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Open Space 2021
Once again this year, Prof. Ansgar Eidens and Prof. Michael Jonas kicked off the semester with a meeting of all design students at Designnexport to welcome the first-year students and take a look at the coming semester. The event opened with a warm welcome from the Head of Designexport, Frances Uckermann. Afterwards, the professors presented the news for the semester and gave space to talk [...]
Welcome on Campus – Start of Winter Semester 2021/22
It is time again to welcome all freshmen joyfully and even live at Brand University. Thanks to the „3G-rule“, the first meeting of all new students could take place on site on October 4th. The exciting day began with bright sunshine and the welcoming of all newcomers. Programme Director Prof. Dr. Bongard, Prof. Dr. Eidens and Prof. Dr. Limon-Calisan gave first insights into the coming [...]
Spotlight On: Thorge Wandrei – Brand Design Alumnus
The news format “Spotlight on:” puts Brand University graduates in the spotlight. Learn more about where their path led them after graduation.
Design student Lea Lindau as speaker at the Forward Festival 2021
Every year, the Forward Festival Hamburg brings together creatives from the international design industry. This year, the analogue and digital encounters took place under the motto "Me, We - together we can". On the 1st and 2nd of July, the master classes, workshops and talks focused on the question of the significance of society - especially with a regard to our lives in the pandemic. [...]
Guest Lecture: 5 Questions to Greta Anderson, UX Designer
Greta Anderson is a freelance designer in London. Her work focuses on UI and UX design - among other things, she accompanied the beginnings of the podcast app Entale and laid the foundations for the app's design. In the interview, she shares the highlights from her guest lecture with Entale co-founder Hannah Blake. Brand University: Hello Greta! As a freelancer, you specialise in UI and [...]
ADC Award 2021 – BU students take on the role of the jury
At the beginning of May 2021, it was time again: The Art Directors Club (ADC) presented the prestigious "Nails" as awards in the annual design competition. Also present: design students from Brand University. Already last year, our students were given exclusive access to the ADC voting system so that they could slip into the role of jurors themselves. This year again, our 4th semester Brand [...]
Distancing Design Education 2021 – 2nd Symposium on Higher Education Teaching in Times of the Corona Pandemic
The summer semester 2021 has started. New students, new seminars, same pandemic. For creative study programmes, this situation remains a special challenge. After one year since the start of the pandemic in Germany, it is clear that online education was not a brief exception - rather, the question is whether this mode will become the "new normal" in the long term. What does this mean [...]
Welcome on Campus – Start of Winter Semester 2020/21
Never before has there been so much excitement at Brand University about the start of a semester as there was in October 2020, because on October 5th, after six months of empty corridors, the time had finally come again: the Rainville Terrace Campus opened its doors for teaching! Thus, on the first day of the lecture period, not only the first seminars were held according [...]
GRADUATION CEREMONY: A SPECIAL DAY AT BRAND UNIVERSITY
The graduation ceremony of the graduating class is always a great pleasure at Brand University, but the celebration in the summer semester 2020 will be remembered as an extraordinary day. For a long time, it was not certain whether the about 90 graduates could even be said goodbye personally and on site. The joy was all the greater that the graduating class arrived in the [...]
A day as the ADC jury: Brand design students award nails for design works
The summer semester 2020 calls for creativity - and therefore offers unique opportunities. Normally, Prof. Michael Jonas would visit the exhibition of the prize-winning works of the ADC competition with his students in the summer semester. For our designers, missing this highlight was out of the question. Instead, they themselves became members of the jury and were the first students in Germany to be granted [...]
Symposium: Distancing Design Education – Teaching in times of Social Distancing
The beginning of the 2020 summer semester established online teaching in a very short time and brought a digitalisation push for many German universities. On the one hand, this is a great opportunity, but at the same time it poses a particular challenge for creative study courses. Time for a first conclusion: What does the digital summer semester mean for lecturers, students and the entire [...]
BU goes Tokyo
"Konnichiwa" was the word in December for some of our first semester Brand Design students. Under the supervision of Prof. Ansgar Eidens and Dr. Hua Tang they went on an excursion to Japan, more precisely to Tokyo. Instead of discussing theoretical aspects of artworks and creative technologies in the seminar, they moved their classes to Tokyo. There, the focus was on experiencing design at first [...]
Professor Michael Jonas called in the jury of the DDC competition “Gute Gestaltung 19”
The German Designer Club (DDC) is the leading club for designers from all disciplines in the German-speaking countries. For 20 years, the DDC has been organising the competition GUTE GESTALTUNG (Good Design) with the aim of providing a stage for good design. In 2019, brands, manufacturers, designers, entrepreneurs, agencies, developers, students and young, design-oriented start-ups can submit their work in the seven categories Identity, [...]