Melvyn Accotto

Background

Graphic designer, Swiss CFC. Specialised in marketing and communication. A practice between craft, strategy and digital.

Portrait of Melvyn Accotto

My path gradually took me beyond graphic design itself, towards everything that builds a piece of communication, grows it and keeps it alive.

Visual identities, posters, editions, digital content, social media, photography, video, interfaces or websites: I like moving from one medium to another and looking, on every project, for the truest way to carry an idea across. Working across media gives me a whole view of a project and lets me hold all of its needs together, rather than treating each part on its own.

The way I work rests on thinking, research and experiment, and just as much on something more instinctive. I like to grasp a project as a whole — to feel its intent, its context and the people it speaks to — before looking for the form. I look for graphic coherence as much as for the emotion, the atmosphere and the meaning the result can carry.

My experience, from institutional communication to cultural, community and digital projects, has grown a generalist way of working — curious and adaptable. Civil service also showed me communication in its most human sense: supporting someone, listening, building a bond, easing an exchange or simply being there are all forms of communication, and they are what gives my work its meaning.

Soft skills

  • Creativity · Visual sensibility · Intuition · Listening · Synthesis · Versatility · Adaptability · Autonomy · Organisation · Rigour · Team spirit · People skills

Hard skills

  • Graphic design Visual identity · Branding · Art direction · Typography · Print · Editorial · UI / UX design · Photography · Video
  • Communication Digital communication · Institutional communication · Content creation · Social media · Marketing
  • Web & digital Website design · UI / UX · Responsive design · Vibe coding · No-code · Content management
  • Organisation Project management · Coordination · Planning · Administrative follow-up

Tools

  • Creation Adobe Creative Cloud — Photoshop · Illustrator · InDesign · Premiere Pro
  • Office Microsoft 365 — Word · Excel · PowerPoint · Outlook
  • AI & vibe coding Claude · ChatGPT · Gemini · generative AI tools
  • Web & collaboration GitHub · CMS · Social media · collaborative tools

Languages

  • French Native
  • English B2
  • German A2

Experience

  1. 05.25 – 12.25 Communication assistant, État de Neuchâtel (SIEN) CH-2000 Neuchâtel
  2. 05.24 – 04.25 Marketing & communication, Croix-Rouge neuchâteloise CH-2000 Neuchâtel
  3. 08.22 – 09.23 Federal Office for Civilian Service (CIVI)
    1. 06.23 – 09.23 Workshop assistant, Addiction Neuchâtel Le Devens residential site CH-2024 Saint-Aubin-Sauges
    2. 02.23 – 05.23 Collections management & cultural mediation, Musée des beaux-arts CH-2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds
    3. 08.22 – 02.23 Support to the education team, Fondation L’Enfant c’est la vie CH-2017 Boudry
  4. 06.21 – 09.21 Graphic designer, Atelier A CH-2000 Neuchâtel

Education

  1. 2026 Digitalizers CH-2000 Neuchâtel
  2. 2024 – 2025 Haute école de gestion Arc CH-2000 Neuchâtel
  3. 2018 – 2022 Pôle Arts appliqués, CPNE-AA CH-2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds
  4. 2016 – 2018 Académie de Meuron CH-2000 Neuchâtel