GRAPHIC DESIGN
Olga Prader – FaFo
by Olga Prader
FaFo is a Game about fate and/or/vs. Fortune. In the realm of clichés and discussions, play. A book documents the language developed through the rules, questions, punishments and tools of FaFo.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Jan Abellan – Grischa Lumnezia
by Jan Abellan
“ Alva is a three-dimensional font especially designed for alpine architecture, combining tradition and innovation. The letters are entirely revealed by the changing light of the sun evolving throughout the day. A movable letter system was conceived to fit into the formworks.“ Jan Abellan
GRAPHIC DESIGN
ECAL BIENVENUE
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Formula Guide
with Maximage, Körner Union
Special color for offset printing
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Pierrick Brégeon – Version Originale – Original Version
with Jonathan Hares, Jonas Vögeli
Communication project presenting the latest independent cinema in Lausanne, its archives and a communication system for upcoming events.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Calendar ECAL 2012
with Maximage, Körner Union, Tatiana Rihs
This 2012 calendar is made of photograms directly composed on offset plates. This unusual and experimental technique allows to print perfect fades without using any raster. Objects, things and animals were selected and arranged by students, during a workshop held at ECAL by Körner Union, Maximage and T. Rihs, assisted by Olga Prader.
FINE ARTS
with Stéphane Kropf
où N est le nombre de civilisations extraterrestres dans notre galaxie avec lesquelles nous pourrions entrer en contact R* est le nombre d'étoiles en formation par an dans notre galaxie fp est la fraction de ces étoiles possédant des planètes ne est le nombre moyen de planètes par étoile potentiellement propices à la vie fl est la fraction de ces planètes sur lesquelles la vie apparaît effectivement fi est la fraction de ces planètes sur lesquelles apparaît une vie intelligente fc est la fraction de ces planètes capables et désireuses de communiquer L est la durée de vie moyenne d'une civilisation, en années.
PRODUCT DESIGN
EWO
with Tomas Kral
LEDs, steel and aluminium are the materials of the lights designed by the ECAL Master’s in Product Design students during the project in collaboration with ewo, based in the Alto Adige in Italy. This was a real industrial project around the desire to present new ideas public lighting, a field ECAL had yet to work on. It was also a quick project that lasted only about 3 months. A project made by 1st year students of the Master in Product design, overseen by Alexis Georgacopoulos and Tomas Kral.
PRODUCT DESIGN
AXOR-Bouroullec
with Tomas Kral
Bathroom accessories in collaboration with AXOR-Hansgrohe.
PRODUCT DESIGN
Diploma 2011
with Tomas Alonso
Diploma project of 2011.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Mélanie Grin – Microséisme
by Mélanie Grin
“ “ Microséisme ” dévoile au fil des pages les sursauts sereins qui traversent la géographie Suisse tous les deux jours en moyenne. Les secousses passées sont pérennisées, l'aléa est décrypté avec un professeur en architecture parasismique. C'est avec une sensibilité particulière qu'on explore ce phénomène méconnu à travers les prises de vue parcourues de mouvements. ” Mélanie Grin
FINE ARTS
Workshop de novembre
with Balthazar Lovay
FINE ARTS
If You Can't Say it With Words, Say it With a Lamp
with Tobias Madison
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Workshop Mieux
with Michel Charlot
Workshop led by designer Michel Charlot. The goal was to capture a simple everyday object and give it a significant improvement like formal, functional or sensitive.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
La Chambre à 1,2,3 Dimension(s) Montre à 1,2,3 Tour(s)
with Ludovic Balland, Gilles Gavillet, Jonas Vögeli
The DSK case seen as a result of a chain of consecutive actions. All actions are initiated by decisions. This book contains the same decisions and allows the reader to make his own path and explore alternative scenarios and consequences.
FINE ARTS
Semaine bloc Peinture
with Jacques Bonnard
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Smarts materials
with Pe Lang
The Students spended a week filming their experiments on specific materials behaviors under the lead of the swiss Artist Pe Lang. pelang.ch
FINE ARTS
V.Vale
20.09.2011 Conférence de V. Vale V. Vale est le créateur, à San Francisco, du fanzine Search and Destroy dédié à la culture punk; il est aussi éditeur, publiant notamment les livres de William Burroughs et J.G. Ballard, ainsi qu'une revue nommée Re/Search, consacrée à la contreculture au sens large.
