graphic.elisava are three advanced master programs to deepen your knowledge in graphic design, specialize in editorial design or discover the power of data and design. Guided by our outstanding faculty you'll live an inspiring and stimulating one-year learning experience in Barcelona.

Getting Personal Projects Made
Nearly every designer after a few years of working for a studio, begins to think about starting his or her own business. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a fancy office, work only on the projects that you like, without having to sell your soul to the devilish client and compromise with amending designs? But reality is often times more complex and definitely less romantic. 

Irene Pereyra of the Brooklyn-based design studio "Anton & Irene" will talk about transforming a small studio into a project (the studio is treated more like a "project" rather than a "business") and will share her experiences including all the successes and failures they went through along the way.

Irene Pereyra
is the co-founder of the interaction design studio "Anton & Irene". She has created the interactive experiences for many large scale clients and projects, including the redesign of USAToday.com and Metmuseum.org. The studio also spends 3 months a year on self-initiated design projects.

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The more you hold the more you see, the more you see the more you hold – Graphic Design for Art
A Practice for Everyday Life working with contemporary art and artists working with APFEL. 

A lecture exploring the multiple avenues of overlap between graphic design and art, from publishing to exhibition design and digital. Kirsty Carter and Emma Thomas, founders of London-based graphic design studio A Practice for Everyday Life, will introduce their work by talking through the stories behind a selection of projects including visual identities, type design and book design.

A Practice for Everyday Life (APFEL) is a London-based graphic design studio founded by Kirsty Carter and Emma Thomas in 2003. Their work includes visual identities, books, exhibitions, art direction, type design, signage, packaging, and digital design. APFEL works across cultural and commercial worlds with a research-led approach to design that results in thoughtful and original work. Their clients include Tate, V&A, Barbican, Lisson Gallery, Phaidon, Sternberg, Marian Goodman Gallery, Bloomsbury, and Camper.

Their work is held in collections at The Art Institute of Chicago, the V&A Museum Archive, the Bibliothèque National des Livres Rares, Paris, the Royal College of Art Library, and the Tate Library.
APFEL projects include the recent visual identity and campaign for Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; visual identity, signage and type design for The Hepworth Wakefield; exhibition and book design for Basquiat: Boom for Real at the Barbican; and books for artists David Hockney, David Noonan, Oscar Murillo, Leonor Antunes and Douglas Coupland.

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Observe, Collect, Draw: Documenting the world using data
As a designer and artist, I use data-gathering and data-visualisation as a design process, taking seemingly ‘cold’ data and using it to communicate warmer, more subjective messages.

I’ll highlight the various esoteric and ‘outsider’ data collection processes and data visualisations that have inspired me to see observation as a form of making/creating, exploring how it both influences my creative practice and also functions as a starting point for making the concept of data more accessible to a wider audience, showing how in an era of ever-increasing data, we all can – through channelling our inner 'anoraks’ – start to view data through a warmer, more human-focused lens.

Stefanie Posavec
is a designer and artist for whom data is her favoured material, with projects ranging from data visualization, book design, and information design to artworks. Her work has been exhibited at the MoMA (New York), CCBB (Rio de Janeiro), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the V&A, the Design Museum, and Somerset House (London), and is held in the permanent collection of the MoMA. Her books (co-authored with Giorgia Lupi) include Dear Data and their new journal Observe, Collect, Draw!

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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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Posters for agitation
The poster as a communication tool. The graphic designer with critical thinking, looking for problems, at the service of society, satirical, provocative and that makes us think about how the world could be. The posterist as a mass agitator. The poster artist in search of graphic excellence. In this workshop we worked on the positioning of the future designer and his social role as a message issuer.

We worked from the word towards the graphic expression of the idea using, exploring and experimenting with the resources of graphic design to project a message in the public space.