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ECAL Night Live

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PHOTOGRAPHY

ECAL Night Live

with Vincent Veillon, Paul Walther, Florian Pittet (Sigmasix), Vincent Jacquier, Julien Gurtner

During an intensive week, first-year students from the Visual Communication department at ECAL had the opportunity to create and produce the first edition of ECAL Night Live. The goal was to design a show inspired by satirical television formats. Divided into multidisciplinary teams—including students from the Bachelor programs in Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design, and Photography—they collaborated to create all the content, set design, and visual identity of the show, delivering a fully homemade project in record time. The main theme revolved around self-mockery, targeting the visual communication professions, students, and the institution itself, with a subtle touch of current events. This project was supervised by Vincent Veillon and Paul Walther, directors of the RTS show 52 Minutes, as well as Florian Pittet, a digital scenography expert who guided the creation of the show's set design.

Moving Images – 2023-24

FOUNDATION YEAR

Moving Images – 2023-24

with Sylvain Meltz

Introduction to moving images and animation (video, kinetics, etc.) using After Effect.

VAUD-O-RAMA – JEUX OLYMPIQUES PARIS 2024

VAUD-O-RAMA – JEUX OLYMPIQUES PARIS 2024

with Julien Gurtner, Vincent Jacquier, Matthieu Minguet, Anthony Guex

As part of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the canton of Vaud has commissioned ECAL to create an original work of art, on view from July 24 to September 8 in the Maison suisse set up for the occasion in the courtyard of the Swiss Embassy in Paris.

Video Clips – 2024

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Video Clips – 2024

with Sami Benhadj

Clips produced as part of the Sequence course supervised by Sami Benhadj. Second-year students from the Bachelor's programs in Graphic Design and Media & Interaction Design each created a music video. Each project brings an existing piece of music to life, exploring visual storytelling, rhythm, and the creation of a unique graphic universe.

Service Design - 2024

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Service Design - 2024

with Angelo Benedetto, Vincent Jacquier, Pauline Saglio, Calypso Mahieu

During the Service Design course, the 3rd year of the Graphic Design, Photography and Media & Interaction Design bachelors had to create multi-media projects. A collaboration of the Visual Communication department which had as subject the SDGs (*Sustainable Development Goals). The theme was called "For a good cause, make the SDGs a reality" and its objective was to allow students to develop a cause that is close to their hearts. Each project consists of at least two different media, one primary and one secondary. These projects could take any form that the students deemed relevant, be it a website, editions, posters, a video sequence or virtual reality.

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SYNC SCREEN

with Charlotte Krieger, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Florian Pittet (Sigmasix), Vincent Jacquier, Julien Gurtner, Matthieu Minguet, Cédric Duchêne, EPFL+ECAL Lab, Giacomo Bastianelli

For a week, the first-year visual communications students worked on an installation consisting of 15 screens, accompanied by a 360° sound system developed by EPFL+ECAL Lab. This chandelier, five metres in diameter and suspended from a height of three metres, served as a support for their experiments. Using music specially composed and spatialised for the occasion, the students explored the dynamics of sound both visually and in movement.

Tribute to Masterpieces

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Tribute to Masterpieces

with Elodie Anglade

Selection of animated sequences made during a 3D course directed by Elodie Anglade. The students were inspired by a painting and transcribed it into three different scenes.

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Anthracite

by Emma Grosu, Seraphine Sallin-Mason, Rebecca Alfandary

The Anthracite project aims to raise public awareness about the dangers of light pollution, which threatens the survival of nocturnal insects and impacts biodiversity in Switzerland. Through a carefully crafted edition blending scientific outreach and photography, the project strikes a delicate balance between poetry and urgency. Anthracite also takes shape in two additional formats: a visual installation made up of striking images, and a teaser video. These mediums of awareness immerse the audience by adopting the perspective of an insect, inviting viewers to directly experience the effects of human-caused pollution. Ultimately, the project seeks to inspire greater protection for the vulnerable insects at risk.

PROJECTIONS XXL

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PROJECTIONS XXL

with Sami Benhadj, Vincent Jacquier

An immersive and magnetic visual environment, created by ECAL students, illuminates the facades of the mudac and Photo Elysée building. As part of an interdisciplinary project within the Visual Communication department of ECAL, students in the Photography, Graphic Design and Media & Interaction Design Bachelors programs developed immersive video projects designed to adorn the facades of Photo Elysée.

Sétay - Singuliers

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Sétay - Singuliers

with Sami Benhadj

Music video made by Julie Turin and Charlotte Pralong during the second year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Triptychs

with Benjamin Muzzin

Selection of animated sequences made during a 3D course directed by Benjamin Muzzin. The students were inspired by a painting and transcribed it into three different scenes.