FILM STUDIES
Gregor Frei – Bricks & Blocks
with Frédéric Mermoud
Rudy is on the ropes. What keeps him living is the friendship with Martin. One day, he has to take care of an apprentice.
FILM STUDIES
The Girls' Grave
with Frédéric Mermoud
Sissi and Victoria are sisters. Whereas the younger is slowly emerging from the world of childhood, the elder tries in vain to be grown up. In the room that they share, Sissi is preparing for her gymnastic compétition and Victoria has boys coming and going...
FILM STUDIES
Ponte 5
with Jean Perret, Gianfranco Rosi
One man. One bridge. Nowhere to go. Antonio is an aging man who must live on a bridge in the rough neighborhood of Laurentino 38, in the suburbs of Rome.
FILM STUDIES
The Ambassador & me
with Jean-Stéphane Bron
A son, a father. The first one holds a camera; the second one holds the title ambassador. The camera trembles, the ambassador remains.
FILM STUDIES
Jean-Guillaume Sonnier – Another Game
with Frédéric Mermoud
Starting with a role play and then falling in love, Benoît is going to lose everything…
FILM STUDIES
Grand voyage à Rome
with Jean Perret, Gianfranco Rosi
During two weeks of complete immersion, the students went to meet the filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi. On the shooting locations of his next feature documentary, the GRA (Grande Raccordamente Annulare de Roma), the filmmaker explained his working method, from the scouting to the first shootings...
FILM STUDIES
Ruth
with Lionel Baier, Emmanuel Salinger
Ruth leads a peaceful life in her elaborately decorated apartment. Until one day, when a mysterious gift is about to turn her world upside down.
FILM STUDIES
Vincent Weber – La noyée
with Frédéric Mermoud
Celine, 46, lives in a beach resort in southern France. One night, her son appears on her front doorstep. Kevin has run away from his father's house. Over the weekend they will try to get to know each other, not without difficulty.
FILM STUDIES
O Signore Stracciarolo
with Jean Perret, Gianfranco Rosi
Outcast amongst outcasts. From boredom to religious devotion, we get a glimpse into the lives of a gypsy couple in the suburbs of Rome.
FILM STUDIES
Robert-Jan Lacombe – Back to Mandima
with Frédéric Mermoud
1996. I was 10 when we left our village of Zaire. War broke soon after. A personal journey, back to the childhood, to look for my best friends. But a lot has happened in 15 years.
FILM STUDIES
Born behind the stones
with Jean-Stéphane Bron
From the photographs of my family and that of my boyfriend, I realize the portrait of two clans that everything opposes. And between the two: me.
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Collaboration with Baccarat 2011
with Ed Barber (Barber & Osgerby), Jay Osgerby (Barber & Osgerby)
For this first collaboration with Baccarat, the students worked under the direction of the two London designers Ed Barber and Jay Osgerby to give new interpretations of the famous Harcourt glass, an icon of the brand, which celebrates its 170th anniversary in 2011. This glass, whose design has remained unchanged since its creation, has become a classic in the diplomatic world, from the table of Napoleon III to that of John Paul II.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Karian Foehr – Timor
with Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo
PHOTOGRAPHY
Noha Mokhtar – Al Fassad / The Corruption
by Noha Mokhtar
“At first, I made the video El hob wal melh / Love and salt on the basis of two simple observations: the television has often a pivotal role in an Arabic living room and the living room itself is the most important room in the house as this is the room where you receive guests and present yourself. Therefore this room is meticulously decorated with particular attention paid to its details. The room is thus comparable to a stage set. In this work, I tried to bring both the virtual (an Egyptian historic-political soap opera) and physical space on the same sphere thanks to a combination of the sound and the image. I played with this existing ambiguous relation between fiction and documentary. This work was completed only a couple of weeks before the start of the Egyptian uprising in January 2011... A scene from an Egyptian soap opera plays on the screen; Karama warns Amira of the ongoing confiscation of the royal family’s wealth including that of their close relation. Amira is part of this circle. The scene takes place in a fastidiously decorated living room, that looks singularly similar to the real living room, revealed by a panoramic. The sound coming from the television glides into this real room. As the first part of my project is more on the presentation of an internal point of view, I then decided to photograph the facades of buildings under construction or those that were in ruins in Cairo, as well as the “new palaces” surrounding them for my Al fassad/ The corruption edition. The aim of this was to confront these buidings to the stage sets of the “Media City Production”, a big film studio that produces numerous films and television series in Egypt. Once again, this work was not limited to documentary work as I added pieces of printed textile transformed into patterns, boxes of Kleenex made up like sculptures or plastic mouldings to the architectural shots. In Arabic, “Al Fassad“ also means “Corruption“.“
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Collaboration with Audemars Piguet 2011
with Ronan Bouroullec
