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ECAL Milano 2019: Sound & Vision,09–14.04.2019,Spazio Orso 16, Milano On the occasion of the “Sound & Vision” exhibition, ECAL and the design research centre EPFL+ECAL Lab awaken your senses through a range of immersive experiences, from surprising ringing bells to audiovisual music recordings. ECAL showcases “Ring my Bell”, an offbeat collection of interactive doorbells, while the EPFL+ECAL Lab unleashes the potential of Virtual Reality with “Hands on Vision”. Ring my Bell www.ecal-ringmybell.ch HD Images Brochure with explanations Video on vimeo DONG! TRRRRRR! Or maybe even GLING! Or BLING!, MHHHH! And sometimes even BRAOUM! ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne presents an offbeat collection of interactive doorbells developed by first-year Bachelor Industrial Design students, under the joint guidance of Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard, Head of Bachelor Industrial Design, and Mathieu Rivier, a Bachelor Media & Interaction Design graduate. This project is part of the “Sound & Vision” exhibition, shown for the first time, in collaboration with EPFL+ECAL Lab, at the 2019 Milan International Furniture Fair. Sound and object design are two notions that industrial designers rarely have the opportunity to combine. Nevertheless, most everyday objects potentially produce sounds. Just pull up a chair, open or close a drawer or even flip a switch and you will create sound. What do all these actions have in common? Movement, friction and interaction which draw on the basic laws of physics to create tones. With this in mind, the students have offered a fresh and original take on an everyday object, one that is unremarkable yet never silent—the doorbell. They have designed a range of mechanical and electrical doorbells that offer a unique, sometimes even thunderous, sound experience. Well-known chimes step aside and are replaced by a curious metallophone triggered by a punch card reminiscent of traditional mechanical music boxes. The former door knocker is now amplified by a vibrant dong! The familiar buzzer has been replaced by an energetic drum roll. The everyday doorbell has been replaced by a curious device that makes a sound like thunder. At last, where you might expect a ding-dong, there is now a stertorous mooing mhhhh! These are just some of the contraptions displayed. Come in and ring! Hands on Vision In the “Sound & Vision” exhibition, the EPFL+ECAL Lab takes you to others worlds with “Hands on Vision”. The immersion turns into a sensory, social and nomadic experience. The design research shapes a new future for immersion and mobility. Six installations demonstrate how objects bring new life to virtual content, – in the company of celebrities such as singer, Nina Simone, and designer, Roger Tallon. For “Hands on Vision, information directly from the EPFL+ECAL Lab: geraldine.morand@epfl.ch Press preview: Monday 8 April, 4 pm - 6 pm Opening hours: Tuesday 9 April – Saturday 13 April, 11 am – 8 pm Sunday 14 April, 11 am – 4 pm Spazio Orso 16 Via dell Orso 16 20121 Milano www.ecal.ch www.epfl-ecal-lab.ch
Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship,23.03–03.05.2019,National Design Centre, Singapore On the initiative of the Embassy of Switzerland in Singapore, supported by the Design Singapore Council, the National Design Centre (NDC) hosts an exhibition of a selection of objects created by international students graduated from the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. The exhibition is organised around three themes –Fine Tableware, Swiss Craftsmanship and Fashion Accessories– and it highlights some of the numerous collaborations undertaken with brands from the field of luxury and craftsmanship. Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship March 23 — May 3, 2019 Open daily, 9.00am — 9.00pm National Design Centre Design Gallery 1, Level 1 111 Middle Road Singapore 188969 www.designsingapore.org
Exhibition at National Design Centre, Singapore,23.03.2019 On the initiative of the Embassy of Switzerland in Singapore, supported by the Design Singapore Council, the National Design Centre (NDC) hosts an exhibition of a selection of objects created by international students graduated from the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. The exhibition is organised around three themes –Fine Tableware, Swiss Craftsmanship and Fashion Accessories– and it highlights some of the numerous collaborations undertaken with brands from the field of luxury and craftsmanship. Design for Luxury & CraftsmanshipMarch 23 — May 3, 2019 Open daily, 9.00am — 9.00pm National Design CentreDesign Gallery 1, Level 1 111 Middle Road Singapore 188969 www.designsingapore.org
ECAL Conference: Swiss Typefaces,14.02.2019,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL ECAL Conference: Swiss Typefaces – Type Designers, London & Vevey Conférences ECAL (February 2019) Swiss Typefaces Type Designers, London & Vevey www.swisstypefaces.com Thursday 14 February 6pm IKEA Auditorium, ECAL Maxime Plescia-Buchi and Emmanuel Rey are type design specialists known for their innovative views, creative approach and the high quality of their typefaces. Having studied graphic design at ECAL, they run Swiss Typefaces together, alongside their other creative ventures. Their retail fonts are available on their online-shop and used widely across the world by a large variety of clients. Parallel to this practice, they gained some notoriety as a great force in the type design world when creating some exclusive typefaces for publications and companies like Vogue, Esquire, Mugler, SKY TV, the City of Stockholm and more recently the Dubai metro, eBay and Pro Helvetia among many others. ECAL 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens Tél. : +41 (0)21 316 99 33
Workshop Mode Suisse lt is with great pleasure that we are presenting a selection of works by students of the Bachelor s degree courses in Photography and Graphic Design, curated by photographer Peter Puklus for Mode Suisse Edition 15. The workshop initiated by Noir Associates and carried out in November 2018, aim to produce the current Mode Suisse campaign through a interdisciplinary business-oriented youth promotion collaboration. The outcome of this workshop was so convincing that the means of communication for both Mode Suisse editions in 2019 will be implemented in cooperation with the ECAL students, beginning with work from Raphaèle Rey, Hugo Plagnard and Théo Barraud. The beginning of this fledgling collaboration is marked by the students smart approach to meeting the needs of MADE VISIBLE, whose partnership with Mode Suisse is a way of making creativity visible in unexpected ways. Work has already started on the collaboration highlights to be shown at the end of summer 2019, at Mode Suisse Edition 16. Main partners: Engagement Migros, The Zurich Silk Association ZSIG, the Hulda and Gustav Zumsteg Foundation and The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia lt is with great pleasure that we are presenting a selection of works by students of the Bachelor s degree courses in Photography and Graphic Design, curated by photographer Peter Puklus for Mode Suisse Edition 15. The workshop initiated by Noir Associates and carried out in November 2018, aim to produce the current Mode Suisse campaign through a interdisciplinary business-oriented youth promotion collaboration. The outcome of this workshop was so convincing that the means of communication for both Mode Suisse editions in 2019 will be implemented in cooperation with the ECAL students, beginning with work from Raphaèle Rey, Hugo Plagnard and Théo Barraud.The beginning of this fledgling collaboration is marked by the students smart approach to meeting the needs of MADE VISIBLE, whose partnership with Mode Suisse is a way of making creativity visible in unexpected ways. Work has already started on the collaboration highlights to be shown at the end of summer 2019, at Mode Suisse Edition 16. Main partners: Engagement Migros, The Zurich Silk Association ZSIG, the Hulda and Gustav Zumsteg Foundation and The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
ECAL MADE The first year students of the Master Product Design faced the stakes of the job of designer, from idea to manufacture and sale. The products created, everyday objects made in Switzerland with the help of local craftsmen, are the happy result. The first year students of the Master Product Design faced the stakes of the job of designer, from idea to manufacture and sale. The products created, everyday objects made in Switzerland with the help of local craftsmen, are the happy result.
