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.
Foundation
January 1967
Headquarters
- EINA Sarrià.
Passeig Santa Eulàlia, 25, Barcelona. - EINA Bosc.
Carrer del Bosc, 2, Barcelona.
2019 Students
- Design degree - 427
- Master's and postgraduate - 85
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 ARQ-INFAD (1988)
- Honorable Mention Premio Nacional de Diseño (2000)
Student Awards (year 2018-2019)
- German Design Award - Marc Blanes - Final Degree Project Fuego Lento (2018)
- Final Degree Project of CoDIC - Lena Oliveres - Final Degree Project Ñire, creació d’un espai social a través dels residus (2018)
- Colibrí d'Or - Joceline Pérez Gallardo - Llibre àlbum illustration (2018)
- Illustration award El Viaje de Carlota - Varvara Fomina - Illustration (2018)
- A’Design Award - Oriol Campillo, Núria Jané, Adrián Soldado and Paula Terra - Köllen Bookshelf and Köllen Tryk (2018)
- Glassberries Design Awards - Paula Terra i Oriol Campillo - Packaging
- Finalist in the Habitàcola - Anna Rebecca Fdz-Checa, Mar Marqués and Oriol Carbonell - Project Desplegable (2018)
- European Newspaper Award - Paula Terra and Núria Jané - igraphic (2018)
- Design Award in Wood Jordi Amat - Oriol Campillo, Núria Jané, Adrian Soldado and Paula Terra - “Köllen Tryk” (2018)
Faculty Awards (year 2018-2019)
- Bibliography Award Bartolomé José Gallardo - Albert Corbeto - La Real Biblioteca y los hombres de letras del siglo de las luces al servicio del estado y del beneficio público (2018)
- Best of Year given by Interior Design Magazine - Rai Pinto i Dani Rubio - Acompanya’m (2018)
- Gràffica award 2018 - Laura Meseguer (2018)
- Finalist of the MAX awards - Anna Alcubierre - Scenic design of Jane Eyre (2018)
- Sketching award "Els 4 Gats" - Lluïsot - Illustration (2018)
