PHOTOGRAPHY
Pratique photographique
Studio project with Matthieu Gafsou
During one week, the students worked with a 4x5'' camera or technical camera.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Accrochage Photographique
Studio project with Laurence Bonvin
Reclaiming Water invites you to create projects related to the element water, whatever its form, solid, liquid or gas. The oceans cover 71% of the earth's surface and we are 65% water. Water is a vital element, it is synonymous with life and can also be a disruptive and destructive element. Who owns water? Is it a common good or a marketable resource? Access to clean water is already a problem in many regions and will become one of the major global issues of this century. Here, glaciers are melting and gradually disappearing, and there, rising oceans are threatening the habitability of certain islands and coasts. Floods and flash floods cause human and material losses and reshape the landscape. Human activity in the home, industry and and mining activities lead to pollution of surface and ground water. In the medium term, drinking water will be the most sought-after and most precious raw material. The issue of water reveals many questions of environmental injustice. Reclaiming Water is an invitation to question yourself and to produce images in relation to the countless issues related to water. In our regions, the issue of water takes on particular forms linked in particular to the melting of glaciers, the increasing scarcity of snow and an exceptional abundance of this natural resource. On the one hand, what is still true today will not necessarily be true tomorrow. On the other hand, in other parts of the world, water is already a political, social, economic and human issue. How can we visually address these issues?
PHOTOGRAPHY
Essais photographique
Studio project with Matthieu Gafsou
The "documentary practices" course focuses on the treatment of a theme related to ecology in a broad sense. Each student Each student is free to appropriate the subject in his or her own way, as long as a documentary approach is used. By documentary we mean a logic of relation to reality, to something that is anchored in a here and now. It can be a very specific and concrete starting point (a permaculture garden, Extinction Rebellion activists, documentation of polluted sites, meeting people working with animals) or a broader and more multiple approach, or even a personal one.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Screen Design 2023
Studio project with Harry Bloch
Websites developed during a semester according to a recipe chosen by the students in the course of Screen Design of Harry Bloch, second year Bachelor Visual Communication.
PHOTOGRAPHY
photobook
Studio project with Bruno Ceschel
The photobook module introduces students to the history of photobooks and artists’ books and leads them to consider different strategies and approaches to contemporary book-making. In the first term students individually conceptualised a publication that have been designed, printed and distributed.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Éditions photographiques
Studio project with RVB Books/Matthieu Charon & Rémi Faucheux
Starting from the premise that the book constitutes both an alternative practice to the exhibition and an alternative exhibition practice - alternative exhibition practices insofar as the book and the printed word are potentially modes of visibility for art; alternative practices to the exhibition because this means of visibility is very different from what we usually call an exhibition.
PHOTOGRAPHY
PRATIQUE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE
Studio project with Nicolas Poillot
By conceptualizing and producing the visual content for a magazine, themed - RESISTANCE - the students approached the notion of applied photography in a practical, creative and professional way in close collaboration with an Art Director.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Révélation Photographique
Studio project with Laurence Bonvin
This course is designed to allow students to initiate or pursue a diploma project. To take up an unfinished subject, which could not be realized until now and which implies a risk-taking in the form, the technique, the realization or the subject.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Création photographique
Studio project with Natacha Lesueur
Students develop a project throughout the semester. Argumentation and analysis are stimulated. The aim is to question the stakes of author's photography and to develop a personal expression, which can potentially initiate the students' diploma work.
PHOTOGRAPHY
PRATIQUE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE
Studio project with Maxime Guyon
"Sculpture" is an intentionally broad theme to give this semester project in order to stimulate experimentation and freedom of realization. Sculpture is an artistic medium that allows for the realization of volume forms forms in volume thanks to innumerable techniques that have been used since the Paleolithic era to our contemporary society. This is an ambitious project where each student will have to complete a series of images highlighting their creations through advanced techniques of composition and light in the studio. Creating a sculpture is for some artists, for others it is a spontaneous way to elaborate a body of spontaneous way to develop a body of work.
