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-74), ...

, Switzerland. It was founded in 1821 and is affiliated with the

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland The University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (french: HES-SO Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale) is situated in Western Switzerland. It is formally accredited by the Swiss Accreditation Council. The universit ...

(HES-SO). The designer

Alexis Georgacopoulos Alexis may refer to: People Mononym * Alexis (poet) ( – ), a Greek comic poet * Alexis (sculptor), an ancient Greek artist who lived around the 3rd or 4th century BC * Alexis (singer) (born 1968), German pop singer * Alexis (comics) (1946–19 ...

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 Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdiscipli ...

Industrial Design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advan ...

* Media &

Interaction Design Interaction design, often abbreviated as IxD, is "the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services." Beyond the digital aspect, interaction design is also useful when creating physical (non-digital) produ ...

* 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 Product design as a verb is to create a new product to be sold by a business to its customers. A very broad coefficient and effective generation and development of ideas through a process that leads to new products. Thus, it is a major aspect of n ...

* 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 Inimfon “Ini” Joshua Archibong (born 23 June 1983) is an industrial designer, creative director, artist and musician who is active in product design, furniture design, environmental design, architecture, watch design, and fashion. He has said ...

, 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 Jean-Stéphane Bron (1969-) is a Switzerland, Swiss film director. Born in 1969 in Lausanne, Jean-Stéphane Bron graduated from the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL). After ''Known to Our Departments'' and ''The Way I Look at You'', he dir ...

, 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 Jonas Kamprad (born March 1966) is a London-based Swedish billionaire, the son of IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad. Early life Jonas Kamprad was born in March 1966. He is the 2nd son of IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad. Kamprad studied industrial and fur ...

, Swedish designer and entrepreneur * Fiona Krüger, Watch designer (ECAL adjunct lecturer) *

Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska Maria may refer to: People * Mary, mother of Jesus * Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages Place names Extraterrestrial *170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877 *Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...

, 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 Sarha ( ar, سرحا) is a Syrian village located in Al-Saan Subdistrict in Salamiyah District Salamiyah ( ar, سلمية ') is a district ( mantiqah) administratively belonging to Hama Governorate, Syria. At the 2004 Census it had a population ...

and Levi Dethier), Design studio * Romain Mader, Swiss photographer *

Carolien Niebling Carolien is a Dutch and Swedish feminine given name. It is a feminine form of Carolus, and a diminutive form of Carolina and Caroline. Given names * Carolien Salomons (born 1974), Dutch cricketer *Carolien van Kilsdonk Carolien van Kilsdonk ...

, Dutch designer * Rachel Noël, Swiss film director * Panter & Tourron, Design company *

Léa Pereyre Léa may refer to: People with the given name Léa *Princess Léa of Belgium (born Léa Inga Dora Wolman; 1951), the widow of Prince Alexandre of Belgium and aunt of King Philippe of Belgium * Léa Bouard (born 1996), German freestyle skier * Léa ...

, Dutch costume designer *

Julie Richoz Julie may refer to: * Julie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name Film and television * ''Julie'' (1956 film), an American film noir starring Doris Day * ''Julie'' (1975 film), a Hindi film by K. S. Sethumadhava ...

, Swiss-French designer * Adrien Rovero, Industrial designer * Brynjar Sigurðarson, Icelandic designer * Hongchao Wang, Chinese designer *

Giorgia Zanellato Giorgia Zanellato is an Italian designer of furniture, lighting, household and decorative objects. Biography Giorgia Zanellato was born in Venice. She graduated from the IUAV University in Venice, and then completed a Master's Degree in Prod ...

, Italian designer

Notable faculty

Partial list of ECAL professors: *

Johanna Agerman Ross Johanna is a feminine name, a variant form of Joanna that originated in Latin in the Middle Ages, including an -h- by analogy with the Latin masculine name Johannes. The original Greek form ''Iōanna'' lacks a medial /h/ because in Greek /h/ cou ...

Yves Béhar Yves Béhar (born 1967) is a Swiss-born American designer, entrepreneur, and educator. He is the founder and principal designer of Fuseproject, an industrial design and brand development firm. Béhar is also co-founder and Chief Creative Office ...

* Angelo Benedetto * Camille Blin * Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec * Pierre Charpin * Kim Colin * Alexandra Cunningham Cameron *

Konstantin Grcic Konstantin Grcic ( sr-cyr, Константин грчић, born 1965) is a German industrial designer known for creating mass-manufactured items, such as furniture and household products. He has participated in leading design shows and his work ...

* Marva Griffin * Mette Hay * Jaime Hayon * Anniina Koivu *

Max Lamb Max Lamb (born 1980) is a British furniture designer who combines traditional, often primitive, design methods with digital design. He is known for employing unusual approaches to using natural materials, including pouring pewter onto sand, and v ...

Alberto Meda Alberto Meda is an engineer focusing on design, born in Tremezzina, in the Italian province of Como in 1945. He graduated with a laurea in mechanical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano The Polytechnic University of Milan () is the large ...

* Sabine Marcelis *

Ravi Naidoo Ravi Naidoo (born 12 August 1964) is the founder of Interactive Africa and Design Indaba, an annual three day design conference hosted in Cape Town, South Africa, as well as a suite of events such as Design Commons and antenna. Naidoo is also a ...

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 * Eugenio Perazza *

Alice Rawsthorn Alice Rawsthorn OBE (born 1958 in Manchester) is a British design critic and author. Her books include ''Design as an Attitude'' (2018) and ''Hello World: Where Design Meets Life'' (2013). She is chair of the board of trustees at the Chisenhal ...

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 Deyan Sudjic (born 6 September 1952) is a British writer and broadcaster, specialising in the fields of design and architecture. He was formerly the director of the Design Museum, London.LSE"Advisory board" retrieved 17 May 2013 Life and care ...

* 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 Phaidon Press is a global publisher of books on art, architecture, design, fashion, photography, and popular culture, as well as cookbooks, children's books, and travel books. The company is based in London and New York City, with additional off ...

, 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 The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier that is intended to be unique. Publishers purchase ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency. An ISBN is assigned to each separate edition and ...

978-3-7757-3725-8

Notes and references

External links

Official website

EPFL+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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