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HSE Design Lab have created a branding construction kit to modernise design in schools. Even non-specialists can use it to create a trademark style which could help promote their school more successfully. The Lab presented their project at the biggest international education conference in Moscow in September 2015, EdCrunch.

Students of the HSE Faculty of Communications, Media and Design School of Design have won a competition to design merchandise for the Moscow Metro. The best works will be produced and sold in Moscow souvenir shops.

On March 21, the HSE’s Art and Design School held a Design Environment open doors day. HSE news service spoke to the curator, Alexander Dzhikia about what students will do, about why designers carry out psychological consultations, and how to unravel the meaning and philosophy of the ‘Black Square’.

On December 24, 2014, a labyrinth Christmas tree created by Alexey Ryumin, lecturer at the HSE School of Design, will appear at the main entrance to Muzeon Park, next to the Central House of Artists.

During Night of the Arts, guests of HSE’s festival took a stroll on Myasnitskaya Street, which was closed to automobiles specially for the event. Myasnitskaya became the location of a large stage for performances by student groups of the university. More than 50 HSE students and friends sang, danced, and read poems for guests of the celebration, and another 50 worked at the event as volunteers.

The phenomenon of the cartoon poster is not very widespread in Russia. As a rule, a best-case scenario for the premiere of feature-length animated films is that posters are made from a frame of the movie; for 10-minute films, individual posters simply are not made. The organizers of the Big Cartoon Festival therefore turned for help to Igor Gurovitch, an artist and teacher at the HSE Faculty of Design. For all the years of the festival, Gurovitch has traditionally made branding posters for it.

On October 15, well-known contemporary Swiss poster artists gave lectures in HSE’s Faculty of Design building. The lecture marathon took place as part of the Weltformat Swiss posters exhibition, which was organized with HSE’s Faculty of Design.

Their exhibition will be part of the festival’s main programme from September 27 to October 5.

The design competition held by HSE’s School of Design has concluded. The competition is a supplementary test necessary for admission into the School’s bachelor’s programme. Applicants’ work was evaluated by a selection committee consisting of well-known designers, including those from the School itself and specialists invited to participate on the committee.