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Introduction

The idea behind EXECAL Meetings is to offer regular events designed to promote networking and convivial relationships within EXECAL network.

These are meetings between EXECAL members and ECAL students, which take place in principle once a year from 2020.

Guests are selected among ECAL Alumni. To add to the interest of these meetings, guests must be able to offer attractive profiles and careers.

Poster design: Timo Tiffert & Vera Gonzalez-Ponce

EXECAL Evening (Saturday 7 June 2025): strecke records archives 16-22

[Save the date] EXECAL Evening

STRECKE RECORDS ARCHIVES 16-22

With Thibault Villard and the book team

🗓 Saturday 7 June 2025, 16:00-18:00

📍 M.S.B.W.B. (Music Sounds Better With Books)

Place du Tunnel 10, Lausanne

🍷 🥨 Followed by an aperitif in the shop's surroundings.

🇫🇷 In French with free translation into English on request 🇬🇧

📩 Free admission with registration: execal@ecal.ch

📖 strecke records archives 16-22

Published in July 2024

Edition and art direction: Thibault Villard

Graphic design: Timo Tiffert (dirtygraphik)

Publisher and printing: Le Cric print+ edition (Marly, CH)

https://cricprint.ch/strecke-records-archives-16-22/

🏆 Awarded at the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2024 (awarded in 2025)

https://www.themostbeautifulswissbooks.ch

In 2016, a group of friends with a passion for music decide to form a music collective and label in Fribourg, Switzerland. Embracing styles ranging from bass music to hardcore continuum and techno, they released 15 EPs up to 2022, while organising performances, after-parties and concerts.

The wealth of archives presented in this edition reflects a particular period in a small Swiss town and the evolution of the underground circuit. strecke records, based at ‘La Fonderie’, became a meeting point for part of the Swiss electronic scene between 2016 and 2022.

🎓 Thibault Villard obtained his Bachelor's degree in Cinema in 2020.

🔗 Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/thibaultxvvv/

Timo Tiffert obtained his Bachelor's degree in Graphic design in 2021.

🔗 Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/dirtygraphik/

EXECAL who were involved in the project in one way or another:

Mélanie Pastor Courtinat (BA-MID 2017)

Yatoni Roy Cantú (BA-CI 2018 + MA-CI 2022)

Line Chevalley (BA-AV 2018)

Vera Gonzalez-Ponce (BA-DG 2023)

Sven Odermatt (BA-DI 2023)

Virginie Sistek (BA-AV 2021)

Gaël Corboz (BA-PH 2020)

Emilie Fradella (MA-AV 2019)

Luca Kasper (BA-MID 2018)

Poster design: Timo Tiffert & Vera Gonzalez-Ponce

EXECAL Meeting #3 (4 May 2023)

EXECAL Meeting #3

Thursday 4 May 2023, 6:30 pm

ECAL, Leenaards Auditorium

A new design for the Swiss passport

by RETINAA Studio

with Guillaume Peitrequin (ECAL graduate in Bachelor Graphic Design 2009) and Carl Guilhon

18:30 - Presentation in English

19:30 - Lottery, Apéritif

Switzerland’s next-generation passport series was issued late October 2022 by the Federal Office of Police (fedpol). Since 1959, the distinctive red passport is considered as one of the most sophisticated and secure travel documents. Commissioned with the new design, the Geneva-based creative studio RETINAA wanted to honour the tradition of innovation in Swiss graphic arts. In close collaboration with a group of experts led by fedpol, and in cooperation with Thales and Orell Füssli, a bold design was developed that meets the high standards of Swiss security documents and aims to tell a story.

Crédit : RETINAA

Crédit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel

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Crédit : ECAL/Marvin Merkel

Studio RETINAA

EXECAL Meeting #2 (22 March 2022)

After a first edition at the end of February 2020 which was quite successful, the second edition of the EXECAL Meeting took place Tuesday 22 March 2022 at 6.30 pm at the ECAL around the Enabled by Design (EBD) project.

Daphna Glaubert briefly presented the EBD project before handing over to our guests speakers: