Events are an integral part of the master programs: from workshops with guests professors to lectures series with relevant practitioners.
Wed, Oct 21, 2026
Graphic — Elisava lectures
7.30 pm — Sala Aleix Carrió
Open to the public
Luisa Milani, La Tigre
An illustrated alphabet of vibrant matters
An illustrated alphabet of vibrant matters
La Tigre looks at graphic design as a living material: shapes that breathe, colours that vibrate, signs that shift between the abstract and the figurative. The talk composes an illustrated alphabet of the qualities that guide the studio’s work, from synthesis to colour, from research to play. A journey through forms and words, where visual language becomes a playground and every element, however small, has something to say.
Luisa Milani is the art director and co-founder of the independent graphic design studio LaTigre. She studied at Politecnico di Milano and, a few years later, in 2009, founded the studio. Alongside her practice, she has spent several years teaching. Always in search of the sublime in color and form, her design approach is solid and concrete, yet spontaneous—free from constraints or creative limits. She draws inspiration from everything around her, making intuition a core aspect of her practice. A long-time yoga practitioner, she brings the same balance and awareness to her creative work, leaving room for serendipity, her motto.
La Tigre is a graphic design studio founded and directed by Luisa Milani and Walter Molteni, members of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale). Since 2009, the studio has been developing multiform visual languages in which formal research is driven by synthesis and a vibrant use of color, where the boundary between the abstract and the figurative at times becomes blurred. It collaborates with international entities such as Apple, Bitossi Home, Living and Abitare – Corriere della Sera, Max Mara, The New York Times, Phaidon, and Wired USA. Alongside commissioned projects, the studio conducts experimental research across various media.
Wed, Nov 4, 2026
Masters’ Talks
7.30 pm — Event at DHub
Open to the public
Izaskun Chinchilla
Los barrios del buen vivir: A Perspective from Tentative Design
Los barrios del buen vivir: A Perspective from Tentative Design
What if designers made fewer mistakes if they stopped trying to get it right the first time? Neighborhoods of Good Living explore a city understood not as a finished object, but as a living laboratory: spaces that are tested, inhabited, evaluated, and transformed. The lecture will explore the work of Izaskun Chinchilla Architects and the book Neighborhoods of Good Living to ask what happens when design abandons certainty and embraces hypothesis, experimentation, and adaptation. A perspective from tentative design to conceive of well-being as something experienced collectively.
Izaskun Chinchilla, a professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL), and an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), integrates ecology, care, and participation into her practice, research, and teaching. Her work promotes more equitable and sustainable cities. She combines design, critical thinking, and cultural knowledge to promote an architecture that is educational, cooperative, and oriented toward the common good. She is the author of La ciudad de los cuidados (Catarata, 2021) and Los barrios del buen vivir (Catarata, 2026).
Izaskun Chinchilla Architects is a group of architects led by Izaskun Chinchilla that brings together interdisciplinary teams for each project. Their work focuses on optimizing the environmental performance of architecture, public space, facilities, art, and cultural products through innovation. Public engagement and social participation are pillars of their practice, which promotes collaboration in the construction of shared spaces and community-based decision-making regarding the use, location, and characteristics of the facilities they design.
past events
Wednesday,
November 11, 2020
6.30 pm
Anna Díaz, Hamill Industries
Open Lecture
Light, sound and visual illusions
Light sound and visual illusions
Hamill Industries will share the techniques hidden behind their latest projects and collaborations: from sound visualisation processes to commercial work and new creative challenges.
Hamill Industries
is a creative studio specialised in the convergence of technology and the arts. They develop innovation projects thanks to crafted technology, evocative design and visuals, creating new formats of visual communication. The studio, composed of Pablo Barquín and Anna Diaz, carries out artistic and technological research in the field of visual arts and innovation, by combining new media, digital or practical effects and experimental technologies with mechanical inventions.
They work across multiple mediums including advertising, music videos, art installations and live performances. Since 2015, they have been touring worldwide together with Floating Points creating his mesmerising visual shows, and have lectured and presented their work at internationally recognised festivals and institutions such as SONAR Festival, ARS Electronica, Matadero and The Barbican.
Wednesday,
November 4, 2020
6.15 pm
Daniel Ayuso, Clase
Case Studies
Enea, Vibia y Delicious & Sons
Only for MVD students
Enea, Vibia and Delicious & Sons
In this session we will be able to see through Case Studies of real projects from the studio how a brand identity is developed and how it is strategically translated into the different communication elements on and offline to define a recognizable and transversal personality.
Daniel Ayuso
is a partner and creative director at Clase studio. Since 2016 he is President of the Association of Art directors and Graphic Designers ADG FAD. He is an associate professor at the Elisava School and the UPF. His trajectory has expanded from his training in graphic design to the development of more complex Visual Identities in which communication and visual language build a brand discourse through design itself, art direction in photography or audiovisual.