ECAL Made at Maison & Objet, Paris,18–22.01.2019,Maison & Objet, Paris From 18 to 22 January 2019 at Maison et Objet in Paris, MA Product Design students present "ECAL Made". HD IMAGES The first year students of the Master Product Design faced the stakes of the job of designer, from idea to manufacture and sale. The products created, everyday objects made in Switzerland with the help of local craftsmen, are the happy result. From Friday to Monday: 9.30 am to 7 pm Tuesday: 9.30 am to 6 pm Parc des expositions de Paris-Nord Villepinte Hall 2 — Stand A2 ZAC Paris Nord 2 93420 Villepinte, France www.maison-objet.com
ECAL book 2018 To be a filmmaker in 2018 is to be a bit of a spiritualist. The rarefaction of the film object, humble, palpable, which weighs in the hand, is a fact. Its historical place of diffusion, the theatre, is also disappearing in Europe. Even DVDs and USB keys are relics of yesterday s world. Modern computers don t care about the ports where these objects could drop anchor. There is hardly any material trace of the cinematographic creation anymore. Some data stored on a cloud on the other side of the world, wind in a cloud. The filmmaker s job is therefore to produce the invisible for nomadic souls, not to say wandering souls, in a bus in Tokyo or a café in Denver. It is to speak to the spirits. There is no nostalgia in this observation of the times, just the desire to adapt to the Zeitgeist. At ECAL, we love objects. Like Georges Perec, who was "all about the language that surrounds things, about what s underneath, about everything that feeds them, about everything that s injected into them. Because it is a language, the cinema is matter. It agglomerates what we are, we the creators, we the spectators, in a communion of thought. To testify to this encounter, an object was needed. And the most beautiful of all: a book. To say what nourishes us, but also what we give to eat. The encounters, the essays, the filming, the trips, the debates that make up the living and vibrant body of our school. The one that asks the only question that matters: for whom are we doing what? May this book be the Ouija board that allows us to communicate with the spirits, here and elsewhere, today and tomorrow. Many thanks to Rachel Noël, coordinator of the ECAL s Cinema Department, initiator and curator of this first volume. And to all the contributors. Lionel Baier / Head of the Film Department
Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship,07.12.2018–06.01.2019,Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Gallery Mun, Eulji-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul On the initiative of the Swiss Embassy in South Korea and Dongdaemun Design Plaza, the MUN Gallery, one of the cultural spaces of the Neofuturist complex designed by architect Zaha Hadid, hosts a selection of objects created by international graduate students from the Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship of ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. With three topics (Fine Tableware, Swiss Craftsmanship and Fashion Accessories), this exhibition highlights some of the many collaborations with luxury & crafts brands. In addition to the prototypes presented, a selection of models and sketches illustrates the students creative process. Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship From 7 December to 6 January 6 2019 Opening on Thursday 6 December at 5pm Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) Gallery Mun, Eulji-ro, Jung-gu Seoul - South Korea
Workshop Renate Buser For a week, the Swiss artist Renate Buser led a workshop with students in first year Bachelor Photography. The ECAL building, a former factory converted into an art school in 2006 by architect Bernhard Tschumi, was the starting point for their photographic explorations. The rules of the game: two black and white films per student and darkroom prints that helped define the initial framework. By taking advantage of the constraints, the varied results illustrate the creativity of the students who experiment with options in shooting, drawing and installation. For a week, the Swiss artist Renate Buser led a workshop with students in first year Bachelor Photography. The ECAL building, a former factory converted into an art school in 2006 by architect Bernhard Tschumi, was the starting point for their photographic explorations. The rules of the game: two black and white films per student and darkroom prints that helped define the initial framework. By taking advantage of the constraints, the varied results illustrate the creativity of the students who experiment with options in shooting, drawing and installation.
Challenge Debiopharm-Inartis 2018 The Debiopharm-Inartis 2018 Challenge gave a prize of 25,000 francs to a Vaud team, made up of students from the IMD business school, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and ECAL (Georg Foster, Garance Krengel - MAS in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship). With 80,000 francs, this third contest of ideas and projects was a great success with 100 participating teams The first prize for the 3rd Challenge for Patient Quality of Life was the "Self-up" project, an ergonomic cushion that helps the elderly or people with reduced mobility to get up from a chair. https://www.debiopharm.com/debiopharm-group/press-releases/grand-succes-du-3e-challenge-pour-la-qualite-de-vie-des-patients/
Olivia Wünsche – Anima Mundi Anima Mundi is a transmedia platform designed to revive some of the most fundamental philosophical virtues. The project carries out both theoretical and visual research about the «Deep Ecology» movement, which promotes the development of a physical, intellectual and, above all, emotional bond with nature. Different facets of the same content evolve across three mediums:the video-collage unveils an immersive and sensory experience while the book offers a personal study of conceptual matter. Both the book and video are published on a website. Anima Mundiis a transmedia platform designed to revive some of the most fundamental philosophical virtues.The project carries out both theoretical and visual research about the «Deep Ecology» movement, which promotes the development of a physical, intellectual and, above all, emotional bond with nature. Different facets of the same content evolve across three mediums:the video-collage unveils an immersive and sensory experience while the book offers a personal study of conceptual matter. Both the book and video are published on a website.
Yatoni Roy Cantu – La Source In the middle of the darkness of a chalet of a past century, between the cracks and the dirt of an old mirror, somebody appears. It is Lisbeth. She moves forward in her dressing gown with precaution, trying not to wake Anne who is still sleeping. In front of her reflection, she discovers her shoulder. The skin is cracked, darkened and in blood. The disease is back. Fiction / 17 min Synopsis In the middle of the darkness of a chalet of a past century, between the cracks and the dirt of an old mirror, somebody appears. It is Lisbeth. She moves forward in her dressing gown with precaution, trying not to wake Anne who is still sleeping. In front of her reflection, she discovers her shoulder. The skin is cracked, darkened and in blood. The disease is back. Comment Attracted by genre cinema, inhabited by the need to tell this story, Yatoni Roy Cantu knew, during the writing process, how to show tenacity and great capacities of rebound to make us share his singular universe, made of mysticism, strangeness and sensuality. Olivier Loustau / Actor, screenwriter, director
Garage At the edge of a rail traffic, in an abandoned garage four people of different backgrounds live in a perfect harmony. Fiction / 20 min Synopsis Milda is a young lituanian dancer. She lives in a garage with three roommates. Even though they all have different backgrounds, it seems like they really found each other well and live in a perfect harmony. One night, some freaking noises wake them up : constructions works have started on the railway, just next to them. Those sounds announce the very near demolition of their home. From then, Milda, Alan, Nadine and Selena try to forget that their life togeter is about to end. Comment The film Garage, by Lorraine, and edited by Brandon Beytrison, seems to me to be emblematic of what the journey of an edit is. The first cut was far from the final film... Out of fear of boring the spectator, of assuming her scenario, Lorraine had artificially stretched the story and, in doing so, killed the very idea of her film! Dryness of the scenes, imbalance between the characters, mechanical rhythm, etc. Lorraine couldn t see her dailies anymore and Brandon was limited to pacing, for lack of direction. So we went back to the dailies to find Lorraine s original intentions, and they were there! It was a matter of finding the heart of the scenes, of redeploying them around the details that Lorraine had so meticulously put in place during the shooting and of giving back its soul to the film. Brandon then became a real force of proposal! The rest is up to them, and from the second cut, the film was there, obvious, in place. From that moment on, their collaboration was able to work fully to achieve the film you are about to see! Fabrice Rouaud / Editor
Summer University Istanbul For their graduation trip, the 3rd year students went to Istanbul. Accompanied by Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard and Chris Kabel and collaborating with students from Bilgi University, they had to create souvenirs of the city. Some were able to collaborate directly with local craftspeople. The projects were exhibited at the Istanbul Design Biennial at the end of this trip and had the chance to see their ECAL x Mac Guffin project also exhibited there at that time.
Summer University Tehran Some thoughts and starting points for an art event about Ta ârof to be held at Bon Gah Thinking the interrelations within the art world, taking as a starting point an Iranian artist run space inviting a visiting Swiss art school wishing to understand (or underscore…) if and how Ta ârof may be of any help to try to build a temporary community, and make art. Drawing on some recent UN General Assembly speeches, that Trick or Treat is the ultimate geopolitical strategy tool, where USA is working towards a « more just and peaceful future ». Assuming that Switzerland is a neutral country and thereafter represents consular and diplomatic interests of USA in Iran. Taking in consideration that the art community doesn t differ from society in general: it is just a reductio ad absurdum. Artists tend to recognize each other globally, assuming some kind of moral superiority towards the rest of society, or at least pretending to understand the complex tissues of relationships and power relations that makes (and destroys) a community. But fundamentally there is almost no solidarity within the artists. Ta ârof continually questions hierarchy, be it the artist towards other artists, the artist towards the spectator and so on. Ta ârof plays the game of an ideal society, like art, where the artist is benevolent and humble towards the spectator. Ta ârof shows that every word always tends to have a hidden desire. Some thoughts and starting points for an art event about Ta ârof to be held at Bon GahThinking the interrelations within the art world, taking as a starting point an Iranian artist run space inviting a visiting Swiss art school wishing to understand (or underscore…) if and how Ta ârof may be of any help to try to build a temporary community, and make art.Drawing on some recent UN General Assembly speeches, that Trick or Treat is the ultimate geopolitical strategy tool, where USA is working towards a « more just and peaceful future ».Assuming that Switzerland is a neutral country and thereafter represents consular and diplomatic interests of USA in Iran.Taking in consideration that the art community doesn t differ from society in general: it is just a reductio ad absurdum. Artists tend to recognize each other globally, assuming some kind of moral superiority towards the rest of society, or at least pretending to understand the complex tissues of relationships and power relations that makes (and destroys) a community. But fundamentally there is almost no solidarity within the artists.Ta ârof continually questions hierarchy, be it the artist towards other artists, the artist towards the spectator and so on.Ta ârof plays the game of an ideal society, like art, where the artist is benevolent and humble towards the spectator.Ta ârof shows that every word always tends to have a hidden desire.
Carole Arbenz – Árbenz Arbenz « Árbenz Arbenz is a family history involving politics, propaganda and repression during a turbulent period of Guatemalan history. The project tells the story of Jacobo Árbenz, the son of a Swiss immigrant who was elected as the president of Guatemala in 1951, and was wronged and overthrown by the United Fruit Company, the US Government and the CIA. I wanted to tell this story to call attention to a period of Guatemalan history, which is often ignored. U.S. interference, civil war, oppression and corruption are some of the reasons Guatemala is one of the poorest countries in Central America and still struggles to evolve. »
ECAL finaliECAL finalist at the Woolmark Performance Challenge Martin Stricker (BA Industrial Design student) was part of the ten international finalists of the Woolmark Performance Challenge The Woolmark Company and leading sports brand adidashas launched a new annual competition for tertiary students aimed at pushing the limits of product innovation and helping to kick-start the career of the eventual winner. In its first year the award attracted 510studentregistrations from 58 universities from across Europe and NorthAmerica. After travelling to London in September for two days oftraining workshops with The Woolmark Company and partners, the 10 finalists went to Denver, Colorado, to present their entries to an executive judging panel at Outdoor Retailer. https://www.woolmarkchallenge.com/
Archigraphiæ. Rationalist Lettering and Architecture in Fascist Rome Letterforms carry messages – in public space, they are powerful propaganda tools. Witness to this fact are the inscriptions placed on display by Emperors to showcase their power across the Roman Empire. During a Summer School at the Swiss Institute in Rome, ECAL MA in Type Design and ISIA Urbino students explored a more recent avatar of this communication tool. During a Summer School at the Swiss Institute in Rome, ECAL MA in Type Design and ISIA Urbino students explored a more recent avatar of this communication tool. During the fascist era in Italy (1922–1943), the rise to power of Benito Mussolini made his revolutionary political party a ruling institution, which had, as its ambition, the creation of an empire modelled on ancient Rome. The visual aesthetic of the Caesars was captured and used by the fascists to position themselves as successors to a glorious tradition. Imagery and photography also played a part in this endeavour, as did architecture and inscription letters. The buildings and monuments of the 1930s frequently display mottos and texts carved in white marble. Latin and Italian were used, and full capitals, in the ancient Roman tradition. While the design of these letters is based on Ancient models, their shapes are definitely modern; sans serif geometric letterforms. In the first instance, Archigraphiæ sought to collect images of inscriptions on monuments, public buildings, graveyards, street plaques in Rome. Then some of those original designs were digitised to reveal their construction, and the ways in which small elements can be capable of turning a neutral geometrical font into a very Italian-style fascist symbol. By mapping this conspicuous feature of fascist propaganda, the Summer School aimed to deconstruct the mechanisms used to promote political ambitions, and to compare this font with other modernist sans serifs of the time. An analysis of the storytelling behind the use of the letterforms allowed students to develop critical thinking about current (political, commercial, militant) uses of type and lettering.Main applicantsECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (project leader) (project leader) Jonathan Pierini (project leader)Research teamLecturers and researchers Chiara Barbieri Gianluca Camillini Pippo Ciorra Emilio Gentile Alessandra Tarquini Paul Shaw Carlo Vinti Assistants StudentsECAL MA Type Design , , , , , , , ECAL MA Photographie ISIA Urbino MA in Communication, Design and Publishing Gianluca Ciancaglini, Alberto Malossi, David Mozzetta, Giuseppe RomagnoPeriodseptember 2018Supported byECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne ISIA Urbino Istituto Svizzero di RomaDisseminationSummer school Archigraphiæ. Rationalist Lettering and Architecture in Fascist Rome (1921–1943): a Fieldwork, Rome, Istituto Svizzero, September 2–9, 2018. Talks Emilio Gentile, Politica di massa in regime totalitario, Rome, Istituto Svizzero, September 3, 2018. Chiara Barbieri, Graphic design and designers under Fascism: education, practice and exhibitions, Rome, Istituto Svizzero, September 3, 2018. Carlo Vinti, Modernist and traditionalist typography in Fascist Italy, Rome, Istituto Svizzero, September 4, 2018. Pippo Ciorra, Gli architetti di Zevi. Storia e controstoria dell architettura italiana 1944–2000, Rome, MAXXI, September 4, 2018. Exhibition Archigraphiæ. Rationalist Lettering and Architecture in Fascist Rome (1921–1943): a Fieldwork, Rome, Istituto Svizzero, September 8, 2018. Publication Matthieu Cortat, Davide Fornari, Archigraphiæ. Rationalist Lettering and Architecture in Fascist Rome / Architettura e iscrizioni razionaliste nella Roma fascista, Renens: ECAL 2020 (contributions by Chiara Barbieri, Gianluca Camillini, Joëlle Comé, Jonathan Pierini, Paul Shaw, Alessandra Tarquini, Carlo Vinti).