FINE ARTS
Evaluations 3AV
Studio project
FINE ARTS
Evaluations 1AV
Studio project
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Wonderbread
Workshop with Francesca Sarti
Within the Wonderbread workshop led by Francesca Sarti, food designer and founder of Arabeschi di Latte, BA Industrial Design students explored history, traditions, rituals, and recipes related to bread, in order to imagine new unique signature bread.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
CIN CIN !
Workshop with Chris Kabel
Within a one-week workshop with Designer Chris Kabel, BA Industrial Design students were asked to develop a glass for a drink of their choice, whether it was for a cocktail, a fresh beer, a classy Negroni, or simply a glass for water to quench their thirst. The final designs reflect the characteristics of the drink or emphasize how the drink is prepared, served, and drunk. All glasses were blown in the ECAL courtyard with the support of the artisans of Swiss glass manufacturer Niesenglass.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Automated Photography at the Maison Franco-Japonsaie
Research project with Milo Keller, Clément Lambelet
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.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Happy New Year
Studio project with Kylan Luginbühl
Video realised by Valère Zen-Ruffinen during the 3D Graphics course led by Kylan Luginbühl. This video interprets the theme PAST/FUTURE. A direct confrontation of two time spaces by their temporalities and their dimensions. Project realised during the 1st year Bachelor Media & Interaction Design.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
PAST/FUTURE
Studio project with Kylan Luginbühl
Video realised by Aryana Noorani during the 3D Graphics course led by Kylan Luginbühl. This video interprets the theme PAST/FUTURE. A direct confrontation of two time spaces by their temporalities and their dimensions. Project realised during the 1st year Bachelor Media & Interaction Design.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
PAST/FUTURE
Studio project with Kylan Luginbühl
Video realised by Quentin Kohler during the 3D Graphics course led by Kylan Luginbühl. This video interprets the theme PAST/FUTURE. A direct confrontation of two time spaces by their temporalities and their dimensions. Project realised during the 1st year Bachelor Media & Interaction Design.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
A lullaby of wrath
Studio project with Kylan Luginbühl
Video realised by Alexine Sierro during the 3D Graphics course led by Kylan Luginbühl. This video interprets the theme PAST/FUTURE. A direct confrontation of two time spaces by their temporalities and their dimensions. Project realised during the 1st year Bachelor Media & Interaction Design.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Before Life
Studio project with Kylan Luginbühl
Video realised by Elena Biasi during the 3D Graphics course led by Kylan Luginbühl. This video interprets the theme PAST/FUTURE. A direct confrontation of two time spaces by their temporalities and their dimensions. Project realised during the 1st year Bachelor Media & Interaction Design.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Resurgence
Studio project with Kylan Luginbühl
Video realised by Emilie Maier during the 3D Graphics course led by Kylan Luginbühl. This video interprets the theme PAST/FUTURE. A direct confrontation of two time spaces by their temporalities and their dimensions. Project realised during the 1st year Bachelor Media & Interaction Design.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Much Faster, Much Slower
Studio project with Alain Bellet, Yehwan Song
Second year Interaction Design students developped a messaging app centered around the theme of “Much Faster / Much Slower”. The goal is to create a unique mobile messaging app that offers a distinctive experience compared to existing instant messaging apps. The project explores the impact of technology on our relationship with speed and communication. It focuses on how advancements in technologies have shaped our experiences and preferences for speed. The project also looks at the role of instant messaging apps in changing the way we communicate and interact, taking up a significant amount of our daily engagement time. The goal is to translate this fascination with speed and slowness into innovative interaction design concepts related to communication.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographie et arts plastiques
Studio project with Natacha Lesueur
Based on projects developed around the theme "Trompe L'oeil and Simulacra", the students developed a personal and in-depth work over an entire semester.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Summer University Finland — ECAL toys with ARTEK
Studio project with Stephane Halmai-Voisard, Julie Richoz
Teaming up with iconic Finnish furniture company Artek, Bachelor Industrial Design students, 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.
