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MOME launches scholarship program for disadvantaged youth
MOME launches a comprehensive, nationwide creative industries scholarship program to give talented high school students in Hungary’s poorest regions a chance to enter higher education in design and art.
The mission of Tomorrow belongs to you – For the creative talents of the future program is to create opportunities for
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Variations on wool: the Wool project
Every year in Hungary, several tonnes of wool, the by-product of lamb sheering are wasted: the aim of the Wool project is to show an alternative way of using this highly valuable material. The special feature of the experimental textile, made from a mixture of waste wool and bioplastic, is
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High-tech materials and wearable technology at MOME conference
What fabric will our clothes be made of in 20 years? How could the design sector improve its use of material for a more sustainable economy? This and many other topics will be discussed at the Future Materials conference hosted by Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest.
In our
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MOME’s new vehicle design studio, the Mobility Design Lab, has been inaugurated | Interview about the past and future of vehicle design I.
A new chapter opens in the life of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design’s vehicle design program. On the 1st of July, the university’s new automotive design studio, the Mobility Design Lab, will be inaugurated. We talked to András Húnfalvi and Dániel Ruppert, leaders of the program,
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BEST OF MOME KIPAK
Inclusive, traditionalist, ironic and self-reflexive—MOME students approached the social issues of our time and the current questions of space and object design with different attitudes. Can elderly people and toddlers share common spaces? Can we see dressing up as a game? Can a piece of cleaning equipment be collectible
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An exhibition that helps us connect to people with reduced mobility | Ösvényeinken: Veled
This project moves and breaks down the walls, both figuratively and literally, that surround the lives of people with reduced mobility. The exhibition Ösvényeinken: Veled (On Our Paths: With You) will take place in two indoor venues, in the building of the Mozgásjavító EGYMI (Mobility Improvement Center in Budapest—Transl.
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“I’ve always been interested in the whole landscape” | Interview with Jurgen Bey, Dutch designer
One of the most notorious figures of Dutch design, Jurgen Bay has arrived in Budapest. The visionary designer arrived in the capital at the invitation of MOME MAG and held a professional workshop at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, where, among others, he talked about the concept of
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Boosting creative entrepreneurship among young talent—Interview with Craig V. Johnson, Head of MOME Incubation Program
The MOME Innovation Center has launched its first incubation program — the Proof of Concept (PoC) program. It aims to provide MOME citizens with personalized mentoring and financial support to further develop their creative work and help bring their innovative ideas to the market. In order to encourage interdisciplinary peer-to-peer learning,
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MOME Anim students in Budapest made a video series on solidarity
MOME Anim, Bookr Kids and the National Crime Prevention Council, collaborated on a series of videos about solidarity, in which second and third-year animation students of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design worked together with students from the Design and Art Management Department.
The short films explore acceptance, grief,
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Best of Stefan Lengyel 2022 | MOME—Design Institute
This February, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design awarded its outstanding talents for the second time. Our four-part series highlights and introduces some of our favorite entries from the Stefan Lengyel Excellence Scholarship. Join us and find out more about the projects of the Design Institute students!
Altogether, five
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Best of Stefan Lengyel 2022 | MOME—Institute of Architecture
This February, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design awarded its outstanding talents for the second time. Our four-part series highlights and introduces some of our favorite entries from the Stefan Lengyel Excellence Scholarship. Join us to discover the projects of the Institute of Architecture students!
Hegyi Fanni I Architect
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Best of Stefan Lengyel 2022 | MOME—Institute for Theoretical Studies
This February, MOME awarded its outstanding talents for the second time. The Stefan Lengyel Excellence Scholarship was brought to life by the Foundation for Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2020. In addition to delivering a material reward to remarkable talents, it also focuses on advancing students’ industry competencies
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MOME Budapest has won an international innovation tender
Winning an international innovation tender for the first time in its history, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design is set to play an international role in an important area of research and development.
The university will help advance the transition to a biomass-based economy through the European Union’s Horizon
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MOME Campus enriched with space-specific installations
It is not unprecedented that both MOME students and the teachers themselves are active as artists. The institution fully supports the exploration of new frontiers, thus constantly inspiring the student community. Within the framework of the Foundation for Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design’s Patronage program, a tangible result
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MOME launches master’s degree programs in English
The Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) is launching full-time master’s degree programs in English. The first English language master’s degree programs at the institution will be Photography and Interaction design.
