Transcultural Design China

In the middle of November, Nicolas Hubert, a 5th year student at the Chinese campus of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique has organised a workshop with 8 design students from Qingdao University.

The goal of this project was to observe the Chinese way of doing design while asking the students to create a new Mandarin writing machine. [Read more →]

L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique will participate in the Business of Design Week 2009 in Hongkong from the 2nd to the 5th of December. Part of the France Forward exhibition area organised by the French agency for industrial creation promotion APCI and the agency for international development Ubifrance, [Read more →]

On the 28th of November, in Shanghai, the China based campus of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique will celebrate its 1st anniversary in China.

After one year of activity in China, the annual figures and facts of the China based campus of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique speak for themselves:
- 750 Hours of class,
- 150 China-based teachers and professionals gathered in a strong network,
- 38 Master’s degree students,
- 38 Four-month design internships in China-based companies, [Read more →]

On Wednesday the 4th of November, the 5th year students of the Chinese campus of l’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique presented the phase 1 of their final year project before a five-member jury:
- Matthieu Jamet, China Representant of the French Loire Region
- Agathe Nougaret, Urban Planner at Broadway Malyan
- Christine Biancarelli, PhD candidate in Social Sciences at EHESS Paris, Project and research Assistant at L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique / China Campus [Read more →]

On Friday the 30th of October, Lynnette Chan came and taught Project Management to the 5th-year students.

After studying industrial design at Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore, Lynnette worked for the best design companies such has IDEO in Shanghai. She then worked for Asentio, a Shanghai based multidisciplinary design studio.

She’s now a Human Centred Design Consultant in Shanghai. [Read more →]

Christian Guellerin is now with the China Campus team in Beijing where he represents Cumulus as a president and L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique as a director. He actively participates in the Icograda Beijing 2009 host by the renowned China Central Academy of Fine Arts 中央美术学院.

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Today, Christian Guellerin, the General Director of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique, met Pan Lusheng 潘鲁生, the President of the Shandong University of Art and Design.
The two men affirmed for the third time their strong friendship and their will to further organise professional design workshops together.

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On  Monday the 19th of October, Seb-Supor R&D Center offered a design brief to 20 students of L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique and the School of Industrial Design of Shandong University of Art and Design.

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L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique will participate in the Icograda Education Network show in Beijing from the 24th to the 30th of October 2009.
Co-organised by Cumulus network, this event will be held during the 2009 Beijing Icograda World Design Congress. It will offer 21 universities the opportunity to present their programmes and their students achievements. [Read more →]

Nicolas Hubert, 5th year student at L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique in Qingdao won the « Best Student Award » at the 2009 Dalsouple international competition « Transform The Future ».
He presented his project “Pullover”, a clothe for trees meant to protect them from agressions in public places. [Read more →]