HEAD Student Exhibitions

The Visual Communication department at HEAD is made up of four branches that represent the broad cross-disciplinary nature of this field in design. The following exhibitions highlight the work as well as the various approaches of our students around publishing and print.

Bachelor Visual Communication

The Bachelor in Visual Communication trains tomorrow’s graphic designers through the study of major disciplines of the field: editorial design, space design, visual identity, interaction design. Three editorial projects will be presented:

Les couvertures de livres, une histoire graphique
During the class on Editorial Design given by Xavier Erni and Coline Sunier, our students worked on Clémence Imbert’s book Les couvertures de livres, une histoire graphique to propose personal reinterpretations. Through this works, they explored the graphic and narrative stakes of the cover as well as the layout.

Latitude Longitude – collaboration between HEAD – Genève & UMPRUM
Latitude Longitude is a series of two collaborative workshops bringing together 44 Graphic Design students from the Visual Communication departments of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM) and the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD – Genève) who took place in the Czech Republic in November 2025 for the first phase, and in Switzerland in April 2026 for the second one.

Generative Design
As part of the Generative Design course supervised by Anette Lenz, Nicolas Baldran and Noémie Besset, second-year students explored the creation and composition of posters through the practice of experimental code.

Bachelor Illustration

The Bachelor in Illustration focuses on practices involving image storytelling, illustration, comics and animation. Two collective projects will be presented:

HEAD Illustration x Le Temps
For this new collaboration with Le Temps, students in their second year of the Bachelor of Illustration will illustrate the entire edition of Saturday 9th of May’s newspaper, which will be distributed free of charge at the fair.

Workshop Harmen Liemburg
These editions, printed in screen printing, were created by Bachelor of Illustration students during a workshop with Harmen Liemburg in 2024.

Master Media Design

The Media Design master addresses interaction design, digital storytelling, games, immersive experiences and interactive installations. Three diploma projects will be on display:

Magic House by Lauren Thiel
An interactive exhibition transforming the participants’ drawings into a film projected in real time. In the form of a small bright house on wheels, this project captures drawings made on the ground and instantly assembles them into animation.

Meta Stories de Tammara Leites
Meta stories is a publishing house promoting work from AI writers which create fictional stories from human, personal data. Stories of the vernacular is a series of books written by the first published AI writer, Simon. Meta stories explores the notions of privacy and data persistence shaping our relationship with every-day, data-collection algorithms.

Typo Hunt de Ares Pedroli
Typo Hunt is a mobile app that transforms the walking through the city into a typographic treasure hunt. This project invites participants to discover letters, logos, vintage signs, modern graffiti and unique characters: gems of urban typography whose beauty has somewhat faded over time.

Master Visual Knowledge

The new Visual Knowledge master trains students to design clear, coherent and innovative visual systems adapted to various contents. A selection of work done during the first year course will be exhibited.