CIBONE ♡ ECAL in Japan,31.08.2018,Cibone, Tokyo CIBONE ♡ ECAL boutique exhibition. Boutique exhibition from 31 August to 18 September 2018 Opening cocktail and talk on Friday 31 August, from 6.30 pm to 9 pm Open every day 11 am — 9 pm IMAGES HD Industrial design students produce around a dozen products of all kinds during their studies at ECAL. Some will remain at the stage of prototypes and will be written about in the printed or online press, while a select few will be further developed in collaboration with a brand and become products in their own right, and potentially successful ones. CIBONE ♡ ECAL boutique exhibition showcases a selection of recently released products and publications which started life at ECAL, ranging from mesmerising mobiles for Japanese brand tempo, to “The Sausage of the Future”, an eye-opening book now published by renowned Swiss publishing company Lars Müller, Malvaux s new take on the iconic Swiss Army knife, playful souvenirs for The Olympic Museum gift shop, Policosmos Animal toy families by PCM of Spain and the versatile Phare LED Lamp produced by Danish brand Menu. CIBONE Aoyama 2F 2-27-25 Minamiaoyama Minato-Ku Tokyo 107-0062 Visual by ECAL/Valentin Kaiser
Bobst Graphic 1972–1981 Bobst Graphic, 1972–1981, with a preface by François Rappo, an interview with six important actors and further selected texts, documents, at a distance of 48 years, the hitherto relatively unknown history of a Bobst company division: Bobst Graphic, pioneers in photocomposition. At the beginning of the 1970s, Bobst, a packaging company already far advanced in packaging manufacture, decided to start to sell its photocomposition machines with a view, amongst other things, to improving Swiss typographical quality. It started to manufacture a series of innovative photocomposition machines, patented by their French inventors, Hugonnet and Moyroud. Bobst Graphic products, with their streamlined service and close collaboration with first-rate researchers, soon came to occupy a secure position in photocomposition, now called on to assume the mantle of a hundred-year-old traditional profession. Numerous families of typographical characters were developed, some from scratch, with the help of many of the best graphic artists in the country, some, like Team 77, which boasted international renown. Despite the energy invested in these new inventions, and the signal advantage enjoyed by this division with its considerable in-house talents, the company faced stiff competition internationally, almost exclusively from the United States. Ultimately, financial difficulties obliged the firm to hand over its project to Autologic, an American company. We are able, by exhibiting this archive, to tell a story which might never have received the attention it truly deserves within the context of Swiss graphic design.Main applicantsECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (project leader)Research team (researcher) (supervisor) (supervisor)PeriodApril 2017 – August 2018Supported byStrategic fund of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO RCDAV)DisseminationPublication Giliane Cachin (ed.), Bobst Graphic 1972–1981, Zurich: Triest verlag, 2019 (with contributions from Bruno De Kalbermatten, Robert Flach, Roland Jan, Christian Mengelt, Jean-Luc Monnard, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, François Rappo). Talks Launch of the Archives visuelles series, with Giliane Cachin, Davide Fornari, Sarah Klein, Robert Lzicar, Simon Mager, Andrea Wiegelmann, Zurich, Never Stop Reading, 29 January, 2020. Press Claudia Gerdes, Bobst Graphic 1971–1981, in Page Magazine, March 2020, p. 62.
Giulio Barresi – Tools for Connected Humans Nowadays, smartphones are seen as an extension of the human being. Both a tool and a distraction, these devices make it difficult to focus due to a digital overload of social interactions. The ability to interact with others without a connected devices is fading away. As an interaction designer, I question our actual relationship with technology face its utterly promises to shape a better world. In the search for space for more disconnected interactions, I designed Tools for Connected Humans. A series of connected devices ready to help the user disconnect from connectivity.
Callum Ross – You can t see the mountain from the peak In the present day, the evolution of the quality of CGI forces us to question our relationship to digital representations of our world and the impact they have on us. This project explores the current ambiguity of the digital image through an interactive short film based around mountain imagery, used for its symbolism of an everlasting geological phenomenon, but which paradoxically, are some of the fastest images to generate. Through the use of a smartphone, we navigate this variable experience between real and virtual, gradually questioning the reality of the situation that is shown.
Ondřej Báchor – Kolektiv. Diploma Project by Ondřej Báchor Kolektiv is a high contrasted transitional serif typeface that comes in 8 cuts including Italics. Intended as a book typeface, it is suitable in small sizes where its smooth ductus creates an organic text structure, as well as for headline sizes where it excels in its elegant style of drawing. It s a digital interpretation of a design by the same name drawn in 1952 by a collective of Czech authors. As a Czech designer, Kolektiv is my personal statement of what I consider Czech character in typography to be. The process of designing helped me to shape my own style and apply it to the typeface. Kolektiv is a high contrasted transitional serif typeface that comes in 8 cuts including Italics. Intended as a book typeface, it is suitable in small sizes where its smooth ductus creates an organic text structure, as well as for headline sizes where it excels in its elegant style of drawing. It s a digital interpretation of a design by the same name drawn in 1952 by a collective of Czech authors. As a Czech designer, Kolektiv is my personal statement of what I consider Czech character in typography to be. The process of designing helped me to shape my own style and apply it to the typeface.
Aesop x ECAL,21.06–15.07.2018,Aesop Oberdorfstrasse, Zurich An exhibition of projects by ECAL Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship students in collaboration with Aesop. From 21 June (opening reception from 6.30pm) to 15 July, Aesop Oberdorfstrasse, Zurich. The skincare, haircare and body products specialist Aesop chose ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne to design two accessories for its brand : an electric essential oil burner and a washbag. In doing so, Aesop clearly showed it cared for smart and sustainable design. After an in-depth presentation and a visit to the three Aesop shops in Zurich, 17 ECAL graduate students from the MAS in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship started working under the leadership of professor and designer Tomas Kral. At the end of the workshop, a jury made up of some of the brand executives – among them Mandy Cupper, Head of Product, who had made the trip from Melbourne especially – selected some twenty projects that explored materials as varied as wood, cork, natural resins, ceramic, hand-blown glass and textile. In addition to an aesthetic and innovating design, the students brief included sustainability. Through working prototypes, students imagined projects such as a neoprene washbag inspired from the surfing world or a pocket-size foldable washbag, an essential oil burner producing steam reminiscent of Japanese mountains and a completely transparent oil burner revealing its fan blades and its usual bottle of essential oils. All the other projects also have their own distinctive world in which our bodies and minds are invited to travel through our senses of sight, smell and touch. Exhibition from 22 June until 15 July 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday 21 June, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm Opening hours: Monday - Friday 10am - 7pm, Saturday 10am - 6pm. Aesop Oberdorfstrasse Oberdorfstrasse 2 CH - 8001 Zurich www.aesop.com
Platform 10 Platform10 is the transformation of a railway and industrial site to a new district entirely dedicated to to culture. The space, some 22,000 square meters, hosts three recognized cultural institutions: the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of the Elysée and the Museum of design and contemporary applied arts, to a few steps from the station, in the centre of Lausanne . In order to complete this major transformation, Platform 10 launched a competition (by invitation) , in which the 2nd year students took part to design coherent propositions of outdoor (urban) furniture for this new public space.
Exhibition Aesop, Zurich,01.06.2018 The skincare, haircare and body products specialist Aesop chose ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne to design two accessories for its brand : an electric essential oil burner and a washbag. In doing so, Aesop clearly showed it cared for smart and sustainable design. After an in-depth presentation and a visit to the three Aesop shops in Zurich, 17 ECAL graduate students from the MAS in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship started working under the leadership of professor and designer Tomas Kral. At the end of the workshop, a jury made up of some of the brand executives – among them Mandy Cupper, Head of Product, who had made the trip from Melbourne especially – selected some twenty projects that explored materials as varied as wood, cork, natural resins, ceramic, hand-blown glass and textile. In addition to an aesthetic and innovating design, the students brief included sustainability. Through working prototypes, students imagined projects such as a neoprene washbag inspired from the surfing world or a pocket-size foldable washbag, an essential oil burner producing steam reminiscent of Japanese mountains and a completely transparent oil burner revealing its fan blades and its usual bottle of essential oils. All the other projects also have their own distinctive world in which our bodies and minds are invited to travel through our senses of sight, smell and touch.
Collaboration with Aesop The skincare, haircare and body products specialist Aesop chose ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne to design two accessories for its brand : an electric essential oil burner and a washbag. In doing so, Aesop clearly showed it cared for smart and sustainable design. After an in-depth presentation and a visit to the three Aesop shops in Zurich, 17 ECAL graduate students from the MAS in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship started working under the leadership of professor and designer Tomas Kral. At the end of the workshop, a jury made up of some of the brand executives – among them Mandy Cupper, Head of Product, who had made the trip from Melbourne especially – selected some twenty projects that explored materials as varied as wood, cork, natural resins, ceramic, hand-blown glass and textile. In addition to an aesthetic and innovating design, the students brief included sustainability. Through working prototypes, students imagined projects such as a neoprene washbag inspired from the surfing world or a pocket-size foldable washbag, an essential oil burner producing steam reminiscent of Japanese mountains and a completely transparent oil burner revealing its fan blades and its usual bottle of essential oils. All the other projects also have their own distinctive world in which our bodies and minds are invited to travel through our senses of sight, smell and touch.
Panic Button Panic Button is a project which helps stressed out users face the difficulties they can encounter whilst working on a computer. The button works as an extension of the keyboard. In case of panic, the user can activate it and the interface will help them relax and overcome the stressful situation. Initial project made during a one-week workshop with Florian Pittet. Video produced during a workshop led by Sebastian Vargas.
