Fiona
Valais

Projects

Fiona Valais – If, then…

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Fiona Valais – If, then…

by Fiona Valais

Escapism is an ever more widespread notion nowadays, manifesting itself through evasive acts using various mediums to flee an often heavy and insurmountable reality. This project immerses the reader into a generative and surreal world, with Tomie as the only point of reference. Portraits, settings and still lifes accompanied by captions are generated to create a narrative and an absurd universe to which readers attach their own meaning. Through the use of scripts, the publications are generated at random allowing each object and each story to be unique.

Editorial Design S3 2020

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Editorial Design S3 2020

with Diego Bontognali

Encyclopedia of Demons

GRAPHIC DESIGN

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.

Type specimen

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Type specimen

with Robert Huber

Type design displayed on a specimen.

Type specimen

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Type specimen

with Aurèle Sack

Type design displayed on a specimen.

Reinterpret Recompose Refer

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Reinterpret Recompose Refer

with Samuel Bregnard

Choose a paperback book on political engagement from a library or bookstore and from this existing book, propose 2 expanded versions of it (adding other texts, images, graphics, etc.). One version must be recomposed without the help of a computer.

Communication of an architecture

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Communication of an architecture

with Nicole Udry

Create a communication of a chosen building (a school, a religious space, an office building, a theater, etc.). Second year course of graphic design in context, centered on image creation and editorial design.

Amen Break

GRAPHIC DESIGN

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.

Bichromix

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Bichromix

with Guy Meldem

Realization of a pamphlet on a subject of your choice, with the following constraints: - use of 2 colours only, in 2 passages, with 2 different printing techniques - 16 pages - 3 copies

Editorial design S1 2019

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Editorial design S1 2019

with Harry Bloch

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

Lost Records

GRAPHIC DESIGN

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.