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A type foundry founded by Eliott Grunewald, dedicated to ornamental and display typefaces that merge advanced technology with traditional craftsmanship. Each release is driven by a distinct concept and designed for strong visual impact across a wide range of applications. Beyond the catalogue, the foundry offers custom type commissions and branding work.The site serves as both a showcase and a sto… →

A website showcasing the collaboration between ECAL and MIT Department of Architecture. The project explored networked physical interfaces as a form of digital pedagogy, enabling design and creation with limited material resources, away from traditional studio and workshop settings.Students designed paired electronic objects from simple, readily available materials, dynamically routed and connecte… →

Switzerland's first digital type foundry, founded in 1993 by Cornel Windlin and Stephan Müller, now connecting an international roster of independently working designers and art directors. The library reflects a distinctly authorial approach to type design, rooted in graphic design practice and grown into a reference for both independent studios and global corporations (Spotify, Google, Nike, Herm… →

A landing page for a foundation dedicated to preserving and sharing the alternative press of the 1960s through the 1980s (militant posters, underground zines, political ephemera, utopian architectural blueprints) built around the collection of Ramdane Touhami and Émile Shahidi. →

The public website of Photo Elysée, Lausanne's cantonal museum for photography and one of the most significant institutions dedicated to the medium internationally. Housed within Plateforme 10 alongside mudac and MCBA, the museum holds over 1.2 million phototypes spanning from 1840s processes to contemporary digital work.The site structures the museum's full public-facing activity (exhibitions, ev… →

The digital home of a 150-hectare wine estate on a promontory entirely surrounded by Lake Lugano. The site presents the estate's exceptional terroir (south-facing terraced vineyards on volcanic pink porphyry between 400 and 500 metres above sea level), its organic viticultural philosophy, and a family history spanning four generations.An online wine shop accompanies the multilingual editorial cont… →

A bilingual site for the Laboratorio di Autoricerca di Base (LAB), a private research structure founded in Ticino, Switzerland, dedicated to fundamental research in physics and consciousness studies. The LAB pursues a pluralist approach, bridging third-person scientific inquiry with first-person inner investigation (autoricerca), and supports its mission through seminars, courses, conferences, and… →

The second-largest art museum in the canton of Vaud, housed in a neoclassical building on the shores of Lake Geneva since 1897. Its collections span six centuries of drawing, printmaking, and painting (over 40,000 prints, 11,000 drawings, and 1,600 paintings) including one of Switzerland's five most important graphic arts cabinets and the world's largest body of works by Oskar Kokoschka.The trilin… →

An exhibition presenting the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy" in Muharraq, Bahrain. The project documents a culturally-led urban development effort: the rehabilitation of architectural and urban heritage, the conservation of the last original shoreline and three oyster beds, and the perpetuation of the pearling narrative through an incremental process that cont… →

Portfolio site for Ludovic Schober Architectes, a practice rooted in the Vaud region with a commitment to context-driven architecture. The work spans private commissions and competitions across varied scales and programs, guided by a principle of sobriety (reinterpreting local tradition and materiality rather than pursuing formal spectacle).The site presents the body of built and competition work … →

Collaboration on the re-imagining and implementation of the immersive UI layer of Journee, a Berlin-based metaverse platform. The work focused on bringing depth, transparency, reflections, and motion into the HUD elements rendered seamlessly within the 3D experience, pushing past the flat interface conventions typical of real-time web environments. →

Multilingual website for Ticino's first Merlot collective. Twelve independent winemakers joined in their love for the territory's historical varietal, grown on the terraced vineyards where Mediterranean and Alpine climates meet. A vibrant frame in which their story is told and the public is invited to a unique collection of their best wines. →

A multilingual website for a Ticino-based association promoting culture, knowledge, and social innovation. The space hosts research, coworking, and community programs out of a converted building in Barbengo. →

A portfolio and reference site for Swiss type and graphic designer Philippe Karrer, whose practice spans book design, visual identities, and new media. The site presents an extensive body of work developed in collaboration with cultural institutions, artists, and researchers (Kunstmuseum Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Museum Rietberg, among others), alongside Spheres Projects, a publishing initiative p… →

A multilingual independent journalism platform covering Brazilian music, culture, and urban life. Directed by Cesário Mello Franco with a network of young writers and experienced journalists, the publication recovers the freshness and good humor of old-style newspapers for a readership spread across the world.The site organizes articles, video, music, and a cultural calendar across Portuguese, Spa… →

A portfolio for Swiss photographer Jonas Marguet, whose work balances mastery and spontaneity across editorial and personal projects, with regular collaborations for publications such as Le Monde d'Hermès, M le Monde, Patek Philippe Magazine, and The Plant Journal. The site presents the work in a bold, minimal layout that stays out of the way of the photography. →

The main website for the Académie de Meuron, Neuchâtel's visual arts school. Founded in 1952 as an open artists' atelier, the school has since trained over 1500 students in fine arts and applied arts disciplines. The bilingual site presents the academy's programs, public courses, and regional collaborations, reflecting the identity of a human-scale institution housed in a former brewery alongside … →

A web platform created for the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, exploring its social, technical, cultural, and legal history through interactive timelines. Starting from Tim Berners-Lee's 1989 hypertext proposal at CERN (originally named "Information Mesh") the platform traces thirty years of evolution across multiple thematic layers.The site collects the projects made by Media & Interactio… →

A typographic speech visualization tool that translates voice into written compositions in real time. An interactive web application, coupled with a specifically developed scalable typeface, captures variations in intonation, rhythm and pitch to generate dynamic typographic layouts directly from speech. →

Code-driven typographic animations for Optimo, a Geneva-based type foundry publishing contemporary typefaces drawn by influential designers. Each animation explores the identity and character of a specific typeface through motion, revealing formal qualities that static specimens cannot. →

Portfolio site for Luca Sassoli de Bianchi, an interaction designer and creative coder working across interactive installations, generative visuals, game design, animation, and web development. The practice sits at the intersection of art, design, and programming, with a particular interest in experimental and playful digital experiences.A lightweight, single-page portfolio that lets the work (vid… →

2019 edition of the annual competition organized by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, rewarding excellence in book design across the country since 1943. Each year, an international jury evaluates around 400 submitted titles on concept, typography, graphic design, print quality, and binding craftsmanship (no cash prizes, no ranking among winners).The website presents the awarded books and jury r… →

An interactive timeline marking the 125th anniversary of École hôtelière de Lausanne. The project is developed in collaboration with 1st year students in BA Media & Interaction Design. →