EXHIBITIONS
La mariée et le ketchup,
12.04–05.05.2025,
Square du 14-juin, Renens
ECAL's Bachelor of Photography presents The Bride and the Ketchup in Renens.
La mariée et le ketchup,
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
BY HAND
with Friederike Daumiller
Even if it seems that digital is taking over analog, there's still an interest and need for us as humans to have a physical connection to our daily tools. So many designers swear by their drawing routine and real-life experimentation still plays a important role in our practices. Under the guidance of Friederike Daumiller students took the challenge to design their own interpretations of hand writing and hand drawing instruments always referring to their hands-on tests and experience.
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Figure Libre
with Elric Petit
Figure libre is an industrial design project that empowers students to explore topics of their choice. This semester, guided by Elric Petit, students developed their personal projects inspired by articles from specialized newspapers or magazines. The objective is to create projects with the potential to seamlessly integrate in our contemporary society and its economy, leveraging their personal affinities and interests to enhance their work.
EXHIBITIONS
ECAL×JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: UNDER YOUR SMELL,
31.05–08.09.2024,
Saatchi Gallery, Londres
As major exhibition of the Saatchi Gallery's 2024 summer season, Beyond Fashion showcases the work of acclaimed fashion photographers from around the world, including the installation Under Your Smell ECAL x Jean Paul Gaultier.
EXHIBITIONS
ECAL×JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: UNDER YOUR SMELL,
30.05–09.06.2024,
Gallery X by Parco, Tokyo
ECAL presents Under Your Smell at Gallery X by Parco in Tokyo. In collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier, Bachelor Photography students propose their interpretation of the brand's perfumes through an immersive exhibition celebrating gender diversity and new definitions of beauty.
EXHIBITIONS
L’ECAL at Mapping Festival,
10–26.05.2024,
Genève
ECAL will be showcasing its expertise at the Mapping Festival 2024, celebrating its 20th anniversary in Geneva, with a program exploring new territories in digital art.
LECTURES
ECAL LECTURE – PHILIPPE MALOUIN,
07.05.2024,
Auditoire IKEA, ECAL
ECAL welcomes London designer Philippe Malouin for a lecture, Tuesday April 30, 2024 at 6pm.
LECTURES
SPRING WORKSHOP lectures,
29.04–01.05.2024,
Auditoire IKEA, ECAL
During the spring semester workshop week, ECAL invites international artists and designers to present their work at conferences.
FINE ARTS
SLAP !
with Geoffrey Cottenceau, Gina Proenza
Whether it’s a parade, a particle accelerator or a dance ball, SLAP invites you to inhabit a space from a gravitational perspective. Positioned on the boundary between two and three dimensions, the works are subject to centrifugal laws and find themselves exchanging with one another to create fortuitous narratives, as if the continuous round of which they were a part of had suddenly come to a halt. The exhibition space becomes the site of a fundamentally social event - in terms of the works it hosts and the exhibition context - and reveals the social perspective that the works hold in rela- tion to each other. Like a boring chat with a friend of a friend, some pieces are overwhelmed by their conversations, while others lend themselves easily to them. You’ll have no hesitation in intercepting some of the phrases exchanged between the works, while having the opportunity to: reply/nego- tiate/argue with the social time-space that SLAP, as a real static meeting point, offers for an evening.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
3 ECAL GRADUATES AT DESIGN PARADE HYÈRES 2024
Guest of honour and president of the jury for Design Parade Hyères 2024, Fabien Cappello is an alumnus of the ECAL, as are two finalists in the running: Gabriel Hafner and Alex Sinh Nguyen.
LECTURES
ECAL Lecture – Eric Sadin,
23.04.2024,
Auditoire IKEA, ECAL
Tuesday April 23, 2024 at 6pm, ECAL welcomes writer and philosopher Eric Sadin for a lecture.
EXHIBITIONS
ECAL MILANO – EXHIBITIONS BY ALUMNI,
16–21.04.2024,
Salon du meuble de Milan
Selection of exhibitions with ECAL graduates at Milan Design Week 2024.
EXHIBITIONS
ECAL MILANO 2024: UPS – Under Pressure Solutions,
16–21.04.2024,
Spazio Orso 16, Milano
ECAL presents UPS – Under Pressure Solutions at Milano Design Week 2024.
ANNOUNCEMENT
10 ECAL graduates featured in new Phaidon publication 'Designed for Life'
10 ECAL graduates featured in new Phaidon publication 'Designed for Life’, a global survey of 100 of the most creative and innovative product designers working today. With the participation of Alexis Georgacopoulos and Anniina Koivu, director and curator at ECAL.
EXHIBITIONS
ECAL MILANO 2024: Access over Ownership,
15–21.04.2024,
House of Switzerland, Milano
ECAL & FREITAG present Access over Ownership at the House of Swizerland during Milano Design Week 2024.
