Résultats pour “Adoptable character art (CA113) (139) Bylenimal” (1157)
ECAL Resident at La Becque, spring semester 2022
Irene Vlachou, born in 1981, is based in Athens, Greece. She gained her Masters in type design at the University of Reading in 2004. She subsequently started to collaborate with international type foundries and corporations, working as a type designer and as a Greek type consultant. In 2012, she released Colvert Greek with typographies.fr. From 2013 to 2019, she was a senior designer and variable font expert at Type-Together. She has been participating since 2017 in the Google Summer of Code on behalf of the Greek Open Source Community (GFOSS), as a mentor on the expansion of Greek libre fonts. She is currently working full time freelancing Greek and variable font for retail and OEM/System fonts. In 2017, in collaboration with Laurenz Brunner, she designed the Greek counterpart of the Documenta14 exhibition’s identity font, Bradford Greek. She launched FauxFoundry (2019), together with Laurence Penney, a webfont service using variable font technology that provides automatic fallback fonts when the main font lacks characters. She is a guest lecturer for the MA in Type Design and the BA in Graphic Design at ECAL.
ECAL Resident at La Becque, spring semester 2021
Wataru Kumano is a Japanese product designer. After studying at Aalto University (FI), Kumano worked for Jasper Morrison’s Tokyo-based studio. He has now founded his own design office « kumano ». In 2021, he was nominated Associate Professor at Musashino Art University. His simple and functional designs are inspired by Finnish woodworking techniques as well as traditional Japanese craftsmanship. Kumano will be a guest lecturer in the Bachelor Industrial Design and Master Product Design throughout the spring semester 2021. For his residency project, he will examine the Swiss and Japanese artisanal woodwork techniques to conceptualise new shapes, at the intersection of nature, tradition and daily convenience.
Directeur artistique
NICOLAS POILLOT (B. 1978) IS A FREELANCE ART DIRECTOR AND CREATIVE CONSULTANT.
AFTER WORKING FOR 8 YEARS IN ADVERTISING AGENCIES AS AN ART DIRECTOR, FOR THE HAVAS GROUP, HE JOINED VICE MAGAZINE (FRANCE) IN 2010 AS THE PHOTO EDITOR.
IN 2012, NICOLAS CO-FOUNDED ÉTUDES, A MULTIDISCIPLINARY FASHION LABEL, PUBLISHING HOUSE, AND CREATIVE AGENCY WHERE HE OVERSAW THE BRAND'S VISUAL CONTENT, AS WELL AS THE PUBLISHING HOUSE.
AS MUCH AS HE LOVES SUPERVISING PHOTO SHOOTS AND TAKING A STEP BACK BEHIND THE CAMERA, NICOLAS IS ALSO A KEEN PHOTOGRAPHER. HIS AESTHETIC OSCILLATES BETWEEN DOCUMENTARY AND FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY, STAYING IN LINE WITH HIS ART DIRECTION PRACTICE.
ECAL resident at La Becque - Spring semester 2023
As a partners at Perron–Roettinger, designer Brian Roettinger has worked on creative projects with some of the world’s biggest brands and musicians. Roettinger’s work is an uncanny union of punk ideology with a conceptually driven mode of modernist design. He frequently employs architectural strategies such as repetition and structure, while subverting this sense of order by manipulating the production process in unexpected or “wrong” ways (think pulling the sheet out of the printer before it is done). He continues to work with a wide variety of artists and brands taking an holistic approach to the design process from idea to completion. His work is diverse spanning album packaging, publications, branding, campaigns, and product design. He has been nominated for numerous awards included three Art Direction Grammy’s for album packaging.
Vincent Schwenk is a 3D-Artist who has expanded his visual skills into multidisciplinary fields. After graduating from BFA in Graphic Design from FH Augsburg he started his freelance career in art & design. He worked across many fields, from designing album covers, to corporate branding, conference identities and all forms of digital art.
Strategic Project Manager
Born in Finland in 1991, is a writer and art critic based in Paris. Her writings have appeared in numerous prestigious publications such as Art Forum, Los Angeles Review of Books, X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, and C Magazine. Her essays on theoretical criticism, literature and visual culture have also appeared in the catalogs and books of Inventory Press, American Art Catalogues, and Semiotext(e). Tarasoff's area of research focuses on the cultural milieu of Los Angeles in the 1980s, and was presented at the Hammer Museum Biennial in 2020, a version; a book entitled “Fantasyworld” containing his writings is currently in development. Tarasoff is also the editor of poet Bob Flanagan's first anthology “Fun To Be Dead: The Poems of Bob Flanagan”, published by Kristina Kite Gallery and Pep Talk.
Claire FitzGerald is an Anglo-Swiss art historian and curator. Her PhD thesis (University of Warwick, 2012-16) addressed the reinsertion, within art history, of artistic practices by women artists of the Birmingham School of Arts & Crafts. Since entering the museum field in 2016, she has notably worked as a curator for the Government Art Collection (GAC) in London (2018-21). In 2023, she joined the jury for the City of Geneva’s Berthoud, Lissingol-Chevalier and Galland bursaries. She was nominated head curator of the Ariana Museum, Geneva, in March 2024.