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An exhibition presented by second-year Bachelor of Visual Arts students at the ECAL, as part of the "faits et gestes" course taught by Philippe Decrauzat, in collaboration with VU.CH, art in hospital.
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Under the spotlight, the Fantastic Smartphones exhibition continues its tour and is presented at the Mapping Festival from May 18 to 28, 2023 in Geneva.
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From May 13 to 31, 2023, Bachelor Media & Interaction Design students will present a selection of 9 virtual reality projects during the MMMAD - urban digital art festival in Madrid.
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From April 27 to May 7, ECAL is taking part in Hyper Ouest festival, which will be held in the municipalities of western Lausanne. Bachelors Media & Interaction Design, Graphic Design and Photography students will present the Hyper Lab exhibition in the former Veillon halls. Opening: Thursday, April 27th.
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From April 27 to May 26, ECAL presents Unpacking Tschichold’s Library at gallery l'elac. An exhibition in the form of a library presenting the books mentinoned in Jan Tschichold's seminal publication The New Typography (1928). Opening on Wednesday, April 26.
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On the occasion of the Milan Design Week (17-23 April 2023), ECAL and the Swiss lighting brand Schätti present five playful and innovative portable lamps.
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On the occasion of the Milan Design Week (17-23 April 2023), ECAL presents The Salone Pick-Up by the designer Silvio Rebholz, Master Product Design graduate: a series of interviews streamed live on Instagram and hosted between Salone Satellite and Salone del Mobile, with key players at the fair.
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On the occasion of the Milan Design Week (17-23 April 2023), ECAL presents U.F.O.G.O., an exhibition that provides a solution for a better integration of wind turbines in our landscapes.
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On the occasion of the Milan Design Week, ECAL presents four exhibitions.
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Selection of exhibitions with ECAL graduates at Milan Design Week.
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On the occasion of the Milan Design Week (17-23 April 2023), ECAL presents Junkyard Diving at the House of Switzerland. Under the guidance of the designer Philippe Malouin, ECAL’s Bachelor students in Industrial Design invite us to question our consumption habits, the role of designers and the world of tomorrow.
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From March 10 to May 21, the MCBA Lausanne presents the work of a dozen alumni through its exhibition Jardin d'Hiver #2 Poems of Change.
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Following its success at the Milan International Furniture Fair, the KIKK Festival in Namur (BE) and the HEK Bâle, the exhibition Fantastic Smartphones is participating in Bits n Bolts festival with a selection of its projects. To be seen on March 4 and 5, 2023 at the Zentralwäscherei in Zurich.
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From March 3 to May 21, 2023, ECAL presents Under Your Smell at Photo Elysée. In collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier, Bachelor Photography students propose their interpretation of the brand's perfumes through an immersive exhibition celebrating gender diversity and new definitions of beauty. Opening Thursday, March 2 at 6pm.
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From February 4 to 20 2023, ECAL and Musashino Art University students present a selection of playful objects for children created in collaboration with the Finnish furniture company Artek. The exhibition will take place in the brand's store in Tokyo. Opening on February 3 at 7pm.
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From February 3 to 19, 2023, on the occasion of Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions in Tokyo, ECAL is exporting the exhibition resulting from the Automated Photography research project, which explores the aesthetic and conceptual potential of automated photography.
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From January 26 to 29, as part of artgenève 2023, Bachelor Fine Arts graduates will present Feed Filler, an installation by the artist Miriam Laura Leonardi. As for music, Bachelor Fine Arts students will be part of the artgenève/musique program.
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From January 20 to February 28, 2023, Les Docks in Lausanne will host the exhibition L'or bleu, a project realized by the students of the Foundation Year - Photography Option at ECAL. Opening : Thursday, January 19 at 6:30 pm.
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From January 9 to February 4, 2023, Bachelor of Industrial Design Bachelor students present a selection of playful objects for children created in collaboration with the Finnish furniture company Artek, and under the direction of the designer Julie Richoz. The exhibition will take place in the brand's store in Helsinki.
