Design Academy Eindhoven

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Design Academy Eindhoven specializes in design. It offers a four-year Bachelor's course and a two-year Master's course. It has an impressive, international team of tutors at its disposal, and the quality of the designers they educate is very high. Design Academy Eindhoven's DNA can be described as conceptual, authentic, creative, flexible, free, passionate, and curious.
The first thing that typifies Design Academy Eindhoven is the autonomous set-up of the teaching. The design departments, compass departments in the Bachelor's course, and the Master's course programs are all headed by leading figures in their professions. Owing to their extensive networks, their enthusiasm, and their ability to help students direct the content of their designs, the actual current profession is a day to day inspiration to our students. Secondly, the Academy is firmly rooted in the professional field. Each tutor works as a professional designer for most of his/her time or is otherwise active in the current professional practice. This allows the Academy to respond rapidly and adequately to signals from the professional field and society. The third theme is the Academy's sensitive antenna for social phenomena as a motor for innovative design. The Academy has set up its educational model based on social phenomena with the man as the focal point. Design is in man and society, and social developments are the most important mainsprings for innovative design.
Designers who graduate from the Academy are incredibly gifted conceptualists. Wherever they end up, whatever they do, their primary weapon is conceptual thinking. It allows them to ask critical questions about existing things, introduce new approaches and designs from a bird's eye view. Both concerning design and research, they know what they want and what they can do. They know their strengths and have charted their skills and limitations. Autonomy and originality are their trademarks.
In the Academy's view, its excellence lies in the fact that it trains designers to be aware of their designs' social implications. This is why the Academy chooses a more horizontal and integral approach to design over the more traditional vertical structure within each design discipline. The link between this integrative approach on the one hand and autonomy as a principle on the other is characteristic of the Academy as an organization and as an educational institution.
Our alumni association is a platform for all graduated designers who had their education at the Design Academy Eindhoven (named until 1997: Academie voor Industrièle Vormgeving). The Academy was founded in 1947 and includes at present more than 1600 alumni. Our platform is a tool to intensify the relation amongst alumni themselves and between the alma mater.
Alumni and Design Academy Eindhoven will publish their exhibitions and events, show their portfolios, and insert vacancies. The platform organizes a program with lectures and workshops exclusively for alumni. The annual Graduation Show with a Homecoming Day is included in the program. The catalog can be ordered on outstanding alumni reduction by the website.
Design Academy Eindhoven attaches much value to contacts with her alumni. In this way, she can get information about the professionals' future and other essential needs. The association communicates with her members the many vacancies offered to Design Academy Eindhoven after permission by the alumnus industry may see the portfolio. Since industry often appeals to the Design Academy Eindhoven, the association is intermediate in bringing different projects with Friends of the Academy to the notice of (young) designers.
Design Academy Eindhoven has an international orientation: approximately 70% of our regular Bachelor and 95% of our master students are non-Dutch. Classes are all in English. We also have an exchange program for bachelor candidates in our bachelor program. This exchange program is open to Erasmus+ and non-Erasmus + candidates. Unfortunately, the exchange is not possible in our Master's program. To apply, please check the exchange page by clicking the EXCHANGE box above. Erasmus+ is available for in- and outcoming exchange and for internships within the EU. Specific conditions apply. More information about Erasmus+ can be found by clicking the ERASMUS PLUS box above.

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