe. Bana ya Mbóka — children of the country — gives a face to the youths who study, dream, and resist on this campus. Founded in 1954, UniKin aimed to be a leading African institution, but instability slowed that vision. Despite strikes, power cuts, and limited resources, the students she has met exude strength and clarity. This project reveals moments of connection, gestures of resilience, and hopes that persists through it all.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Delio Testa – Partenopei

by Delio Testa

Naples is a vibrant expression of a people’s deep love for their land. This passion lives on despite the weight of daily chaos and hardships that run deeper than it appears. To understand it, a person must enter Neapolitan life, where devotion to figures from religion, culture or everyday life is everywhere. These icons give strength, inspire creation and sustain a constant desire to celebrate. Neapolitans do not just endure struggle. They turn it into energy and a powerful source of hope. This book reflects that spirit through portraits and documentary work.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Cedric Zellweger – If life is a video game, the graphics are great, but the plot is confusing & the tutorial is way too long.

by Cedric Zellweger

The project centers around Elon Musk’s life—his career, family, and global influence—viewed through a critical lens. Musk perceives the world as an immense playground, a glossy surface full of contradictions, where his ambiguous ties to Trump further complicate world events. Influenced by Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, the clear American dichotomy between good and evil dissolves; heaven and hell blur into an indistinguishable spectacle. In this context, Texas—where Musk and members of the photographer's family reside —embodies the expansive, protective, hyper-consumerist “American way of life”, fascinated by stars yet anchored beneath a paradoxically unreachable sky. The installation-based project employs various media: 4x5 film photography, a video game, photograms and different objects.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Eliot Pizzera – Tarèinâ

by Eliot Pizzera

Tarèinâ is a dystopian short film that explores the melting of snow and the impact of climate change on the Swiss Alpine landscapes. Global warming is pushing the snow line higher, leaving lower-altitude ski resorts deserted, littered with ruins and the skeletons of useless infrastructure. In this post-tourism setting, a lone skier glides like a ghost, trapped in an absurd ritual. Inspired by the landscapes of Valais and local myths, the film blends silence, organic sounds, and visual poetry. It incorporates the mythical figure of the Tshaggatta, masked guardians seen in Blatten before the climate disaster of 28 May 2025. Symbols of mystery and resilience, they raise questions about our relationship with the mountains and our desire to shape them in our own image.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Emanuele Delpozzo – The Sea Speaks More Honestly To Those Willing To Drown

by Emanuele Delpozzo

The sea is an anonymous, ever-changing void where identity, place, and scale dissolve. It gives nothing—what you take from it reveals who you are. The project explores the psychology of journeying and survival, driven by a deep yearning for truth through direct experience. As we temporarily define space, we encounter uncertainty, disorientation, and the collapse of rational perception. In response to distress and displacement, it asks: how is the architecture of the body connected to the architecture around it ? We’ve left behind destruction, now hidden in plain sight. A DIY boat—built from jerry cans and debris along the Portuguese coast—becomes a vessel to the horizon. The outcome is a photographic installation and video performance.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Ettore Bruni – TOP OF THE WORLD

by Ettore Bruni

TOP OF THE WORLD explores St. Moritz, where luxury and illusion merge into a glittering spectacle. This project reflects on how exclusivity is staged—through symbols, gestures, and codes of visibility. Between curated appearances and the quiet remnants of a vanished season, I document a world designed to be seen. Immersed in this surreal setting, the photographer observed how people perform identity and how a physical place transforms into a digital dream—shaped by stories, filtered moments, and rituals of attention.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Fredrik Maag – Up There

by Fredrik Maag

Up There looks at Switzerland's role in the “Third Space Age”: an era in which it is no longer states but private companies which are significantly shaping space travel. Although much of the technology that comes to play up there is hardly ever seen, our dependence on it, as well as its geopolitical implications, are extremely far-reaching. The tension between apparent invisibility and simultaneous omnipresence is illustrated on the basis of Swiss involvement in the current Space Race.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Gabrielle Coué – Sans témoin

by Gabrielle Coué

Cosmetic surgery, both intimate and technical, reflects our modern relationship to the body and its transformation. Sans témoin avoids transformed faces, focusing instead on what remains unseen: places, tools, invisible gestures. It captures the moment when the body changes without being experienced. Anesthesia suspends consciousness; the metamorphosis happens without witness. A desire is expressed, the body entrusted, then awakening. Between the two: a void. This void takes shape in images—cold rooms, metallic tools, close-up skin textures. Little or no human presence, only traces. The body becomes matter, managed within a controlled, standardized system.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Héloïse Tourrenc – Un battement feutré

