Biography

My name is Romain Cazier and I am an Interaction Designer living in Paris (FR). Graduated from ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne in Media & Interaction Design, I worked there for two years as a teaching assistant and am now working as a freelancer.

This portfolio is desperately waiting for an update. In the meantime, you can either check my student projects on the right, my moodboard, or write me an email to have a more in-depth view of my current work.

Otherwise you can check my Twitter or my Instagram.

Education

2012 → 2015
Bachelor Media & Interaction Design at ECAL, with honors
2011 → 2012
Foundation Degree Media & Interaction Design at ECAL
2010 → 2011
Ateliers Préparatoires at EPSAA

Experience

September 2015 → August 2017
Teaching Assistant at ECAL
2014 → Present
Interaction Designer (freelancing)
July 2014 → September 2014
Intern at About Blank Design Office

Exhibitions

2016
App Art Award, ZKM | Center for Art and Media (DE)
Nuit des Musées, Maison d'Ailleurs (CH)
2015
ECAL Diplomas, ECAL (CH)
App Art Award, ZKM | Center for Art and Media (DE)
Halftime, ECAL (CH)
2014
Delirious Home, Milano Design Week (IT)

Research

Rec All

Rec All is a personal interpretation of the geometrical puzzle game, widely popular on mobile. Taking some of this genre's features, I also wanted to stand out and propose a singular universe, where strange creatures with a cyclic behaviour are generated from a simple gesture. It is composed of two parts: an “arcade” mode with different levels the player must resolve, and a “sandbox” mode where he can generate creatures at will.

Involvement

I did this project for my diploma in Media & Interaction Design. The project was supervised by Alain Bellet, Cyril Diagne, Gaël Hugo and Christophe Guignard at ECAL / École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne.

Link

http://rec-all.romaincazier.com

Additional content

↑ Prototype 0

↑ Prototype 1

↑ Small tool to prototype the creatures' shapes

↑ Intro (abandonned)

↑ My diploma presentation

↑ Laurenz Brunner, Filip Visnjic and Andreas Müller playing the game

Rec Run

This iPad application is a very basic sampler wrapped as a visual soundtoy, offering a minimalist but yet ludic universe. I had to think of ways to visually interpret key functions of a regular sampler but inscribed in my own visual style. I came up with those tiny running characters containing recorded sounds and a big one, the playhead, who plays the sounds when a little one walk by. You can also manipulate and delete them to alter the sequence.

Involvement

I did this project during the “Advanced Interaction” course supervised by Cyril Diagne and Gaël Hugo at ECAL / École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne.

Additional content

↑ Tool to prototype the parametric walk cycle

Bonnie & Clyde

This is the story of a spoon deeply in love with its cup. Bonnie & Clyde is an installation you can interact with by moving the cup around. As you are doing it, the spoon will follow, avoiding obstacles if they cross its path. The initial statement was a thinking around smart home and its deviance. From there, we decided to humanize objects through their augmented behaviour. The couple spoon/cup was a perfect one to explore due to their intimate relationship.

Involvement

I did this project with Anna Heck (design) and Leon Laskowski (design) for the “Delirious Home” exhibition at the Milano Design Fair 2014. The project was supervised by Alain Bellet and Chris Kabel at ECAL / École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne. I was in charge of the technical part.

Link

http://romaincazier.com/lunapark

Additional content

↑ Dancing spoons

↑ Prototype (inside)

↑ Prototype (outside)

↑ PCB of the final version

↑ Snapshot from the webcam #1

↑ Snapshot #2

↑ The final version

↑ The installation in-situ

↑ A young girl hacking our table

↑ A view of the "Delirious Home" exhibition

A Rope Life

This project explores the rope as an input device, its rotation giving the amplitude of the input. We created four small interactive animations — which depict some everyday life events — that need to be completed thanks to the rope. Each event relates somehow to the idea of rotation. It uses Arduino for the hardware part and Processing for the interactive animations.

Involvement

I did this project with Pierre Georges (visuals) and Hugo Simon (design) during the “Rotary Club” workshop with Cyril Diagne at ECAL / École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne. I was in charge of the technical part.

Additional content

↑ View of the presentation

↑ Cyril Diagne playing our game

↑ Dirty Arduino assembling

↑ Game walkthrough

RedoIt();

RedoIt(); is a desktop application allowing the user to generate a variety of graphical objects, with their shapes varying depending on the time spent at each step of the production. With this library in hands, one can either explore it or decide to pick one to produce it in real life with wooden parts, thanks to a list of step-by-step instructions.

Involvement

I did this project during the “Network Related Design & 3D Graphics” course supervised by Gaël Hugo and Patrick Keller at ECAL / École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne.

Additional content

↑ Generated and built lamp

↑ The different modules

↑ A view of the generative tool

↑ The tool used to generate the objects