05.01.2020
Talking Heads – Jonas Voegeli
Zurich-based art director Jonas Voegeli was a guest at a Talking Heads conference on October 15th, 2019, where he presented a series of books created with the Hubertus Design studio. These award-winning…
Category : Visual communication
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…
22.10.2019
Ethnography through design
We are sharing a paper originally co-authored by Lysianne Léchot-Hirt and Nicolas Nova for the scientific periodical Techniques & Culture. The paper describes how the “creation-research” approach used by designers constitutes a…
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…
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…
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…
01.03.2019
Éclairer les recoins
An interview with Jean-Christophe Menu
Passing through Geneva in 2018, the comic-book author and founder of the independent publishing houses L’Association and L’Apocalypse Jean-Christophe Menu sat down with Clément Paurd to talk about his obsessions. Menu explains…
Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
08.01.2019
Jean-Pierre Greff – Foreword
Jean-Pierre Greff, the HEAD – Geneva’s director, returns to the founding of the school’s interdisciplinary project, and of the AC/DC (contemporary art/contemporary design) symposium, a cornerstone event for the school in 2007.…
Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
19.12.2018
Mark Wigley
The architect and design theorist Mark Wigley has engaged in a re-evaluation of the notion of design, so as to uncover some of the features that led mankind to design its own…
Cinema, Fashion Design, Jewellery and Accessory, Fine arts, Research Institute for Art and Design, Space design, Visual communication
18.12.2018
A people is missing – Extension du régime potentiel
Our age has been described as the age of winter – an ice age for possibilities. Faced with this ‘crisis of the future’ that the early 21st century is undergoing, Les Impatients…