by Héloïse Tourrenc

Pigeons have been a part of the photographer's life since childhood. Her grandparents used to raise these birds in a dovecote at the back of their garden. Today, this memory has become the starting point of this photographic project. By tracing the history of these winged companions all the way back to ancient Egypt — where they were raised, respected, and sometimes even venerated — she travels to Cairo, where this tradition still endures today. There, she documents not only the history of pigeon keeping, but also the people she has met and the sensitive bond between humans and pigeons. Through ancestral knowledge, everyday gestures, and collective memory, her images seek to reveal the invisible thread that connects us. The pigeon — a forgotten or despised companion — here becomes the discreet witness of a shared history.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Inès Riber – Pleasure Boys

by Inès Riber

Pleasure Boys explores the world of male striptease and its representations of masculinity. In collaboration with the british troupe « UK Pleasure Boys », the project questions the tension between power and vulnerability. Through the hypermasculine archetypes and routines of the dancers, the photographer questions the way in which the male body exposes, controls and gives itself away. My images seek to reveal the humanity behind the spectacle: tired, tense or relaxed bodies, intimate moments far removed from performance. They question what it means to be a man when desire becomes performance.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Jerome Luginbühl – Popcorn

by Jerome Luginbühl

‘In the beginning, nothing dissipates.’ Yara’s story does not begin with light, but in darkness. Born almost blind, now an astrophysicist, my sister does not see the stars with her eyes, but through models, formulas, and light analyses. ‘I am no more than a speck of dust in a breath.’ This is where the film begins: in awe of the invisible. What does it mean to see — to truly see? Between belief and knowledge, numbers and longing, childhood and the cosmos, a space of abstraction, projection and reconstruction emerges. Yara becomes a metaphor for a different perception, a different truth, beyond eyesight.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Kristina Yenza – YOUNIST'

by Kristina Yenza

This book is not about war, but about how war becomes the backdrop to life. It brings together photographs of young Ukrainians aged between 16 and 29 — the age the photographer was when she left Ukraine, and the age she is now. No matter where you grow up, the transition to adulthood is always a profound, fragile but essential experience. In this country where war is now part of everyday life, there are still young people who fall in love, discover new feelings, doubt and dream. War has not erased these emotions; it has made them deeper. YOUNIST' is about the way we look, the way we act, the silences. It's about how we grow up with what happens to us.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Lester Kielstein – Osmosis

by Lester Kielstein

Osmosis is a photographic research project that explores how migration is represented and politicized in Germany today. Created during a 13,000 km journey across the country, the work contrasts the visible rise of the far right with the quieter presence of migration, shown through protest images and traces found along the Polish-German border. Rooted in the photographer's personal experience in East Germany, the project reflects on the gap between what is seen and what remains hidden. By combining different visual forms, Osmosis questions who is granted visibility, how national identity is shaped, and how the idea of the border is being redefined.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Maude Bally – Entre 4 et 8

by Maude Bally

Entre 4 et 8 questions what it means to live with a chronic illness, in the details of everyday life, in the slow wear of a constrained body. It brings together images made for medical purposes, administrative scans, rephotographed screens, and fragments of daily life. Through a fragmented narrative, it presents everything that visually accompanies the management of diabetes. It does not seek a heroic narrative, nor does it dwell in complaint. Only what remains when illness becomes part of normality: curves, numbers, small fluctuations.A visual language rooted in the intimate, an attempt to make a discreet form of resistance visible.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Rebecca Dubuis – 208 Grace St.

by Rebecca Dubuis

208 Grace St. observe a domestic space where tenderness and ideological fractures coexist. In my grandfather’s house in Oakville (WA), right-wing, conservative, and religious convictions sharply oppose my own. No open conflict, just general unease, inscribed in silences, objects, and daily routines. 208 Grace St. reveals what unfolds when societal deleterious positions surface within family dynamics. No reconciliation, no provocation; only the reality of a glaring divide.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Sofia Grytsiv – Rebrand

by Sofia Grytsiv

Rebrand is an illusionist performance on Instagram that simulates the rise and fall of a fictional celebrity character played by the photographer. Through staged images and fake media covers, Rebrand explores the mechanisms of celebrity, beauty standards and the treatment of women by the media. Over several months, she develops a realistic narrative tracing the rise of this fictional celebrity, then her fall under the weight of scandal, surveillance and media spectacle. Rebrand uses editorial shoots, paparazzi-style photos, fake brand partnerships and orchestrated scandals. The final work takes the form of a multi-screen video installation retracing this fabricated public life.

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FINE ARTS

Alessandra Ghiazza – Paysages absents - Absent landscapes

by Alessandra Ghiazza

In the empty spaces I find pieces of dreams fields and water, of the forgotten green. A stratification of memories that leads to reveal experiences in natural landscapes, real but also places suspended between memory and the dreamlike, creating through geometric and repetitive shapes a space of contemplation on places, to find them again; postcards of a fragile and continuously changing landscape.

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Axel Mattart – Was it the dream of a poppy ?

by Axel Mattart

Tired of Fighting Against Your Brain ?

