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STRAPPAZZON+ECAL

with Angelo Benedetto, Guy Meldem, Sébastian Strappazzon

Workshop with Strappazzon With the aim of broadening the horizons of graphic design students beyond the media traditionally explored during their training, Sebastian Stappazzon, co-founder of AVNIER – one of today's hottest streetwear brands launched in collaboration with French rapper OrelSan – runs a week-long workshop at ECAL. From the proposals imagined by the students, a capsule collection was born, produced in a limited edition. The entire collection will be presented and on sale at an exclusive event on 15 December 2023 at La Rasude in Lausanne.

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Cryptocurrency

with Marietta Eugster

During this workshop, each student had to design a poster presenting a cryptocurrency. Each student had to visually reinterpret the characteristics of his cryptocurrency while taking into account an imposed grid in constant evolution. The posters printed with the plotter will then be overprinted.

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Encyclopedia of Demons

with Atlas Studio

After choosing a demon from Theresa Bane's Encyclopedia of Demons, each student had to visually reinterpret the characteristics of their demon in several ways. A stencil printing technique (cutting a sheet of paper) allowed students to create their visuals on the spot and independently.

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Amen Break

with Vincent Devaud

Creation of a poster on a piece of music of one' s choice, using the Amen Break sample. The poster is composed of two layers: a typographic layer and an abstract layer explaining the rhythm. In a second step, the posters of each student were reduced to A5 format and the layers exchanged. The result was silkscreen printed.

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Lost Records

with Ronny Hunger

Sometimes you don’t know that something has been lost — until it’s found again. How many brilliant lost, neglected and forgotten artists can there be? How many albums have been forgotten? How many have been lost? How many were rejected by labels because of political content, critical album artworks or band names? How many didn’t make it through a release and were eliminated or shelved for lack of success? How many dreams, hopes and statements were destroyed? We found 8 of these forgotten albums and worked on the record cover artworks, we tried to catch the mystical mood of these lost recordings, we tried to capture this forgotten music and tried to tell these incredible stories.

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1,15m²

with Sacha Léopold (Syndicat)

During this workshop week, the students worked on the curation, mediation and placement of their own exhibition. The students selected a corpus of works from the iconographic and textual collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, both based in New York. The exhibition space, 1.15m² (refering to the surface area of an F4 poster) is printable, hangable and foldable. It is both a surface but also a base or a volume. The students' results question the means of reproduction and representation of the works in the design of an exhibition.

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Moins Zéro

with Denis Roueche, Prune Simon-Vermot

During 4 days, the students in the first year of the Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design and Photography were confronted with the weather in the Far North of La Chaux-de-Fond and presented the results of their work in the form of a giant calendar at QUARTIER GENERAL. With the participation of students: Pauline Baldinetti, Ines Barrionuevo, David Benito Py, Alexandre Brunisholz, Emma Chapuis, Lucien Grandjean, Hugo Hectus, Elena Najdovski, Julie Neuhaus, Laetitia Paroz, Guillaume Pavia, Caroline Perrenoud, Amanda Puna, Alizée Quinche, Clara Roumegoux, Steven Rüthy, Julie Ryser, Guillaume Schilter, Samuel Schmidt, Timo Tiffert, Laura Trummer, Adeline Vermot, Loris Wahler, Justine Willa Teachers: Denis Roueche, Prune Simon Vermot Assistants: Amaury Hamon, Clément Lambelet, Olivia Schenker

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Workshop with Giliane Cachin

with Giliane Cachin

Poster design communicating a fictitious opening of editorial publications.

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Tourism

with Nicolas Haeni, Robert Huber

Graphic designer Robert Huber and photographer Nicolas Haeni piloted a transversal workshop between the first years Bachelor Graphic Design and Photography. By joining their complementary skills, several groups of students selected a swiss tourism-related activity, offering an alternative and offbeat vision in edition form.

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Workshop Gilles de Brock

by Pauline Baldinetti, Inés Barrionuevo, Emilie Bouchet, Emma Chapuis, Isabel Garcia Argos, Hugo Hectus, Elena Najdovski, Julie Neuhaus, Thaïs Nguyen Huu, Lynne Nougou, Laetitia Paroz, Guillaume Pavia, Ares Pedroli, Amanda Puna, Julie Ryser, Samuel Schmidt, Timo Tiffert, Laura Trummer, Adeline Vermot

Screenprinting workshop supervised by Gilles de brock, assisted by Sylvain Croci-Torti

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Adventures in typography

with Tony Brook (SPIN), Claudia Klat (SPIN)

