Category: Accessory Design

“Meanwhile” is an online art exhibition presented by the 3rd year students of the Estonian Academy of Arts Textile Design and Accessory Design departments. 

Material-sensitive artists focus on personal and universal observations on the topic of recycling and waste management. The effects of the pandemic and isolation can be clearly perceived in many artworks but the exhibition, established during spring, displays a sense of awakening at the same time – highlighting topics that have been overshadowed by global events of the recent times. The exhibition offers a smooth camera flight through the exhibition landscape, where artificial and natural motifs are fused into a new landscape open for critical reflection.

“Meanwhile” appears as a phantom exhibition, established somewhere in a physical space that remains inaccessible to everyone and can only be experienced from a distance.

Artists: Carmen Sibbul, Eva Tarn, Georg Orover, Greta Vinkel, Juulia Aleksandra Mikson, Kille-Ingeri Liivoja, Lea Heinoja, Liisa Põldoja, Merili Põllu, Merilin Pärismaa
Special thanks to Martin Põldoja, Iris Peil, Paul Henrich Daude, Hannes Tarn, Joonas Tarn
Video Production by Roman-Sten Tõnissoo
Supervised by Sten Saarits 

Visit the exhibition at www.bestbefore.ee

The Design & Crafts MA programme invites prospective MA students to join the programme’s Online Open House on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 17:00 (GMT+2).

This will be a good opportunity to hear more about the programme, and to meet and ask questions directly from the department staff and current students. The open house event will be hosted online over Zoom.

If you would like to attend, please register online through the form below. A link to attend will be e-mailed shortly before the event begins.

REGISTER HERE

Design & Crafts is an interdisciplinary Master’s programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts. The students enter a common programme but also select a discipline: ceramics, glass, jewellery and blacksmithing, textile design, accessory design or fashion design.

More information about the Design & Crafts MA programme: https://www.artun.ee/en/curricula/design-and-crafts/.

Benjamin Moua is a NYC-based designer, maker, and creative who strives to strike a balance between form, function, and the engineering of ideas into products and experiences that people will trust and love.​​ He has worked for major brands such as Reebok, Target, Adidas, Dick’s Sporting Goods, UNIQLO, Terramar Sports, New Balance and collaborated as a designer at the Boston Marathon, and the New York City Marathon.

His commitment to learning as both a professional and as a student, has allowed him the unique opportunity to stretch his interdisciplinary design experiences from Hardlines-to-Softlines goods, Color-to-Construction, Trend-to-Merchandising, and Print&Pattern-to-Production.

His uniquely expansive career, which started in fashion, has taken turns into consumable goods, high-performance protective gear, brand management, color theory/forecasting, and everything in between.

There are no projects too small or too big, and no questions left unturned, as he shares his insights on the key role designers serve as problem-solvers to the world’s unique creative challenges, and outlines why they are essential in addressing concepts such as ‘end-user experience’, ‘sustainability’, and ‘functional design’.

His lecture on the 31st January 2020 he will talk about identifying keys to success and will be a valuable experience for the students giving them insights and new perspectives in the world of design. 

Lecture will be about an hour long with a Q&A session after giving the audience a chance to learn the secrets of global fashion and accessories industry.

The display of design and architecture schools introduces graduation works and various school projects. In addition to the design schools in Estonia who offer higher education in Tallinn, Tartu and Haapsalu our guests from Kolding Design School, European University in Madrid and Falmouth University are presenting their most successful student projects.

“This course focuses on research of interactions between an individuality and tangible reality being sufficiently modern, to indicate on the immanent presence of the creative spirit, as a condition for all imaginable arts that may rely on their future.” – A. Jakovlev

Students showing their works: Anni Kivisto, Erle Nemvalts , Johanna Tamm, Kaisa Krusenberg, Oliver Kanniste, Anna-Liisa Hanni, Terje Meisterson, Ketlin Kuusing, Greete Rüütmann, Henri Kaarel Luht, Mart Vaarpuu, Aleksandra Kazanina, Andres Mäekallas, Rünno Kulver, Katrin Aasmaa, Kerttu Rannik, Anna Roomet, Siim Simmermann, Cathy Saarm, Maarika Karm, Kristiina Jeromans, Cärol Ott, Triin Tint, Vitali Valtanen, Anna Viik Archanjo

Tutors: Marta Moorats, Aleksander Jakovlev

Thursday 20^th September 2018 at 17:30, room A501

In his lecture Dr. Barnard will be outlining the main features of the sender/receiver model of communication as it applies to fashion, explaining what is wrong with it and arguing that messages are not sent or received but rather that meanings are constructed. He will suggest that the existence of this model may be accounted for by examining a mixture of capitalism and romanticism and he will explain how and why the sender/receiver model does not work by taking some famous people as examples.

Malcolm Barnard

Malcolm Barnard is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Loughborough University (UK), where he teaches the history and theory of art and design. He has a BA(Hons) in Philosophy and Sociology from the University of York and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Warwick. He is the author of Fashion as Communication (Routledge 2002), Art, Design and Visual Culture (Macmillan 1998), Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture (Palgrave 2001), Graphic Design as Communication (Routledge 2005) and Fashion Theory: An Introduction (Routledge 2014).  He is also the editor of Fashion Theory: A Reader (Routledge 2007) and of the four volume Fashion, (Routledge, Critical Concepts Series, 2012). Recent publications include an essay on fashion and the Kantian sublime and essays on Derrida and photography theory and on the semiology of advertising are forthcoming.

The lecture is organized by Department of Textile Design in cooperation with Department of Accessory and Bookbinding Design.

Graphic designer, blogger and enterpreneur Helene Vetik:

Self presentation in internet.
10 years on the field – evolution of the field and myself.

www.uustuus.ee

Open lecture series in the Faculty of Design

Photo as a unavoidable reality of the product. Expected and unexpected image. How to influence viewers through the photo?

Kaupo Kikkas has strong experience in different areas of photography – from product to portrait, from travelling to free artistic expression.

www.kaupokikkas.com

This Wednesday, 4.02.15 we are going to meet renown fashion designer and researcher REET AUS, who is internationally acclaimed expert of ecological design.

For several years already, the upcycling designer Reet Aus and her team have been involved in a innovative research project together with Beximco, the largest vertically integrated fabric and garment producer in Bangladesh. The unity between the two companies aims for upcycling to be implemented into the regular production processes of Beximco in order to save resources, grow efficiency and significantly reduce environmental impacts. Upcycling could potentially reduce at least 65% of waste created by the giant production of 56 million garments a year.
Reet Aus team in cooperation with Beximco are leaders in designing, mass-producing and selling 100% upcycled, unique and high-fashion garments, enabling to save on average 70% of water and create 88% less CO2 emission compared to non upcycled mass-production.