FOUNDATION YEAR
Visual Arts Option
PP – Option Courses with Alfredo Aceto
Collective project with Thomas Liu Le Lann and Alfredo Aceto
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
COLLABORATION WITH LA PRAIRIE 2021
Collaboration with Stefano Panterotto (Panter&Tourron), Alexis Tourron (Panter&Tourron)
The packaging of tomorrow La Prairie pursues its partnership with ECAL students to conceptualise the packaging of the tomorrow. Through this partnership with the renowned Swiss University in Art and Design, La Prairie nurtures creativity and promotes emerging talents shaping the future of smart design.
PRODUCT DESIGN
Fogo Island Plastic Free Kites
Workshop with Camille Blin, Maxwell Ashford, Anthony Guex, Anniina Koivu
Fogo, nicknamed ‘a rock in the ocean’ is a small island situated off Newfoundland, Canada. As a part of a larger on-going semester project, 2nd Year Master Product Design students of ECAL, completed a short, fun, few day workshop, utilising one of the most abundant resources on the island - wind. Working in collaboration with the ShoreFast Foundation - an organisation working in numerous avenues to create a sustainable economy on the island, students developed plastic free kites. Fogo Island has the intention of becoming completely plastic free in the coming years and as their tourist numbers increase memorabilia of this special place are in higher demand. The developed kites are therefore to be made on the island and intended for the Fogo Island Workshop gift shop. Using Birch Wood, Ripstop Organic Cotton and hemp fibre string the students created a range of designs, taking reference from the unique features of the island.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
TalkCity
Workshop with Gaël Hugo, Yehwan Song
The students worked on creating a typographic 3D environment in a web browser. Using the words extracted from a dialogue, a sequence is illustrated in a synchronised way on two screens.
FOUNDATION YEAR
OPTION MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
PP – Option Courses with Romain Collaud
Specific graphic work for a website interface based on various contents of Wikipedia pages. The objective is to bring a new point of view and a reinterpretation of the information through original graphic layouts.
FOUNDATION YEAR
Cinema
PP – Option Courses with Julia Bünter
Pierre, atelier portrait documentaire, David Gonseth Nomade, atelier portrait documentaire, Camille Surdez Souvenir d’un grand père sous l’occupation, Artémis Andréadis
FINE ARTS
Workshop Jan Vorisek
Workshop by Caroline Bischoff, Louis Fontaine, Giada Gollin, Olivia Handschin, Amina Loumachi, Clara Luna, Axel Mattart, Achille Meier, Charlie Schär, Jamie Soria, Nayla Younes, Mayalène de Roquemaurel
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FINE ARTS
Workshop Emmanuelle Lainé
Workshop by Charlie Jannes, Romain Rochat, Céleste Meylan, Baptiste Schaerer, Romane Roy, Mariana Isler, Noemi Leneman, Anna Kawahara, Tom Grbic, Julie Wuhrmann
Contexte
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Break It Fix It
Workshop with Daniël Maarleveld
Break it Fix it is the workshop's result conducted under the direction of Daniel Maarleveld. Based on the music Technologic - Daft Punk, each group have reappropriated a phrase to enhance it graphically. The result is a series of posters, a video clip compiling the different typographic systems, and a series of interactive posters based on the same rules.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Interactive gestures
Workshop with Yehwan Song
“During the workshop we’ve invented a new web-interaction with the hand and body gesture. The unique gestures found in our daily habits have been combined with mobile touch screen, gyro sensor, web camera and microphones and created new narration in the websites on the screen. As we use specific gestures to express certain feelings, we need to create more sophisticated and diverse user web-interaction. This workshop was the first step of inventing and exploring diverse user interaction and sophisticated web-narration.” Yehwan Song
FILM STUDIES
Documentary film workshop with Guillaume Brac
Studio project with Guillaume Brac
The 2022 documentary workshop was lead by Guillaume Brac. In partnership with the Lausanne Sport!
