The EINA School was founded in the late 1960s by a group of artists and intellectuals who wanted to bring to Barcelona the ideas of design, Modernity and education of advanced centres such as Bauhaus, the Ulm School and others. As we know, Barcelona has always had this potency and creative strength and has been a European benchmark in the arts (which it still retains to some extent, despite the highs and lows) and of which we aim to be the disciples and the continuation.
EINA offers a range of qualifications, from Bachelor’s Degrees, to Postgraduate and Master’s Degrees, up to the Doctorate in Design, the most advanced academic level. For us, the education of design is a way of being: we work to ensure that our students acquire some of the most important skills in the twenty-first century: the ability to be creative, combined with the ability to identify and be able to solve the real problems in society and put ideas into practice. It is what has been called in other areas “creativity” and “innovation” (in the field of technology), or what we call design thinking or visual thinking, which for us are our daily life. In short, a culture of “doing”.
Design is an activity of life, of society, and of the world, a way of understanding the world; and we understand art (because we are a school of design and art) as a way of taking on design: the attitude of the artist, with their ability of searching, continuous observation, experimentation, constant questioning and research, are the ways of making up this critical thought that always is and always should be at the root of design and art.
EINA has a clear vocation of public service, despite being a private school: we aspire to train professionals with a solid creative development, experts in the execution of technical procedures and with entrepreneurial ability capable of adapting to the context, based on solid cultural and humanistic foundations and critical thought.
2022-2023 Students
- Bachelor of Design - 426
Employability tax
- 89'2% of employed graduates.*
- 77% of graduates find a job in less than 3 months after finishing the Degree.*
* Data extracted from the monitoring report of the university graduate employability carried out by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency in 2017.
Awards and recognitions
Awards and recognitions received by EINA
- Silver medal of Foment de les Arts Decoratives (1983)
- Creu de Sant Jordi given by the Generalitat de Catalunya (1987)
- Habitàcola Award to the best pedagogical orientation given by ARQUIN-FAD (1988)
- Honorable Mention Premio Nacional de Diseño (2000)
- Habitàcola Award to the best pedagogical orientation given by ARQUIN-FAD (2000)
Student Awards (year 2022-2023)
- iF Design Student Award 2023 - Pol Julià - Prostheses for home appliances with an identity crisis
- Glassberries Design Awards: Silver Glassberry and BA Special Award - Anna Fuentes and Eduard Martínez - Pure
- Laus Award – Silver Laus Typography - Pol Buch - Rondalla
- Justícia i Pau 'Murals for Peace' Competition: 2nd prize - Pil Anna Tesdorpf - Illustration
- College of Interior Designers and Decorators of Catalonia (CoDIC) Awards: 2nd prize - Eva Ramón - Final Degree Project CLIMENT, Hub de treball flexible
- gaudeamusPROJECTA Award, Official College of Graphic Design of Catalonia - Marc Menció - Final Degree Project Laboratori de Captcha
Student Awards (year 2021-2022)
- Cataluña Ecodisseny Award - Marina Gallego - Final Degree Project Oraia, Camino Sostenible
- Imagina Civican - Victoria Selin - Illustration
- Indigo Award - Marc Menció - Final Degree Project Laboratori de captcha
- Laus Awards
Gold Laus - Lidia Puig - Final Degree Project Distype
Gold Laus - Marc Menció - Final Degree Project Laboratori de captcha
Silver Plata - Anna Bosch - Final Degree Project No aparcar
Silver Laus - Oriol Cervantes - Final Master Project Ecoimpack.org
Bronze Laus - Guillem García - Final Degree Project La Ciudad Jardín
Bronze Laus - Emma Garcia - Final Degree Project Edgar Allan Poe’s Amusing Tales
Bronze Laus - Sarah Barbuto - Final Master Project unagenda
Student Awards (year 2020-2021)
- Acento G 2020 Awards - Clara Faner - Final Degree Project La Badalona, històries en femení
- ADI Medals Silver - Paula Terrra - Final Degree Project Dröp, a non-invasive treatment for type 1 diabetes
- Opinion - Manu González - Final Degree Project TMBLight
- CoDIC Awards
Ivette Mas Druguet - Final Degree Project Alba – L’espai més confortable del món