The workshop in collaboration with the watch was carried out over an entire year by students in the University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL) under the supervision of French designer Ronan Bourroullec. Students were asked to give free rein to their imaginations and shake up a bit the brand’s DNA, designing pieces that would be inspired by the Millenary collection, the Royal Oak and the Royal Oak Offshore. They naturally came up with bold ideas that were nonetheless perfectly respectful of the codes that govern the world of Audemars Piguet.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Namsa Leuba – Ya Kala Ben
by Namsa Leuba
“ I am an African-European, born in Switzerland and my project was accomplished on a trip to Guinea Conakry. In this work, I was interested in the construction and deconstruction of the body as well as the depiction of the invisible. I have studied ritual artifacts common to the cosmology of Guineans; statuettes that are part of a ceremonial structure. They are from another world, they are the roots of the living. Thereby, I sought to touch the untouchable. Modesty, luck, fecundity or a channel for exorcism, those statuettes hold a cultural value through what they represent or symbolise. With this work, I transform these objects, cosmological symbols of a community, who traditionally have a signification when used as part of rituals. These objects are part of a collective that they must not be separated from, or risk loosing their value. They are not the gods of this community but their prayers. They are integrated in a rigorous symbolic order, where every component has its place. They are ritual tools that I have animated by staging live models and in a way to desecrate them by giving them another meaning; an unfamiliar meaning in the Guinean context. In recontextualizing these sacred objects through the lens, I brought them in a framework meant for Western aesthetic choices and taste. This photographic eye would make them speak differently. Throughout my fieldwork, I had to deal with sometimes violent reactions from Guineans who viewed my procedures/practices as a form of sacrilege. Some were afraid and were struck with astonishment. “
PHOTOGRAPHY
Alexia Cayre – Berry Blossoms Blue and An errand
by Alexia Cayre
“My projet is divided in two independent yet complimentary works, entitled Berry Blossoms Blue and An errand.Through a polymorphic portrait of my mother, the project explores the limits between documentary, cinema and fashion, while depicting th multiple lives and faces of it's complex protagonist.“
ART DIRECTION
Matthew Fenton & Haakon Spencer – Verities 01
by Matthew Fenton & Haakon Spencer
Verities is an independent biannual publication of thought, observation and reflection, giving equal focus to visual arts and literature. Verities explores new ways of seeing the most ordinary and overlooked situations, revealing the arresting and irrational in the everyday. The ability to disorient and estrange through a subjects illumination makes for a potentially explosive catalyst that sits at the heart of Verities. In each issue artists and authors explore a new theme through artworks, photography, design, fashion, essays and short stories. Finding the new in the old and celebrating the old in the new, rescuing beauty from vulgarity, and pushing social issues to the fore. Verities makes intellectual content accessible, yet is not afraid to challenge its readers. Based in London with an international outlook this is a publication that is subjective in its authorship and honest in its approach. Taking on the mantle of producing a publication for the ultra observant. verities.co.uk
ART DIRECTION
Nicolas Haeni – Four Corners
by Nicolas Haeni
“ I decided to create an “architectural” publication. My rational is to reclaim the word architecture from within the realms of professional discourse, and examine its juxtaposition between this and everyday life. So I developed short series of visual experiments which interested me. The result is a publication that takes an alternative look at architecture and the everyday. ” Nicolas Haeni
ART DIRECTION
David Favrod – Gaijin
by David Favrod
“I usually find it hard to speak about myself. I always stumble in the paradoxes of 'who am I?'. In terms of factual information, I surely appear to be the most well informed person about my own self. But as soon as I need to communicate about who I am, I tend to do it through filters, selecting what I want to communicate, and how I wish to do it, in accordance with my interests and sensitivity. So what can be the objective value of the way that I picture my family and my life? How much does it concretely relates to reality or not? 'Gaijin' is the japanese word meaning 'the foreigner'.” David Favrod
ART DIRECTION
Matthieu Lavanchy & Jonas Marguet – Les sentiments positivés
by Matthieu Lavanchy & Jonas Marguet
At the beginning of the last century, when health tourism made its appearance in the Alps, Dr. Bach developed a series of essences made from flowers supposed to deal with different emotional states. Negative feelings such as invasive and unwanted thoughts, feelings of being overwhelmed, fear of failing or difficulty saying no were corrected by the absorption of these subtle remedies. Bach claimed all he had to do was eat a flower or taste a petal to intuitively know its ‘personality’ and its therapeutic qualities. Inspired by the myth of the “lone scholar” and a certain idea of well-being, and Matthew Lavanchy and Jonas Marguet present a humorous, fantasical and candid report of man to his ills.
