GRAPHIC DESIGN

Eliott Mouissat – Face Z

by Eliott Mouissat

Face Z is a publication dedicated to the festival of the same name, which is committed to musical discovery and showcasing emerging artists. Drawing on archives, interviews, and testimonials, this publication seeks to capture the festival's identity and the values that underpin it: horizontality, exchange, and openness to the diversity of musical practices. The project also relies on a handmade production process using an old Riso printer, whose technical limitations defined the layout. Conceived as an evolving archive, this publication preserves a record of the history, memories, and relationships that have shaped Face Z.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Image Creation BA3 – S1 25–26

with Guy Meldem

Third-year students had to produce an edition over half a semester, discovering as their subject an event that appeared in the newspaper on the date of the first lesson.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Editorial Design BA3 – S1 25–26

with Jonathan Hares

Third-year students had to produce an edition over half a semester, discovering as their subject an event that appeared in the newspaper on the date of the first lesson.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Visual Identity BA3 – S1 25–26

with Gilles Gavillet

Through the lens of visual identity, this project explores issues related to graphic language and art direction. Each stage of the project examines a different aspect of visual identity development: research, concept, visual language, design, and communication.

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Genius Loci - Spirit of the place – 2025 #2

with Nicole Udry

Genius Loci, or the spirit of the place, refers to the unique identity or essence of a location. In architecture, this principle suggests that the specific characteristics of a place should be reflected and extended in a design. In the case of the second-year graphic design students, they have applied this principle to communication projects focused on promoting or extending the identity of a particular place through design. Their work likely explores how to visually capture and communicate the essence of a space, using graphic design elements that resonate with the architectural features or history of the place.

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Information Design – 2025

with Angelo Benedetto

During the information design course the students of the second year have been asked to design a cartographic poster based on a film in the road movie genre, in a direct or abstract representation.

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Type Design BA2 S2 2024 - 2025

with Aurèle Sack

The second-year students had to vectorize a typeface they had drawn last semester.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

PHOTOGRAPHY

Magazine - 24/25

with Anouk Schneider Agabekov, Emmanuel Crivelli

As part of the magazine course led by Anouk Schneider and Emmanuel Crivelli, second-year Visual Communication students had the opportunity to design a magazine during the second semester. Students were encouraged to fully embrace their artistic freedom at every level of creation, whether in terms of format, paper choice, binding, layout, illustration, text, or typography. In this course, the magazine can take shape through various forms of illustration, such as photography, reproduction, contextualization, drawing, 3D, and more. The focus is placed on the author’s artistic vision and the means used to bring it to life. Students take on multiple roles as editor, curator, and architect, assuming the responsibilities of art 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 carefully crafted content sequence.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Le livre d’artiste - 24/25

with Anouk Schneider Agabekov, Nicolas Polli

As part of the editorial design course led by Anouk Schneider and Nicolas Polli, second-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, aiming to create an editorial object that harmoniously integrates form and content within today’s publishing landscape. Students were encouraged to fully embrace their artistic freedom at every stage of the creative process—whether in terms of format, paper choice, binding, layout, illustrations, text, or typography. Within this course, the artist’s book can take shape through various modes of illustration, such as photography, reproduction, contextualization, drawing, 3D, and more. The emphasis is placed on the author’s artistic vision and the means implemented to bring it to life. Students take on multiple roles as editor, curator, and architect, thereby covering the responsibilities of art director, designer, photographer, stylist, illustrator, typographer, editor-in-chief, and copy editor. This course highlights contemporary editorial design by exploring the narrative potential of a carefully constructed content sequence.

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Type Design BA2 S1 2024 - 2025

with Aurèle Sack

The second-year students had to develop the lower-case letters of two display fonts by hand.

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Editorial Design S3 2024 - 2025

with Diego Bontognali

This editorial project, "1 dépêche, 10 secondes, 100 pages", is divided into three formats: the book, the poster, and the animation. The students are tasked with creating content and defining an editorial line based on a current news dispatch or brief.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Collector – 2024

with Adeline Mollard

During the visual identity course with Adeline Mollard, the students had to develop an identity project promoting a collection chosen by them. Each project includes the design of a catalogue contextualising and presenting the collection, together with the design of a poster.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Type Specimen – 2024 #2

with Robert Huber

Type design research and developmen displayed on a specimen.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Generated memories

with Guy Meldem

During the Image Creation course with Guy Meldem, students explored the benefits of AI. Feeding the machine with their own illustrative style, they were able to generate a certain quantity of images, enabling them to produce a graphic novel, a collection of images or other types of illustrated editorial work.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN

PHOTOGRAPHY

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.

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Workshop Hélas Studio – 2024

with Eilean Friis-Lund, Alice Vodoz

Mise en scène An exercise centered around the poster format with a typographic approach. The goal is to convey the atmosphere of a film through lettering by graphically staging the text.

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Editorial Design – S1 2023

with Harry Bloch

During the editorial design course with Harry Bloch, the 1st year students developed, during the fall semester, an edition around a personal survey.

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Visual Identity – 2024

with Adeline Mollard

During the visual identity course, the 1st year Graphic Design bachelors had to realize a communication project around a district where they live.

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Image creation – 2023 #2

with Guy Meldem

During the Image Creation course with Guy Meldem, the students had to develop a two-color teaching manual, with the aim of teaching a particular skill. Each project takes the form of a 16-page booklet with two different types of printing.