automaticostudio

We designed the New Year card for EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), the most cosmopolitan of all European technical universities. Taking inspiration from its central building, designed by SANAA architects , this card is an homage to the use of paper and its sculptural and haptic qualities. A metaphoric journey into EPFL architecture where the organic shapes of the building, cut-out from the paper, creates unexpected overlap and surprising shadow effects.

Thanks to for producing 7.000 copies in record time.

JOHANNES & ALAN
A workshop of algorithmic typography

Designers Demian Conrad and Alex Dujet co-organised a workshop in technology-aided typography at the HEAD the Geneva University of Art and Design . The aim of the workshop was to use the synergies between analogue and digital in the production of lettering for prints which fell within the field of concrete poetry. It was a matter of determining how a composition made with an algorithm can affect the layout of a manual composition and how manual metal typesetting changes coding in graphic design.

You can read more info in the article from Issue Journal (in French) :
https://issue-journal.ch/flux-posts/joannes-alan/

The workshop was led by Demian Conrad and Alex Dujet
Assisted by Charles Chalas .ch, Pierre-Alain Geisser and David Heritier

Students:
Paul Mégroz, Gabriel Shields, Nathan Pedroni, Matilde Ravano, Laura Reynard, Valentin Bonzon, Alice Moor, Colin Aymon, Iman Jacquat, Yasmine Nabli, Johan Pardo, Gabriel Abergel and Clement Chavanne.

Photos:
Baptiste Coulon / HEAD – Geneva