Workshops / Weltformat Graphic Design Festival 2026

Am Workshopsonntag können sich Besuchende neue Skills aneignen oder in die Welt von renommierten Gestaltenden eintauchen. Alle sind willkommen – unabhängig von Erfahrung oder Vorwissen. Die vier- bis siebenstündigen Skill-Workshops bieten den Teilnehmenden einen Startschuss in ein neues Programm, Arbeitsmethodik oder Fachgebiet. Die «Work like» Workshops bieten Raum für Experimente und ermöglichen einen engen Austausch mit den Workshopleitenden. Zudem wird ein gemeinsamer Networking zMittag angeboten.
Hier kannst Du gleich den zMittag buchen.

On Workshop Sunday, visitors can learn new skills or immerse themselves in the world of renowned designers. Everyone is welcome - regardless of experience or previous knowledge. The four- to seven-hour skills workshops offer participants an introduction to a new program, working method, or area of expertise. The 'work like' workshops offer space for experimentation and close dialogue with the workshop leaders. A networking lunch is also offered.
You can book the lunch right here.

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Work like Chloé Pannatier / ENG / 9:30 – 17:00 / 20 People
This workshop will take the poster as a site of experimentation. Merging analog approach with digital processing, participants will explore visual sampling and experiment around noise and rhythm in a visual and synesthetic approach. Working from raw material, we will see how we can transform apparent accidental moments into intentional design.

Chloé Pannatier is a graphic designer based in Lausanne. With projects mainly rooted in culture, she creates identities in the fields of architecture, music, and contemporary art among others. Her practice of creating sensory imagery coexists with the precision of typographic conception stemming from the Swiss design tradition.

 

Work like Eurostandard / ENG / 9:30 – 17:00 / 20 People
Based on the principle of (ITO) Input → Transformation → Output → (Feedback) in the context of visual creation, this workshop centers on the research conducted by the Eurostandard collective, which aims to examine how we perceive and produce visual content today. This workshop will be a playground for visual experimentation and serve as the foundation for a collaborative experiment.

Eurostandard is the name of our common design practice. We studied Graphic Design in Switzerland and grew up between CH and FR. In our daily practice, we work within the cultural field with other designers, artists, institutions, or researchers. We try not to repeat what we have already experienced. We see graphic design as a tool for exchange and communication; we strive to highlight and foster connections between people by experimenting and combining all the elements at our disposal to create specific visual languages. We cherish the idea of experimenting with different tools and approaches.

 

Work like Monica Müller / ENG / 9:30 – 17:00 / 20 People
Who creates the symbols that shape public opinion? In this workshop, participants will design a visual language for a cause they believe in—or one that has yet to find its voice. Through posters, banners, coding, editorial design, interactive design and other forms of graphic communication, we will explore how design can challenge dominant narratives, build collective identities, and transform ideas into symbols that people can carry, share, and act upon.

Monica Müller is a designer based in Switzerland working in the field of graphic and visual communication, with a focus on editorial design, visual identity, and data visualization. Her practice revolves around the development of visual systems, publications, and printed matter for cultural institutions, socio-cultural projects, educational initiatives and festivals. Trained at ECAL in Lausanne, she has collaborated with Swiss and Italian studios and works across different cultural contexts, including as a designer for the Locarno Film Festival. She currently works as a graphic designer at CCRZ. 

 

Work like Anna Wacławek / ENG / 9:30 – 17:00 / 20 People
Landscape is the layout. Excercises in graphic design through worldbuilding. – In this workshop we’ll try to explore how perception of our surroundings can translate into designs. We’ll think of the ways to look more carefully, catch wider perspectives, collect the views, textures and translate them into a message. We’ll try few exercises with image making and type, and put our ponderings into a zine-poster format.

Anna Wacławek (b. 1996.07.10, in Gdańsk, Poland) - graphic artist and designer with special love for paper matter. She holds Master's Degree in Graphics, done at E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. She's interested in materiality, geology, social design and music. She likes to think that everything is slightly connected.

 

Express Posters with Studio Bollo / ENG / 9:30 – 17:00 / 14 People
As time for design and delivery is always limited in a graphic designer’s practice, this workshop focuses on the daily challenge of quickly creating expressive design work while communicating a clear message. To achieve visual impact, you will learn how to use typography as a powerful tool to capture attention through rhythm, repetition, distortion, collage, and boldness. Finally, the goal is to create a collection of typographic experiments presented as a poster series.

Tobias Bolliger, known as Bollo, is the founder and creative director of Studio Bollo. His interdisciplinary design practice operates at the intersection of graphic design, music, art, and culture, creating visual identities, posters, artworks, websites, and typefaces. His work focuses on experimental typographic arrangements and kinetic design systems in interaction with sound. In this context, he understands graphic design as both an applied communicative practice and a form of contemporary expression. The work of Studio Bollo has been published by Slanted Publishers and Spector Books. The studio has lectured at the Bern University of the Arts and the Basel Academy of Art and Design, and has been featured in an interview with It’s Nice That. Selected works have been presented at Kunsthalle Bern and the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, and have received the Art Book Prize Œuvre d’Artiste.

