design :

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The 2020 Virtual Gallery

For the first time in 2020, the full diversity of the undergraduate programs of the 5-year design diploma (BDes – Bachelor of Design) is showcased in this website.

Design: Portfolio 2020 features a selection of 36 projects from this year which bear witness to the talent, creativity and know-how developed by the students during their undergraduate studies.

The Master’s degree in design from L’École de design Nantes Atlantique is structured around a 3-year Bachelor’s degree (BDes – Bachelor of Design) and a 2-year Master’s degree (MDes – Master of Design). Accessible after secondary school, the BDes programs give students the opportunity to develop their creativity and general knowledge and to gain a strong professional culture in a design profession

Founded in 1988, L'École de design Nantes Atlantique is an official partner of l’Université de Nantes and a member of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles (top-tier French higher education institutions). It defines itself as a professional school of creation and innovation and trains designers with a strategic vision of design within companies and organizations.

Space design

Space design is a design activity which affects a multitude of areas. It involves creating spaces inside the built environment (public or private) but also working with the environment (landscaping, urban planning and development, etc.) or creating temporary pop-up spaces (events, scenography, museography, etc.)

“Interior Designers listen, question conventional approaches, break established codes, come up with new uses and new opportunities. The aim: to design and create a space for living, working or leisure time which is innovative yet sensitive to technical and regulatory constraints.”

Lydie Morand,

Interior Architecture BDes Course Leader

Lydie Morand

“Besides the technical, creative and organizational skills required, the force and wealth of the profession of Interior Designer lie in its ability to reinvent itself and to create solutions tailored to an ever-changing world.”

Emmanuel Alouche,

Retail & Interior Design BDes program Coordinator

Emanuel Alouche

"Whether for an exhibition, a cultural or commercial event, the scenographer enhances content, reinvents spaces, transforms the universe of a place, involves the visitor in a sensitive stroll, proposing each time a new experience...".

Flavien Conilleau

Scenography BDes Course Leader

Flavien Conilleau

Graphic design

Graphic Design is a design activity which seeks to implement and coordinate the production of a visual mode of communication combining static or animated images and text, on a printed medium or screen.

“By challenging the relationship between the substance and the form, the Graphic Designer aims to disappear behind the message being conveyed, for the benefit of the users.”
“Motion design lets users access information by playing with narrative codes, through sound, graphics and movement.”

Jérôme Héno

Graphic Design BDes and Motion Design BDes Course Leader

Lydie Morand

“Brand Designers need to understand a company’s core values, codes and meaning before they develop a brand identity. This is then used as a base to develop new generations of products, services, spaces… in order to create a brand image in the mind of the target audience.”

Sue Alouche

Brand Design Lecturer

Emanuel Alouche

Interaction design

Interaction design is the design of innovative services related to digital technologies in all sectors of the economy.

“Digital Media Designers must be methodical, open-minded, sensitive and responsible. They identify the needs, depending on the project context, the target audience and the resources. They deploy the service towards the appropriate digital media and other actions and define a complete and continuous ecosystem.”

Thierry Mellerin

Digital Media Design BDes program Coordinator

Lydie Morand

“What simpler way than a game to provide a solution to a design problem? Game Designers create immersive narrative experiences in which the user interacts to learn, understand, educate or amuse themselves.”

Edouard Durand

Game Design BDes Course Leader

Emanuel Alouche

“A good Interaction Designer is capable of grasping both the complexity of human interactions and the wealth of possibilities resulting from new technologies, with the end goal being to create a simple and obvious relationship between man and machine.”

Florent Michel

Interaction Design BDes Course Leader

Emanuel Alouche

Product design

Product design covers all areas of industrial production and service and can be applied to consumer goods but equally to capital goods.

“Product design is the translation of our thoughts into useful objects that are accessible to all and able to change the world.”
“Transport design lets us free ourselves of material and temporal barriers when moving people and objects.”

Arnaud Balduc

Industrial Design BDes and Transport Design BDes Course Leader

Lydie Morand

“Quick-witted and resourceful, Industrial Designers produce meaning and uses. They translate the values of their projects into finishes, materials, shapes, technologies and uses. Socially and environmentally responsible, they assess the impact of their projects for their users and brands.”

Olivier Pigasse

Industrial Products BDes program Coordinator

Emanuel Alouche

About

Founded in 1988, L'École de design Nantes Atlantique is an official partner of l’Université de Nantes and a member of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles (top-tier French higher education institutions). It defines itself as a professional school of creation and innovation and trains designers with a strategic vision of design within companies and organizations.

The school delivers The Diplôme de design , based on a five-year curriculum and approved by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. It also delivers the National Diploma in Fine Arts, Crafts and Design , a state-controlled degree that leads to the award of an Undergraduate Diploma after three years of studies.

With about 1500 students, L'École de design Nantes Atlantique is teaching design through standard education, apprenticeship or continuing education.

L'École de design Nantes Atlantique is today the only design school to have structured its training (MDes) and its research around 5 areas of expertise in Care design (health, care, social innovation), City design (cities and territories) Food design (food systems), Digital design (digital innovation), Media design (media, information, communication and entertainment) responding to the major challenges of the contemporary world.

Its educational programs are focused on professionalizing studies in partnership with companies: internships, apprenticeships, prospective studies, workshops, collaborative projects and support for innovative projects.

Resolutely international, L'École de design Nantes Atlantique is based in Pune (India), Shangaï (China), São Paulo (Brazil), Montréal (Canada) and Cotonou (Benin) with Africa Design School.

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