Spotlight on… (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 ...

Host and translator

Student portrait Bamna Dadashzadeh Ghasabeh Interaction design student Bamna Dadashzadeh Ghasabeh uses design as a basis for initiating new discourses and embr...

Reconstructing identity

Student portrait Ludovica Galleani d’Agliano For Ludovica Galleani d’Agliano, design is an important tool for raising awareness about socially relevant issues....

No fear of programming

Student portrait Natasha Sebben For Natasha Sebben, game design first and foremost means telling stories. The game design student also lets her players be test...

Making unheard voices heard

Student portrait Elay Leuthold Elay Leuthold wants his audiovisual stories to inspire and make people think. He is not afraid to address socio-political topics...

Programming as design process

Florian Bruggisser designs a prototype to give nature a new form of communication. Photograph: Alan Maag © ZHdK Computer scientist, light artist, founder of...

Things for dying

“We repress death and are afraid of dying. Design can help us to see dying as a part of life.” Bitten Stetter teaches and researches in this area. Photographs:...

The urge to create something

Student Portrait Cherry-Ann Davis Cherry-Ann Davis is a graphic designer from Trinidad and Tobago and expresses her views of the world through visual communica...