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Open Days 2018 – Print Shop

with Benjamin Plantier

Offset Tuning Perfumed cardboards for vehicles. Realised by Pauline Mayor, André Teixeira, Théo Marielle and Loïc Volkart (3CVdg) Offset printed. O' Ciuccio Letterpress posters Realised by Eliott Villars (2CVph) and Simon Jaton (2AV) Printed on a printing press. UNTITLED Letterpress posters Realised by Guillaume Besson, Lucas Haussener and Kenza Saleh (1CVdg) Printed on a printing press. Book, Tale, Page, Read Hot-Foil bookmarks Realised by Eilean Friis-Lund, Amaury Hamon and Thomas Le Provost (Teaching Assistants in Bachelor Graphic Design) Hot-foil printed

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The Recipe

with Nicolas Haeni, Robert Huber

Editorial Design of a cooking recipe Collaboration between the first year students of Bachelor Graphic Design & Photography

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The Habitants

with Damien Poulain

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daydayday

with Manuel Krebs (NORM), Dimitri Bruni (NORM)

Education Issue 1 November 14 2017 Describe you dreams about school. Why is your teacher better than google? La plus grande absurdité dans cette école? Liberté ou restriction? Qu'est-ce qu'un bon enseignant? Comment ta famille perçoit tes études? Interest Issue 2 Novembre 15 2017 The kind of design I am afraid of: Décris ton style. Où se cachent les femmes designers? Can the designer be replaced by a machine? This is not a typeface! Quelle est la personne qui t'inspire? Knowledge Issue 3 November 16 2017 Does right or wrong exist? The most important thing you have learned. Which role does graphic design play in society? What is the role of print in the digital age? Quel est l'impact de la critique dans ta pratique? Une formation supplémentaire est-elle une option?

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IDFA

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Monument

with Nicole Udry

Transposition of a monument through editorial design.

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Typographic Interpretation of an Architectural Model

with Karl Nawrot

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Compose

with Ludovic Balland

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Summer University Hong Kong

with Angelo Benedetto, Guy Meldem, Harry Bloch

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Atlas du design graphique à l'ECAL

with Joost Grootens & Dimitri Jeannottat (Studio Joost Grootens)

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A Copy is a Meta-Original

with Florian Lamm

Redefine/rearrange an old socialist photography magazine. Each student had one year of the magazine, they form groups and work on several years together. The text is completly ignored. Only the Images reappear. The are used in a completly different way then before: Which means they should rearrange, cut, collage them: make something completely new, out of the given material. In the end of the workshop every student had a clip-stitched Magazine of 32 Pages. They all be bound as a book.

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The Theory of

The students were presented with subject matter that at one point or another has been characterised as pseudoscience by academics or researchers. These characterisations were made in the context of educating the public about questionable or potentially fraudulent claims and practices–efforts to define the nature of science, or humorous parodies of poor scientific reasoning. The majority of the ideas are unrealistic, and fanatical. Criticism of pseudoscience, generally by the scientific community or skeptical organisations, involves critiques of the logical, methodological, or rhetorical bases of the topic in question. Though some of the ideas continue to be investigated scientifically, others were only subject to scientific research in the past and today are considered refuted but resurrected in a pseudoscientific fashion, such as the world is flat. Other ideas presented here are entirely non-scientific, but have Ibn one way or another infringed on scientific domains or practices.

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Vulgar Display of Power

with Michiel Schuurman

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Abstract Magazines From Elsewhere

with Manuel Krebs (NORM), Dimitri Bruni (NORM)

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PrimaNero

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Workshop Ronny Hunger

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Wild Research Club

with Ricardo Leite

Graphic design is a powerful tool to connect, explore, provoke, research, reveal, question and dig through the world narrative that surround us. Using graphic design tools students were tasked to research global issues, working as multidisciplinary practitioners to develop outstanding concepts for visual communication. The theme of the workshop is  Ideas for the Future . The workshop was divided into groups that worked through various fields of interest. Each group had to work on its own assignment, focusing on a singular question for the  Future . Groups explore the subject by visually reviewing, researching, reflecting and reconnecting to political, economic, ecological and social challenges. On the final day, questions for the future will be presented in a collective exhibition of publications, posters, visual essays, objects or even performances. Océane Bacher, Thibault Baralon, Maude Bernardoni, Hélène Bezzola, Ludmila Bredikhina, Juliette Caillault, Clement Chavanne, Sebastian Davila, Sarah Di Venosa, Marie Disle, Loïc Dupasquier, Luca Duveau, Eilean Friis-Lund, Monica Gonçalves, Alexis Hominal, Matthieu Huegi, Ines Jaïbi, Claire Mayoud, Guillaume Meyer, Dimitri Nägele, Tamara Niklaus, Tara Quinsac, Nasthasya Reuter, Vincent Sauvaire, Luc Vega and Alice Vodoz

