My name is Ana and I am 21 years old. I have always had a passion for graphic design long before I officially studied it as my parents are professionals in the field. Even though my parents are skilled graphic designers, I was never pushed to follow in their footsteps, yet I was lucky enough to have been surrounded by many artistic tools growing up and it became a form of expression for me. «Money doesn't make you happy» but «happiness doesn't necessarily make you rich». These two phrases stuck with me and encouraged my choices in gymnasium studies. For instance, I was drawn to the liberties of expression which led me to languages and political sciences. After graduating from high school, I felt relieved and at the same time completely helpless. I had the ability to express myself, however, I felt the need to be understood in a different way! Hoping to speak a universal language, I decided to study graphic design and visual communication. Although I wanted to study political sciences, the approach the Swiss professional training schools reinforce, I made the choice to take a step back and focus on expressing my feelings and ideas within the universal language of graphic design.

Real project for the CEPV (professional teaching center of Vevey), with Marlise Zimmermann for the graphic aspect and Christian Tännler as the typographic aspect. The objective was to lay out a series of images and texts captured and written by the CEPV students during their inter-company courses. The concept I chose to explore for this project is the pixel. I developed a modular grid fine and precise enough to arrange texts and images in a structured way, in order to avoid a too monotonous layout.