Until April 2022, MOME will promote the new master’s degree programs in the region through
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Reverence and contemporary reflection on the occasion of an emblematic exhibition | Hungarian design 10 + 1 experiment
In October 1972, a few entrepreneurial young designers took the courage to make the Hungarian public understand what design really meant and why it was good for potential users to be aware of it. Now, almost fifty years later, in the same place and with a similar attitude, another generation
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The 15th Moholy-Nagy Award was presented
This year marked the 15th edition of the Moholy-Nagy Awards ceremony. The 2021 award was shared by Zsófia Csomay and posthumously Péter Reimholz, architects, founders of CET Budapest, and faculty members of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.
The award, presented every November since 2006, is given to individuals whose
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Knowledge in Motion pays tribute to the work of László Moholy-Nagy
The campaign to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of László Moholy-Nagy, organized by MOME with the help of sponsors, started last summer with a film screening and ended this summer with a publication. Created with graphic design by Nóra Kaszanyi, the publication is not only a summary of
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Meet the finalists of the Ply Design House open call!
Service cart, table mirror, hanger, bedside table, baby swing—all made of plywood. Five young designers are competing in the Plydesign competition for the favor of a professional jury and the public. Vote on Hype&Hyper, and decide who should win the Audience Award!
The success of the iF DESIGN
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The country's largest LEGO mosaic is ready | MOME x LEGO Hungária
The Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, together with LEGO Hungária Kft. and Tekerd! Foundation created a giant mosaic.
The unique photo mosaic, made of 169 416 cubes, was dreamed up by Évu Szabó, a graphic designer and MOME Master’s student who won the Talent Awards 2020/21, a
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How to save the planet with a board game that aims to destroy the Earth?
KILL THE PLANET YEAH!—With an unusual title and a fresh impetus a course was launched in the framework of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art’s course week. Is it possible to ease climate anxiety with humor and playfulness or to educate future designers to be eco-conscious? We asked Boglárka
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HSUP startup training at MOME was a resounding success
This year, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) joined the first online Hungarian University Startup Program (HSUP) launched as part of the university startup training initiative.
Implemented with the funding of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund, HSUP aims to acquaint Hungarian students with the world of innovation,
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Industrial designer career paths are presented in the Forma Norma program series
Those interested in industrial design can attend lectures on June 25 and workshops on June 26 June. Forma Norma’s program series aims to support the future employment of students in the creative industries through networking, presentation of inspiring career paths, various workshops, and self-introduction opportunities.
During the lectures, former
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Insect sandwich and a floating campus — MOME announces winners of the Jump into the future! competition
Exciting works were awarded by the jury of MOME’s online creative competition, Jump into the future!: the concepts created by the 7th to 10th grader contestants were thought-provoking, but also ironic.
The university addressed students and their teachers in Hungary and abroad, as well as their adult helpers: they
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Eco-friendly tick repellent designed in Hungary wins award | A’ Design Award
A ’Design Award is an international creative industry competition, whose Safety Clothing and Personal Protective Equipment Design Category’s winner became the tick repellent newly developed by the Hungarian company ProtectOne.
Aimed at runners, Tickless Run, the ultrasonic tick alarm has been recognized for its clean and innovative design. This
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“I want my work to have a social impact” | Interview with Lāsma Ivaska, MOME’s new Innovation Director
She specializes in open innovation and smart city; her interdisciplinary background is of particular value, allowing her to know and understand the importance of collaboration between various stakeholders, and she starts strategy-making without a blueprint—Latvian-born Lāsma Ivaska starts as the new Director of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design’
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Design for the disadvantaged | MOME x Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta
MOME and the Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta enter into a strategic partnership agreement. One of the long-term objectives of the agreement is to improve the quality of life of people living in disadvantaged settlements through social design and design thinking.
The parties aim to increase employment
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Helping with the tools of graphic design | MOME Movement
Hungarian non-profit organizations in need of a new visual identity or of refreshing their existing brand identity have until March 9 to apply to the call announced by MOME Movement. In addition to helping these organizations, the initiative launched by the graphic designers of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
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JUMP INTO THE FUTURE!—MOME announces a creative youth competition
Anyone can become a designer or a futurist—this is the motto of the MOME University’s new competition, which invites students from grades 7 to 10 to submit their creative ideas concerning the future.
How do young people imagine the future? What will life be like in the school
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MOME names its new scholarship after a legendary Hungarian designer
As part of its renewal, MOME will also significantly increase its support services aimed at students. The university’s scholarship of excellence now bears the name of Stefan Lengyel, an internationally recognized Hungarian designer.
