Formant Festival is an audio-visual event featuring music and digital art installations in abandoned industrial sites in Valais in Switzerland. Valais's old industrial sites, once vital, are now neglected or demolished for unnecessary residential buildings. Formant repurposes these spaces for cultural events, preserving heritage and fulfilling community needs. The festival's visual identity uses these architectural spaces in an interactive 3D website, blending sound and visuals to immerse users. This approach encourages public curiosity and exploration, enhancing their understanding and enjoyment of new artistic forms. Formant means each of several prominent bands of frequency that determine the harmonic quality of a sound.
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BA GRAPHIC DESIGN
with Adeline Mollard
During the visual identity course, the 1st year of the Graphic Design bachelor had to carry out a poster project from a random event. They had to define their own visual system and explored a search for hand-made typographic posters. The visual identity of the event was developed through a poster and a flyer, accompanied by a research notebook grouping their entire creative process.
BA GRAPHIC DESIGN
with Robert Huber
First-year students were invited to manually sketch the typographic skeleton of lowercase alphabet letters. The objective was to maintain the proportions, curves, and characteristic axes of each letter while paying close attention to visual coherence and consistency in the drawing.
BA GRAPHIC DESIGN
with Guy Meldem
First-year students were invited to design a 16-page publication. By experimenting with duotone through various printing techniques, they structured a dual reading experience dependent on the printed colors.
BA GRAPHIC DESIGN
with Harry Bloch
During the editorial design course with Harry Bloch, the first-year students each laid out a chapter of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. A final edition compiling all the chapters was produced for the occasion.
BA FINE ARTS
BA GRAPHIC DESIGN
with Joël Vacheron, Angelo Benedetto, Olympe Boutaghane, Francis Baudevin
Based on archives and experiences associated with Vibrations (1991–2013), this research analyses how the magazine's textual, graphic and photographic content provides insight into the challenges of communicating about popular music today.