Cinema, BA in Cinema, Fine arts, BA in Fine arts, Space design, BA in Interior design, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, BA in Product Design/Jewellery and Accessory, Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication

05.03.2021

ISSUE #6 – Talking Words

Creative writing practices at HEAD – Genève

The HEAD offers various workshops devoted to writing in art and design, and this feature looks at writing practices at the school through student productions and interviews with two specialists: Carla Demierre…

Fine arts, BA in Fine arts, Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication

03.03.2021

The joy of writing and rewriting

An interview with Carla Demierre and Fabienne Radi

While remote teaching has momentarily transformed their common creative writing course into a podcast, Fabienne Radi and Carla Demierre nonetheless advocate for experiential learning: the experience of reading, writing and rewriting beyond…

Fine arts, BA in Fine arts, Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication

01.03.2021

Writing and its many voices

A selection of students’ writings

This selection of works by students and alumni from the HEAD’s creative writing workshops testifies to the vitality and diversity of ways in which a text can be rendered. The variety of…

Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication, Image/Story major

14.01.2021

Once upon a time

Interview with Annie A. Marca

For her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication, Annie a Marca authored a comic book with stylised illustrations, frightening lights and looming cast shadows. This variation on Perrault’s tale Little Red Riding Hood…

Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication, Image/Story major

04.01.2021

Brilliant tiny tragedies

Self published works by Julietta Saccardi and Dorodea Leone

Over the course of a workshop, Bachelor students majoring in Image/Story created artist’s books they individually produced, which were intended to be presented at the P.A.G.E.S. book fair. Comic books, leporello books,…

Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication

05.11.2020

Inclusive typography

An interview with graphic designer Tristan Bartolini

For his Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Communication, Tristan Bartolini developed a new system of typographic characters which transcends gender binarism in the French language. Bartolini redesigned characters from an existing font, Laurenz…

Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication, Image/Story major

26.11.2019

Some fragments of conversation

An interview with Jeff Délez

Discourse around comics is often dominated by the question of drawing. Freshly graduated after majoring in Image/Story, Jeff Délez embarked on an experiment in which issues relating to decoupage are of paramount…

Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication, Image/Story major

01.10.2019

Head voices IV – Tomi Ungerer

In discussion with Thérèse Willer

Every month, Ambroise Tièche unearths a notable lecture given at the HEAD – Genève during its history, from past to present. Most of the video recordings he uses have never been made…

Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication, Image/Story major

12.09.2019

This is not a test

About SUV by Helge Reumann

Helge Reumann published his new comic book SUV at the Editions Atrabile in 2019. Benjamin Stroun, Reuman’s colleague at the HEAD’s Image/Story major, dedicated a text to him in which he looks…

Cinema, Visual communication, BA in Visual Communication, Image/Story major

19.04.2019

Talking Heads – Claude Barras

It took Claude Barras ten years to complete his first full-length animation film My Life as a Courgette (2016), which tells the story of a young, round-faced, big-eyed orphan boy. The film…