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…
This edition features a selection of thesis completed in 2019 and 2020 in the HEAD – Genève's different Master’s orientations. The selection is a testimony to the diversity of issues at stake,…
Head to head is a series of filmed portraits of teachers, researchers, artists and designers active at the HEAD – Genève. The portraits allow them to speak about their often brilliant careers…
For most of us nowadays, taking a photograph usually consists of tapping a smartphone screen, setting off a series of operations which lead to a ready-to-share image for social media. The angle,…
This Media Design thesis by Mathilde Buénerd, defended in 2019, explores autocompletion, the omnipresent tools which help device users write their daily text messages or complete online forms. Starting from a reflection…
This 2020 Media Design Master’s thesis is dedicated to the design space for Arabic letter-forms in motion. It is an excellent introduction to the subject, which François Harik tackles from the angle…
Has the dominant tendency of neural networks (deep learning) drained all artificial intelligence cultures? In the field of creation, and more specifically design, how can we anticipate, if not derail, the uses…
In this interview with Charlotte Laubard, the French anthropologist and India and Hinduism specialist Emmanuel Grimaud revisits some of the fascinating experiments and cinematographic research in which he tackled the inter-subjective borders…
At the core of this issue is Charlotte Laubard’s exhibition, Études sur l’empathie. Laubard organised Études sur l’empathie at the Fondation Ricard in Paris in 2019, gathering together fourteen HEAD artist students…
In his Media Design Master’s Thesis, Simon Pinkas analysed the rise of outrage culture on social media, studying significant recent cases in which true or false information triggered important – and sometimes…