TIE Picasso, Giacometti, ECAL. Some projects sometimes give rise to what may first seem to be unlikely associations. In this case, it turned out for the best. The Musée national Picasso-Paris challenged ECAL to create new seats, at once practical and discreet and yet with distinctive character, for the exhibition areas. We rose to the challenge. In order to best respond to the visitors needs, ECAL commissioned a group of nine students and graduates to carry out a study on the seats of fifty museums or so in Europe (Germany, England, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland). Inspired by this survey, 2nd year Bachelor Industrial Design students worked with materials of their choice under the guidance of designer and professor Chris Kabel. Isabelle Baudraz s ‘Tie bench was selected from the projects put forward before being assessed in situ to make sure it blended with the architecture of the museum and the works of the Spanish genius. The benches were finally produced by the outdoor furniture company Tectona. All the project participants worked in a concerted manner and the project was a great success. Picasso and Giacometti can definitely sit easy. Photographs by ECAL/Calypso Mahieu and Matthieu Gafsou
ECAL x Musée national Picasso-Paris x Tectona,17.05–04.11.2018,Tectona Showroom, Milan The Musée national Picasso-Paris presents an exhibition of its new benches, which were created by Isabelle Baudraz, ECAL Bachelor Industrial Design student, and produced by Tectona. UPDATE: Exhibition at the Musée national Picasso-Paris From 17 May to 4 November 2018, the Musée national Picasso-Paris presents an exhibition of its new benches, which were created by Isabelle Baudraz, ECAL Bachelor Industrial Design student, and produced by Tectona (more info below). All days, except Mondays 10:30-18:00 (9:30-18:00 during school holidays and weekends) Musée national Picasso-Paris 5 rue de Thorigny 75003 Paris www.museepicassoparis.fr In partnership with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, ECAL and the French outdoor furniture company Tectona present during the Milan Design Week a preview of the new benches created by Bachelor Industrial Design student Isabelle Baudraz for the renowned Parisian museum. HD Images Brochure with explanations Picasso, Giacometti, ECAL. Some projects sometimes give rise to what may first seem to be unlikely associations. In this case, it turned out for the best. The Musée national Picasso-Paris challenged ECAL to create new seats, at once practical and discreet and yet with distinctive character, for the exhibition areas. We rose to the challenge. In order to best respond to the visitors needs, ECAL commissioned a group of nine students and graduates to carry out a study on the seats of fifty museums or so in Europe (Germany, England, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland). Inspired by this survey, 2nd year Bachelor Industrial Design students worked with materials of their choice under the guidance of designer and professor Chris Kabel. Isabelle Baudraz s ‘Tie bench was selected from the projects put forward before being assessed in situ to make sure it blended with the architecture of the museum and the works of the Spanish genius. The benches were finally produced by the outdoor furniture company Tectona. All the project participants worked in a concerted manner and the project was a great success. Picasso and Giacometti can definitely sit easy. Opening hours Monday 16 April – Saturday 21 April, 10 am – 7 pm Tectona Showroom Via della Moscova 47/a 20121 Milano www.tectona.net www.museepicassoparis.fr
Symposium Eco-monde: horizons nouveaux Can we move from one world to another, from one period of human history to another, and still create forms, produce meaning, sell art, as if nothing had happened? To slip into a new era without taking it into account? Between the countdown of the ecological catastrophe and the new environmental conscience, we are in the process of changing paradigm, and of entering, without always knowing it, often backwards, in an unknown universe, where the political, social, scientific, artistic questions are no longer posed in the same terms. Where was the man ("ecce homo") is imposed today the interdependence of the forms of life ("to like the echo?"). Where Prometheus was unleashed, with his myth of progress and his dogma of development, a new concern arises, still badly understood, that of lasting, of letting live, of abstaining. Where substance reigns, that of products, resources, certainties, a new question now insinuates itself: the atmosphere, a matter of ambiance and resonance, of airy spirits and the bewitchment of things. And where anthropocentrism triumphed for a long time, as an imperial posture, the ground is cracking under the feet of Man, who loses his capital letter, his arrogance, his solitude too. Of this obliged ecological turn of the late modernity, the art and the culture cannot not take account. They must find a new tone, in tune with the perils, the urgencies, but also the humility and the breadth of vision required by these new times. They must explore new themes, which frenetic capitalism and the dramas of history had relegated to the background. Above all, they need to think together things that have been separated for centuries: objects and lives, air and meaning, micro and macro, time and space. It is these vast problems that the symposium will address. It is in this spirit that it will shake up our habits. It is with as much joy as questioning, with freedom as with open dialogue, that it will tackle head on the revolution in progress, and its crucial stakes for the art world - and for the simple fact of creating. We will talk about the Anthropocene, green finance, vital decay, militant slush, the relationship between the environment and the extremities, and many other things. Keeping in mind, in order not to disarm, that it is not a question of defending nature, but rather, today more than ever, of being the nature that defends itself.
ECAL Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship exhibition at The Mass, Tokyo,24.03–22.04.2018,The Mass, Tokyo At The Mass gallery s invitation, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne is presenting a selection of Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship student projects. Founded in 2016 by Masayuki Nishimoto, the gallery welcomes the exhibition in the three sculpturally designed rooms that give the Tokyo minimalist architect Nobuo Araki s building its distinctive character. The exhibition is organised around three themes (Fine Tableware, Swiss Craftsmanship and Fashion Accessories) and it highlights some of the many collaborations undertaken with Swiss brands from the fields of luxury and craftsmanship. In addition to the exhibited prototypes, a selection of mock-ups and sketches illustrates the students creative process. Opening reception on Friday 23 March, 7pm-9pm From 23 March to 22 April 2018 With the support of the Swiss Embassy in Tokyo and Presence Switzerland The Mass 5-11-1 Jingumae, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo 150-0001, JAPAN http://themass.jp
Exhibition at The Mass, Tokyo,24.03.2018 At The Mass gallery s invitation, ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne is presenting a selection of Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship student projects. Founded in 2016 by Masayuki Nishimoto, the gallery welcomes the exhibition in the three sculpturally designed rooms that give the Tokyo minimalist architect Nobuo Araki s building its distinctive character. The exhibition is organised around three themes (Fine Tableware, Swiss Craftsmanship and Fashion Accessories) and it highlights some of the many collaborations undertaken with Swiss brands from the fields of luxury and craftsmanship. In addition to the exhibited prototypes, a selection of mock-ups and sketches illustrates the students creative process. With the support of the Swiss Embassy in Tokyo and Presence Switzerland The Mass 5-11-1 Jingumae, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo 150-0001, JAPAN http://themass.jp
Summer University CUBA After marking the history of the twentieth century with major episodes, Cuba must confront a new historical turning point. Obama s opening speeches and the death of Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, push the country towards a paradigm shift without priors. Partial liberalisation measures (restaurants, taxis and tourist activities) create an uncertain balance between mass tourism and Communist historical anchorage. The will of the workshop led by Milo Keller (head of photography) and Vincent Jacquier (Head of visual communication) was to rethink the visual relationship that the collective imaginary maintains with Cuba. It was for the students to get out of the tourist cliché, be it the old American car, the colorful colonial houses or the cigar. In partnership with the Embassy of Switzerland in Cuba, this week has been punctuated by many cultural visits. Exchanges with institutions such as the Instituto Superio de Arte (ISA) and the Fototeca de Cuba, as well as meetings with photographers who have worked for decades in Cuba as Sven Creutzmann and Vives-Figueroa, allowed an understanding finer Cuban culture, with exchanges around photographic, educational and policy approaches. The architecture has been one of the major themes, whether through visits to buildings of Porro and Gottardi, or even a visit to the Swiss Ambassador s residence, designed by Richard Neutra. With the help of the Embassy of Switzerland, the students were guided by four local photographers: Raul Canibano, Chino Arcos, Gabriel Guerra and Lissette Solórzano and they were able to get in places and invisible to tourists Havana networks. The projects are varied: technology report was addressed by Margaux Piette in a film about the hot spots Wifi scattered through the city. but also in the photos of Ivo Fovanna centered on the package, physical network for the exchange of files hacked; or in the film of Tatiana Mégevand on tourism activities Airbnb and economic change involved. The social characteristics of Cuba themselves in the series Olivia Schenker and Julien Deceroi. The first has made portraits of LGBTQ minority which enjoys a special acceptance on the island. The second makes us discover Santería, majority religion in Cuba of Christian inspiration and Voodoo. Imported cultural trends was put forward by the skaters in the movie of Pierre-Kastriot Jashari and more vernacular aspects are revealed in this series of Vincent Levrat pigeons collected on roofs by the inhabitants of Havana. The eighteen projects of this workshop were presented in the form of a projection at the Fototeca of Cuba on Vendredi8 December, in the presence of the Swiss ambassador, Mr Stutz and local photographers. This workshop was an opportunity of discovery cultural and social, but also a framework that helped improve the autonomy and ambition projectual students.