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Le Livre d'Or

with Nicole Udry

Ré-éditez le contenu d’un Livre d’Or selon vos propres critères en générant un langage autonome. Le contenu final peut s’éloigner du contenu original. Les supports, formats, techniques sont libres. Le nouvel objet doit communiquer les valeurs du lieu. Imaginez ensuite un objet 3D, dont l’objectif est de synthétiser le lieu et de commenter sa vocation. The medium is the message. ECAL/Océane Bacher, Thibault Baralon, Maude Bernardoni, Hélène Bezzola, Ludmila Bredikhina, Juliette Caillault, Clement Chavanne, Sebastian Davila, Sarah Di Venosa, Marie Disle, Loïc Dupasquier, Luca Duveau, Eilean Friis-Lund, Monica Gonçalves, Alexis Hominal, Matthieu Huegi, Ines Jaïbi, Claire Mayoud, Guillaume Meyer, Dimitri Nägele, Tamara Niklaus, Tara Quinsac, Nasthasya Reuter, Vincent Sauvaire, Luc Vega et Alice Vodoz

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Rituel

with Aurèle Sack

Tavail sur le thème du rituel.

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It’s Playtime!

with Nicole Udry

Transposition d’une bande-annonce de film, ou extrait, en édition.

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Solar Snake

Projet réalisé et imprimé en offset lors de la journée portes ouvertes de l'ECAL. Concept, graphisme et typographie: Giliane Cachin, Pierre Girardin, Daniel Hättenschwiller, Thomas Petit, Clemens Piontek, Clément Rouzaud et Chi-Binh Trieu Photgraphie: Clemens Piontek

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Index

with Till Wiedeck

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Extended registration marks

with Dimitri Bruni (NORM), Manuel Krebs (NORM)

Silk printed combinations: ABC ABD ABE ABF ACB ACD ACE ACF ADB ADC ADE ADF AEB AEC AED AEF AFB AFC AFD AFE BAC BAD BAE BAF BCA BCB BCD BCE BCF BDA BDC BDE BDF BEA BEC BED BEF BFA BFC BFD BFE CAB CAD CAE CAF CBA CBD CBE CBF CDA CDB CDE CDF CEA CEB CED CEF CFA CFB CFD CFE DAB DAC DAE DAF DBA DBC DBE DBF DCA DCB DCE DCF DEA DEB DEC DEF DFA DFB DFC DFE EAB EAC EAD EAF EBA EBC EBD EBF ECA ECB ECD ECF EDA EDB EDC EDF EFA EFB EFC EFD FAB FAC FAD FAE FBA FBC FBD FBE FCA FCB FCD FCE FDA FDB FDC FDE FEA FEB FEC FED.

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String Foundry

with Hansje van Halem

The students were given a cone with 3 yards of yarn. This sewing machine yarn represents a line. The students were asked to draw with this line and create letters. A session of uncontrolled experimentation followed. Some people got frustrated because the material was not behaving the way they expected, others got lost in labour intensive try outs. The design process was speeded up by demanding quantity over quality. The students produces a rich collection of specimens, failures, surprises and typographic inventions. Quality surfaced by looking at the possibilities of the results, not the results themselves. Students were given more time to concentrate and dig deeper for more options of a single experiment. They were asked to create a systematic sequence to expand their type treatment into a series of results. How can you make a system grow? Students seemed to be relieved when they were asked to translate their experiment in the computer. How do you Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop behave when you are wishing for a type treatment that includes gravity, three-dimensionality, texture or something else you witnessed while working with analogue material? This workshop turned out to be a research on how an analogue reference can make you look for a different way to work digitally. Type was a platform for introducing them to an alternative design process.

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The Second Acid Test

with Körner Union, Maximage

The Second Acid Test is a collection of screenprinted moirés.

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Calendar

with Guy Meldem

Calendrier réalisé en offset basé sur les techniques et effets du logiciel photoshop

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New Handwriting Tools

with Job Wouters (Letman)

Job Wouters  aka Letman, well known for its lettering artworks, took out of his suitcase pencils and markers, as well as strange utensils much different than a typical pen and asked to his students to create, produce or divert objects from their original function to turn them into new handwriting tools. Students brought back plastic fans, water hoses, electric toothbrush, treadmills, and other uncommon objects to generate their very own handwriting machines. After a lot of trial-and-error experimentation, specific gestures and choregraphies, these newly constructed DIY machines brought about a unique aesthetic and a variety of proportion in the letter forms they produced. The results included experimental videos, books, posters, and photographs. In conclusion, the project facilitated a fun and productive week.

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Formula Guide

with Maximage, Körner Union

Special color for offset printing