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Camila Polania – Instructions of Rematriation

by Camila Polania

Some say the body arrives first, and the soul takes longer. This installation begins with that delay, in the tension between presence and absence. Instructions of Rematriation is a video installation projected onto a wind-moved fabric, a surface that never fully settles. In front, white Rimax chairs evoke everyday spaces of waiting across Latin America: porches, patios, sidewalks. The work follows the passing of a single day, tracing the slow return to the body after displacement. Through video, writing, textile, and sound, the installation holds a kind of return, not geopolitical, but personal and ancestral: a political and spiritual reconnection with what was once left behind.

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Giorgio Cassano – ZONA DI SACRIFICIO

by Giorgio Cassano

ZONA DI SACRIFICIO is a film study that fuses documentary, ethnography, and poetic montage around the Fiume Tara—Taranto’s revered “miracle river.” Through a tapestry of memories, legends, visions, and personal testimonies, the film explores how this sacred source has sustained local identity and resilience, even as the encroachment of the ILVA steelworks has turned the surrounding landscape into a literal “sacrifice zone.” It is both a visual elegy to a once-pure watercourse and a poignant reflection on environmental violence, tracing the uneasy coexistence of spiritual reverence and industrial devastation in a community striving to reclaim its voice.

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Ludovico Orombelli – Sinopia

by Ludovico Orombelli

Sinopia is the culmination of a research project carried out at ECAL on the techniques and images that have shaped the Western imaginary. A scene from The "Legend of the True Cross", painted in the 15th century, has been reproduced using the same materials that its author, Piero della Francesca, employed to sketch the preparatory drawing on the wall before completing it in paint. The image thus reappears in its earliest phase, as a ghostly presence that invites us to reflect on the presence and role of the past within our present time.

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Lylou Müller – The end has no shape

by Lylou Müller

The end has no shape is an installation combining light, sound, and sculpture. A lighthouse turns endlessly on itself, illuminating the remnants of a vanished world. Through a monologue broadcast in space, it tells the gradual disappearance of its environment. Through this fiction, the artist explores ecological grief, memories of an erased world, and the anxiety linked to the loss of landmarks and safe spaces.

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Mélody Lu – Merci d'avoir participé

by Mélody Lu

A sculpture-installation where you’re invited to sit beside this strange character: a large, soft dog — it looks like it's wearing pajamas. It’s waiting for something, though we don’t know what. Its gaze is fixed. If you get closer, you can overhear, faintly through its headphones, the stories being told to it — stories of grief, but also of love and joy. Stories of people reclaiming their voice. A voice they were never given, until now. Pedro says that as long as someone remembers you, you continue to exist. Even one person is enough. Say the names. We must say the names — especially the ones they tried to erase from the list of lives that matter.

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Paul Fritz – I Begged to Be Adored

by Paul Fritz

"𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭, 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘰, 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘢 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵"

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Pedro Maia – Space for Everything: On Love

by Pedro Maia

For a total democratization of the audiovisual, we must think the curatorship of the scared space of the cinema theater without considering intentionality of the possible films there projected of inhabitting that space. That will or intuition doesn't inherently grant them the right of such recognition. Materials of the most varied origins (reels, home movies, TV, YouTube videos, etc) are equally capable of detaining the enlightening qualities of a project thought cinematographically in its inception. This curatorial project reflecting on the topic of love seeks to apply this intersectional approach to its selection, putting into question the limitations of cinema as a mercantile medium.

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Rafael Cunha Da Silva – L'Ultrapu

by Rafael Cunha Da Silva

Ultrapu is a sculptural installation from the artist's Master’s thesis, Les Amalgamés, a fictional bestiary of invented creatures inspired by various representations of monstrosity. From medieval figures described by Ambroise Paré to post-humanist thinkers like Donna Haraway and Paul B. Preciado, these beings explore forms of marginality and transformation. Ultrapu represents a post-human laborer, altered to endure extreme tasks, then destroyed by them. Short, hunched, covered in wool, with a human face, the creature faces a screen showing a motionless frog. While its voice tells its story, we witness a frozen, hybrid, worn-out body. The installation reflects on labor, adaptation, and control over bodies.

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PRODUCT DESIGN

Adam Friedrich – Airy

by Adam Friedrich

Airy is a research project that explores the use of air as a primary resource. It uses inflatable structures to protect valuable devices during travel. The design employs contemporary materials and pays particular attention to detail to offer relevant, everyday solutions for safeguarding increasingly fragile and valuable electronic devices.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Alicia Stricker – Stricker

by Alicia Stricker

Folly approaches the craft of beaded embroidery from a product design perspective. It explores the value of tactility above the visual aspects that the technique is traditionally valued for. Consequently, the project manifested as something that is experienced by the body - a sofa. Scaling up the traditionally small beads and applying principles of beaded embroidery in the development of a textile sofa cover allowed for the sofa to transcend its classic typology, creating a three-dimensional surface with a biological sculptural presence - an object that breaks the mould of what we expect of something as familiar as a sofa and begs to be experienced through touch.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Brice Tempier – Péninsule