Workshop Point and shoot Under the guidance of Paul Wolfson and Alex Hulme, designers at Map Project Office, 3rd year Industrial Design Bachelor students and Media & Interaction Design Bachelor students have conceived "point-and-shoot" objects. Those ones were inspired by the opportunities created by this new wave of Open Source and could be made easily available to people who might need or want them.
Augmented Photography Photography has contributed, throughout its history, to building up a framework of knowledge based on an ability to demonstrate visibly, and therefore objectively, the reality of things. The widespread nature of digital imagery – images that have been created, processed, disseminated or stored as digital data – has led us to review critically the precision of our gaze. In the past, photographic images were deemed to be trustworthy and irrefutable documents. They have now become malleable and plausible data that we instantly assimilate into our visual habits. Since the 1990s, this development has given rise to considerable discussion about the nature of photographic realism, and a questioning of entire areas of activity. The digital creation of images has been accompanied by their manipulation in ways that are similar to painting, sculpture and, more analytically, the computer sciences. In this respect, Web 2.0, by facilitating in the circulation of ideas, things and persons at unprecedented speed, has further accelerated a process that began with the advent of the Internet. This research project allowed us to experiment with new practices and analyse the positions adopted by influential actors, such as photographers, critics and curators. It offered participants conceptual and practical tools to allow them to position themselves in hyper-connected environments. In the absence of any master s degrees in photography in Switzerland, this research helps provide a robust theoretical framework and a way of keeping abreast of the shifting nature of the discipline.Main applicantsECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (project leader)Research team (researcher) (research assistant)Visiting lecturersAnn-Christin Bertrand, Estelle Blaschke, Rachel de Joode, Marco De Mutiis, Anne de Vries, Christophe Gaillard, Claus Gunti, Joe Hamilton, Kim Knoppers, Nicolas Nova, Harm Van Den DorpelPeriodoctober 2016 – october 2017Supported byECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne Strategic fund of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO RCDAV)DisseminationPublication Augmented Photography, edited by Milo Keller, Joël Vacheron and Maxime Guyon, ECAL, Renens, 2017 Website augmented-photography.ch
IKEA Democratic Design Day 2017 at ECAL,22.09.2017,IKEA Auditorium, ECAL IKEA is working together with ECAL and the Ikea Foundation Switzerland to organise the Democratic Design Day 2017. IKEA is working together with ECAL and the Ikea Foundation Switzerland to organise the Democratic Design Day 2017 on 22 September 2017 from 9.30am to 5.30pm. Entitled The Future of Living at Home , the event will feature internationally renowned experts in design, architecture and sociology explaining how they are working on the future of private living spaces and the solutions they have developed to tackle the challenges that come with digitalisation and trying to follow a more sustainable way of life. The conference is being held in the IKEA Auditorium at ECAL. You can sign up at www.ikeaddd.ch . There are a limited number of seats available and places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. You can find more information about the programme and the keynotespeakers at the previous address. Mario Bellini, Designer and architect, Milan Simonetta Carbonaro, Sociologist, Karlsruhe Kim Colin, Designer – Industrial Facility, London Matali Crasset, Designer, Paris Marcus Engman, Head Designer IKEA of Sweden Oliver Herwig, Journalist and author, Karlsruhe Antonio Scarponi, Architect and designer, Zurich Workshops Two workshops will run simultaneously on Thursday 21 September in the run-up to the Democratic Design Day. In cooperation with Design Prize Switzerland, they will examine and explore the issue of the ageing society – how designers can respond to this development and what concepts and methods they can use to create integrated, accessible products and services that span the generations. The second workshop deals with living off-grid. A team from the design department of IKEA of Sweden (IoS) invites you along to develop ideas for life that goes on outside of the networks. How do people live when they opt out for a while and seek both spatial and technological freedom? Where do these needs come from and what does it mean for their living space? You can sign up here for one of the two workshops. There are a limited number of places available: www.ikeaddd.ch ECAL 5, avenue du Temple CH-1020 Renens www.ecal.ch
The Sausage of the Future Can we count on the sausage to provide a solution, in order to reduce the consumption of meat? And can the use of new ingredients increase the diversity of our diets? Can the sausage make a considerable contribution to a sustainable food culture? To answer these questions, a chef of molecular gastronomy, a master butcher and a designer have teamed up to look into sausage production techniques and potential new ingredients – such as insects, nuts, and legumes – to reinvent the sausage of the future. The final publication Sausage of the Future takes the reader on a journey through all the building blocks of a sausage. It stops along the way to explore issues like moistness, flavoring, glue, and preservation. The publication catalogues different types of sausages and presents lesser-known ingredients, carefully selected for their potential regarding the future. In our days, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), we are facing a serious shortage of protein-rich-food. The reason is the overconsumption of animal products. Meat, in particular, will be scarce: thus, we need alternatives. The sausage is one of mankind s first-ever designed food items. A paragon of efficient butchery, it was originally designed to make the most of animal protein in times of scarcity. With its wide variety of sizes and its endless choice of possible fillings, the sausage offers itself again to take a pioneering role. This time, not only to make the most of animal protein, but to be a shell for all kinds of nutrition.Main applicantsECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (project leader)Research teamSupervision Mock-ups Gabriel Serero Herman ter Weele Graphic design and illustrations Helge Hjorth Bentsen Olli Hirvonen Photography Emile Barret Noortje Knulst Jonas MarguetPeriodmarch 2014 – november 2017Supported byECAL/University of Art and Design LausanneDisseminationPublication Carolien Niebling, The Sausage of the Future, Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2017. Exhibitions Design Parade, Hyères, Villa Noailles, June 30 – Sept 24, 2017. Hublot Design Miami, Miami, December 7, 2017. The Sausage of the Future, Milan, SaloneSatellite, April 4–9, 2017. WantedDesign, Brooklyn, May 17–21, 2018. Design Parade, Hyères, Villa Noailles, June 29 – September 23, 2018. Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Strijp, October 20 – 28, 2018. Food Revolution 5.0, Winterthur, Gewerbemuseum, December 2, 2018 – April 28, 2019 FOOD: Bigger than the plate, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, May 18 – October 10, 2019. Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, Milano, Triennale, March 01–November 09, 2019. Serial Eater, Hornu, CID Grand-Hornu, May 27 – November 29, 2020. Design Preis Schweiz, Langenthal, November 02 – 10, 2019. Awards Winner of Design Prize Switzerland (Research) – 2019 Winner of Norway s most beautiful books competition (Nonfiction) – 2018 Silver Hare (second prize) in Hochparterre s Die Besten (design and research category) – 2017 Winner of Hublot Design Prize – 2017 Winner of Design Parade Hyères Grand Prix at Villa Noailles – 2017 Press Penelope Vaglini, The Future Sausage, lofficielitalia.com, 11 mai 2017 Phillip Löwe, Wurst case scenario, Spiegel.de, 10 avril 2017 Emma Rawson, In search of the missing link: Tasting the future of sausage with Carolien Niebling, thisNZlife.co.nz, 12 Septembre 2019 Daphne Milner, Designer Carolien Niebling wants you to meet the meat we eat, itsnicethat.com, 25 Avril 2018 Spencer Bailey, How the Sausage Is Made, Literally, surfacemag.com, 30 décembre 2017 Alexander Kühn, Die Wurst der Zukunft, tagesanzeiger.ch, 7 décembre 2017 Dutch food designer Carolien Niebling on why the future of food might not be fake meat or veganism, but sausages, idealog.co.nz, 22 août 2019 Katharine Schwab, The Sausage Gets A Radical Redesign, Fastcompany.com, 4 juillet 2017 Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou, the future sausage by carolien niebling wins the design prize switzerland 2019, designboom.com, 2 novembre 2019 Ali Morris, Alternatives for meat consumption to be explored by ECAL during Milan design week, dezeen.com, 29 mars 2017 Conferences And the day after? lecture, TEDxGeneva, Geneva, March 22, 2018 Semi-Permanent, lecture, Semi-Permanent, Auckland, August 15, 2019 Design Indaba conference, lecture, Design Indaba, Cape Town, February 27, 2019 Future of Production, Panel talk, Global Design Forum at V&A, London, September 14, 2019 Sustainability by Design: Innovation for a Circular Economy, Panel talk, Swissnex, San Francisco, January 14, 2020
Mélanie Courtinat – I never promised you a garden I never promised you a garden offers an immersive journey inside a fantasized hanging garden using virtual reality. The public is invited to walk among chimeric plants and make them blossom with a simple touch. Having noticed that some spectators have a tendency to be uninvolved and passive before an interactive design artwork, this project questions their willful participation. What is to be done when a spectator makes the conscious choice to not interact with an interactive project? What is the design of refusal?
