On September 23, 2021, the Musée de l’Elysée will adopt a new identity: Photo Elysée. Closely linked to our move to Plateforme 10, our new identity puts photography first and reinforces our primary mission: to promote the photographic medium in all its forms.
Through a semantic and graphic play, Photo Elysée invites you to see – to see differently, to see further. The logo can be integrated transparently or in contrast on all communication media, digital or traditional, in a nod to the colour codes used in photography.
Created by the graphic design agency Gavillet & Cie, based in Geneva and Lausanne, Photo Elysée aims to be bold and international. Another key component of the identity is the typographical design, developed by Swiss graphic designer François Rappo. Geometric, precise and finely wrought, it states loud and clear the museum’s qualities and unique character.
“There was one prerequisite: not to touch the word Elysée. So that’s what we did while gravitating around it, thinking about what we could subtract, add or modify from the old name,” explains Gilles Gavillet, founder of Gavillet & Cie.
Photographer Lebohang Kganye (1990, South Africa) is the guest of Nathalie Herschdorfer, Director of Photo Elysée, and Stefano Stoll, Director of Images Vevey as part of a special series of CONVERSATIONS. Lebohang Kganye is the winner of the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2021/2022.
Read moreAll the museums are exceptionally open and free on Monday, August 1, to mark the exceptional visit of the President of the Confederation, Mr. Ignazio Cassis. The program includes performances, a popular festival and 4-Hour Vaudois on the esplanade of Plateforme 10.
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