by Brice Tempier

Due to limited housing capacity in urban areas, more people are living in small dwellings. At the same time, renting has become a common form of housing in many countries, including among adults. These conditions, sometimes marked by instability, frequent moves, and a feeling of not truly belonging to the place where one lives, led the designer to reflect on our relationship with domestic space, its temporary nature, and the difficulty of making it one’s own. This project takes the form of a small, mobile structure, the size of a bed, conceived as a personal spatial frame within a room. Péninsule is a dense and flexible living space, a micro-architecture open to appropriation.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Carl Johan Jacobsen – Hardwear

by Carl Johan Jacobsen

In the U.K new court ruling threatens trans-people while the US government is doing a full assault on trans and female bodies. Hardwear is a collection of wearable objects offering a sense of protection in urban environments, as a response to a growing tendency of hostility towards the body. Hard surfaces become flexible armor, protective shields transform into high heels. Whether to preserve personal space on public transport or to create cognitive distance Hardwear aims to create a sense of security. By using hard materials, the feeling of being safe inside a car is transformed to the outside resulting in a line of wearable objects made for for everyday resistance. Drawn on protection typologies from sportswear, Hardwear is made of 100% recycled plastic with 3D printed elements.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Cedric Zimmerman – DUCTUS

by Cedric Zimmerman

DUCTUS is investigating how tangential fans can be reinterpreted in combination with spiral ducts, which are normally used in industrial HVAC systems, in a modular, energy-efficient ceiling ventilation system. The galvanised sheet metal is perforated locally using a specially developed laser manufacturing process and then processed into spiral ducts in an industrial standard procedure with almost no material loss. These ducts serve both as air ducts and as a supporting structure for the fan unit. The system, manufactured in collaboration with the Lausanne-based company Air Ventil, generates a wide, quiet air flow while also adding architectural accents.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Wei Li Chung – Timber in Motion

by Wei Li Chung

This project explores the potential of fully wooden adjustable furniture. In today’s life, seating often serves multiple functions—from working to resting. However, modern recliners tend to be robotic and over-engineered, using complex structures and mixed materials. Timber in Motion challenges this norm by using only wood. Inspired by traditional outdoor loungers, a locking system allows for multiple reclining angles, balancing functionality with wooden aesthetics. Timber in Motion also uses precise connectors by Swiss company Lamello, making the large structure completely flat-packable and easy to assemble.It integrates structural experimentation with logistical efficiency, addressing modularity and ease of transport.

PRODUCT DESIGN

David Ortiz Quintero – Little Helper

by David Ortiz Quintero

In cities like Lausanne, where steep slopes are part of the everyday landscape, navigating the city can be a challenge. Developed in collaboration with Senior-Lab, the project begins with the observation of a simple yet essential object. Little Helper reimagines the personal shopping cart as a tool for independence, exploring how subtle technology can enhance everyday life. It features an electric tilt-assist motor system that reduces the effort of pushing or braking, easing the physical burden of movement without the complications or stigma associated with traditional mobility aids. The project sees technology not as a feature, but as an invisible ally, fostering a more dignified and intuitive relationship with the objects we rely on.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Jacob Kouthoofd Martensson – SoundTrack

by Jacob Kouthoofd Martensson

SoundTrack is a synthesizer video game that explores new ways of making and visualizing music. What began as a search for accessible musical interfaces—an instrument anyone could use—led to the discovery of how video games offer a precise bridge between physical input and digital possibilities. Inspired by children’s marble run games, SoundTrack merges complex digital music tools with simple, modular blocks, allowing players to build and shape their own soundtracks.

PRODUCT DESIGN

James Caruso – The Catalog Collection

by James Caruso

The Catalog Collection explores the potential of designing furniture and home goods exclusively from standardized components in the McMaster-Carr catalog, bypassing much of the traditional manufacturing process. Using Fusion 360’s McMaster-Carr plugin, its extensive 3D library enables rapid experimentation with precise, digital parts—bringing new immediacy and efficiency to the concept of ready-mades. By eliminating the need for custom tooling and minimizing physical prototyping, the process reduces waste, streamlines workflows, and asks: What becomes possible when we stop designing from scratch and start designing from what already exists?

