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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…