- the bachelor’s degree curriculum in Industrial and Digital Product Design
Department of Product Design
The Estonian Academy of Arts Department of Product Design is engaged with human-centred design. We have been training professional designers here for more than 50 years. Historically, product design study has focused on industrial design. The rapid development in the ICT sector has now broadened the term product design, and a new field – digital product design – now complements the previous field of industrial design (furniture, electronics etc.).
Our department allows study on the basis of curricula:
News and events
EKA team at the Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition
House of Negotiated SelvesEstonian Academy of Arts (EE)Ars Electronica campus exhibition Linz University of the Arts, Hauptplatz 8 (West Building) House of Negotiated Selves explores the boundary between human autonomy and machine representation. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly prevalent in mediating and shaping our interactions, creation, and decision-making, there is a ...
EKA New Media and Animation Students at Sound Camp 2026
During the last weekend (2–3 May), students from EKA New Media Sound Art course and Animation Sound Design course participated in an annual Sound Camp, a field expedition at a remote forest lodge in central Estonia. This year’s program, hosted by John Grzinich, a sound artist and guest lecturer at EKA, took place at an off-the-grid, RMK-owned Vanapagana forest lodge. A group of 12 students ...
Product Designers in Tokyo: A Week on the Border of Science and Design
In mid-January, 12 EKA product design students boarded a plane with more questions than answers and a rather vague idea of what awaited them. Their destination was the DLX Design Lab at the University of Tokyo, a place where design and science merge in a creative yet practical way, and where they’d get to jump into the hands-on workshop. This is an international design research lab where ...
Rapid Thinking in Times of Crisis: International Design Sprint at EKA Tackles Defence Challenges
In response to evolving security challenges in Europe, the Product Design Department of EKA hosted an international design sprint, Rapid Defence Tech Design Sprint, from March 24–28 as part of the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP). The sprint brought together students to rapidly develop practical, scalable solutions for both defence and civil protection contexts. A total of 22 ...
Design and Engineering Met on the Quay
EKA product design students set out to solve how to deliver electricity to ships in the city center. Our recently held Design Diagnostics masterclass brought together product design students from the Estonian Academy of Arts and engineers from Estonian maritime technology company ShoreLink to tackle an increasingly relevant challenge in urban ports: how to deliver electricity from the quay to ...
Zen and Cenote: How EKA Students Designed Wise’s New Meeting Rooms
The technology company Wise invited students from the Estonian Academy of Arts to take part in designing the interiors of its new office in Tallinn’s Krulli quarter. The result: two meeting rooms that combine the deep-blue serenity of Mexican cenotes with the calm of the Mediterranean — spaces that are functional, cosy, and artistically bold. “We wanted to create something that wouldn’t feel ...