PRODUCT DESIGN

Liyah Tomashof – Ensemble

by Liyah Tomashof

Rooted in the Vaud region, Ensemble explores proximity as a tool for sustainable and ethical production. In a globalized world where materials and knowledge are increasingly detached from place and people, this project explores how the design process can reweave a return to local relationships: craft, territory, and creative practice. In collaboration with a local ceramic artisan, the project has resulted in a series of porcelain objects shaped through shared dialogue and learning. Alongside the objects, mapping, interviews, and documentation of regional artisans accompany the work—highlighting a method of making that is relational, grounded, and reciprocal.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Louis Bosnjak – Repose

by Louis Bosnjak

Traditionally, upholstered furniture is made from a mix of materials like wood, metal, polyurethane (PU) foam, glue, and fasteners—forming a complex composite that is nearly impossible to recycle. PU foam, the industry standard for comfort, is especially difficult to process and often ends up in landfills. Repose rethinks this system by replacing synthetic components with fully biodegradable, organic materials. Combining a cantilever wooden structure with flexible wood fiber panels, hemp cord webbing, kapok fibers, natural latex, and expanded cork, the project creates furniture that is comfortable, durable, and designed for biodegradability—offering a coherent, circular alternative to conventional upholstery.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Marco Ciacci – ACE

by Marco Ciacci

ACE is a collection of hearing aids and wearable hearing devices, made with cellulose acetate, a bio-based alternative to plastic, traditionally used in eyewear. This material brings warmth, tactility, and function to the hearing devices, aiming to reposition hearing aids in much the same way glasses have shifted from medical tools to desirable accessories. The design revolves around a modular system where core technology snaps onto interchangeable, adjustable frames crafted from cellulose acetate. The result is a collection that spans from cochlear implants and over-the-ear hearing aids to earbud-style and bone-conduction solutions for healthier listening.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Natsumi Komoto – Baya

by Natsumi Komoto

Baya is a lounge chair inspired by animal nests. Starting with the question “Why do humans need to create?”, I explored instinctive structures built by animals—nests where function and form merge, offering a pure model of creation beyond culture and ornament. Baya’s CNC-bent stainless steel frame is imagined as branches, hand-wrapped with leather strips to form a personal nest that blends industrial precision with primal gesture. Leather, used since ancient times, softens metal’s rigidity and symbolizes the deep bond between nature and humans. Its enveloping form welcomes varied postures and moments of reflection, while the reconfigurable design fosters long-term care over short use. Baya quietly asks what sustainability means—physically, emotionally, and philosophically.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Oscar Massaud – Sisyphe

by Oscar Massaud

Sisyphe is a loudspeaker designed for outdoor use, taking advantage of the acoustic and durability qualities of fiber-cement (also known as Eternit), a material never before used for this type of application. Frost-, shock- and weather-resistant, it guarantees long life and reliability. An enclosure you can forget about outside, without worrying about the weather. Sisyphe becomes a discreet companion, from garden to terrace, right into the heart of the forest. Like a large carved pebble, it blends into its environment, leaving only the music you want to dance to.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Takumi Ise – Ballection

by Takumi Ise

Ballection is a collection of balls, each designed to offer a distinct quality—whether charming, surprising, or playful. The series forms a creative exploration and a personal portfolio of the designer’s fascination with materials, techniques and approaches.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Min Xiyao – Hay Day

by Min Xiyao

HayDay — a low-tech comfort solution: a low sofa filled with hay that embraces simplicity, sustainability, and tactile warmth. In contrast to overly complex internal constructions, it offers a refreshingly honest and charming approach to lounging. Made from just a single rope, fabric, and straw, its minimalist structure highlights the beauty of essential materials. When the rope is untied, the sofa unfolds into a daybed, adding versatility to its humble and grounded design.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Yeonsu Na – Emerging Absurdity

by Yeonsu Na

Emerging Absurdity is a series of five accessories for contemporary daily life. Drawing on everyday norms, the designs incorporate elements of humour and charm, while remaining rigorously constructed and thoughtfully resolved. The project includes a cigarette umbrella, a floss ring, a glue stick-inspired candle holder, a MagSafe cosmetic case, and a signature ruler. Each object responds to moments that are oddly specific yet strangely familiar. These are not solutions to urgent problems, but careful responses to emotional details. The designs take absurdity seriously, exploring how even the smallest gestures and habits can be elevated, questioned, or gently exaggerated through form.

MA Photography

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Daniel Martinez – A River Has No Shore

by Daniel Martinez

Flowing from an Alpine glacier to the Mediterranean Sea, the Rhône River runs through ice caves, forests, cities and industrial sites. It sustains ecosystems, defines geographies and connects cultures across space and time. However, the boundless flux of the world’s waters today faces increasing stories of tragedy and collapse. Climate change doesn’t manifest only on a material level but also overwhelms the emotional dimension of human life. Today, the psychological toll of environmental crisis amplifies states of eco-anxiety and solastalgia, triggered by lived experiences, mediated imagery and narratives of apocalyptic breakdown. A River Has No Shore reflects on the distress caused by climate change and its representation by looking at the water along the Rhône River in its endless forms.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Doyoung Kim – Flattened Roughness

by Doyoung Kim

The work Flattened Roughness explores war image consumption and resulting guilt. The photographer collects and prints images of death then lick and absorb them physically, confronting the emotional and physical distance created by media. Suicide drones’ cameras constantly calculate distance to humans for destruction. In this process, the distance between humans is forgotten. To overcome this distance, he brings the images into my body. This act, where intimacy and brutality coexist, transforms voyeurism into mourning and care, confronting my lost humanity. Through sensory performance, he bridges the gap between himself and mediated death, exploring the clash of dulled emotion and sensation. This confessional, physically exhausting work explores alternative sensory approaches for the recovery of broken humanity.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Elisa Azevedo – Daydream