Catharsis - RestoGastro

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Catharsis - RestoGastro

with Sami Benhadj

Music video made by Théo Déchanez and Viktor Gagné during the second year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor.

Chelan - London

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Chelan - London

with Sami Benhadj

Music video made by Jérémie Kursner and Alexandre Gambarini during the second year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor.

Magazine - 2023

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Magazine - 2023

with Anouk Schneider Agabekov, Chi-Long Trieu

As part of the magazine course led by Anouk Schneider and Chi-Long Trieu, 2nd-year Visual Communication students had the opportunity to design a magazine during the second semester. Students were encouraged to explore their artistic freedom at all stages of creation, whether it be in terms of format, paper choice, binding, layout, illustrations, text, or typography. In this course, the magazine can take shape through various forms of illustrations, such as photography, reproduction, contextualization, drawing, 3D, etc. The focus is on the artist's vision and the methods used to bring it to life. Students take on multiple roles as editor, curator, and architect, covering responsibilities such as art director, designer, photographer, stylist, illustrator, typographer, editor-in-chief, and editorial assistant. This course highlights contemporary editorial design by exploring the narrative potential of a well-structured content sequence.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

PHOTOGRAPHY

Redesign

with Giliane Cachin

As part of the course given by Giliane Cachin, 1st year students are required to produce an edition by examining the different axes that make it up. The course offers a study of various grid systems and the fundamentals of micro-typography. During the semester, students will look for the best way to structure and arrange the content they have chosen (or which has been assigned to them, depending on the semester's data). Some essential rules to know in terms of printing and bindings will be reviewed at the end of the semester, in order to bring the conceptualized object to life.

Le livre d’artiste - 2022

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Le livre d’artiste - 2022

with Anouk Schneider Agabekov, Chi-Long Trieu

As part of the publishing course led by Anouk Schneider and Chi-Long Trieu, 2nd year Visual Communication students had the opportunity to design an artist's book during the first semester. This book project stands out for its contemporary approach aimed at creating an editorial object that harmoniously integrates form and content in the current context of the editorial landscape. Students were encouraged to exploit their artistic freedom at all levels of creation, whether in terms of format, choice of paper, binding, layout, illustrations, text or typography. As part of this course, the artist's book can take shape through various illustration modalities, such as photography, reproduction, contextualization, drawing, 3D, etc. The emphasis is on the author's artistic vision and the means implemented to realize it. Students take on multiple roles as editor, curator and architect, covering the responsibilities of artistic director, designer, photographer, stylist, illustrator, typographer, editor-in-chief, and editorial secretary. This course highlights contemporary editorial design by exploring the narrative potential of a sequence of controlled content.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

PHOTOGRAPHY

Redesign 2022

with Giliane Cachin

As part of the course given by Giliane Cachin, 1st year students are required to produce an edition by examining the different axes that make it up. The course offers a study of various grid systems and the fundamentals of micro-typography. During the semester, students will look for the best way to structure and arrange the content they have chosen (or which has been assigned to them, depending on the semester's data). Some essential rules to know in terms of printing and bindings will be reviewed at the end of the semester, in order to bring the conceptualized object to life.

Service Design - 2023

GRAPHIC DESIGN

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

PHOTOGRAPHY

Service Design - 2023

with Angelo Benedetto, Vincent Jacquier, Pauline Saglio

During the service design course, the 3rd year of the Graphic Design, Photography and Media & Interaction Design bachelor's degree programs realized multi-media projects. A collaboration of the Visual Communication department with the theme of SDGs (*Sustainable Development Goals). The theme named "For a good cause, make the SDGS a reality" aims to develop a cause close to the heart of the different student groups. Each project is composed of at least two different supports, one primary and one secondary. The projects could therefore take any form the students deemed relevant, be it a website, editions and posters, a video sequence, or even virtual reality.

VR Sequences 2022

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

VR Sequences 2022

with Sami Benhadj

VR Music Video projects created by second-year students in the Bachelor of Media & Interaction Design program.

Service Design - 2022

GRAPHIC DESIGN

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Service Design - 2022

with Angelo Benedetto, Vincent Jacquier, Pauline Saglio

During the Service Design course, the 3rd year of the Graphic Design, Photography and Media & Interaction Design bachelors had to create multi-media projects. A collaboration of the Visual Communication department which had as subject the SDGs (*Sustainable Development Goals). The theme was called "For a good cause, make the SDGs a reality" and its objective was to allow students to develop a cause that is close to their hearts. Each project consists of at least two different media, one primary and one secondary. These projects could take any form that the students deemed relevant, be it a website, editions, posters, a video sequence or virtual reality.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Paris - Else

with Sami Benhadj

Music video made by Elodie Anglade and Soraya Camina during the second year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor.

