PRODUCT DESIGN
by Carl Johan Jacobsen
Vaev is chair made from a simple rigid frame that supports a custom made net. Normally used for fences, this net becomes a seat providing comfort while maintaining a light and open expression. The combination of these elements creates a chair that feels visually light yet structurally defined, allowing light, air and rain to pass freely through it. Durable enough for outdoor use and subtle enough for interior spaces.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Omar Bassil
Esplanade is an exploration of how a flat-cut piece of leather can be transformed into a slip-on shoe through folding, wrapping, gathering, and minimal joining using simple tools. Stripping leather shoemaking down to its essentials, form emerges through tension and wear. Referencing the carbatina, a Roman shoe typology constructed from a single piece of leather, the design adapts its pattern principle to a contemporary slip-on. While the construction is reduced to a few essential operations, the making process still relies on the expertise of leather workers and techniques specific to their craft. This approach yields a simple, relaxed, and enduring object as a reflection on craftsmanship and material honesty.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Ehrat Lee
Lightworks is a lighting system that gives images a fixed place in the home. Photographs, graphics and drawings are saved constantly but mostly stay hidden on phones, in books or in drawers. Built around existing industrial processes, a single UV-printed sheet of paper forms the curved shade, held by a lightweight aluminium structure and fixed with magnets. The lamp disassembles flat and ships inside its own print tube, the image rolled within. Available in three sizes, it turns each print into an illuminated object. Prints can be exchanged in seconds, from personal images to commissioned work.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Timothy Widmer
Soft Response explores the emotional and tactile potential of soft materials through a series of liquid-filled silicone objects inspired by the aesthetics of soft robotics. Beginning from a fascination with softness and the growing popularity of fidget toys, the designer questions how tactile objects could encourage calmness rather than constant stimulation. Through material experimentation, this project offers a collection of soft, deformable forms that respond slowly to pressure and movement. Soft Response investigates how softness, fluidity, and delayed reaction can create soothing sensory experiences and proposes a new approach to tactile interaction within contemporary product design.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Hugo Von Hofsten
What if, sitting at a desk, you had to build a lamp from what was around you? The Office Lamp is inspired by office objects that you can find on your desk. It is made from a 3 mm steel rod bent into a shape borrowed from a paper clip and connected through an eraser. The bulb hangs freely inside, suspended by rubber bands that hug the metal structure and connect to a socket modelled after a scotch tape roll. The Office Lamp comes in an envelope and is easy to assemble.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Diego Soria
Plano is a pair of furniture pieces exploring how simple, hand-operated actions can change an object's function. Made from Valchromat with aluminum and steel hardware details, the project consists of a shelf and a chair that transform through basic manual mechanisms. The furniture pieces can be used in different ways: either traditionally as a regular storage shelf and a relaxed lounge chair, or reconfigured into a small home office for light work, featuring a small desk and a task chair. Plano focuses on creating straightforward, adaptable pieces that let you easily adapte how you use your immediate space.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Cody Ramseyer
1/2 Round is a material-led exploration developed from a single off-the-shelf timber profile: a half-round wooden bar measuring 8 cm in diameter and 5 m in length. Through a process of cutting, joining, balancing, and repetition, this common construction material becomes a series of objects that exist between tool, furniture, and sculpture. Inspired by the straightforward logic of farm and workshop structures, the project investigates how a single element can generate a diverse body of forms while maintaining a coherent visual language. Rather than prescribing a specific use, the objects suggest actions such as supporting, containing, carrying, and separating.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Moritz Engel
CALYX is a minimalist climbing sandal. Designed for optimal hygiene and maintenance, it reduces the conventional mixed-material, climbing shoe to a textile-free exoskeleton. It is built around a durable rubber core with replaceable, wear-indicating Vibram soles and features "Debond-on-Demand" adhesive, which allows for resoling during use and separation for downcycling at the end of its life. While the sticky climbing shoe rubber soles provide the usual performance, a secure and adjustable fit is made possible by easily interchangeable laces. Thanks to its foldable and packable design, CALYX is ideal for the purist climber who strives for maximum feel and feedback with minimum weight.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Carolien Janssens
Alpen is a trail running vest designed for runners with breasts. A trail running vest is a lightweight garment used to carry water, nutrition, and equipment during mountain runs while fitting tightly against the body. However, current products continue to be engineered with a single body type in mind: a relatively flat torso. Even women's models remain a shrunk version of men's products, causing pressure points across the bust. This project starts from a feminine body geometry. Conceived by experimentation with paper modelling and the 3D pattern-making software CLO, Alpen offers a volume-creating front panel, a dual closure system that allows independent adjustment above and below the bust, and a dual sizing system combining torso size and bust volume, similar to bra sizing.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Finn Johnson
