Why study design at all, and why in Pforzheim?
We asked four of our professors: What is special about us, what is the 'Pforzheim spirit', and what does it take to be a successful creative student? Thomas Gerlach, Evelyn Echle, Sebastian Hackelsperger and Silke Helmerdig provide answers. They all agree: Creativity is the currency of the future and we provide a great training!
Information & Advice
Our goal is to recruit talented young designers, that is why we promote our degree programs with a wide range of consultation services. Over the course of a year, for example, we offer around 200 portfolio reviews—both online and in person—and welcome several hundred visitors to our information days, both online and in person. We have our “DesignPF Ambassadors” program, where students visit schools to present their degree program, and in our newest initiative, “DesignDating,” prospective students can spend a day with a current student at our school.
What makes this special is that our students are actively involved in all these initiatives—they serve as peer ambassadors who are happy to share their own experiences and progress in their studies, thereby showing others: Hey, you can do it too!
Here you will find all the information and advising services offered by the School of Design.
Involvement
Our students shape cultural life: Installations, exhibitions, performances and many cooperative projects are fields of experimentation for the budding designers. At up to 50 events a year, students can try themselves out as cultural actors and, with the support of the university, let the public participate in their work.
Real Projects & Publication
Over the course of a year, more than 200 articles appear in every conceivable media outlet: daily newspapers, blogs, radio stations and TV formats. Sometimes a simple press release is the breakthrough for an undergraduate project, such as the completely new lace shoe for ballet by Sophia Lindner and her company act'ble. Sometimes companies find interesting works through press reports, cooperate with our students and produce their project ideas, such as the German learning book "Mein Deutschland" by Amelie Weinert, which was published by Langenscheidt, or these following projects:
What our Graduates say
Our graduates are scattered all over the world. We visited some of them and, for our series “X Years After DesignPF,” had them show us what they’re doing today, asked them how they look back on their time as students, and what influenced them the most—because they’re the ones best able to express what their time at Design PF meant to them:
Magazine 'smck'
The international jewelry magazine smck published works of the jewelry students, which were created in a cooperation with the magazine and for the magazine: about the longing in the pandemic.