communication communication interior interior interior interior fashion fashion fashion fashion product product product product digital art and digital art and multimedia multimedia jewellery jewelleryC → Founded in 1989, the Matosinhos School of Art and Design esad is a private institute that has come to represent the highest standards of quality in art and design education, research and allied activities. → The aim of esad is to educate and prepare students with an understanding of the role of design and the arts in contemporary society, equipping them with the capacity to make critical interventions at national and international levels, furnishing them with the highest levels of creative, innovative, critical and technological skills and knowledge. → From its inception esad has stood for high quality teaching and has always promoted the idea that schools, as well as bestowing academic qualifications, must assume the role of educational bodies in the fullest meaning, being as they are platforms of communication between the public, industry and the market. → esad continues to develop its ambitious mission – to educate, to advance, to innovate – guided by a spirit in which the promotion of design and the arts is done with a watchful eye on the changing reality in which the school exists, and a determination to continually develop and improve that reality. 4 1 degree courses This first stage, leading to a BA Degree, offers the guarantee of a high-quality education in each specific area of art and design, and has the general objective of contributing towards the progress of society, developing and adapting skills relating to creativity, innovation, criticism and technology in order to ensure an efficient and pertinent response to the questions and problems that exist today. TheDegree in Design covers four areas of specialisation: Communication Design, Interior Design, Product Design and Fashion Design; and the Degree in Arts permits the option of one of two areas of specialization: Digital and Multimedia Arts or Jewellery. The study programme of both courses takes place over 3 years (180 ECTS) and over this period of time the number of both specific and optional modules will gradually increase, in order to aid decisions on the area of specialisation – ensuring the provision of more guided knowledge and of more specific technical skills and methodologies – as well as adding to the growing consciousness of the student of their own specific needs/demands in relation to training and/or in relation to their professional role and profile. masters The second stage, which leads to a Masters Degree, develops the work carried out during the previous stage, providing continuous education that becomes increasingly demanding, accompanying the development and maturity of the student to creating professionals able to meet the needs of companies and design studios, fitting in to the workplace with ease.The Masters in Design has three areas of specialisation: Communication, Product and Interiors. Taking place over 2 years (120 ECTS), the curriculum for the Masters in Design combines theoretical, project-based and lab-based modules. The first year consists of a module in transversal theory, another that is project-based, and a group of specific modules aimed at the development of practical skills. The second year continues and completes this pathway with a module per semester that ensures that the chosen pathway of education has the desired depth and that a project, a placement report or a dissertation is carried out with its respective public defence. The courses run by esad offer a plurality of study routes so as to post-graduate As an alternative route to a Masters degree, ESAD offers a selection ofPost-Graduate courses that count meet the needs and requirements as credits towards the Masters in Design. These courses correspond to educational pathways in specific areas of design which allow participants to acquire and deepen their knowledge in each area, as well of students in the fulfilment of their as developing the professional skills demanded in the workplace and furnishing participants with the ambitions. The flexibility of academic specialist workplace training which is such an important tool within the business environment. pathways provides added value, particularly in relation to the greater esad/lab esad offers a vast program ofOpen Courses – esad/lab – which allow, in short periods of time, number of training stages that are professionals and students who are studying for their degree or Masters, to update their knowledge and acquire new skills in areas such as design, video, animation, modelling or game design, amongst many offered. others. • 2 3 → mobilität → mobility → mobilnost → international mobility liikuvus → movilidad → mobilitat Promotion of European citizenship, intercultural relations in the area of Art → liikkuvuus → mobilité → mobiliteit → and Design, and the possibility of students attending foreign universities mobilitás → mobilità → mobilitāte for a period of between 3 months and one year are all aims promoted by esad, whether it is under the erasmus program or as a result of bilateral → mobilumas → mobilità → mobilności → agreements. esad is proud to state that we attract a high number of foreign students (around 10% of esad’s students in 2009/2010) and that we are mobilitate → hareketlilik → mobilidade visited every year by many foreign teachers who hold workshops, speak at conferences or are otherwise in touch with the teaching staff in each area. → κινητικότητα → תודיינה → мобильность 18 29 25 27 25 28 20 26 30 37 12 19 26 26 32 24 49 74 112 111 Vantaa Saint Petersburg Tallinn Riga Glasgow Siauliai Gdansk Vilnius Dublin 2001/02 2010/11 2001/02 2010/11 Outgoing students Ingoing students Warsaw Antwerp Eindhoven Brussels Hasselt Lodz Liege Cologne Idar-Oberstein Amiens Katowice Germany, Austria, Belgium, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Banská Bystrica Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Paris Lorient Graz Zurich Budapest Nantes Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Iasi Ljubljana Romania, Switzerland, Turkey, Brazil, Canada, Russia. Milan Brescia Asturias Urbino La Rioja esad has today around 70 partnerships with foreign universities, creating Burgos Soria ESAD Zamora Barcelona a vast range of choices which are available to students in their 2nd and 3rd Segovia Istambul Naples Madrid Castellon Ioannina Ankara years of their degree courses and also to students in the second stage of Tommelloso Valencia Eskisehir Ciudad Real Alcoy studies (Masters). esad seeks to enable students who finish their course to Mytilini Murcia Orihuela Izmir take up work placements in foreign companies, under the Leonardo program, Alicante Athens Burdur and has for this purpose established a partnership with apgei – Porto. To Antalya Adana Malta enable students in the second stage of studies to frequent part or full-time study placements, esad also makes great efforts to create partnerships and agreements with foreign universities and companies. • ⊳ Montreal ⊳ Rio de Janeiro ⊳ Belo Horizonte Tel Aviv 5 The Communication Design course aims to produce designers who are able to respond to the The Interior Design course is aimed at students who would like to develop skills in the requests made to them by differing institutions and organisations, both public and private, understanding and transformation of space, learning about the planning instruments in the areas of visual identity, editorial design, branding, posters, illustration, packaging inherent in the fields of architecture, equipment and furniture design. The fragile boundary design, information graphics, web design and type design. Our study programme gives value between design and architecture allows the student to develop a very personal perspective in to critical thought and systematic thinking; experimentation and the dynamic resolution of relation to the concept of inhabiting a living space. The purpose of the course is to research, problems; creativity and intellectual curiosity; and the development of interpersonal skills. reflect on and find a more profound manner of contemporary living. The practice of the The student is brought closer to current professional reality in order to enrich creativity and planning of interiors demands thorough and careful training combined with a continuous strengthen the values relating to identity, personality and individuality, in order to develop level of work, leaving students rich in the experience of interior design as an art form as well a critical, civic and ethical conscience in dealing with questions relating to the environment, as an exciting and attractive profession. • inclusion and sustainability, in a constant search for improvement in the quality of life of Man and Society. • communication interior design degree in design course director Margarida Azevedo degree in design course director Paulo Coelho YEAR 1 24 HRS 60 ECTS YEAR 3 24 HRS 60 ECTS YEAR 1 24 HRS 60 ECTS YEAR 3 24 HRS 60 ECTS MODULES HRS ECTS MODULES HRS ECTS MODULES HRS ECTS MODULES HRS ECTS 51036 Introduction to Design A 6 15 11026 Project II — Communication A 8 15 51036 Introduction to Design A 6 15 31023 Project II — Interiors A 8 15 51024 Drawing I A 4 9 11015 Digital Media Design A 4 9 51024 Drawing I A 4 9 31024 Digital laboratory III A 4 9 51026 Digital Laboratory I A 4 9 11027 Visual Design and Culture A 2 6 51026 Digital Laboratory I A 4 9 31025 The Culture of Living A 2 6 51029 Image Laboratory A 3 9 11028 Print