by Elisa Azevedo

Daydream is an intimate exploration of sexuality, embodiment, and the search for connection in a world increasingly shaped by performance and consumption. The photographic series began with an investigation of highly sexualized spaces — environments where the body often appears fragmented, mediated, and as a representation. Present, yet absent, lingering only as a trace of desire. By reenacting some of these gestures herself, the photographer embodies a role and expectation that she cannot naturally fulfill. This performative process reveals the dissonance between imposed ideals and personal reality. Through photography, feelings of loneliness, inadequacy, and vulnerability are confronted — but also curiosity, longing, and the wish for a more sincere relation to her own body and her own sense of intimacy.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Eriko Miyata – Chronicle Void

by Eriko Miyata

Chronicle Void explores how Japanese pop culture portrays women and shapes societal attitudes, especially around normalized sexual harassment. Growing up female in Japan and later moving to Europe revealed to the photographer how deep implicit biases run across cultures. This video installation blends personal memories with public symbols like anti-harassment signs. Using biased AI filters on childhood photos, she reveals how memory and identity are shaped by social bias. Referencing Japan’s selfie culture, the photographer experiments with AI and video to critique identity, memory, and cultural influence.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Eva Manuela Rivas Bao – An Italian Story

by Eva Manuela Rivas Bao

Starting from the trial of former Italian president Berlusconi, An Italian Story examines Italian-Moroccan model and aspiring sports journalist Imane Fadil. Attending the ex-president’s parties, she was a key witness, confessing abuse of power and underage prostitution at his residence in Arcore, near Milan. In 2019, she died at 34, weeks after announcing her upcoming book. Berlusconi reduced the representation of women in Italy to few pixels. The book manipulates "photographic leftovers" and documentary pictures at Imane’s Milan house with AI, aiming to recreate missing images that Fadil shared in court. Deconstructing "an Italian story" - famouspropaganda zine of the ex-president - to reconstruct another Italian story, a collective memory from the rubble of the "Italian failed Me Too" (2010-2023).

PHOTOGRAPHY

Francesca Bergamini – Pretty in Pink

by Francesca Bergamini

When male desire turns into violence, it often begins with the objectification of the female body. Pretty in Pink reclaims those bodies: low-res thumbnails of 3D nude female models—created by male designers for digital porn, idealized and passive—are altered using the same 3D tools that shaped them. The curves stop seducing. They become hostile, almost threatening. 3D-printed at life-size, these figures stand like anti-monuments, exposing outdated power. Installed as a narrative path, from glossy pink columns to a white-on-white final piece, the viewer moves through stages of desire, distortion, and fear. What was once virtually consumed by the male gaze now returns with physical weight, uncensored presence, and resistance.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Jose Martin Martinez – L’Eternité Reste

by Jose Martin Martinez

Briefly after leaving his country, the photographer met his first friends, Serhii and Yelyzaveta, two Ukrainian teenagers, and past lovers, forced to flee together the Russian occupation of Ukraine. Thus, a two year passage begun, with the trials and tribulations that come from love, death, war and solitude. L'Eternité Reste (Eternity Remains) is a documentation, at times abstract, at times literal, often cinematographic, of this story. An unapologetic coming of age story, released from the idealized, fantastic and vulgar narratives showcased in Hollywood and social media. This book functions as an "exchange currency" of sorts against the distorted social apparatus of "reality". Furthermore, the book, pretends to leave an indelible record of this "love story", inextricably linked to a contemporary historical conflict.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Min Dai – Rate My Cake

by Min Dai

Rate My Cake is a project about hunger — for sugar, for attention, for love. It is an attempt to stay with that hunger. To let it speak – not in language, but in images. The project is realised with artificial intelligence, although the word ‘realised’ seems too simplistic here. The machine and the photographer coexisted, reflected each other. It was like whispering secrets into a dark well and watching strange, sweet shapes emerge. The cakes in the images are not real. They’re too soft, too glossy, too wrong in just the right way. They’re overlit, undercooked, melting. They seem to wait for something too – approval, attention, maybe love.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Mirielle Alina Rohr – Girls Manufactured

by Mirielle Alina Rohr

Girls Manufactured is a series of five ceramic vases, each representing a social media–driven aesthetic identity such as the Tradwife or Femme Fatale. These identities commodify femininity through strict visual and lifestyle codes that often lean towards conservative ideals and pleasing the male gaze. The photographer generated images with AI using datasets that I tied to each identity and integrated her own face to reflect her dual role as viewer and target scrolling through social media. The images I then transferred onto the vases using a technique that merges image and clay. The vases reference femininity through containment and decoration, while their form, based on Panathenaic amphorae, once awarded to male victors in ancient Greece, links ancient symbols of patriarchy to today's curated ideals.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Nabarun Gogoi – The Swan