Patrick Muroni – Foulek Niels, a twenty-year-old young man, rediscovers a friend became professional rap artist. Fiction / 18 min Synopsis Overwhelmed by loneliness and the inertia of his country life, Niels, a twenty-year-old young man, does not endeavour to embellish his everyday life anymore. One day, a childhood friend is back in the village. She has become a professional rap artist. Niels both rediscovers his friend and her texts. Commentaire Foulek or the introspection of a young man in need of reference, whose "only homeland is rap." Patrick thus continues to question his relationship to the world through hard-hitting rhymes that mix violence, solitude and obstinacy, against a backdrop of romance. A bluffing direction of actor, a fragile thread that the director unrolls and holds from beginning to end, a film with a tense flow, like an intimate flow that reveals the fragility of this world of youth, where everything should still be possible.
"Workbays Village" exhibition in collaboration with Vitra,29.06–24.09.2017,Port des créateurs, Toulon Following a workshop led by Camille Blin and Erwan Bouroullec, Master Product Design students of ECAL present projects around the Workbays created by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and edited by Vitra. Together with new functionalities, these prospective work environments are presented on the occasion of Design Parade Toulon – festival international d architecture d intérieur. DOWNLOAD IMAGES HD DOWNLOAD POSTER With Workbays, which they created for Vitra a few years ago, the French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, who regularly collaborate with ECAL, have developed a micro-architectural system that redefines the working environment and breaks with the typical rigid planning structure of offices. Thus Workbays create distinct areas where individuals or groups can retreat from the general office environment to carry out specific activities. The units come equipped with everything users need: work surfaces, seating, optional storage and power connections. The structure of Workbays consists of slim aluminium profiles and organically shaped wall elements made of pressed polyester felt. “The ECAL students suggested we devised new typologies for these working environments, adding novel features and supplying them with new accessories”, says Camille Blin, the designer and professor who headed the project. So the Master Product Design students worked for a full semester under the watchful eye of Erwan Bouroullec and invented new structures that call to mind Japanese 0capsule hotels, a prototyping workshop, a gym, a bar, a garden or a resting area. For each of these spaces, the students created specific and original objects, ranging from Bluetooth loudspeakers to miniature lamps reminiscent of stadium ones, desk pads-cum-bags, a semi-standing stool, a cable-covering carpet, in & out wastepaper baskets, multi socket trays or a desk partition with vases and drawing pins. A 3D animation film specifically created by TRAUM Inc. presenting these unusual Workbays can also be seen at the exhibition. Opening reception on Thursday 29 June 2017 from 6.30 pm to 21 pm at the Port des Créateurs Exhibition from 30 June to 2 July, from 10am to 6pm during the Festival. Then until 24 September, from Monday to Saturday, from 9am to 7pm. Le Port des Créateurs Place Savonnières 83000 Toulon www.villanoailles-hyeres.com www.ecal.ch www.vitra.com
Giacomo Bastianelli – Next Eleven Paper The next wave of renewal for music scenes comes from the developing world of the “Next Eleven” countries. Their over-driven economic metabolisms generate all manner of social tensions and cultural rifts, which generates some 21st Century musical form. That non-Western folk forms, colliding with digital technology, will spawn some avant-garde new sound. A form where sound is fully meshed with visual imagery. Next Eleven Paper redefines the way we promote music and fills the gap between physical object and digital media. The first number is set in Mexico City. The next wave of renewal for music scenes comes from the developing world of the “Next Eleven” countries. Their over-driven economic metabolisms generate all manner of social tensions and cultural rifts, which generates some 21st Century musical form. That non-Western folk forms, colliding with digital technology, will spawn some avant-garde new sound. A form where sound is fully meshed with visual imagery. Next Eleven Paper redefines the way we promote music and fills the gap between physical object and digital media. The first number is set in Mexico City.
Claire Bourrassé – Alter Ego In the evening you re heading home alone. You will sleep alone at night. Sometimes you open your eyes, drowsy, your mind still plunged into a dream. It is there. Emptiness. In your lifetime you have felt it already many times. How can this void, by definition the absence of everything, be transformed into a feeling? You have to know that your shadow is a friend, the only one that is a constant; it accompanies your empty body and never abandons you. This book is a research into identity, which is based on duality, on the need to project on to someone else in order to define oneself. In the evening you re heading home alone. You will sleep alone at night. Sometimes you open your eyes, drowsy, your mind still plunged into a dream. It is there. Emptiness. In your lifetime you have felt it already many times. How can this void, by definition the absence of everything, be transformed into a feeling? You have to know that your shadow is a friend, the only one that is a constant; it accompanies your empty body and never abandons you. This book is a research into identity, which is based on duality, on the need to project on to someone else in order to define oneself.
Aporetic Spectacle Aporetic Spectacle researches the changing nature of photographic pictures as extensions of human perception. The photographs are the result of repetitive parametric captures by a computational camera mounted below an autonomous drone. As latent images dissolve into data, the smallest deviation in the dataset results in an unconscious and uncontrolled distortion of traffic flow. The emergence of the sign of a hidden and imperceptible infrastructure is also a metaphor for the need for photography to have a physical basis, even for disembodied computational photographs. Aporetic Spectacle researches the changing nature of photographic pictures as extensions of human perception. The photographs are the result of repetitive parametric captures by a computational camera mounted below an autonomous drone. As latent images dissolve into data, the smallest deviation in the dataset results in an unconscious and uncontrolled distortion of traffic flow. The emergence of the sign of a hidden and imperceptible infrastructure is also a metaphor for the need for photography to have a physical basis, even for disembodied computational photographs.
