The third edition of Eina Plataforma will take place on Thursday 24 April at the Bosc facilities, and will focus on the transition to the professional world.
This initiative, open to all audiences, is a meeting place for students and professionals, which generates an exchange of knowledge and experiences, a forum for reflection and visibility of projects and new approaches to the world of design.
On this occasion, 10 alumni of the Bachelor of Design will give presentations, followed by a space for dialogue and exchange, and also by a Design Market organised by the Eina Alumni Collective.
The day will be dedicated to the transition in the professional world. During the presentations, the alumni will explain their first professional steps in agencies, companies and their own initiatives, recounting their main challenges, difficulties, lessons learned, unexpected situations and the decisions taken along the way.
They will also share how some projects initiated during the Bachelor of Design have been developed and how they have helped them to become initiatives within the professional world, acquiring enormous visibility and impact thanks to collaborations, fairs or festivals.
Participants:
Design Culture
Francesc Soria
Alba Acebes
Product Design
Pongotodo (Lara Hernansanz, Guillem Solans, Arnau Fernández)
Francina Ayuso, Clara Barrantes, Laia Poy, Rocío Rodríguez Hidalga
Graphic Design
Flavià Boleda
Lidia Puig
Design of Spaces
Laia Campdelacreu
Berta Casas
Visual Creation
Virginia Mars
Blanca Muntadas
Schedule
9:15 – 11 h. Design Culture (Room B0)
11 – 12:45 h. Visual Creation (Room B0)
11 – 12:45 h. Product Design (Room 2.1)
12:45 – 14:30 h. Graphic Design (Room BO)
12:45 – 14:30 h. Design of Spaces (Room 2.1)
14:30 h. Lunch
14:30 – 17 h. Design Market
Bios of the participants
Design Culture
Francesc Soria
Graduated at Eina in product and design culture, I did the Master in Architectural Communication (MACA) and the Master in Computational Design (MIAU), where I specialised in Grasshopper. The last few years I have been working in the multidisciplinary creation studio Hamill Industries, where I have worked both in the digital world and in the world of metal, wood, methacrylate, PVC, plants and fungi, electronics, lasers... Now starting to specialize in touchdesigner!
Alba Acebes
She is a visual artist and graphic designer based in Barcelona. She researches from love and cures in her artistic practice, especially through the self-publishing of fanzines and graphic work. She is one of the winners of Art Jove Creació 2025 for Autoedición para un mundo en crisis amorosa, a research project she is developing with the support of Sala d'Art Jove.
Product Design
Pongotodo (Lara Hernansanz, Guillem Solans, Arnau Fernández)
We have started a new professional stage as pastry chefs. As a creative team, we like to create the best pieces and offer them to the market from a solid technical, graphic and conceptual perspective. We believe that design is about adapting to the present day and knowing how to find the most innovative and interactive way to present collections that connect with the public. Today we are pastry chefs, tomorrow... who knows? who knows?
Luce: Francina Ayuso, Clara Barrantes, Laia Poy, Rocío Rodríguez Hidalga
How can a project that starts in a subject of the Bachelor of Design have such a great scope to reach the Milano Design Week? Our works are luminaires designed for Bover, which have been selected to participate in Inspired in Barcelona: Luce, the installation, curated by Stefano Colli, organised by the Barcelona Creativity & Design Foundation and held in Milan from 7 to 13 April. This leap from the university to a larger sphere such as the Milan fair represents a great opportunity for our development as designers.
Graphic Design
Flavià Boleda
Copla musician and graphic designer. I use design as a tool to explain everything I like. I've worked at Eina's communication department for almost two years, also participating with einaidea with different collaborations and ambushes. In the third year of my degree I worked at the Socios Club studio and, nowadays, I'm at Fuego Camina Conmigo as art director.
Lidia Puig
I graduated in Graphic Design at Eina in 2021 and that same year I participated in the Laus Awards with my TFG Distype, with which I won Gold in the category of Final Degree Projects in graphic design. I worked in Eina's communication team during the last year of my degree and in 2022 I started working in the Arauna and 131.gd studio. For three years we have been doing campaigns for the Barcelona City Council and currently we do projects in other areas such as visual identities, graphics in spaces, editorial, etc. During this time, I have also collaborated on several projects with other designers such as Laia Clos -Mot Studio- and Irene Sierra, as well as doing projects for other clients as a freelance.
Design of Spaces
Laia Campdelacreu
Between projects, experiences and encounters, I have learnt that every space is a blank canvas to give shape to intentions and emotions. My training period has allowed me to get to know different ways of thinking and relating to others, and to understand design as a tool to give shape to stories that are lived, spaces that breathe, welcome and dialogue with those who inhabit them.
Berta Casas
I never imagined I would end up outside an architecture firm, let alone leading projects from a creative management perspective. Combining strategy and creativity in roles such as business development and project management. Creativity has no limits, and we can apply it to any process. At the time I lacked references, that's why I'm excited to share my experience. There are many more paths than we imagine, and all of them can be designed.
Visual Creation
Virginia Mars
Art director specialising in the fashion sector, she studied graphic design at Eina and became interested in the handcrafted work of ceramics. Her influences are forged in an interest for cinema and fashion, and with her time at EXTRA and Ainhoa Nagore studios she learns the importance of moodboard as an essential tool in the construction of aesthetic universes. At the same time, she worked as a teacher of editorial design at LCI until she started working as an art director at Inditex on branding and communication projects.
Blanca Muntadas Jaumandreu
Art director and designer with ten years of experience in creating events and visual experiences. I love conceptualising, planning and executing ambitious projects with a high level of detail. From event production, photography and graphic design, my goal is to create beauty in the everyday, always looking for new ways of doing, thinking and living experiences. I shape ideas from the universe of my imagination through graphic design, art direction, food styling, visual content creation, experience design and set design.