At the graduation ceremony in the Phorms Theater, the newly graduated students were honored by the university management and teaching staff and given a ceremonial farewell.

On Saturday, November 18, 2023, HMKW gathered in Frankfurt for a special event: the graduation ceremony of our graduates.

For 61 Berlin graduates, a new phase in their lives officially began this Saturday: at the graduation ceremony in the Phorms Theater, they were honored and given a ceremonial farewell by the university administration and their lecturers.

The EXPOSED summer exhibition at the Berlin Campus was a great success last weekend. The event attracted numerous visitors who were eager to discover the impressive student work of the Department of Design. The diversity of the exhibited projects from various degree program as well as graduates' final projects was outstanding.

Design students and alumni Anan Mahmoud (Berlin), Fiona Bootz (Frankfurt), Justus Krüger (Berlin), Tamara Orlovsky (Berlin) and Olivia Steinhauer (Cologne) are among this year's winners of the highly prestigious ADC Talent Award. They received the prize for their semester and final projects. Congratulations!

Not only students, but also lecturers can gain exciting experience at host universities as part of an Erasmus+ teaching mobility. Prof. Jenny Bergström from the Department of Design was recently a guest at the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi and gave a Design Thinking workshop there.

For Tabea Otto, graduate of the M.A. Communication Design and Creative Strategies program, a dream came true right after graduation: In this interview, she tells us more about her new job as a designer at the well-known agency MetaDesign, as well as her experiences during her studies.

Where are the women? The fact that women are often not included in school curricula is not without consequences: It strongly maintains gender inequality in society. Based on extensive research and interviews with educational experts, Giulia Ferla developed a pedagogical tool for teachers as part of her master's thesis. Here she reports on how she came to deal with this highly relevant topic and how she benefits from her studies at HMKW.

Just in time for the start of the summer semester 2023, the first-year students in the HMKW Bachelor's and Master's programs will be ceremoniously enrolled.

Tamara Orlovsky was recently honored - after graduating with a B.A. in Graphic Design and Visual Communication (dual) - by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) as Berlin's 2022 Best in the IHK final exam for media designer digital/print.  For her bachelor's thesis, she also spoke with residents of a variety of shared apartments in Berlin and documented their lives in photographs. In the interview, we wanted to learn more about these recent successes and projects, as well as her experiences during her studies.