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From December 9, 2022 to March 26, 2023, Bachelor Industrial Design students will take part in the exhibition Willy Guhl - Thinking with Your Hands at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich, which invites the pulbic to rediscover the creations of the famous Swiss designer.
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From December 8 to 16, 2022, the 100 most beautiful posters of 2021 (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) are back at Galerie l'elac! The exhibition organized by 100 beste Plakate e. V. and in collaboration with ECAL presents the posters selected during the competition in 2022.
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From December 1 to 18, 2022, la Ferme des Tilleuls hosts the exhibition of the Encouragement Prize of the City of Renens. A prize that rewards Lea Sblandano and Luis Rodriguez, students respectively in Bachelor Photography and Master Product Design for the quality of their work.
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From November 10 to 12 2022, Jean Paul Gaultier opens the doors of its Paris headquarters to the general public. During Paris Photo, the House is partnering with ECAL to present the photography exhibition Under Your Smell. Students from Bachelor Photography will show their interpretation of Gaultier's perfumes.
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From November 4th to 13th, the Geneva International Film Festival - GIFF offers films, series, interactive installations and works in virtual reality. On the occasion of the 28th edition and as part of its Virtual Territories program, Bachelor Media & Interaction Design students present 3 VR projects in total immersion.
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On Wednesday, November 2, ECAL presents Bachelor and Master graduation films at the Cinémathèque suisse. Then, from November 4 to 28 - opening on Thursday, November 3 from 6 to 8 pm - the diploma projects will be exhibited at ECAL, in its building in Renens.
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ECAL Bachelor Media & Interaction Design students are part of the Kikk Festival in Namur (Belgium) from October 27 to 30, 2022.
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From 21 October to 23 December 2022, ECAL and more specifically the students of the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship will unveil the result of their latest collaboration with the Italian brand Marsotto LAB and officially launch the collection of the same name, composed of a selection of accessories created between 2018 and today through collaborations with international designers.
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From 15 October 2022 to 16 April 2023 at Vitra Design Museum, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne presents "The ECAL Manual of Style - How to best teach design today?" - a book and an exhibition which propose a comprehensive presentation of the revered Swiss design institution’s fascinating teaching methodology, via design luminaries’ perspectives as well as a collection of its most innovative student’s projects.
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After the Salone del Mobile in Milano, the Galerie l'elac and the KIKK Festival in Namur (BE), the Fantastic Smartphones exhibition will be held at the HEK - House of electronic Arts in Basel from 7 to 21 October 2022.
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Following a collaboration with the Swiss avant-garde brand On, ECAL presents the interdisciplinary work carried out jointly by the 2nd year students of the Product Design, Photography and Type Design Masters. An exclusive exhibition to discover from 23 September to 8 October 2022 in Zürich.
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Following the success of the exhibition resulting from the Automated Photography research project at Paris Photo in 2021 and then at the Galerie l'elac in 2022, the ECAL is exporting this project to Plateform-L in Seoul from 17 September to 8 October 2022, through an immersive audiovisual exhibition.
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From 3 to 25 September 2022, photography in all its forms will take over the streets of Vevey, take over the parks and stroll along the banks of the lake. For three weeks, the Festival Images Vevey transforms the small town on the Riviera and welcomes a large audience. This year, three ECAL graduates are part of the programme.
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From August 26 to 28, the city center of Yverdon-les-Bains will host the Numerik Games Festival, whose 2022 edition will be dedicated to music. The Numerik Games Festival - a public event dedicated to digital art and culture - aims to promote digital technology through the various fields it can cover: musical, cultural, artistic, patrimonial, economic and academic. The ECAL invites you to dive into the heart of the experience, whether it is immersive, interactive or playful!
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At the initiative of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux – Grand Palais and Fisheye , the second edition of the Palais Augmenté festival will be held from June 17 to 19, 2022 at the Grand Palais Ephémère in Paris. On this occasion, the Bachelor Media & Interaction Design of ECAL will be represented in several ways.
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On the occasion of the Milan Design, ECAL presents three exhibitions.
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Selection of exhibitions with ECAL graduates at Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milano.
