Creativity, motivation, energy and curiosity are the main ingredients to enter our Propaedeutic Year. This preparatory stage is aimed at students who wish to work in the fields of art or design and allows them to acquire the necessary skills for a Bachelor's program. During one year, this training offers the possibility to holders of a Maturité or a Baccalauréat to familiarize themselves with the methods of the discipline in which they wish to work (Visual Arts, Industrial Design, Photography, Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design, Cinema). Immersed in the ECAL itself, they learn the essential workings and current techniques inherent in the various fields of contemporary creation.
On the basis of intensive cross-disciplinary courses given by recognized practitioners and theoreticians, students take up numerous subjects (Photography, Drawing, Color, Graphic Design, Art History, History of Architecture, Cinema, Industrial Design, etc.) and become aware of their future orientation one day a week. In addition, they benefit from conferences, exhibition visits and other events that take place in the school.
By benefiting from the know-how of our institution, students can then present a quality portfolio that will allow them to take the entrance exam for a Bachelor's degree at the ECAL or at a university in Switzerland or abroad.
French
Foundation Year Diploma
from CHF 1 725.– to CHF 21 025.– (according to the residence),
CHF 8 845.– (if a reduction is granted)
2 semesters
0 ECTS
1/4
1/2
In addition to theory and practical courses, every Friday student stake a course on their BA major.
FOUNDATION YEAR
with Sébastien Matos, Romain Collaud
- Animation of a sequence of 4 flags On-screen presentation, action triggered by a foot pedal - Presentation of a type of ‘div’ block in animated form
FOUNDATION YEAR
with Violène Pont, Patrick Monnier, Denis Roueche
Exercise 1: Collecting images in vector graphics Exercise 2: Using the grid between image and text Exercise 3: Memento
FOUNDATION YEAR
with Younès Klouche
Publishing and photographic installation on a personal theme.
FOUNDATION YEAR
with Martino d'Esposito, Grégoire Jeanmonod
Quick exercise: - Prop - Culbuto - Shoehorn Semester project: Coat hook
FOUNDATION YEAR
with Francis Baudevin, Christian Pahud
FOUNDATION YEAR
with David Monnet, Natacha Donzé
Drawing with an emphasis on research and experimentation from a purely artistic perspective.
FOUNDATION YEAR
with Tonatiuh Ambrosetti, Daniela Droz
Exercise 1: Still life and portrait work, between studio and location Exercise 2: Short work based on experimentation Exercise 3: Narrative series Exercise 4: Series of images linked to the music Mind if I stay by Kadebostany
FOUNDATION YEAR
with Robert Huber
Creation of a typographic monogram
FOUNDATION YEAR
with Grégoire Jeanmonod, Martino d'Esposito
- A tape dispenser (term project) - A clock (short project) - A personal project (short project)
FOUNDATION YEAR
with Violène Pont
Exercise 1: Six flyers for a venue organising various events. Exercise 2: Poster inspired by music Exercise 3: Fictitious poster for the Foundationyear's workshops
FOUNDATION YEAR
with Nicolas Haeni
An exhibition at the Olympic Museum by the students in Foundation Year – Photography option at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. Under the photographer’s direction Nicolas Haeni, the students have explored the theme of the Olympic Games by immersing themselves in its diversity. Through photography and moving images, the young photographers offer a fresh and curious look at these disciplines, inviting us to look beyond mere performance to contemplate the beauty of detail hidden in each sport.
FOUNDATION YEAR
with Clemens Alexander Severin Piontek, Karla Hiraldo Voleau, Vanessa Safavi, Basil Dénéréaz, Bruno Deville, Aurélie Vial
Option Cinema Bruno Deville Instructed to follow one or more people in the course of their work, the students were each asked to make a documentary with the constraint of treating it the attributes of fiction. Option Media & Interaction Design Basil Dénéréaz Introduction to 3D through a week-long workshop on the theme of CGI still lifes, designed to familiarise students with this medium. Option Photography Karla Hiraldo Voleau How do we communicate today, within our relationships? How is the online environment shaping the way we talk about love, whether through words or images? The students delved into their experiences and perceptions of relationships to create a portrait of love in the digital age. Option Graphic Design Clemens Piontek Modular Expression Exploring modular design and creating lettering and new typography. The aim is to create fonts that express a feeling, an emotion, a mood or an atmosphere. The set of components specific to each is created from the Vevey* typeface, which has two variants: Vevey Positive & Vevey Human Kind. Option Visual Arts Vanessa Safavi Working with specific objects or materials chosen by the students on the basis of their physical and symbolic properties, to reveal a gesture or intention in the conception of a defined plastic work. Option Industrial Design Aurélie Vial Exploring digital cutting and assembly techniques. Starting with sheets of honeycomb cardboard and using the workshop's digital cutting table, we created columns and structures, the only constraints being that they had to be vertical and self-supporting. How do you inhabit a space with 26 different proposals to create a collective and coherent whole? Pictures © ECAL/Marvin Merkel Poster © ECAL/Aude Meyer de Stadelhofen
Adjointe technique
Nadège Gallay
Bastien Favre
Assistante
Laura Trummer
Antonio Albanese
Tonatiuh Ambrosetti
Luc Aubort
Francis Baudevin
Clelia Bettua
Martino D’Esposito
Daniela Droz
Christophe Guignard
Claus Gunti
Grégoire Jeanmonod
Matthieu Minguet
David Monnet
Patrick Monnier
Christian Pahud
Violène Pont
Tatiana Rihs
Alfredo Aceto
Jonas Berthod
Julia Bünter
Romain Collaud
Romane de Watteville
Natacha Donzé
Pierre Doze
Marc Dubois
Patrick Keller
Younès Klouche
Nicolas Haeni
Robert Huber
Sylvain Meltz
Adeena Mey
Anna Percival
Pauline Perret
Lisa Rebeca
Denis Roueche
Laurence Salmon