INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Diplomas
with Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard, Chris Kabel, Elric Petit
Bachelor Industrial Design diploma's projects, 2018
Projects
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
More Rules for Modern Life
with Christophe Guberan, Stéphane Kropf
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
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Les Teintureries
with Adrien Rovero
3rd year Bachelor Industrial Design students immersed themselves in the adaptation of the text by Denis Kelly: L’abattage rituel de Gorge Mastromas, staged by Gabriel Dufay, in order to design a scenography in accordance with the play of actors and thanks to simple and perceptible means by the public. This play will be performed at the Théâtre de Vidy by the students of the Lausanne Theater School – Les Teintureries, as part of their diplomas.
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ECAL Oasis
with Adrien Rovero
On the occasion of the Designers’ Saturday in Langenthal, the third-year Bachelor Industrial Design students have created, under the lead of Adrien Rovero, an experimental and immersive space with floorings made in collaboration with Swiss carpet manufacturer Ruckstuhl.
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Model, model, model
with Michel Charlot
This exercise aimed to sharpen the eyes of students to the objects around them and take more precisely aware of the formal quality of these. In the manner of a classic design course, they have to reproduce 3D objects 1: 1 as faithfully and intelligently as possible through models. Photos ECAL/Sébastien Cluzel
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Manifesto
with Camille Blin
Students were asking to create their own manifesto through tools or ustenciles they to develop a «signature» item.
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Tôle pliée
with Luc Bergeron
The project goal was to develop a range of 3 items of bent sheet metal, such as for industrial manufacturing. The expectations of this project were coherence of detail depending on the material and manufacturing methods. It could be objects for office, backyard, kitchen, workshop, etc.
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Sac – Papier – Ciseaux
with Stéphane Halmaï-Voisard
With the project Sac – Papier – Ciseaux , the students of 1 st year Bachelor Industrial Design have aimed to draw "a storage space that is transported on its back which places the weight of its contents on the shoulders through braces", more commonly known as a backpack.