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, [...]

Graduation ceremony: Brand University congratulates its graduates

A festive day at Brand University of Applied Sciences: On the 26th of September 2019, we were able to say goodbye to around 90 graduates of our Bachelor's and Master's programmes and extend a warm welcome to our new freshmen. Prof. Dr. h. c. Shan Fan opened the celebrations with a speech in which he shared with the audience which skills and attitudes lead to [...]

Brand Academy @ Forward Festival 2019

Forward Festival is one of the largest festivals of the creative industry in Europe — and this year Brand Academy will once again be present with a large group of students on the 4th and 5th of July in Hamburg. The motto for 2019: "The Odd One Out". Inspiration from the experts: In the Millerntor Stadium St. Pauli, workshops will take place over two days [...]

Brand Design Portfolio-Workshop – Review June 2019

Brand Design Portfolio-Workshop – Review June 2019 17 creative minds with endless ideas gathered at Brand Academy for the Portfolio-Workshop on the 22nd of June 2019. For one day, the participants were able to fine-tune their design portfolios with professional advice from our experts. The workshop replaced the portfolio check for admission to the Brand Design course in the coming winter semester. With the support [...]

“EU – Back to University” at Brand Academy

What is the difference between the EU and Europe? What does the Brexit mean for students? - Probably no one can answer these questions better than those who work for the European Union. Under the motto "EU - Back to University", EU staff come to universities to provide students with first-hand information about their work, to answer their questions and to motivate discussion. Our guest [...]

Guest students from Ningbo at Brand Academy

On March 25th, Brand Academy welcomed the first group of guest students from Zhejiang Wanli University this year. A total of 13 students and one teacher from the Faculty of Architecture and Design came to visit. During their four-week stay with a variety of activities, the students experienced new teaching and learning methods. They were impressed by the European, humanistic and historical peculiarities of society [...]

Graduation ceremony: Brand Academy celebrates its graduates and freshmen

On 29th of March 2019 it was time again: Brand Academy said farewell to 17 graduates at the graduation ceremony and welcome the new Bachelor and Master students.   In addition to the speeches hold by  the President Prof. h.c. Shan Fan and the Vice President Prof. Ute Röseler, the lecturer Claudia Tobis also spoke as a representative of the teaching staff. Afterwards the graduates [...]

#bagoesningbo! 8 BA students embark on a special kind of excursion

Brand Academy has always been the perfect place for those who want to focus their studies on brands. Now they can add an extra challenge by experiencing brands in an intercultural context during an exchange semester at our new partner institution Zheijiang Wanli University in Ningbo (China)! To kick off the new cooperation, 8 BA students from various study programs will be able to enjoy [...]