ART DIRECTION
Louise Paradis – TM SGM RSI 1965-1985
by Louise Paradis
“The Typographische Monatsblätter” has enjoyed a long life, or rather many different lives. Established more than 70 years ago, the magazine has witnessed very important moments in the history of typography and graphic design. It made ‘Swiss Design’ known to an international readership and later spread the burgeoning ideas of the ‘New Wave’ style. This work attempts to give an overview of a critical period; the transition between modernism and postmodernism or should I say, the development of a growing reaction against modernism. Through an investigation of the covers designed between the years 1965 until 1985, this work is trying to make an objective representation of that era. The covers were a prominent aspect of “The Typographische Monatsblätter”, they provide a good indication of attitude and aesthetic concerns of the time. The designers of these covers are presented through biographies, interviews and excerpts discussing their thoughts and ideas. tm-research-archive.ch
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Guillaume Chabot – Box-it
with Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Dimitris Dimoulitsas – Space A Maze
with Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Collaboration with Christofle 2011
with Xavier Perrenoud
For the second collaboration with the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship department (workshop led by designer Xavier Perrenoud), Christofle asked the students to reflect on a subject important to them: the birth gift, and more generally, the world of childhood.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Marius Aeberli – Elapse
with Alain Bellet, Gaël Hugo
« En accord avec la vision subjective de l'utilisateur, ELAPSE offre une extension visuelle aussi subjective et adaptée à chaque représentation personnelle du temps. L'informatique et le traitement de l'information ont toujours eu la prétention d'être précis et exhaustifs avec une tendance à privilégier la standardisation. Jusqu'à présent, cette logique absolue a comblé la subjectivité et les imperfections cognitives des utilisateurs. Aujourd'hui, un seul utilisateur interagit avec l'univers numérique des dizaines de milliers de fois par jour et, dans son évolution, ce même univers tend à s'inspirer de nos propres comportements. Néanmoins, les interfaces restent à l'image de leurs hôtes : froides, précises et standardisées ou inspirées des codes graphiques obsolètes auxquels elles sont habituées. Intitulé ELAPSE, mon projet propose une approche graphique différente du design d'interface. A travers un principe de calendrier/calendrier, symbole de l'informatique appliquée, l'interface graphique peut être entièrement modélisée par l'utilisateur en fonction de sa conception du temps. Cette approche cognitive permet aux utilisateurs de laisser le superflu et de contourner le pouvoir de la précision. Ainsi, les semaines et les jours peuvent être déroulés dans des directions différentes et les jours de la semaine ainsi que les heures peuvent avoir une durée visuelle différente. Dans la même pers- pective, certains jours peuvent être préférés à d'autres et certains rendez-vous peuvent être indiqués comme plus agréables que d'autres. ELAPSE recommande également le moment le plus approprié pour un rendez-vous particulier et permet à l'utilisateur de créer une liste de choses à faire en fonction du lieu où il se trouve et, par conséquent, d'éviter un surmenage inutile. Naturellement, cette application ne s'adresse pas nécessairement aux utilisateurs désireux d'être organisés de manière forte et précise, mais plutôt à ceux qui doivent faire un effort lorsqu'ils utilisent un calendrier, malgré l'expérience des années et du temps. » Marius Aeberli
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Collaboration with Bernardaud 2011
with Pierre Charpin
For the first collaboration with Bernardaud, the students worked under the direction of French designer Pierre Charpin to develop new designs to be applied to the porcelain produced at the Limoges factory.