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Caterina Valletta – Up & Down
Diploma project by Caterina Valletta
Since ancient times, cutlery has always featured in light-hearted, shared moments around the dining room table. Yet, it has always been considered as purely functional, designed for savouring and appreciating dishes and very often relegated to the background, unlike plates and glasses, as we forget its importance from an aesthetic point of view. Up & Down offers to revisit cutlery by creating a non-traditional set with a strong character. Starting with a 2D cut-out on a steel plate, a small detail raises the cutlery so that it does not touch the surface, thus solving a problem that is both functional and aesthetic.
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Alexis Perron-Corriveau – Flip Off
Diploma project by Alexis Perron-Corriveau
This project seeks to explore the world of sunglasses and its related fashion accessories. The side shields used for mountaineering glasses combined with the unique style of the cycling cap were the conceptual premises of this research. The reinterpretation of these elements gives this pair of sunglasses a distinctive chic, sporty look – a must-have accessory. Stand alone, these handmade glasses are versatile. However, the possibility of adding a visor easily, thanks to a magnetic clip, allows the wearer to be ready for action and stylish at the same time.
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
JiYeong Kim – Epiphany
Diploma project by JiYeong Kim
Epiphany refers to a sense of or insight into eternity that is suddenly experienced in ordinary and everyday objects. I wanted to create a meditation object for everyday life that attracts curiosity and encourages us to immerse ourselves in a meditative journey, as I believe in the saying “the unconscious determines our destiny”. The world of the human unconscious is an unknown one that many people try to reach through meditation. But we cannot meditate as often as monks. If you meditate a little every day in your daily life, you will feel a deep sense of peace. Inspired by amazing natural phenomena such as fire, water and fog, this project aims to help your mind stop for a moment and explore its subconscious.
FILM STUDIES
Workshop Heidi News
Workshop with Benoit Rossel, Arthur Lecoeur
Heïdi News asked the Ecal film department to create ten films based on a series of articles on the theme of food. The students had to make very short films of two to three minutes that could be broadcast on the newspaper's website and social networks.
Design Research for Digital Innovation (EPFL+ECAL Lab)
Romain Talou – Future Heritage
Diploma project by Romain Talou
Future Heritage investigates how to make long-term, high-density information storage technologies more tangible. Working in the context of cultural heritage, the project allows institutions to keep their archives alive using DNA data storage for generations to come. Through a process of design research, the Future Heritage project explores how to make this synthetic DNA storage relevant for institutions today and far into the future. The resulting DNA storage object is designed to withstand environmental and societal changes over the next two thousand years. Using nano-engraving and a semiological approach, the object gives tangible hints and previews of the rich content that lies within it. In collaboration with : Claude Nobs Fondation Swiss National Library (NL)
Design Research for Digital Innovation (EPFL+ECAL Lab)
Valentin Calame – Jean Starobinski. Relations critiques
Diploma project by Valentin Calame
Jean Starobinski. Relations critiques is a research project on the curation of digitised literary artefacts. Initiated by the Swiss National Library, it is structured around an online exhibition based on the archive of prominent critic Jean Starobinski. Through this project, I explored how to take advantage of emerging technologies to create alternative experiences for the public. Around concepts such as the “Aura” of digital artefacts, “Tangiality” and adaptive spaces, I was able to define parameters to increase cognitive gain, visitor engagement and emotional connection with digitised objects. The knowledge generated by this first exhibition will serve as a model for future iterations. In collaboration with : Apptitude SA Swiss National Library (NL)
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Gala Espel – Archéologie du futur
Diploma project by Gala Espel
What will future archaeological discoveries look like? What meaning will they give our present time through the objects that will have been unearthed? Archéologie du futur (Archaeology of the Future) is a futuristic project featuring a series of objects that give a prospective representation of our material footprint. This project uses photogrammetry – a common tool in archaeology – to scan existing items and, based on these, to create, recompose and think up a possible scenario. A plant wraps around a container eroded by time. A shell fossilises around a metallic rod. A set of objects is created evoking a future where industrial forms are eventually taken over by nature. In time, this digital collection will materialise into silverware and jewellery made with this technology applied to design.
