Design

Intense and unexpected

Student portrait Merlin Zuni Merlin Zuni is a user experience designer studying towards an MAS Strategic Design. He considers continuous learning not simply a ...

New energy for old buildings

Thermal photographs like these are often the starting point for renovation. The research project “Renovating buildings, yes! But how?” is contributing to the s...

Until plasma burns

The Swiss Plasma Center of EPFL in Lausanne is researching the future of electricity. In the thick of things is David Simon, an MA Transdisciplinary Studies stu...

Well beyond Pac-Man

Video games have gone from a niche product to a mass phenomenon in a very short time. An exhibition at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich offers insights into t...

An overdose of globules

The new diploma look has it all: the Toni disappears in an overdose of globules. Four design students designed the concept used to advertise the ZHdK diploma co...

Top of Zett Online 2022

The five most-read Zett articles in 2022 Once again this year, the university magazine Zett has portrayed students and lecturers and presented their exciting p...

Designing an inclusive future

All texts were drawn by FINTA* people (women, inter, nonbinary, trans and agender). The selection shows works from Europe, South America and the Caucasus. Quot...

Global Design?

In her painting “Kapsalon Wonder,” Ellen Gallagher works through the historical entanglements of industry, colonialism and design in global modernity. Detail, ...