Draft is a sheet metal bicycle frame developed in collaboration with EPFL's Geometric Computing Laboratory. The frame is drafted from a flat pattern and assembled from six pieces of laser-cut aluminum. The shape is created through a computational tool that generates complex freeform geometry from flat sheet material. The bicycle is a medium to showcase this method, realized as a functional object for the first time.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Gunnar Kähler
Meadow Furniture sits directly in the garden, present in the wild green around it. Surrounded by tall grass and flowers, the objects belong to the landscape. Sun, air and rain pass right through them, reducing their impact on the ground and the plants below. The welded assembly of steel rods makes for a lightweight and resistant structure: easy to carry around or to leave in a favourite spot for the season. For storing the pieces during winter, the chairs and table stack onto each other for a shared footprint. Meadow Furniture proposes an interface for the untamed garden, where a quiet human presence is welcomed and the landscape is allowed to remain itself.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Xose Lois Piñeira
Fatigue has become a background condition of contemporary life. While working environments tolerate resting in principle, they make it impossible in practice, with no room, nor object to perform it. Stay Still is a low chair designed for twenty-minute naps in productive environments. An injection moulded chair, it sits below standard office furniture height, holds the body in a position calibrated for brief conscious rest, and stacks flat when not in use. It is affordable to produce, avaliable and efficient, although its geometry is deliberatly purposeful, and generic enough to avoid belonging to a particular kind of worker. Stay Still assumes a culture of rest and productive procrastination is forming, and offers an honest object in return.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Wouter Kellens
As healthcare increasingly moves from the hospital into the home, patients are asked to accommodate complex medical equipment within their everyday lives. SETA is a home hemodialysis machine developed with NextKidney's dialysis technique that addresses this challenge by rethinking the relationship between treatment and the domestic environment. Functioning as a discreet side table when inactive, it unfolds into a complete dialysis station where all components are neatly organiseed. By reducing visual clutter and creating a more familiar presence within the living room, SETA aims to make long-term treatment feel less clinical and more compatible with daily life.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Paul Quentin
Convertible sofas are transformed from a seating area into a sleeping area within a living room. While the furniture changes function, the room itself remains unchanged, often leaving guests feeling both exposed and intrusive to the host's daily routine. Drapé addresses this tension by reimagining the sofa's backrest as a spatial element rather than only a structural component. When the sofa is unfolded, the backrest pivots upward to become a support frame for a textile divider. The quilt, typically used as bedding, is repurposed as a curtain that drapes from the frame, creating a soft wall between the guest and the surrounding living area.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Luc Reinacher
Feltform is a series of upholstery pieces exploring wool felt, a material with roots stretching back to the earliest known textile traditions. Drawing on a wet-felting method practised by Turkish shepherds to craft coats from loose wool fibres, the project translates an ancient craft into a contemporary design practice. Loose wool is felted around flat stencils, creating hollow cavities that allow the textile to wrap around volumes without any cutting or sewing. The resulting cushions achieve shapes and surfaces difficult to reach with conventional upholstery techniques.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Julia Siebert Cáceres
abril is a raincoat that transforms into a full rain suit for cycling commuters. Driven by environmental and economic reasons, urban biking is booming, yet increasing unpredictable weather remains a constant obstacle. Traditional rain pants are awkward to change into publicly, visually out of place in professional environments and are an extra piece to carry. Crafted from natural Ventile cotton, abril features a hidden leg extension in the back and a two-layer construction that protects critical seams while ensuring freedom of movement. abril blends watertight functionality with an elegant aesthetic, acting as a personal shelter that integrates socially and visually into everyday city life.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Motong Yang
From 17th century tea and porcelain to contemporary supply chains and social media feeds, China has been encountered through objects that circulate globally. These objects do not simply reflect this country; they produce ideas about it. Terms of Trade consists of lacquered cardboard boxes imposed with imagery assembled from export paintings, propaganda posters, and news media. By transforming disposable packaging with lacquer — a material historically associated with permanence, value, and decoration — Terms of Trade draws connections between crafts techniques and contemporary systems of circulation, asking how images of China are produced, consumed, and continually reconstructed.
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Camille Blin
For the 2026 Festival des Cabanes at the Villa Medici in Rome, students from the Master in Product Design were invited to develop a project related to the Villa's garden, in collaboration with the renowned Italian ceramics manufacturer Mutina. The Villa's gardens offer a rich historical and spatial context, conducive to exploring aesthetics, function, and interaction with visitors. Students had access to the entire Mutina catalogue (tiles, bricks, and other materials) to build their installations. The project was selected and mentored by the French designer Ronan Bouroullec, ECAL, Villa Medici and Mutina.
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Chris Kabel
The Industrial Design team at Google (Google ID) initiated a collaboration with ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne to develop a concept for a mobile-focused product inspired by a daily ritual. ECAL’s Master Product Design students were invited to envision innovative hardware engaging with contemporary habits. Through compelling storytelling, these conceptual projects consider the human dimension of mobile technology: how it shapes everyday gestures and how our relationships with devices might evolve in the future. This collaboration reflects ECAL’s forward-looking approach to design, combining experimentation, critical thinking, and a strong receptivity to emerging technologies.
PRODUCT DESIGN
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.
PRODUCT DESIGN
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
by Brice Tempier
In a context where domestic space is being reduced and reconfigured, living sometimes becomes a temporary act. Places are passed through rather than settled in, and the question is no longer so much one of layout as of presence. Inspired by the archetype of the mezzanine, Péninsule takes the form of a mobile structure the size of a bed. Set within a room, it acts as a habitable frame, delimited without being enclosed, introducing domestic depth where there was previously only an available surface. Conceived as a place of rest, retreat, and appropriation, it combines a bed, a daybed, and a folding desk, as well as mobile elements such as shelves, hooks, and curtains, modulating light, movement, and presence. Without offering formal modularity, the object provides an open support for everyday uses and movements. Péninsule is thus defined less by what it can be transformed into than by the way it is used.
PRODUCT DESIGN
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
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
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
with Christophe Guberan
‘Stool Story’ invited students to explore innovative, re-contextualised, or intriguing materials and production techniques to create a simple yet fundamentally structural typology: the stool. Each process was documented through a short, vertically formatted video. The result is a range of stools, each demonstrating a unique perspective and approach.
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Camille Blin
As the modern workspace and living environment trend towards open-plan designs, the need for versatile acoustic solutions have regained momentum. Offecct, a renown Swedish contrat furniture manufacturer, has teamed up with 8 students part of Master Product Design from ECAL, led by course tutor Camille Blin to reinterpret the acoustic room divider — an essential tool in structuring both our spaces and our ideas. Acoustics have been a steady part of the Offecct’s portfolio since the early 2000's and it is time for this category to question its own versatility and its influence on the well-being of our workplaces.
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Philippe Malouin
SolarPunk is a design exploration into how increasingly accessible solar energy might shape and integrate into our everyday lives in the near future. Embracing a hopeful vision of sustainability, the movement challenges traditional perceptions of renewable energy by imagining creative, aesthetic, and functional uses of solar power. This collection of work was created by first-year Master’s students in Product Design at ECAL, under the guidance of designer Philippe Malouin. Developed specifically for the Soleil·s exhibition at the MUDAC design museum in Lausanne, the projects reflect bold experimentation and speculative thinking. Rather than focusing solely on efficiency or utility, the students explored poetic, playful, and sometimes unconventional applications of solar energy, highlighting the emotional and experiential potential of this technology. Among the featured works are two standout projects which have been developed and feature in the exhibition: ‘Solar Shade' by Carl Johan Jacobsen, a wearable hat that powers a cooling vest using flexible solar panels, and ‘Butterfly Sunglasses’ by Takumi Ise, simple lightweight eyewear that combines colour, movement, and solar functionality.
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Augustin Scott de Martinville
Designed in CH, Made in JP is a collaborative project between ECAL Master Product Design, Karimoku New Standard, and Presence Switzerland. From 13 April to 13 October 2025, representatives from countries across the globe will gather to showcase innovation, culture, and sustainability at the World Expo in Osaka, Japan. For Switzerland’s pavilion, MA Product Design students at ECAL were tasked with designing a stackable wooden chair to be produced in Japan by Karimoku New Standard, intended to furnish the lightweight, bubble-inspired architecture by Manuel Herz. Under the guidance of Augustin Scott de Martinville, the class developed ten chair designs, each offering a distinct perspective. Some draw inspiration from the pavilion’s scenography, while others explore cultural iconography or celebrate the symbiosis between two nations—each unique in heritage yet united by shared values of craftsmanship and innovation. Of the ten designs, one was selected to be produced for the pavilion: HUG, designed by Jacob Kouthoofd Martensson and Min Xiyao, is a circular chair that stacks inversely—a feature that not only informs its name but also visually embodies the essence of collaboration. This versatile design accommodates a range of uses, from conferences to general pavilion seating. The final chair will be unveiled both in Osaka in the Swiss Pavilion at the World Expo 2025, and during Milan Design Week 2025, with the full project exhibited at the House of Switzerland.
