The École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) is a university of art and design located in the
Renens
Renens ( ) is a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. It is located in the district of Ouest Lausannois, and is a suburb of the city of Lausanne. It is the fourth largest city in the canton. It is considered a very multiethnic town, a ...
suburb of
Lausanne
, neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR ...
, Switzerland. It was founded in 1821 and is affiliated with the
(HES-SO). The designer
Alexis Georgacopoulos is the director of ECAL.
Studies
ECAL offers a foundation year, bachelor's, master's, and master's in advanced studies degrees in different fields.
Foundation year
Bachelor
* Visual Arts
* Cinema
*
Graphic Design
*
Industrial Design
* Media &
Interaction Design
* Photography
Master
* Visual Arts
*
Film Studies
Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies.
...
, in collaboration with the Haute Ecole d'Art et Design (HEAD) in Geneva
*
Product Design
* Photography
*
Type Design
Type design is the art and process of designing typefaces. This involves drawing each letterform using a consistent style. The basic concepts and design variables are described below.
A typeface differs from other modes of graphic production su ...
* HES-So Innokick (Integrated Innovation for Product & Business Development)
Master of Advanced Studies
* Design for Luxury & Craftsmanship
* Design Research in Digital Innovation
Notable alumni
Graduates of ECAL include:
*
Fabrice Aragno, Swiss director, producer, and cinematographer
*
Ini Archibong, Swiss-American artist and designer (ECAL adjunct lecturer)
* BIG-GAME (Augustin Scott de Martinville, Elric Petit, and Grégoire Jeanmonod), Design company
* Thilo Alex Brunner, Swiss industrial designer
*
Jean-Stéphane Bron, Swiss actor and film director
* Michel Charlot, Swiss industrial designer
*
Jung-You Choi, Korean designer (Luxury & Craftsmanship)
* Alexis Georgacopoulos (ECAL director)
* Christophe Guberan, Swiss product designer
* Moisés Hernández, Mexican designer
*
Carmen Jaquier, Swiss film director
*
Jonas Kamprad, Swedish designer and entrepreneur
*
Fiona Krüger, Watch designer (ECAL adjunct lecturer)
*
Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska, Polish designer (Office for Design and Research)
*
Bertille Laguet, Swiss product designer
* Nicolas Le Moigne, Swiss designer (ECAL faculty)
*
Namsa Leuba, Swiss-Guinean art director and photographer
*
Catherine Leutenegger, Swiss artist and photographer
* LeviSarha (
Sarha Duquesne and Levi Dethier), Design studio
* Romain Mader, Swiss photographer
*
Carolien Niebling, Dutch designer
*
Rachel Noël, Swiss film director
* Panter & Tourron, Design company
*
Léa Pereyre, Dutch costume designer
*
Julie Richoz, Swiss-French designer
* Adrien Rovero, Industrial designer
* Brynjar Sigurðarson, Icelandic designer
* Hongchao Wang, Chinese designer
*
Giorgia Zanellato, Italian designer
Notable faculty
Partial list of ECAL professors:
*
Johanna Agerman Ross
*
Yves Béhar
* Angelo Benedetto
* Camille Blin
*
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
* Pierre Charpin
*
Kim Colin
*
Alexandra Cunningham Cameron
*
Konstantin Grcic
*
Marva Griffin
*
Mette Hay
*
Jaime Hayon
*
Anniina Koivu
*
Max Lamb
*
Alberto Meda
*
Sabine Marcelis
*
Ravi Naidoo
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*
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is a Swiss art curator, critic, and historian of art. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of ''The Interview Project'', an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is ...
*
Jonathan Olivares
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Eugenio Perazza
*
Alice Rawsthorn
*
Inga Sempé
Inga Sempé (born 1968) is a French designer and constructor of technical items, who designs furniture, lamps and other design objects for manufacturers like Ligne Roset, Alessi und Baccarat. She was awarded the Red Dot Design Award in 2007.
...
*
Wieki Somers
*
Deyan Sudjic
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Life and caree ...
* Alexander Taylor
*
Skylar Tibbits
*
Patricia Urquiola
* Sebastian Wrong
Publications
* Georgacopoulos, A.,
Olivares, J. The ECAL Manual of Style: How to best teach design today? London:
Phaidon Press, 2022.
* Georgacopoulos, A., Benedetto A., Rappo, F. ECAL Graphic Design. Geneva, Switzerland: JRP Editions S.A., 2016.
* Georgacopoulos, A., Herschdorfer, N. Keller, M., Broomberg, A. ECAL Photography. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. 2013.
ISBN 978-3-7757-3725-8
See also
*
List of universities in Switzerland
This list of universities in Switzerland lists all public and private higher education institutions accredited and coordinated according the ''Federal Act on Funding and Coordination of the Swiss Higher Education Sector'' (short: Federal Higher ...
*
List of art schools
The following is a list of notable art schools.
Accredited non-profit art and design colleges
* Adelaide Central School of Art
* Alberta College of Art and Design
* Art Academy of Cincinnati
* Art Center College of Design
* The Art Institut ...
*
List of institutions offering type design education
Notes and references
External links
Official websiteEPFL+ECAL Lab(
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne design research and innovation centre)
The ECAL Manual of Style, How to best teach design today?(Exhibition at the
Vitra Design Museum
The Vitra Design Museum is a privately owned museum for design in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
Former Vitra CEO, and son of Vitra founders Willi and Erika Fehlbaum, Rolf Fehlbaum founded the museum in 1989 as an independent private foundation. The ...
)
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Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland
Art schools in Switzerland
Film schools in Switzerland
Swiss design