Design Academy Eindhoven is an

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educational institute for art,

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and

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Eindhoven Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Neth ...

. The work of its faculty and alumni have brought it international recognition, and is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading design schools.

History

The Design Academy Eindhoven was established in 1947 and was originally named the Academie voor Industriële Vormgeving (AIVE). The first nine students graduated in 1955. In 1997, the Academy moved into " De Witte Dame" (The White Lady) building and subsequently changed its name to Design Academy Eindhoven (DAE). In 1999, Li Edelkoort, was elected chairwoman of the Academy. In 2009 she left the Design Academy to pursue personal projects and was replaced by Anne Mieke Eggenkamp as chair. She was in turn succeeded by Thomas Widdershoven from 2013 until September 2016. Since 2017, Joseph Grima has taken place as CD.

Structure

The bachelor's program is split into eight

departments, broadly covering art, architecture, fashion design, graphic design and industrial design. As the structure of the bachelor's program is intended to be flexible, students are free to move between departments and all students graduate with the same degree, a Bachelor of Design. The DAE also offers five distinct master's programs: MA Contextual Design, MA Social Design, MA Information Design, MA Geo-Design and MA the Critical Inquiry Lab (former Design Curating and Writing).

International Reputation

The Design Academy Eindhoven's (DAE) emphasis on engaging complex social and cultural issues has gained it an international reputation. The Dutch collective Droog Design features several DAE alumni, ''Orange Alert'' organizes exhibitions and events of DAE students work in New York and several DAE alumni have been nominated for the "Designer of the Year" awards at the

Design Museum The Design Museum in Kensington, London exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. The museum operates as a registered charity, and all funds generated ...

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.Stephen Treffinger, "A School for New Dutch Masters"
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The book ''House of Concepts: Design Academy Eindhoven'' tells the 60-year history of the academy, outlining how many significant Dutch artists, architects and designers have been associated with the DAE. In 2022, the Design Academy Eindhoven was placed joint 9th in the art and design subject area in the

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published by

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, with an overall score of 81.6/100.

Events

Every year, in the fall, the Dutch Design Week is held in Eindhoven with an array of Design-related events. These include the graduation exhibit (featuring the works of that year's graduates of the DAE) and the Dutch Design Awards.

Associated people

Faculty

* Gijs Bakker * Jan Boelen * Kees Bol * Ilse Crawford * Jan Gregoor * Catelijne van Middelkoop * Marina Otero Verzier * Satyendra Pakhale * Louise Schouwenberg * Saskia van Stein * Pieter Stockmans * The Stone Twins *

Alice Twemlow Alice Twemlow is a writer, critic and educator from the United Kingdom whose work focuses on graphic design. She has been a guest critic at the Yale University School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and Rhode Island School of ...

Alumni

Maarten Baas Maarten Baas (; born 19 February 1978) is a Dutch furniture designer. He is known for his Real Time series of clocks in which people paint the time by hand. His career path was influenced by mentors like Jurgen Bey, colleagues like Bertjan Pot ...

, designer * Dror Benshetrit, designer * Helen Berman, painter * Joel Blanco, designer * Tord Boontje, designer * Susan Christianen, designer * Els Coppens-van de Rijt, painter * Camiel Fortgens, fashion designer * Dave Hakkens, industrial designer * Massoud Hassani, designer * Richard Hutten, designer *

Hella Jongerius Hella Jongerius (born 30 May 1963 in De Meern, Utrecht) is a Dutch industrial designer. Biography Jongerius was born in De Meern, a village to the west of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1963. From 1988 to 1993, she studied design at the Design ...

, designer * Eugène Peters, artist * Willy Schmidhamer, artist * Frans Schrofer, furniture designer * Job Smeets, artist and designer * Wieki Somers, designer * Umi Dachlan, painter * Ton van de Ven, creative director * Marcel Wanders, designer * Moon Seop Seo, designer * Isak Berglund, designer

References

External links

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