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In a world increasingly shaped by speed, digital tools, and AI, Meet the Makers is a way to return to something slower, more local, and more human.

This Visual Culture Book documents contemporary makers in Lausanne through photography, interviews, process documentation, and editorial storytelling, highlighting the value of analogue gestures, lived spaces, and creative practices rooted in place. Each chapter explores not only what a maker produces, but how they work, think, and inhabit the city around them.

  • The challenge was to design a publication that could hold depth without becoming heavy, and structure without becoming repetitive. The book brings together different makers, disciplines, visual languages, and types of content, from interviews and portraits to process documentation and mapping. My role was to create a system that could support this diversity while still feeling cohesive, readable, and editorially precise.

  • I approached the project as a narrative system rather than a sequence of layouts. I developed a flexible chapter framework, a clear hierarchy, and a pacing strategy that could guide the reader through image-led moments, documentary content, and more reflective passages. The aim was to give each maker enough space to feel distinct, while maintaining a strong visual identity across the publication as a whole.

  • The book combines long-form interviews, portrait photography, studio rituals, tools and materials, process-based spreads, and information design focused on Lausanne’s creative ecosystem. Beyond documenting individual practices, it also builds a wider reflection on making today, on slowness, craft, locality, and the value of analogue gestures in a post-digital context.

  • This project reflects my approach to editorial design as both strategic and visual. I am interested in publications that do more than present content beautifully, they need to organise complexity, shape rhythm, and turn research into a meaningful reading experience. Meet the Makers allowed me to work across storytelling, structure, pacing, and visual coherence, bringing together editorial sensitivity with systems thinking.

Acknowledgement

This project grew out of a collaboration with The Lausanne Guide, an independent Lausanne-based platform covering food, culture, living, adventure, and events, with a strong focus on celebrating the people, places, and stories that shape the city. 

Photography by Toan Tran of Tran Visuals, a Lausanne-based photographer whose practice centres on authentic human stories through photo reportage.