From concept to material. The design-print tandem - Alumni Training Capsule

Alumni EINA is organising the following training capsule session for the next semester:

From concept to material. The design-print tandem

• Josep Amat and Lluc Massaguer
• Friday 10 May 2019, from 4 pm to 8 pm
• Vanguard Gràfic (Joan Miró, 17 - 08930 Sant Adrià del Besòs, Barcelona)
• Registration
  You will need a university identification number (NIU/NIA) and a password. If you are not an EINA student yet, you can obtain them here.

Knowing the production process of the graphic elements that we generate not only offers security and reliability in the results, but by generating good dialogue between designer and printer, we can reinforce the conceptual part of a project, as well as give it added value.

The capsule combines, on the one hand, a display of examples of design projects that are outstanding for their good technical work, choice of materials or combination of print systems, and on the other hand, a space for looking, touching and smelling physical examples of unusual and interesting solutions. It ends with a small workshop where participants will be able to put into practice a choice of material based on a fictitious briefing. It will be held at the facilities of Vanguard Gràfic, to have the material and print machinery close to hand.

Josep Amat specialises in process management, and has worked for some 25 years as production manager with a family print business. In 2013, he created the Print School, a CSR initiative aimed at helping schools with economic problems. He is currently in charge of digitisation at Vanguard Gràfic and teaches at a number of design training centres.

Lluc Massaguer is a graphic designer and graduate in Design from EINA. She worked for three years in the pre-print department of the family print business. From 2005 to 2015, she was Publications Manager at EINA, and since 2015 she has been Online Contents and Alumni Manager. Since 2006, she has taught Graphic Arts, Properties and Uses of New Materials and Graphic Production on the Bachelor’s Degree in Design and on the Master's in Graphic Design at EINA, of which she is the coordinator.

The Training Capsules

The aim of the Training Capsules is to offer EINA Alumni members active learning, both to refresh and improve their design-related professional skills and to look more deeply into the fields related to art and the humanities, in workshop, seminar or lecture format.

Places will be limited and registrations will be accepted strictly by order of application. Courses will require a minimum of 6 persons enrolled.

The duration of these sessions will normally be 4 hours and they will cost € 20 for EINA Alumni members and € 80 for non-members, per person and course.

If after reserving a place you are unable to attend the activity, you must cancel your reservation by sending an email to alumni@eina.cat so that someone else can take up your place.

Cancellation should be no later than 24 hours before the day of the activity. If you don’t attend the activity and you haven’t cancelled within this period, a non-attendance penalty will be applied (you won’t be able to enrol on any other training capsule for 2 months after the date of the course in question). If the cancellation is on medical grounds and you cancel less than 24 hours before the capsule, you will need to show a doctor’s letter for the penalty not to be applied.