ECAL A Typographic Atlas
Opening: Thu. 09.04. 5pm
Exhibition: 09.04.–09.05.2026
Opening Hours: Tue.-Fri. 14:00-18:00 & by appointment
>>> Part of the Museum Night on 09.05.2026: open 18:00-24:00
A travelling exhibition from ECAL (University of Art and Design Lausanne), with a contribution developed in collaboration with the HGB Leipzig Type Design class, Atlas gives an overview of what type design is, what it can do visually, and how letterforms are used in everyday life.
We are surrounded by type every day, yet few people think about the designers who draw the letterforms. In a setting inspired by the frames letterpress printers used to dry their freshly printed sheets, the exhibition is conceived to be accessible to a wider audience, not only specialists, and showcases experimental letterforms, extensive type families and multiple scripts. Atlas then continues as a travelling exhibition, with presentations in Italy, Canada, the USA and Switzerland.
Atlas is going to be continued as travelling exhibition in:
Turin – Circolo del Design
New York – The Cooper Union
Montreal – UQAM
Los Angeles – HMCT Gallery
Paris – Program/me
Lausanne – ECAL
Tokyo – SKWAT Kameari Art Centre
A co-operation of the ECAL with the HGB Type Design Class and the HGB Gallery.
The gallery of the Academy of Fine Art sees itself as a membrane between the interior and exterior of the institution. The gallery's aim is to supplement and extend both the teaching contents and practices of the various departments as well as making a contribution to current inquiries in the arts, thereby establishing connections between internal and external discussions and - being situated in the centre of the academy - offering a social and discursive place for carrying out such debates. In the framework of the academy's specific capabilities, the gallery affords students, lecturers, invited artists, curators and theoreticians an experimental and reflective form of exhibition practice that can incorporate, beyond the presentations themselves, the active involvement with the exhibition and the reworking and reformulating discursive material.