In the Blink of an Eye

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

In the Blink of an Eye

with Sami Benhadj

Music video made by Jamy Herrmann and Mélanie Fontaine during the second year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor.

Mapping Workshop - Nature morte

Mapping Workshop - Nature morte

with Florian Pittet, Clément Lambelet, Eric Morzier

The first year students in Graphic Design and Media & Interaction Design and Photography worked on mapping projects. The structures, which the different groups created with blocks of polystyrene, allowed them to experiment and create video, 2D and 3D content while playing with notions of space, depth and rhythm.

VR Sequences 2021

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

VR Sequences 2021

with Sami Benhadj

VR Music Video projects created by second-year students in the Bachelor of Media & Interaction Design program.

Maxime - Si On Danse

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Maxime - Si On Danse

with Sami Benhadj

A video made by Rayane Jemaa as part of Sami Benhadj’s video course, second year Bachelor Visual Communication.

Curl - Blaze The Fuck Up

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Curl - Blaze The Fuck Up

with Sami Benhadj

A video made by Sébastien Galera Larios as part of Sami Benhadj’s video course, second year Bachelor Visual Communication.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Triptychs

with Benjamin Muzzin

Selection of animated sequences made during a 3D course directed by Benjamin Muzzin. The students were inspired by a painting and transcribed it into three different scenes.

ZRK x BasilD - Transhuman

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

ZRK x BasilD - Transhuman

with Sami Benhadj

A video made by Julie Ryser and Basil Dénéréaz as part of Sami Benhadj’s video course, second year Bachelor Visual Communication.

Lausanne Lumières - 2020

Lausanne Lumières - 2020

with Angelo Benedetto, Vincent Jacquier, Clément Lambelet, Florian Pittet

The project involved around fifty students divided into groups of two. The students, who graduated from ECAL's Visual Communication Department's Bachelors in Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design and Photography, were supervised by Angelo Benedetto, Vincent Jacquier, Clément Lambelet and Florian Pittet, assisted by Kylan Luginbühl, Amaury Hamon and Julien Gurtner. Out of the 25 sequences produced, 11 were selected to be projected on the tower. https://www.lausannelumieres.ch

Body City

with Angelo Benedetto, Vincent Jacquier, Mitch Paone (Dia Studio), Jean-Vincent Simonet

Mapping of the Body City show Unique creation imagined for Lausanne en Jeux ! - the animation program of the Youth Olympic Games Lausanne 2020 - Body City is a show where arts and urban sports meet in an impressive open-air setting, on the central square of Lausanne. "Bodies in fusion with the city", it is from this strong image that Nicolas Musin conceived and realized Body City, a contemporary show questioning the relationship of the young generations to the city. On an open-air stage representing a city in constant mutation, more than 50 performers aged between 9 and 30 will cross their disciplines, bringing together arts and urban sports such as skateboarding, BMX, rollerblading, scooter, parkour and dance. A poetic and spectacular journey in the heart of Lausanne, where video, sound and light are mixed together! Imagined within the framework of Lausanne en Jeux, this show is above all a work of youth supported by art schools and training centers for urban disciplines established in the agglomeration of Lausanne. Thus, Body City has brought together different actors from Lausanne such as students from ECAL (video design), HEMU (composition of the original music and recording of the soundtrack), dancers from the Ecole-Atelier Rudra Béjart (dance and percussion), JDSEvents (hip hop, breakdance) as well as the riders from La Fièvre and the plotters from X-Trem Move. The mapping of the show was created by the students of the Visual Communication Department (BA Graphic Design, BA Photography, BA Media & Interaction Design) under the direction of Vincent Jacquier, Angelo Benedetto, Jean-Vincent Simonet and Mitch Paone while the editing was done by Amaury Hamon and Clément Lambelet.

PARACOSM - Quantum

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

PARACOSM - Quantum

with Sami Benhadj

A video made by Kylan Luginbühl as part of Sami Benhadj’s video course, second year Bachelor Visual Communication. Music by PARACOSM (Stéphane McDouglas).

Apollo Noir - Chaos ID

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Apollo Noir - Chaos ID

with Sami Benhadj

A video made by Paul Lëon and Aurélien Pellegrini as part of Sami Benhadj’s video course, second year Bachelor Visual Communication.

Apollo Noir - Chaos ID

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Apollo Noir - Chaos ID

with Sami Benhadj

A video made by Léonard Guyot, Evan Kelly and Yaël Sidler as part of Sami Benhadj's video course, second year Bachelor Visual Communication.

