Portfolio
Lya Burdet


Graphic designer
from Geneva and Zurich




Transforme Festival

August – October 2023
Client: Transforme Festival

Designing the poster for this festival was a great opportunity for our entire class, because, at the start of our second year, it was the first external project we were offered, as well as our first step into cultural graphic design.
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Typographic Journal

February – May 2024
School Project

In the second semester of our second year, our typography professor, Mr. Huegi, assigned us the following project: to present a musical genre in the form of a newspaper, using nothing but typography and a single font that we did not choose ourselves.
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Typographic Lettering
May – June 2024
School Project

As a first step in letter design, I also had the opportunity in my second year to create a typographic lettering piece, with the main assignment being to write the name of a Swiss city of my choice.
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Silkscreen Prints

2024 & 2026
School Projects

The CFP Arts program gives us the opportunity – and it’s a real privilege – to experiment with different ways of creating, to play with materials, to develop our projects, and finally to print. Among other things, we learned screen printing.
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Photos of the Luthier Bernard Bossert

May 2024
School Project

I found a certain satisfaction in playing with the dim lighting in the workshop, the antique objects, the tools I would have attributed to another era, and the furniture, all made of wood.
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Photos of Servette Music

May 2024
School Project

The second workshop I had the opportunity to photograph was at Servette Music.
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VIVA Festival

September – October 2024
Clients: Comédie de Genève, Théâtre Am Stram Gram, Pavillon ADC

The VIVA Festival is a performing arts event for young people aged 12 to 20. It takes place every two years and is a collaborative effort between the Comédie de Genève, the Théâtre Am Stram Gram, and the Pavillon ADC.
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Graphic Film Archive
Pulp Fiction

November – December 2024
School Project

In 2024, our typography professor asked us to choose, from a list of films she had selected for their artistic merit, a title that we would layout, thereby creating a “graphic film library.”
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Internship Report
April – May 2025
Internship and School Project

In their third year, the CFP Arts requires all its graphic design students to complete a 19-week internship to develop their skills and gain exposure to the professional world. I chose Éditions Héros-Limite, a small company located in La Jonction in Geneva.
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Offset Printings
February 2025
Internship Project

We printed two two-color images on large formats:
The first was an old photograph of a violinist and a pianist, which we produced using two complementary blacks for greater depth. The second, which I had taken myself at Bernard Bosser’s studio, showed an elegant template used in the making of a violin.
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Book Layout for a Fictional Publishing House

October – December 2025
School Project

The senior thesis project came at just the right time, in my fourth year, allowing me to immerse myself once again in the world of publishing, which I had missed ever since my internship at Éditions Héros-Limite.
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Illustrated Book
Peter and the Wolf

November – December 2025
School Project

They shouldn’t have given me the task of creating illustrations for a piece of music of my choice: I got far too enthusiastic about it.
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Edition Celebrating 15 Years of Dance at CFP Arts
February – March 2026
Client: Dance Department at CFP Arts

The various departments at CFP Arts sometimes collaborate on joint projects. For this project, the contemporary dance department asked fourth-year graphic design students to design a layout for a commemorative book celebrating its 15th anniversary.
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