Friday 08.05.26

5pm

Book launch: Acid Test 7

Acid Test is a series of small booklets that explores the possibilities of offset printing through a psychedelic lens. The seventh issue consists of an alternative letterbook, created directly on offset plates without the use of digital tools. It was produced by first-year Bachelor students in Visual Communication, under the guidance of Maximage, Soccochico, and Che Huber (Noir sur Noir).

6pm

Book launch: Une clé qui n’ouvre rien by Agathe de Limoges (edited by art&fiction)

Agathe de Limoges's story, winner of the 2025 Laurence Boissier Prize, draws the reader into a contemporary stroll with blurred geographical and temporal boundaries. Written as part of the HEAD – Genève writing workshop, Une clé qui n’ouvre rien (A Key That Opens Nothing) is a delight of raw yet sensitive collages. In this literary urban exploration, the author embarks on a captivating quest where words attempt to grasp reality and give it meaning.

7pm

Book launch : IRL 2 with Olivier LeBrun and friends

After a first issue dedicated to money, IRL – In Real Life, the magazine of the Visual Communication department at HEAD, continues its exploration of the professional realities of graphic design, illustration and digital design. This second volume will be about collective work, its reason to exist, its impulses, its slowness, its joys and sorrows.

9pm

P.A.G.E.S. Party at bar restaurant Les Savoises

Organized by Overshoot, the student collective of the Visual Communication department at HEAD, a surprise themed party will mark the start of the fair!

Saturday 09.05.26

1pm

Book Launch: HEAD Illustration x Le Temps

This presentation will be an opportunity to explain the process behind the new collaboration with Le Temps newspaper, during which second-year Bachelor’s students in Illustration will have illustrated the entire edition of Saturday, May 9, 2026, which will be distributed free of charge at the show

2pm - 6pm

Publishing Speed-Dating

Designed to foster exchanges between publishing professionals and students, artists, graphic designers, and visual creators, this format offers a meeting space where participants can receive critical feedback on creative projects with publication potential.

Session 1: from 2pm to 3pm
Session 2: from 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Session 3: from 5pm to 6pm

Invited publishers:

Mark Pezinger Books – Astrid Seme
Mark Pezinger Books is a Vienna based publisher for artists books run by graphic designer Astrid Seme and artist Thomas Geiger. For them, publishing is a collaborative process that begins with a conversation: shaping a raw idea through design, editing, and production techniques, and bringing it to audiences through distribution. At the core of their practice is a strong commitment to experimental approaches that turn ideas into tangible, thought-provoking publications.

Kodoji Press – Winfried Heininger
Kodoji Press is an independent, non-profit-oriented art book publishing project based in Baden, Switzerland. Founded in 2007 by designer Winfried Heininger, Kodoji Press focuses on young contemporary art and photography and is defined by an artist-centric perspective. It offers a communicative platform for projects by artists whose work responds to the complexities of contemporary society and culture.

Jungle Books – Larissa Kasper, Rosario Florio, Samuel Bänziger
Jungle Books is an independent publisher specializing in contemporary visual arts. They focus on Swiss art and architecture as well as conveying knowledge about these subjects in Switzerland and internationally. They aim to create new works in close cooperation with artists, designers, authors, and publishers. Jungle Books was founded by Samuel Bänziger, Rosario Florio, Olivier Hug and Larissa Kasper.

Quintal – Clémentine Zwahlen
Quintal is a joyful mix: a publishing house, a print studio, and a bookshop-gallery specialized in risography printing, based in Paris’s 20th arrondissement. Quintal prints, publishes, and distributes editions independently.

Registrations here

3pm

Spinorama exhibition’s guided tour

Spinorama is an exhibition by Aslak Gurholt and Fraser Muggeridge that explores the often-overlooked book spine. Featuring over 100 examples from various genres, it highlights the spine’s creative and visual importance beyond its structural role.
Fraser Muggeridge studio / The Everyday Press aka Bunker Basement

6pm

Book launch: Couriller Gribourir by Stanyslas Leray (edited by Quintal)

A project begun on the occasion of the Geneva Half Marathon 2024. Each landscape is painted from memory following a training run for this race. 37 runs, 37 landscapes, 37 places between Geneva and Strasbourg.
Stanyslas Leray graduated with a bachelor's degree in Illustration at HEAD in 2024.