FINE ARTS
Exposition des travaux de diplôme à l'ELAC
by Grégory Corthay, Sylvain Croci-Torti, Anaïs Defago, Agnès Ferla, Sophie Grandjean, Gérard Guzzman, Andreas Hochuli, Tristan Lavoyer, Natacha Steiner, Axelle Stiefel, David Weishaar, Claire Zumstein., Claire de Quénetain
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
3D Graphics - Reel
with Patrick Keller
A compilation of projects realized by the first year students in the 3D course led by Patrick Keller.
FINE ARTS
Claire Fontaine
Symposium Master Arts Visuels European Art Ensemble Mercredi 13 avril 2011 Claire Fontaine est une artiste collective qui a été fondé en 2004 et vit à Paris. Après avoir tiré son nom d'une marque populaire de cahiers pour écoliers, Claire Fontaine s'est auto-déclarée une « artiste ready-made » et a commencé à élaborer une version d'art néo-conceptuel qui souvent ressemble au travail d'autres gens. Elle utilise le néon, la vidéo, la sculpture, la peinture et l'écriture, sa pratique peut être décrite comme un questionnement ouvert de l'impuissance politique et de la crise de la singularité qui semblent caractériser l'art contemporain aujourd'hui. Parmi ses dernières expositions personnelle : After Marx April, After Mao June , Aspen Art Museum, Colorado. Future Tense , El Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F., Economies , Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Closed for Prayers , Dvir Gallery, Hangar 2, Jaffa Port, Israel, Etrangers Partout (QDM), Nuit Blanche, Belleville, Paris, Kultur ist ein Palast der aus Hundescheiße gebaut ist ., MD72, Berlin, Arando en el mar/Ploughing the sea , Gaga Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico D.F., Fighting Gravity , Regina Gallery London and Moscow. Cette journée de travail, de séminaires, de débats et conférences, s’organise autour de la présence de l’artiste Claire Fontaine et de différents axes de réflexion, sans cesse actualisés dans la pratique artistique et critique : les notions d’interprétation et de représentation, la question de la copie ou de son refus, celle de l’âge de l’accès et de ses excès. « Nous souhaiterions organiser notre réflexion autour de deux pôles : le premier serait celui de Bartleby, le copiste qui refuse de copier et dont la vie devient comme une page blanche sur laquelle seul le refus peut s’inscrire, exemplifié par la formule célèbre I would prefer not to. Le second pôle serait celui de la logique de la représentation. Nous faisons l’hypothèse que cette logique soit propre tant à l’académisme qui prône la copie la plus parfaite qui soit du réel, cherche chez le spectateur la reconnaissance des sujets reproduits, qu’à la démocratie représentative, qui propose des cadres très rigides pour canaliser les questions politiques. Dans cette perspective nous reprendrons les articles de Umberto Eco sur le mouvement de ’77 en Italie qu’il compara au cubisme et à une nouvelle forme de perspective, qui paraissait incompréhensible à la classe politique bourgeoise de l’époque. » Séminaires : Comment ne pas copier? Comment peut-on créer quelque chose sans reprendre une forme ou un contenu existants dans la réalité? Comment refuser l'académisme et se passer de modèles sans refuser le devoir de mémoire? Comment atteindre la "barbarie positive"? Est-ce que le minimalisme est une façon d'épouser le mot d'ordre de Bartleby "je préférerai ne pas"?
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sophie Mei Dalby – Reburrus
by Sophie Mei Dalby
«Like a contemporary echo of the bestiaries of the 16th and 18th centuries, Sophie Mei Dalby's Reburrus shows a parade of petrified animals. Long still shots of a rhinoceros, kangaroos, penguins... creatures we're used to seeing in motion, here frozen in such perfect compositions that we wonder if they're not naturalized. A doubt dispelled by the imperceptible shudders that run through them. Contemplating these moving portraits - still lifes, harbingers of ecological disaster? - one is overwhelmed by an irrepressible melancholy.» - Sophie Mei Dalby
FILM STUDIES
Vrai/Semblable
with Lionel Baier, Emmanuel Salinger
Under the direction of filmmaker Emmanuel Salinger, students were asked to produce a fiction or documentary film of less than 10 minutes in length based on the document written in a writing workshop.