Design Research for Digital Innovation (EPFL+ECAL Lab)
André Andrade – Poster World
Diploma project by André Andrade
Poster World is a design research project in collaboration with the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. Through the museum’s archives of posters, one of the most extensive and important in the world, the project offers a new way of engaging the public with digitised heritage. It materialises in an interactive installation and offers automated associations of posters by combining metadata with artificial intelligence. Key visual features are isolated and graphically illustrated to make the associations explicit. The project opens perspectives on how to represent digitised heritage and how to engage the public. In collaboration with : CVLAB, Computer Vision Laboratory, at EPFL DHLAB, The Digital Humanities Laboratory, at EPFL
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Kévin Goury – Intersection
Diploma project by Kévin Goury
Intersection explores the work of lines with glass. The project takes shape through a dialogue between designer and craftsperson. This set of vases, divisible into three parts, provides containers that can be adapted to all types of flowers. Small and compact bouquet, traditional container or soliflore. Each piece is decorated with colourful motifs. These are the result of graphic research on the weave and creation by accumulation. Through conversations and experimentation with the glassblower, they grow in shape, size and shades to adapt to the practice of this unique material. The superimposed motifs respond to one another and create new ones when assembled. At this moment, the vase takes on a totemic and sculptural aspect that livens up the room it occupies. Photo credit: Samuel Spreyz
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Briac Laforge – Time in Balance
Diploma project by Briac Laforge
Having spent a year in Switzerland and being interested in the world of watchmaking, I naturally turned to this universe for my graduation project. I liked the idea of using the codes of Swiss watchmaking to adapt them to my work. For my graduation project, I sought to create an object using the precision, details and materials of various Swiss manufactures. The final object is a mobile clock with two balanced hands. The appearance of the object is simple and ethereal, due to the small number of visible parts. Nevertheless, the mobile hides a complex mechanism inside. The goal was to intrigue the user by creating a magical effect with these two balanced hands. Depending on the light, it is possible to read the time thanks to the shadow cast by the object on the ground.
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Seungmok Lee – Play Collection for Picnic
Diploma project by Seungmok Lee
My project is based on a personal experience in Switzerland. Whenever I go for a picnic in parks or by the lake in Switzerland, I see people playing cards on the train or giant chess in the park with their family and friends. There is always a joyful atmosphere and a sense of happiness around them. That is why I decided to design this Play collection for picnic. I used sustainable materials like cork and paper, but at the same time, I sought to keep the aesthetics of the object. A thing of long-lasting beauty is engraving. Not only does it reduce chemical ink for printing but it also allows people to feel the contrast between light and shadow through the object.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Beyond The Screen
Workshop with Angelo Benedetto
Beyond the screen - is a series of interactive machines developed by students in their first year of Bachelor Media & Interaction Design. These systems are inspired by the relationship between instructions and execution within a computer system. These machines create text through a modular typographic system.
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Clementine Le Guerec – Contact
Diploma project by Clementine Le Guerec
Contact is a collection of various visors that play with the notion of the gaze. After the recent pandemic, the majority of our interactions and emotions are read through the eyes. They play a key role in our interactions but we sometimes feel the need to isolate ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world. Inspired by different hat shapes, each model is designed according to a precise functional principle and plays with the gaze. The intention through this exploration of functional, hybrid and playful forms is to allow the wearer to play with the gaze of others, as well as to isolate him- or herself and create a bubble through the feeling of comfort and security that these accessories can provide. Contact protects you as well as it reveals you.
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Roxanne Del Val – Noue-moi un bijou
Diploma project by Roxanne Del Val
When I started climbing, I had to learn the various knots. I immediately liked their shape, but also their meaning: they catch us if we fall, but they also allow us to move forward and progress on the climbing wall. Noue-moi un bijou (Tie me a jewel) is a collection of three items of jewellery inspired by climbing knots. I wanted to decontextualise them by using well-known types of jewellery such as rings, bracelets and necklaces. By modifying the shape of the knots, I created three pieces that wrap themselves around the hand, the finger and the chest. The jewellery is made of nylon paracord, to recall the primary inspiration of the collection. I also created small silver attachments that allow the jewellery to adjust to the shapes of the body.
FOUNDATION YEAR