“The Eskimo in the Mojave Desert”: Herbert Matter, a Designer Across Scenes and Genres
with Jonas Berthod, Louise Paradis, Gilles Gavillet
Matter’s career was that of a multidisciplinary, international designer working across commerce and culture. He was not only a graphic artist but also a photographer, type designer, art director, teacher and film-maker. His work in the field of advertising and editorial design, his collaborations with artists, his self-commissioned work, his photography and film outputs and his long-serving position as an educator provide as many entry points to analyse the impact of migration and an international network on a graphic designer’s career. It also provides a case study to analyse the professional model of the designer working as photographer and layout artist simultaneously.
DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Watches and Wonders Geneva 2024 ECAL x Alloyed
with Nicolas Le Moigne, Alexis Georgacopoulos, Xavier Perrenoud, Basil Dénéréaz
For the Watches and Wonders Geneva 2024 trade show, ECAL/University of Art and DesignLausanne has teamed up with Alloyed, a company that specialises in metal printingtechnologies, to present an original collection of watch straps. Designed by students in theMaster of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship programme, thesewristbands have been developed using 3D modelling software, resulting in unique pieces thatgo beyond the limits of traditional techniques. Five of the 15 concepts designed by the students were selected and 3D printed from a finepowder of TI6AI4V titanium—an alloy composed of titanium, aluminium, and vanadium—whosemelting point of around 1,600° Celsius is obtained using a laser beam. Regularly used in theaerospace, and medical industries, this printing technique, known as Laser Powder BedFusion (L-PBF), can be used to create objects with ultra-high-performance mechanicalproperties. Each project, presented in the form of a prototype or animation, finds its inspiration in thebeauty of nature, through organic structures, as much as in complex systems, closer toengineering. This collaboration brings together technology, craftsmanship, and design—withlinks to the world of fine watchmaking—by combining the expertise of engineers specialising inthe science of materials, the know-how of artisan jewellers and their finishing skills, and thecreativity and innovative spirit of up-and-coming designers.
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
Much Faster / Much Slower
with Alain Bellet
Fictional mobile apps based on the "Much Faster / Much Slower" theme, offering new ways of consulting, communicating, creating, playing, discovering and learning. Students in their 2nd year of Bachelor Media & Interaction Design designed a dedicated experience and graphic interface via interactive prototypes on Figma.
FILM STUDIES
Fiction film workshop with Carmen Jaquier
with Carmen Jaquier
The 2023 fiction film workshop for 2nd year students was lead by swiss director Carmen Jaquier.
FOUNDATION YEAR
Option Graphic Design - Monogram 23-24
with Robert Huber
Creation of a typographic monogram
MEDIA & INTERACTION DESIGN
It's About Time
with Angelo Benedetto
Digital clocks with no temporal reference points, simple representations of the passage of time. Developed on the principle of screensavers, these projects are programmed to evolve graphically according to the time of day. Selection of projects created in the first-year Bachelor Media & Interaction Dynamic Display course with Angelo Benedetto, assisted by Sébastien Matos.
FOUNDATION YEAR
Option INDUSTRIAL DESIGN S1 23-24
with Grégoire Jeanmonod, Martino d'Esposito
- A tape dispenser (term project) - A clock (short project) - A personal project (short project)
PRESS RELEASES
Solo exhibition by Lorenza Longhi at Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York
Swiss Institute presents World of Yum Yum, the first solo exhibition in the US by artist Lorenza Longhi, featuring newly commissioned paintings and sculptures in a site-specific installation.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Happy 2024!
Artist Alessia Gunawan creates the ECAL's 2024 greetings with Noon, an original work based on artificial intelligence.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
Reinas by Klaudia Reynicke selected for the Sundance 2024 Festival
Congratulations to director Klaudia Reynicke, an ECAL graduate, on the selection of her new feature film "Reinas" at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival 2024.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
Three ECAL graduates in artist residencies abroad
Romane de Watteville, Gina Proenza and Baker Wardlaw, three ECAL graduates, have been awarded three Artist Residencies abroad by the Etat de Vaud
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
Junge Grafik Award 2023 honors nine ECAL students and graduates.
Congratulations to all the ECAL-related winners and finalists for their participation in the second edition of the Junge Grafik Award.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
Charitini Gkritzali receives an award at the Global Design Graduate Show 2023
Congratulations to ECAL graduate Charitini Gkritzali, who receives an award at the Global Design Graduate Show 2023, in collaboration with Gucci.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
Thaddé Comar winner of the Grand Prix Photographie du Festival de Hyères 2023
Congratulations to photographer Thaddé Comar, an ECAL graduate, who receives the Grand Prix du Jury Photographie 7L at the Festival de Hyères 2023.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
Olivia Schenker receives one of the 2023 prizes from the Fondation vaudoise pour la culture
ECAL graduate Olivia Schenker is the 2023 winner of one of the cultural prizes awarded by the Fondation vaudoise pour la culture.
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