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On the occasion of the Milan Design Week (7 to 12 June 2022), Phaidon and ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne are pleased to present "The ECAL Manual of Style" – a book which proposes a comprehensive, first-time revelation of the revered Swiss design institution’s fascinating teaching methodology, brought to life via a curated collection of its most innovative student projects.
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On the occasion of the Milan Design Week (7 to 12 June 2022), Master Product Design students from ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne have created, in collaboration with Japanese brand Yamaha and its Design Laboratory, new types of music players in order to meet new requirements related to listening to music.
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On the occasion of the Milan Design Week (7 to 12 June) and as part of the House of Switzerland Milano, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne and praised Swiss bicycle brand BMC present a collection of handy and colourful accessories for the modern daily bike commute, created by ECAL’s Bachelor students in Industrial Design, under the guidance of Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard, Head of the programme, and Christian Spiess, Swiss designer and bicycle aficionado.
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Teaming up with iconic Finnish furniture company Artek, Bachelor Industrial Design students from ECAL, under the guidance of designer Julie Richoz, present a collection of playful objects for children made from salvaged b-quality, rejected and half-finished materials and offcuts. Staying true to the spirit of Artek and its founders, the products promote conscious manufacturing and seek to highlight the natural materials that have gone into producing these designs. Presented at the Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale – from 22 May to 4 September 2022 – at the Old Granary Building in Fiskars (Finland).
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On the occasion of the Munich Creative Business Week from 14 to 21 May 2022, ECAL and MINI present "Rethinking the Wheel" – a series of projets on steering wheels.
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Arto Lindsay is an American artist, guitarist, singer and composer living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A genius of noise with collaboration as his main method, he has been working since the early 2000s on the carnival parade as a gigantic musical instrument.
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On the occasion of the "Time Design" exhibition organised by Watches and Culture - Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie and presented from 14 April to 8 May 2022 at the Pont de la Machine in Geneva, students from ECAL Bachelor of Industrial Design programme have created the display (windows), highlighting a hundred pieces that illustrate the inventiveness and diversity of watch design.
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On the occasion of Homo Faber a public exhibition of the finest European craftsmanship organised by the Michelangelo Foundation and staged at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice (Italy) from 10 April to 1st May 2022, ECAL presents a series of projects by Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship developed in collaboration with Association Mec-Art.
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On the occasion of artgenève from 3 to 6 March at Palexpo, ECAL presents projects by Bachelor Fine Arts students produced during a workshop with American artist Cheryl Donegan.
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From 5 February (opening on 4 February at 6 pm) to 24 April 2022 at the Musée des beaux-arts in Le Locle, ECAL presents the exhibition "Smells Like Queer Spirit" created in collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier by third-year Bachelor Photography students, under the direction of Florence Tétier and Nicolas Coulomb (Novembre). Namsa Leuba and Erwan Frotin, two graduates of the Bachelor Photography programme at ECAL, will also be honoured with two monographic exhibitions.
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From 14 December 2021 (opening at 6pm) to 30 January 2022, as part of L'Appartement - Espace Images Vevey, Sara Bastai, the first winner of the Images Vevey x ECAL Prize, will exhibit her Master's degree project in Photography, completed in 2021.
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The "Most Beautiful Swiss Books" competition, launched on the initiative of the Federal Office of Culture, aims to distinguish the best graphic achievements in the field of books and to encourage and promote the quality of publishing. The winning publications will be exhibited at numerous book fairs and in a tour of exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad, including a stop at ECAL from 8 (opening at 7pm) to 17 December 2021.
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Pour la 9e année consécutive, la Ville de Renens a attribué le Prix d’encouragement à des étudiant·e·s de l’ECAL. Mayara Yamada, étudiante en Master Arts Visuels, et Jamy Herrmann, étudiant en Bachelor Media & Interaction Design, se sont ainsi distingué·e·s par la qualité de leur travail.
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Earlier this year, Carhartt WIP (for Work in Progress) teamed up with ECAL, inviting Bachelor Photography students to interpret in their own way some of the emblematic pieces of the American clothing brand, which develops its own collections from the original Carhartt work clothes.