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Augustin Scott de Martinville
Heat pumps are energy-efficient household climate systems essential for transitioning to renewable energy and combating climate change. Typically installed outside close-by to buildings, they are becoming common visual elements in urban landscapes, often resembling air conditioners with limited design variety across brands. To reimagine these essential typologies, Viessmann, a world leading Heat Pump producer, invited MA Product Design students from ECAL to develop innovative concepts, resulting in designs that challenge norms and explore new visual identities of heat pumps.
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Thélonious Goupil
During this one-week workshop led by Thélonious Goupil, edits were made to a ‘drop false ceiling’ in Bar Gala Lausanne. By hacking the system, playing with existing elements such as lighting or ventilators, the outdate ceiling was given new life without the need for full renovation.
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Augustin Scott de Martinville
For this semester, students were invited to focus on the creation of a “One-Off” of their choice. They were encouraged to free themselves from the issues traditionally associated with industrial design - mass production, costs, market positioning, etc. The project concluded in a silent auction at the ECAL's traditional Christmas Market.
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Studio Isabel + Helen
This workshop was led by Isabel + Helen Studio, a duo of London artists known for their captivating kinetic sculptures and installations. They blend art with movement to create playful and thought-provoking works. During the week, they guided students through the fundamentals of creating dynamic, moving sculptures. Using umbrella mechanisms, students created fireworks.
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Reed Kram
No Signal! Is the the outcome of an exploratory one-week workshop completed for, and now exhibited in, the Mudac’s exhibition ‘We Will Survive’, which delves into the world of ‘Preppers.’ Guided by designer Reed Kram, students from the MA Product Design program, worked in pairs to create solutions for a hypothetical scenario in which phones no longer work, the internet is down, and grid electricity is unavailable. Faced with this breakdown of modern infrastructure, their mission was to reimagine how we might fulfill one of humanity's most essential needs—communication.
PRODUCT DESIGN
with Camille Blin
On the occasion of Paris Design Week 2024, DECATHLON is partnering with ECAL's Product Design Master's programme to unveil "Sortir du Cadre", an installation showcasing two prototypes of electric-assisted trekking bikes based on research into eco-design. Through this collaboration, DECATHLON engages the younger generation of designers around eco-design themes. These concept bikes, envisioned by students from Product Design Master’s programme, express a vision of the future in which sustainable development and the pleasure of outdoor activities go hand in hand.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Clémentine Merhebi
In 2023, a person residing in Switzerland consumes 140 liters of drinking water per day. Half of which is used for showering. 75 is a showerhead that saves up to ¾ of our consumption. Developed by SICT, its mechanism visually imitates but reduces the flow of a classic showerhead from 20 to 4 liters of water per minute. Deprived of its handle, it also represents a material saving by fitting in the palm of your hand. Assembled with a single screw, all its components can be separated, including its magnets, which offer different inclinations when in contact with its support. Like a canvas, this adhesive sheet deconstructs the architecture of the shower through a simplification of its systems and accessories, allowing us to better understand our consumption.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Youssef Bassil
The average adult spends 24 hours a week on their smartphone, leading to health issues like eye strain, disrupted sleep, depression, anxiety, and reduced concentration. Many, especially Gen-Z, recognise smartphones are designed to capture attention and are switching to "dumbphones" – traditional mobile phones predating the iPhone. However, using a dumbphone daily ends up being impractical and frustrating. Modern society and services are tailored to smartphones for payments, transport, and more, alienating non-users. OoO_Out of Office offers a solution: an alternate device for basic communication, navigation, contactless payment, and tickets without distractions. Allowing users to stay connected and reach their destination without the overwhelming presence of a smartphone.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Eduardo Altamirano Castro
Today’s audio industry has turned loudspeakers into small, wireless, battery-powered plastic objects. To challenge this, I created the Sonido Material project, which explores the relationship between music and human experience, emphasizing our interaction with sound. The outcome is a minimal satellite flat speaker with three components. It uses magnetic energy to activate a paper membrane with a layered copper coil, amplifying the sound. Each prototype showcases the material’s rawness, creating a poetic dialogue with its sonic environment. The design is fully modular and dismountable, facilitating repair, recycling, or a variety of configurations/installations.
PRODUCT DESIGN
by Sofia Biondi
Campana is the culmination of a collaboration with the Swiss company Ateliers Firmann, known for crafting cowbells and railings, leveraging their well-honed skills and tools. The outcome is a pair of lamps, each a different size, sculpted from curved and welded steel profiles. At the heart of each lamp, the bell itself shines as the light source. The aim was to transform the iconic bell from its traditional setting, giving it a new purpose. Just as the bell's sound guides and signals the presence of the animal, its light now graces domestic spaces with a gentle presence. The lamps are distilled to their essence: the radiant bell, the supporting structure, and a cable that connects these two distinct elements, all made under the same roof.