Andrea Navarro - Final Degree Project EL COL·LECTI - gaudeamusPROJECTA 2020 Awards Innova - Ignasi Ayats - Final Degree Project Adlego
- gaudeamusPROJECTA 2021 Awards
Identia - Clara Faner - Final Degree Project La Badalona, històries en femení
Finalist - Anna Garriga - Final Degree Project Riu Riu - Imagina Civican - Violeta Araujo, Martina Duran, Marta Perarnau, Luis Alzueta and Núria Garcia Traveria - Illustration
- Inter-University Research Competition - Clara Mallart - Final Master Project Lifelong Fashion: a strategic proposal for a sustainable and circular clothing system
- Laus Awards 2020
Silver Laus - Carles Giménez Masclans, Marta Pardina Busquests, Laia Xixons Farré - Free work Magnet App
Bronze Laus - Carles Giménez - Final Degree Project FOURTURES
Bronze Laus - Judit Serra - Final Degree Project Poética
Bronze Laus - Marc Villalba - Free work 451, Literatura en llamas - Laus Awards 2021
Bronze Laus - Anna Garriga - Final Degree Project Riu Riu
Bronze Laus - Marta Hernández Sevillano - Final Degree Project Periferias
Bronze Laus - Jordi Basora, Diego Gil de Biedma and Marta Hernández Sevillano - Free work RISE
Student Awards (year 2019-2020)
- C-IDEA Design Award - Paula Terra - Final Degree Project Dröp, simplifica la diabetis
- CoDIC Awards - Sofía Aguilera - Final Degree Project Refugio en la azotea. Espacio individual para la creación
- Catalunya Ecodesign Award - Cristina Bonamusa - Final Degree Project HBEE
- gaudeamusPROJECTA Awards - Ignasi Ayats - Final Degree Project Adlego and Carles Giménez - Final Degree Project FOURTURES, An interpretation of Peter Frase’s Four Futures
- Imagina Civican - Gerard Cortina and Elena Araujo - Illustration
- National Packaging Awards - Margaraita Bernstein and Marina Fortuna - The Real. Cocoa soul
Student Awards (year 2018-2019)
- A’Design Award - Oriol Campillo, Núria Jané, Adrián Soldado and Paula Terra - Köllen Eget and Paula Terra - TFG Dröp, simplifica la diabetis
- CoDIC Awards - Lena Oliveres - Final Degree Project Ñire, creació d’un espai social a través dels residus
- Colibrí d'Or Medal - Joceline Pérez Gallardo - La ñiña que escondía demasiado
- European Product Design Awards - Paula Terra – Final Degree Project Dröp, simplifica la diabetis
- Explorer Award - Tomàs Lóbez - Final Degree Project Nixi for Children
- gaudeamusPROJECTA Awards - Natàlia Pàmies - Final Degree Project SOROR and Carlos Álvarez-Valdés - Final Degree Project LINEAL
- German Design Award - Marc Blanes - Final Degree Project Fuego Lento
- Habitàcola Awards - Jordi Bruna Camprodon, Marc Rovira i Biarnés and Adrià Tejedor Baltasar La manta del top manta and Ivette Mas Druguet and Armin Gómez Tianguis - Space design
- Laus Awards
Gold Laus - Gemma Fontanals - Final Master Project FIERA. Feria de Fanzines Feministas
Silver Laus - Lluís Serra (Senyor Estudi) - Final Degree Project Orenga
Silver Laus - Carles Giménez - Free work libre Shaper Festival
Bronze Laus - Carlos Álvarez-Valdés - Final Degree Project LINEAL
Bronze Laus - Raquel Fabrellas - Final Degree Project SOFIA
Bronze Laus - Dani Guix - Final Degree Project Loop. Redisseny del festival de videoart de Barcelona
Bronze Laus - Ariadna Valldeperas - Final Degree Project Danshari
Bronze Laus - Carles Giménez - Free work Glissando Typeface
Student Awards (year 2017-2018)
- A’Design Award - Oriol Campillo, Núria Jané, Adrián Soldado and Paula Terra - Köllen Bookshelf and Köllen Tryk
- Art on Paper - Hugo Cárdenas, Sebastian Becerra and Javiera MacLean - Illustration
- Design Award in Wood Jordi Amat - Oriol Campillo, Núria Jané, Adrian Soldado and Paula Terra - Köllen Tryk and Köllen Eget
- European Newspaper Award - Paula Terra and Núria Jané - igraphic
- Glassberries Design Awards - Paula Terra and Oriol Campillo - Packaging
- gaudeamusPROJECTA Awards - Maria Caravaca - Final Degree Project Fusion Smart Energy and Pol Pintó - Final Degree Project A-Creixement
- Habitàcola Award - Anna Rebecca Fdz-Checa, Mar Marqués and Oriol Carbonell - Project Desplegable
- Jump The Gap - Denis Lara LAMBDA, and Ferran Gesa and Caterina Vianna Babylon - Product
- Illustration award El Viaje de Carlota - Varvara Fomina
- Un salt per a la ciutat Contest - Anna Milla - Metrópolis
- Laus Awards
Laus Oro and Laus Aporta - Natàlia Pàmies - Final Degree Project SOROR
Silver Plata - Ariadna Valldeperas - Free work _data
Silver Laus - Júlia Peró - Free work Orgasmo
Bronze Laus - Laia Closas and Maria Viladomiu - Free work Artel