Stefan Lengyel graduated from the Hungarian College of Applied Arts, the legal predecessor of MOME. His
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MOME presents new campus with video game
Now you can check out MOME’s new campus while sitting at home if you follow Moholy-Nagy: the MOME Campus Game offers an insight into the new buildings and the projects of students with an interactive platform and mini games. Follow Moholy-Nagy!
Dubbed MOME Campus Game: Follow Moholy-Nagy!, the video
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Humans of MOME out now
The freshly debuted initiative titled ‘Humans of MOME” aims to strengthen the new media strategy of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.
In collaboration with the social media experts of GetBeyond, MOME is working on renewing its social media presence and on setting up its creative media strategy for the
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This year’s Golden Drawing Pin Prizes have been awarded
The Arany Rajzszög Társaság (Golden Drawing Pin Society, ART) awarded the prominent achievements of Hungarian applied graphic design for the 18th time this year. The selection of graphic design projects submitted to the call can be viewed at the exhibition opened at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design until October
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Margaret Ann Dowling announced as MOME’s new Head of Brand
As part of the change of model taking place at the university, MOME’s communication will also be renewed soon. The goal is to increase the publicity of the university and to position it as a leading creative industry and innovation hub of the Central European region. To achieve this
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World-class form and content – MOME renews
MOME’s new campus was handed over a year ago, resulting not only in the change of the physical environment: an entirely new approach and structure is being formed in Zugliget, while also keeping the changes of our world in mind. The management of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
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Forest Chapel in Pannonhalma
It has no roof, no side walls, yet it’s still a chapel – the sacral space located at Szent Imre Hill, Pannonhalma, and designed by the students of MOME and their helpers within a week in the Illak forest celebrated its second anniversary recently. However, the chapel is not only
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Sacrality and design through the eyes of young designers
The duo of religion and design interweave our everydays in many different ways:
starting from music videos full of Christian symbols, through the kitschy
objects placed in mass production to our acts recalling religious rituals like
“following” our favorite celebrities – we preserve the motifs of religion in
unusual new ways
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Inspiring installations | Hello Wood Off-Mustra 2020
The largest community events have been cancelled this summer, however,
Budapest-based architecture studio Hello Wood [https://hellowood.eu/] considered
it important to sneak some architecture into our summers. The Off-Mustra
creative festival has come to an end in the Balaton Uplands. Let’s see the
results!
With universities switching to
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Best of diploma 2020 | Part 5
In the last part of our series, we steer apart from applied genres a bit and
turn towards autonomous works that can be interpreted more subjectively. We
selected animation films and illustrative projects that even though are inspired
by personal experiences can address all of us with their visual world
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Best of diploma 2020 | Part 3
How should we relate to folk art today? Are local crafts important if we can get
a good deal for practically anything at IKEA? Is it worth to focus on
traditional objects, customs and cultural memorabilia we thought was long
forgotten in the buzz of the 21st century? No matter
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Best of diploma 2020 | Part 2
Things that may seem natural to the majority of us – such as hand writing,
chatting or the fact that we have a place we call home – are not available to
certain communities or pose everyday difficulties for them. Designers must
respond to their needs, too, without designing stigmatizing objects or
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Moholy-Nagy 125 | MOME
MOME celebrates the 125th anniversary of the birth of its eponym with an
unconventional audiovisual campaign under the title “Light of future”
László Moholy-Nagy, the major intellectual and technical innovator and
world-famous Hungarian artist was born on July 20 125 years ago. His oeuvre is
well-known in many countries of
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Best of diploma 2020 | Part 1
In the first part of our Best of diploma 2020 series, design experiments are in
the focus – we present projects that examine our everyday objects from a new
angle; their spectacular designs entail innovative technological solutions, or
pinpoint new ways of interpreting the given object.
Design is everywhere, may it
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MOME Car Design
It is many times said that car design is the most complex field of industrial
design. Designing a car is such a complicated task that dozens of designers work
on it formed into several layers, from creating the concept to designing the
last handle or the casing of the engine
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MOME | After Bauhaus
The Hungarian Academy in Rome opens a new exhibition under the name “After
Bauhaus” on January 16, 2020. The exhibition presents the works of students
created in the Bauhaus-related courses of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and
Design in the 2019 spring semester. The exhibited works of the students of the