Undergraduate in Design
Fashion Design
In a compromise between thinking and doing, students explore their creativity and leadership, developing critical skills, manual techniques and digital processes. We challenge the new generation to discover their creative identity, embracing the issues of sustainability and circularity, with a sense of social, economic and environmental responsibility.
Profile
Objectives
- Create dynamic learning environments, enhancing different expressions of identity and modes of action and stimulating critical thinking and autonomy.
- Develop different methodological, reflective and contextual approaches, introducing the debate on different scenarios and actors in the Fashion system.
- Provide laboratory project practice based on drawing and materialization in the studio.
- Cultivate an ethical and critical approach, valuing knowledge of history and heritage and awareness of the challenges for the future.
- Promote civic and design participation attentive to sustainability and local and global dynamics.
Fashion Design
Study plan
HC - Contact hours · ECTS - European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
Career Paths
Fashion designer for collection development and graphics — Product and textile collection designer — Fashion producer and stylist — Product manager — Design researcher
Committed to excellence
Our dedicated educators foster a stimulating learning environment to help you reach your design potential
Partnerships
A collaborative approach and a network of dynamic partners ensure the promotion of critical and technological thinking, challenging the limits of conventional thinking. ESAD Fashion Design has established itself as a platform for dialogue between the creative design process, industry, culture and society. Partnerships extend our mission, exploring close relationships with local and national organisations. We intend to continue identifying new initiatives to connect the academic community to new opportunities in the industry.
- Troficolor • Novoli
- Valérius Têxteis
- Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos
- Incubadora da Fábrica de Santo Thyrso
- Museu do Design
- Portugal Fashion
- Citeve
- Lemar
- Tintex
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Scholarships
Turn your design dreams into reality with scholarship opportunities
2024-2025 school year
Calendar
Degree in Digital Arts and Multimedia (3rd year) - 2nd Semester - 27.01.2025 to 13.06.2025
Enriching lives, opening minds
Erasmus+
Erasmus+, funded by the European Commission, is the EU's flagship program for education, training, youth, and sport. It aims to boost personal and professional development for all Europeans. This can involve student exchanges, vocational training placements, or even adult learning programs. Erasmus+ also encourages collaboration between organizations across Europe to share knowledge and drive innovation in these fields.
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Information and Contacts
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Undergraduate
The change that generates changes is taught and learned.
When studying at ESAD you will have the opportunity to learn from professionals with solid experience and take advantage of the School's teaching laboratories. You will be able to experiment and master different processes, tools and technologies, whether analogue or digital. ESAD’s degrees provide you with creative and technical skills, promote critical thinking, collaboration and independence. They make you flexible and irreverent, innovative and responsible. They train you for professional opportunities that put you at the heart of change.