by Nabarun Gogoi

In this short film, the photographer used a CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) avatar to address and question contemporary notions of masculinity and the complex relationship it shares with love. Inspired by the photographer's own apprehensions related to connecting with other men, the short film uncovers the subtle yet forceful indoctrination of masculine perceptions of power and control. These perceptions clash vehemently with the vulnerability that comes with loving another and the emotions it evokes, thus condemning men to an internal prison of shame and self-betrayal. Created using a gaming engine, the film aims to confront this dilemma and hints at the need to adopt a more nuanced version of masculinity - one where the self is no longer compromised to cater to the insecurities of the many.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Riccardo Androni – Exhaustion

by Riccardo Androni

Exhaustion is a critical and ironic response to the performance-driven society the photographer inhabits — one that demands constant motion, visibility, and productivity. Through absurd and site-specific gestures in public spaces, he confronts machines of efficiency and elevation with deliberate resistance. The photographer climbs down an escalator, blocks a door with his head, bends to stay in frame. These futile acts follow a strict protocol and expose the tragic emptiness behind endless self-performance. With dry humor and physical endurance, Exhaustion seeks to unmask a system that rewards conformity and erases meaning — until all that remains is exhaustion.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Visvaldas Morkevicius – Ergot

by Visvaldas Morkevicius

Ergot is a toxic fungus used as a metaphor for digital intoxication. Drawing on psychopolitics, simulacra, and techno-feudalism, this work explores how identity, pleasure, and power are distorted under platform capitalism. It constructs a pixel world of hypermasculine avatars, stylised violence, and dopamine-fuelled objects using AI, CGI, photogrammetry, and glitch. Vapes, crystals, and supplements reflect commodified desire, while dancing police and custom weapons expose gamified violence. Realised as a triptych of three 110×250 cm plexiglass panels, the piece mirrors the seductive toxicity it critiques.

MA Type Design

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TYPE DESIGN

Chandra Sperle – Gradual

by Chandra Sperle

How we perceive and interpret the world is influenced by scale—by the distance, size, and the spatial relationship between observer and object. This project explores how scale influences meaning and perception through an experimental dialogue of type design, photography, and visual art. At its core is Gradual, a typeface that remixes Ladislas Mandel’s Galfra and Adrian Frutiger’s Roissy, reversing their original scale of habitat. In collaboration with artist Pai Litzenberger and the design duo Scinema (Leidy Karina Gómez Montoya and Tonda Budszus), the project expands the typographic concept of optical sizes from nano to macro dimensions. Together, Gradual offer a multi-layered reflection on our spatial interactions with the world.

TYPE DESIGN

Giulia Zanzarella – Minut

by Giulia Zanzarella

How long does a Minut last? Time is standardized, but its experience follows no rules, being mathematically equal for all, but felt differently by each. Minut explores this gap: a play on words between “minute” and “unit,” it is a type family built around four styles defined by width constraints—72 units (proportional), 9, 3, and 1 (monospace). Each style reflects a degree of mechanization, inspired by unit systems used in proportional spacing typewriters. Celebrating the beauty of constraint, the characters of Minut find their own rhythm, generating textures with subtle variations. Rather than being interpolated, each style of Minut is drawn individually, prioritizing the overall texture of each font—going against the limitless flexibility of digital design.

TYPE DESIGN

Jamie Michiki – Dutyfree

by Jamie Michiki

Dutyfree is a bi-script sans-serif typeface that supports both the Latin alphabet and Japanese scripts. It includes eight weights and covers the full range of Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji characters. Designed to harmonize the atmosphere of both writing systems through shared skeletal structure, detail, and contextual nuance, Dutyfree bridges two distinct typographic origins: the Latin typeface Venus and the Japanese Ishi Chu-Futo Gothic.　With a theme of overlap and crossover between writing systems and design cultures, the project was developed under the concept of "logistics graphics." Beyond just a typeface, Dutyfree also includes symbols and signage elements designed for use in logistics and packaging contexts.

TYPE DESIGN

Jonathan Bruun – Sekvens

by Jonathan Bruun

Sekvens is a typeface family of five weights with corresponding italics shaped by a continuous dialogue between perceptions of time and the design of letterforms. Revisiting early digital aesthetics and humanist sans serifs, Sekvens balances a standardized structure with subtle, idiosyncratic details. It navigates the familiar, embracing defaults, norms, and conventions, while simultaneously questioning how the inherited connotations of these forms are aging within the current landscape of type design. Embracing this duality, Sekvens represents both a documentation of past tendencies and a search for new proposals.