 

«Let's get your poster moving!»  (After Effects) mit Simone Hörler / DE / 9:30 – 17:00 / 14 Personen
Bring dein eigenes Plakatdesign mit und erwecke es mit Adobe After Effects zum Leben. Im Workshop geht es darum, die gestalterischen Möglichkeiten des bewegten Plakates kennenzulernen und auszuloten.

Voraussetzung: Grundkenntnisse in After Effects (du kannst Keyframes setzen, weisst was Easing ist und hast schon mal einfache Bewegungen animiert)

Mitbringen:

• Dein Plakat als digitale Datei  (und als A3 Ausdruck, falls man auch eine AR-Version mit Artivive  https://www.artivive.com/ gestalten möchte).
• MacBook / Laptop mit den Adobeprogrammen (AE, PS, AI) und genug Leistung für die Arbeit mit AE.
   

Dateiformate und technische Angaben: 

• Photoshop oder Illustrator, RGB Farbraum
• Elemente, die du individuell animieren möchtest, sollten bereits in einzelne Ebenen aufgeteilt sein. Bei Photoshop-Dateien sollten diese Elemente zusätzlich freigestellt werden.
• Verwendete Schriften installiert, nicht nur in Vektoren.
   
• Mindestens 1920 × 1080 Pixel, 72 dpi,  Hochformat
• Oder das DIN-Format auf mindestens 1080 Pixel in der Breite skaliert (Bei Pixelbildern wenn möglich grösser, falls man skalieren oder mit Zoom-ins arbeiten möchte)

Simone Hörler ist Grafik- und Motion Designerin aus Basel. Sie doziert an der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel und lehrt an der Schule für Gestaltung Basel. Dort vermittelt sie, wie sich unbewegte Gestaltung durch Animation lebendig und ausdrucksstark inszenieren lässt.

 

Siebdruck – hands-on und analog mit Müscle (Fruszina Korondi) / DE / 9:30 – 17:00 / 10 Personen
Wir arbeiten mit analogen Mitteln, lassen Raster und Strukturen auf dem Papier zusammenkommen, und verarbeiten sie zu plakatstarken Entwürfen. Fehler gibts keine, oder sind sehr willkommen. Satte Farben und die Überlagerung von Bildern verleihen deiner Komposition einen zusätzlichen Twist.
Der Workshop richtet sich an Studierende/Teilnehmende, die gerne (wiedermal) von Hand ein Motiv gestalten wollen, egal ob Siebdruck-Newbies oder als Auffrischung. Hauptsache keine Berührungsängste mit Farbe!

Fruzsina Korondi ist seit über 10 Jahren selbständige Illustratorin. Neben der Auftragsarbeit für Editorial, Web und Installationen, betreibt sie in Luzern mit dem Kollektiv Müscle die Siebdruckwerkstatt im Musikzentrum Sedel. Ihr unterlaufen mitunter auch sehr schöne Druckfehler.

 

HY5 Bridging Creat[L]ive Coding Tools with Ted Davis / ENG / 13:00 – 17:00 / 14 People
Using P5LIVE, we'll dive into creative coding with p5.js in a live coding environment, generating fullscreen visuals in the web browser. We'll explore the expressive sum by combining p5.js with Hydra (another visual framework), using HY5, to pass graphics between the two libraries for the best of both worlds!

Ted Davis (CH/US) is a media artist / designer / educator / tool-maker based in Basel, Switzerland. Since 2010 he teaches interaction design within the Institute Digital Communication Environments IDCE, Basel Academy of Art and Design HGK FHNW. His open source projects (basil.js, XYscope, P5LIVE, HY5, p5.glitch) enable designers to program within Adobe InDesign, render vector graphics on vector displays, collaboratively live code visuals with p5.js, and glitch any media in real-time within the web browser.

 

Play in Motion (After Effects) mit Eleonora Bonorva und Débora Linhares / ENG / 13:00 – 17:00 / 14 People
In this workshop, you will learn how to approach motion design with a playful, exploratory mindset: breaking rules, embracing accidents, and creating without boundaries. Together, we will learn how to build motion experiments around a specific topic. This workshop is designed for those who already know After Effects but want to find new ways of starting a creative process. Coming from different creative backgrounds and ways of working, we'll bring a range of perspectives to the workshop.

Eleonora Bonorva is a Swiss motion designer at Studio Dumbar/DEPT® with a strong focus on experimental design. With a background in graphic and interaction design, she merges her technical expertise with creative vision to create unique visual experiences.

Débora Linhares is a Brazilian motion designer at Studio Dumbar/DEPT®. With a self-taught background, she has a love for character animation and for exploring how small details in movement can bring personality into design. She enjoys experimenting with playful ideas and finding ways to make motion feel more natural, engaging and human.