graphic.elisava offers three advanced master's programmes created to deepen your knowledge of graphic design, develop a specialization in editorial design or discover the power of data and design. Guided by our outstanding faculty you'll experience an inspiring and stimulating year of learning in Barcelona.

Verònica Fuerte
Founder & Creative Director Verònica Fuerte is a designer and illustrator from Barcelona. After earning a degree in Graphic Design from ELISAVA and a MA in Typeface Design from EINA she worked for several design studios in Barcelona. In 2007 she founded her own studio, Hey, which has grown steadily since. She received the ADC Young Guns 7 award and her work has appeared in prestigious media such as It’s nice that, DesignBoom, Communication Arts and AIGA. 

Hey
is a creative studio based in Barcelona since 2007. We mostly work on graphic design and illustration projects for clients around the world.
We create fresh brands, conceptual communication campaigns, unique illustrations and other creative stuff by working closely with our clients, building strong relationships and taking care of every aspect of the design process.

We’re constantly evolving and adapting not only because business and design doesn’t stay still but also because we like to explore new ideas. 
We do it all with passion and detail because we love what we do and we truly believe in the power of visuals for changing things and achieving communication goals. 
Images are how we communicate. Simple, direct and comprehensive images form our visual language.

It’s a language that speaks clearly through different media, be it print, digital or even the handcrafted. Our images generate ideas that cross international borders with ease leading to unique solutions for clients big and small and sometimes just for ourselves. Side projects are a must in Hey. Thinking about design, free from commercial pressures, helps us to break creative boundaries and keep growing. The HeyShop is the most significant showcase of Hey’s personal initiatives and graphic expressions.

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Our Form of Type
Departing from their publication Our Form of Book, Stockholm and Amsterdam-based studio Our Polite Society will tell about a number of works in which type design played an important role during the development of a project. 

For Our Polite Society a type design never exists in its own right, but is always connected to the specific situation in which a work is conceived: type design not in the context of the historical development of letterforms, but a subjective approach with many possible starting points. Within this way of working a typeface can become an analogy which carries information or meaning from a particular subject to another.

Our Polite Society
is a studio for graphic design, type design and typographic research based in Amsterdam and Stockholm. It was founded in 2008 by Jens Schildt (SE) and Matthias Kreutzer (D) after their studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam) and the Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht).

Our Polite Society’s production comprises formats such as books, magazines, posters, exhibitions, signage systems, record sleeves, screens, and typefaces. Among others, Our Polite Society have produced works for Bauhaus Dessau, the University of Stockholm, the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, the New Institute Rotterdam, Malmö Konstmuseum, Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA), and Kunstverein Bielefeld. 

Their self-initiated work investigates how typographic form reflects social phenomena, and how it relates to ideology and the distribution of knowledge. Since 2017 they are publishing typefaces under the imprint Our Polite Society Type.

Their work has notably been exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the International Poster & Graphic Design Festival Chaumont, the Tallinn Art Hall, and the State University New York; it has been endowed by the Creative Industries Fund NL, was twice awarded with the Best Dutch Book Designs, and is part of the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Our Polite Society are currently teaching at the Konstfack University (Stockholm), the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam) and the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague); they have lectured in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Leipzig, Ghent, Brussels, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Prishtina, Sofia, and Montréal, among others.

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Spinning Aubergines, Talking Genitals and the Oldest Women on Earth
Un relato honesto de mi proceso creativo tanto técnico como conceptual. Desde mi amor por los vídeos musicales, los documentales animados y la mezcla de técnicas de animación tradicionales y digitales hasta la formación de mi primer cortometraje, 'Private Parts'. Este documental animado (con entrevistas grabadas con voz real que se visualizan como vaginas y penes parlantes) fue un verdadero punto de inflexión para mi carrera.

Explicaré de donde vino mi deseo de hacerlo y el proceso. En el verano de 2017 mi hermana pequeña fue hospitalizada con anorexia por tercera vez, después de 8 años de lucha contra la enfermedad. Explicaré como presenciar su sufrimiento me hizo pensar en los ideales de belleza y examinar lo rápido que cambia la definición de belleza, que resultó en mi película para el Día Internacional de la Mujer 2018 'What is beauty?'
Terminaré con la proyección de mi última película 'Ugly'.

Anna Ginsburg
Nacida y criada en Londres, Anna Ginsburg es una cineasta con una amplia gama de talentos. Anna se especializa en combinar diferentes técnicas y enfoques, trabajando a través de 2D tradicionales dibujados a mano, stop-motion, imágenes digitales y acción en vivo. El primer videoclip de Anna para 'How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep' de Bombay Bycicle Club ganó un Bafta en los New Talent Awards.

Desde entonces, Anna ha recibido increíbles elogios por su película 'Private Parts', que se proyectó en festivales de cine de todo el mundo. Más recientemente, Anna ha dirigido dos películas para Selfridges y un cortometraje, 'What is Beauty?', estrenado el Día Internacional de la Mujer 2018, que ha recibido más de 15 millones de visitas. Su última película, 'Ugly', fue una colaboración con la pintora Melissa Kitty Jarram, se estrenó para el Día Mundial del Refugiado de 2019 y se proyectó en el festival de Glastonbury.

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Desisto is an independent multidisciplinary platform established in 2013 by Margarida Borges and Ricardo Martins. In 2015, the platform started to operate also as a graphic design studio and welcomed José Mendes. From self-initiated projects to cultural and commercial commissions, Desisto’s work encompasses visual identity, branding, editorial projects, exhibition design and webdesign, with a particular focus on typography and production.

It’s important for us to share knowledge in a structure of values with which we identify ourselves with.
Margarida Borges
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In May 2019, the first summer pavilion was built on the terrace of Elisava's third floor.
It was the result of the collaboration between the master's degree in ephemeral architecture and temporal spaces (MEATS) and the master's degree in graphic design (MGD) carried out during the five-day workshop under the name '3km', led by Anthony Burrill and Eugeni Bach.

I don’t usually tweet, I’m more of an instagram kind of person, but I did this tweet “People together make things happen”. And I think that was the spirit really. I got quite emotional…
Anthony Burrill

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Pol Pérez and Pep Román are the founders of Affaire – an art and design studio working in the fields of fashion, culture and consumer goods.
Both are teaching in the Master's Degree In Editorial Design (MED) leading the Book Design project and in the Master's Degree in Graphic Design (MGD) guiding the Editorial project.

Correcto. Yo diría que la educación es el "proyecto estrella" de nuestro estudio.
Pol Pérez

Affaire