TYPE DESIGN

Lucas Portron – Dialectic

by Lucas Portron

Dialectic is a multi-script typeface family supporting, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, designed to allow different writing systems to coexist in harmony. Developed side by side, the scripts share a common design foundation, encouraging a visual dialogue that respects their individual identities. With seven weights and matching italics, the family explores a balance between controlled visual disruption, within the letterforms themselves, and a consistent text color. These subtle tensions challenge established norms of legibility and reading habits, opening a critical reflection on legibility and readability. In doing so, Dialectic invites us to reconsider our relationship with text and how we engage with written form.

TYPE DESIGN

Lynn Birrer – Brienz

by Lynn Birrer

Important opinion: WE AINT BOYZ. Brienz examines “Swiss Style” in graphic and type design and its legacy which is learned and appreciated but doesn’t feel relatable to everyone. Brienz is a type family consisting of 4 styles ranging from Buch to Kursiv and from Schmal to Schmalfett. A typeface that feels more human, vernacular, and rooted in a different set of values. Like mash-up culture in music, it mixes contrasting influences to create something that feels familiar but new, responsive, moving and with its own voice. Construction, deconstruction, and then reconstruction. Kisses from Brienz. Type beat!

TYPE DESIGN

Maria Kosheleva – Selime

by Maria Kosheleva

Selime is a contemporary humanist serif typeface designed for comfortable, immersive reading. Developed with a focus on long-form texts in the Chuvash language — a Turkic language spoken primarily in the Chuvash Republic of Russia — it combines cultural specificity with wide usability across both Cyrillic and Latin scripts. Drawing inspiration from the earliest Chuvash typefaces and 20th-century Dutch humanist serif design traditions, Selime reimagines these influences through a contemporary typographic voice. The family includes five weights with matching italics, providing flexibility for editorial, literary, and multilingual publishing.

TYPE DESIGN

Nir Zabari Yenni – Safra ספרא سفرا

by Nir Zabari Yenni

Safra ספרא سفرا is a trilingual typeface family comprising both serif and sans styles. Designed with a contemporary, low-contrast approach, it supports Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin scripts with clear and consistent typesetting across languages. Balancing structural differences while preserving the distinct voice of each script, it enables multilingual communication without forcing uniformity. The design functions as a bridge between writing systems, maintaining typographic integrity and visual harmony. Suitable for both extended reading and display use in cultural, educational, and public contexts.

TYPE DESIGN

Ratchanon Boongsrithong – Sahn

by Ratchanon Boongsrithong

Sahn is a solemn yet flavorful typeface designed to expand the possibilities within the Thai loop typeface family. In this project, both Thai and Latin scripts were developed simultaneously. Features from one script can influence and be integrated into the other, creating a cohesive visual language. While the Thai script may appear very different from Latin, both scripts share a similar repertoire of shapes; although they are disconnected, they seek moments of connection. Sahn aims to foster a dialogue between the two scripts by highlighting their commonalities in terms of tone and texture, while honouring their unique cultural differences.

TYPE DESIGN

Rebekka Hausmann – Equilibre

by Rebekka Hausmann

Equilibre is a typeface inspired by depictions of fragile balance in 20th-century art. The project began during a residency at Kunstbibliothek Sitterwerk with a study of how artists capture moments of tension, just before collapse. To translate these observations into type design, the designer explored eight approaches including contradicting counters, extreme shapes and physical instability. The final typeface takes a subtler path: vertical stress, condensed proportions and tense curves provoke slight discomfort. The italic style’s harsh slant further reflects instability. Equilibre is not a neutral container, but a strong voice for long texts and expressive italic highlights.

TYPE DESIGN

Stephanie Wilson – Iconic

by Stephanie Wilson

Iconic stands at the intersection of typography, social research, and inclusive design. It addresses a growing concern: making reading more accessible for senior readers. Through the development of a typeface named Iconic, the project aims to enhance reading comfort while offering an aesthetic, functional, and adaptable typeface suited to the changes associated with aging. The project was created in collaboration with senior-lab, a Swiss platform dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for seniors. Grounded in a participatory methodology, this collaboration enabled a reality-based approach: available in serif, sans serif, sans semibold, and italics, Iconic was designed based on feedback and testimonials gathered from seniors during sessions held at ECAL.

TYPE DESIGN

Lee Xiang-Xiang – Revue

by Lee Xiang-Xiang

"Revue is an expressive, versatile typeface family inspired by the drama and typographic flair of 19th-century theatre posters. Its 12 serif styles—Romans and Italics—are grouped by contrast: High, Low, and Slab. Each shares a stem width within its weight, exploring contrast, serif shape, and proportion to evoke distinct tones and dramatic tension. The family also includes a Grotesk, based on the Slab’s structure and tuned to echo its rhythm in sans form, and a Hanzi Slab, an experimental serif-gothic hybrid that brings the same sense of character across scripts. An Open Ending is a photo-text book where a photographer and a type designer offer parallel interpretations of moment and mood. The reader is invited into a shared performance shaped by rhythm, reading, perception, and pause."