HSLU - Design & Art: 212 graduates receive diploma
On Saturday, July 1, 2017, 212 graduates of Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Design & Art received their bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
The design and art graduates of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts were able to receive their diplomas during the Werkschau 2017 at the Lucerne Exhibition Center. This year, 165 women and men graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Animation, Video, Camera Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration (fiction and nonfiction), Object Design, Textile Design, Art & Communication, and Design Management, International. Forty-seven students received master's degrees, including 17 in the master's of art with two specializations, Art in Public Spheres and Art Teaching. A total of 212 graduated.
At the graduation ceremony at the Lucerne Exhibition Center, seven prizes were awarded for particularly outstanding theses and one special prize.
The Zeugindesign Foundation awarded four promotional prizes of 4,000 Swiss francs each and a special prize of 2,000 Swiss francs. The promotional prizes went to:
Nando Wespi from Bern (Bachelor Object Design) for his armchair "Wipp", which does without upholstery but is still comfortable.
Samuel Shoemaker from Hettlingen ZH (Bachelor Illustration fiction) for his web comic "Sackgass"; a story about love, family roots and growing up.
Marie Schumann from Germany (Master Design, specialization Textiles) for her work "Softspace". These are textile space objects, which are spanned by filigree threads.
Laura Bertelli from Olten SO (Bachelor Video) for the short film "ParaVisum". In it, a young woman encounters her own eroticism, vanity and transience in her daydreams. The special prize was awarded to:
Kilian Vilim from Basel (Bachelor Animation) for "Ooze", a black-and-white film about a lonely elevator boy who is driven to the limits of his sanity by the lack of human closeness on the job.
The prize of the Alan C. Harris Foundation & Mrs. Else Harris née Treumann, endowed with 3,000 Swiss francs, is awarded to a graduate of the Master of Arts program. This year Nicolas Witschi from Brig-Glis VS received the prize. His work "Der Tunnel" (The Tunnel), which was exhibited in the Fremdenspital Altdorf, consists of semi-transparent epoxy resin panels. In order to obtain the pigments with which Witschi painted the plates, he spent months collecting and crushing stones from this region, which was shaped by the Gotthard Tunnel.
The Bachelor Award 2017 of the Swiss Design Association (SDA) honors outstanding diploma students of the partner universities of the SDA. The prize money is 500 Swiss francs and a three-year free youth membership at the SDA worth 190 Swiss francs per year. This year's prize winner is Clara Sollberger from Bern (Bachelor Textile Design) with her work "Flagge bekennen". To symbolize Switzerland's diversity, she designed scarves that combine the Swiss flag and the national flags of those countries represented by the foreign population in Switzerland.
The "Design & Art/Alumni Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts" sponsorship prize of 2,017 Swiss francs for a Bachelor's thesis was awarded to Samuel Patthey from Marly FR (Bachelor Animation). In his film "Travelogue Tel Aviv" he processed the impressions from his stay in the Israeli metropolis.
At the vernissage of the diploma exhibition on June 23, two awards, each endowed with 5,000 Swiss francs, have already been presented: The prize of the Max von Moos Foundation for an outstanding work in the Master Art went to Livia Müller from Buttisholz LU for the installation "Invasion of the Schwabbels". Alexander Schlosser from Lucerne, who is of German origin, received the Master Design promotional award for the route planner app "Compass".