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Playground

with Damian Fopp

For this project, the students were asked to design a playground, by developing a coherent family of play elements or structures for a specific site existing in the Lausanne region. The students had to research, identify, select, analyze and document a site so that it would blend harmoniously into the local urban environment.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Moonshine

with Sami Benhadj

VR project made during a video course with Sami Benhadj.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Quantum

with Sami Benhadj

Quantum is a music VR journey through the eye of a human body that let the spectator travel between differents surreal environements

Down the Rabbit Hole

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Down the Rabbit Hole

with Sami Benhadj

Down The Rabbit Hole invites the viewer into a fictional world. As the spectator advances throughout the experience, the world becomes more and more imaginary and unreal.

Galerie des Bustes

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Galerie des Bustes

with Adrien Rovero

The Festival Images is a free event focused on contemporary images. The specificity of the Festival Images is to present monumental photography in the open air, while presenting projects around the image in a broader sense indoors. For the 2018 edition, ECAL was for the fourth time associated with the festival by pursuing the search for specific devices for outdoor image exhibitions. It is a question of imagining a photo booth. A space to take pictures of yourself alone or with others. The initiation, the fund, the global process will have to take the form of a real experience and interactivity. It is necessary to invent a device that is close to the installation, that is playful and that does not only provide a technical solution to the shooting. For the festival, this installation represents a real expectation of the audience as well as an income since each image costs 5.- Chf.

MASQUES - L’Impératrice

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

MASQUES - L’Impératrice

with Sami Benhadj

A music video realised by Nathan Vogel during a second year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor for the music “MASQUES” by the group L’Impératrice.

Noïzette - FAIRE [Official Music Video]

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Noïzette - FAIRE [Official Music Video]

with Sami Benhadj

A music video realised by Luca Sassoli de Bianchi and Sébastien Matos during a second year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor for the music “Noïzette” by the group FAIRE.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Room

with Pauline Saglio

Semester project that were produced during a course given by Pauline Saglio to first year Bachelor Media & Interaction Design, Graphic Design and Photography students.

Journey to the Block

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Journey to the Block

with Pauline Saglio

Semester project that was produced during a course given by Pauline Saglio to first year students in Bachelor Media & Interaction Design, Graphic Design and Photography.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Existence

with Pauline Saglio

Semester project that were produced during a course given by Pauline Saglio to first-year students in Bachelor Media & Interaction Design, Graphic Design and Photography.

LZR - Stay a Little Closer

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

LZR - Stay a Little Closer

with Sami Benhadj

A music video realised by Pierry Jaquillard and Eugène Kaïmanovitch during the second year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor for the music “Close to me” by LZR (Unofficial video).

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Clone

with Pauline Saglio

A video realised by Alice Nimier during the first year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Gestalt

with Pauline Saglio

A video realised by Sébastien Matos during the first year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor.

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Mindfulness

with Pauline Saglio

A video realised by Luca Sassoli de Bianchi during the first year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor. This video is an abstract invitation to dive in the state of mindfulness and face the struggle in order to achieve it

More Rules for Modern Life

FINE ARTS

More Rules for Modern Life

with Christophe Guberan, Stéphane Kropf

A selection of pieces by ECAL Bachelor Industrial Design and Bachelor Fine Arts students under the guidance of Christophe Guberan and Stéphane Kropf. Exhibition curated by John M Armleder.

Los Angeles 2016

FINE ARTS

Los Angeles 2016

by Virginia Ariu, Catarina Bota Leal, Charlotte Bourgeois, Loucia Carlier, Gabriele Garavaglia, Sarah Abigail Janjic, Vinzenz Meyner, Matteo Pomati, Ilaria Vinci, Shirin Yousefi

Summer University 2016, Los Angeles Stephanie Moisdon, Bei Schlingelhoff, Will Benedict, Emanuele Marcuccio. Studio visits, galleries and institutions: Oscar Tuazon. Lari Pittman, Silke Otto Knapp, Piero Golia studio monument with Andrew Berardini, Paul Pascal Theriault, Alex Hubbard, Nikolas Gambaroff, David Lennard, Gary Leonard, Chris Kraus, Puppies Puppies, CalArts with Darcy Huebler and Thomas Lawson, 356 Mission rd with Alexandra Tuttle, Tom of Finland Foundation, LACMA, MOCA, Regen Project, Maccarone, Sprüth Magers, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel.

Summer Time City Lights - Alexander Van Pelt

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

Summer Time City Lights - Alexander Van Pelt

with Sami Benhadj

A music video realised by Elise Migraine and Anna Kasareva during a second year video course in Visual Communication Bachelor for the music “Summer Time City Lights” by Alexander Van Pelt.

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