ECAL x Vitra Following a workshop led by Camille Blin and Erwan Bouroullec, Master Product Design students of ECAL present projects around the Workbays created by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and edited by Vitra. Together with new functionalities, these prospective work environments are presented on the occasion of Design Parade Toulon – festival international d architecture d intérieur. With Workbays, which they created for Vitra a few years ago, the French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, who regularly collaborate with ECAL, have developed a micro-architectural system that redefines the working environment and breaks with the typical rigid planning structure of offices. Thus Workbays create distinct areas where individuals or groups can retreat from the general office environment to carry out specific activities. The units come equipped with everything users need: work surfaces, seating, optional storage and power connections. The structure of Workbays consists of slim aluminium profiles and organically shaped wall elements made of pressed polyester felt. “The ECAL students suggested we devised new typologies for these working environments, adding novel features and supplying them with new accessories”, says Camille Blin, the designer and professor who headed the project. So the Master Product Design students worked for a full semester under the watchful eye of Erwan Bouroullec and invented new structures that call to mind Japanese 0capsule hotels, a prototyping workshop, a gym, a bar, a garden or a resting area. For each of these spaces, the students created specific and original objects, ranging from Bluetooth loudspeakers to miniature lamps reminiscent of stadium ones, desk pads-cum-bags, a semi-standing stool, a cable-covering carpet, in & out wastepaper baskets, multi socket trays or a desk partition with vases and drawing pins. A 3D animation film specifically created by TRAUM Inc. presenting these unusual Workbays can also be seen at the exhibition. Following a workshop led by Camille Blin and Erwan Bouroullec, Master Product Design students of ECAL present projects around the Workbays created by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec and edited by Vitra. Together with new functionalities, these prospective work environments are presented on the occasion of Design Parade Toulon – festival international d architecture d intérieur.With Workbays, which they created for Vitra a few years ago, the French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, who regularly collaborate with ECAL, have developed a micro-architectural system that redefines the working environment and breaks with the typical rigid planning structure of offices. Thus Workbays create distinct areas where individuals or groups can retreat from the general office environment to carry out specific activities. The units come equipped with everything users need: work surfaces, seating, optional storage and power connections. The structure of Workbays consists of slim aluminium profiles and organically shaped wall elements made of pressed polyester felt. “The ECAL students suggested we devised new typologies for these working environments, adding novel features and supplying them with new accessories”, says Camille Blin, the designer and professor who headed the project. So the Master Product Design students worked for a full semester under the watchful eye of Erwan Bouroullec and invented new structures that call to mind Japanese 0capsule hotels, a prototyping workshop, a gym, a bar, a garden or a resting area. For each of these spaces, the students created specific and original objects, ranging from Bluetooth loudspeakers to miniature lamps reminiscent of stadium ones, desk pads-cum-bags, a semi-standing stool, a cable-covering carpet, in & out wastepaper baskets, multi socket trays or a desk partition with vases and drawing pins.A 3D animation film specifically created by TRAUM Inc. presenting these unusual Workbays can also be seen at the exhibition.
PUMP – The Punkt. Urban Mobility Project The Swiss technology company Punkt. invites three leading schools (Design Academy Eindhoven, ECAL, Royal College of Art) to design an e-bike, which expresses the brand s philosophy of “taming technology”. ECAL Master Product Design students present e-CAL 1020, a plug-and-play electrical engine, which transforms your personal bicycle into an e-bike. The Punkt. Urban Mobility Project is an educational collaboration between Punkt. and three leading design schools: ECAL (Lausanne), RCA (London) and Design Academy (Eindhoven). The brief: create a personal transportation product that innovates in both style and function, specific to the needs and opportunities found in the cities where the students are studying. Travelling in Lausanne means short distances but steep hills. This retro-fit motor harvests downhill braking energy that would otherwise be wasted as heat, and stores it ready to send back to the wheel the moment it is needed. Under the guidance of Thilo Alex Brunner, Head of the programme, ECAL Master Product Design students created e-CAL 1020, a plug and play electrical engine which transforms your bicycle into an e-bike. It is solely recharged by human effort using a generator similar to KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), a technology used in Formula 1. The Swiss technology company Punkt. invites three leading schools (Design Academy Eindhoven, ECAL, Royal College of Art) to design an e-bike, which expresses the brand s philosophy of “taming technology”. ECAL Master Product Design students present e-CAL 1020, a plug-and-play electrical engine, which transforms your personal bicycle into an e-bike.The Punkt. Urban Mobility Project is an educational collaboration between Punkt. and three leading design schools: ECAL (Lausanne), RCA (London) and Design Academy (Eindhoven). The brief: create a personal transportation product that innovates in both style and function, specific to the needs and opportunities found in the cities where the students are studying.Travelling in Lausanne means short distances but steep hills. This retro-fit motor harvests downhill braking energy that would otherwise be wasted as heat, and stores it ready to send back to the wheel the moment it is needed. Under the guidance of Thilo Alex Brunner, Head of the programme, ECAL Master Product Design students created e-CAL 1020, a plug and play electrical engine which transforms your bicycle into an e-bike. It is solely recharged by human effort using a generator similar to KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), a technology used in Formula 1.
More Rules for Modern Life Asserting its wish to play with the flimsy distinctions between “objets d art” and practical objects and to question the legitimacy of an exhibition on the fringes of such an outstanding event as the Milan Salone del Mobile, ECAL has invited visual artist John M Armleder to curate an exhibition displaying side by side the works of students from the Bachelor Fine Arts and the Bachelor Industrial Design programmes. After having (re)visited some of John M Armleder exhibitions and seen his iconic pieces, the Furniture Sculpture among others, the students used their chosen materials and processes to devise their exhibition pieces, which they developed at ECAL during a full semester under the watchful eye of designer and professor Christophe Guberan and Stéphane Kropf, artist and Head of the Bachelor Fine Arts. Playing with scale, shapes, colours and materials, the exhibited works defy pre-established categories: a rocking zebra for gangling children, a handless clock, a minimal painting with maximalist details, taped ceramic vases, a menhir made from recycled plastic, concrete marble… All piled up in a visual cacophony that is happily deliberate. Photos by ECAL/Younès Klouche assisted by Marceau Avogadro and Flora Mottini
IKEA Festival – Let s Make Room for Life,04–09.04.2017,Officina Ventura 14, Milano IKEA invites LMX, a collective of ECAL Bachelor Fine Arts and Bachelor Media & Interaction Design students, to produce acrylic paintings with a programmable machine. Using the extensive possibilities of randomness, colour mix, superposition and serial production provided by this new machine, the students create numerous artworks. HD Images IKEA has invited LMX, an ECAL collective made up of students from the Bachelor Fine Arts and the Bachelor Media & Interaction Design programmes, to produce paintings with a programmable machine. In changing the machine original settings (x, y and z shifting positions, cyan, magenta, yellow, black and white percentages, nozzle size, paint flow, random parameters…) and in using technology to address essential issues in painting, LMX tested the creative and repetitive gesture potential allowed by the mathematical precision of the code and the infallible mechanism of the machine. During the IKEA Festival, LMX mass-produces some artefacts that were designed during a workshop that took place in the countryside around Zurich in February 2017, and continues to explore the potential of this machine, which showcases its production performance to the public. Opening hours Tuesday – Sunday, 10 am – 8 pm Wednesday, 10 am – 10 pm Officina Ventura 14 Via Privata Giovanni Ventura 14, 20134 Milano www.ikea.com www.ikea.today
PUMP – The Punkt. Urban Mobility Project,04–09.04.2017,Palazzo Litta, Milano The Swiss technology company Punkt. invites three leading schools (Design Academy Eindhoven, ECAL, Royal College of Art) to design an e-bike, which expresses the brand s philosophy of “taming technology”. ECAL Master Product Design students present e-CAL 1020, a plug-and-play electrical engine, which transforms your personal bicycle into an e-bike. HD Images The Punkt. Urban Mobility Project is an educational collaboration between Punkt. and three leading design schools: ECAL (Lausanne), RCA (London) and Design Academy (Eindhoven). The brief: create a personal transportation product that innovates in both style and function, specific to the needs and opportunities found in the cities where the students are studying. Travelling in Lausanne means short distances but steep hills. This retro-fit motor harvests downhill braking energy that would otherwise be wasted as heat, and stores it ready to send back to the wheel the moment it is needed. Under the guidance of Thilo Alex Brunner, Head of the programme, ECAL Master Product Design students created e-CAL 1020, a plug and play electrical engine which transforms your bicycle into an e-bike. It is solely recharged by human effort using a generator similar to KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), a technology used in Formula 1. Opening hours Tuesday – Sunday, 11 am – 9 pm Palazzo Litta Corso Magenta 24, 20123 Milan www.punkt.ch