Spotlight On: Sophie Brodtkorb – Alumna Brand Design B.A.
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A great festive day for Brand Academy
On Friday, 1 October 2018, Brand Academy had three reasons to celebrate: The welcoming of our new students, the farewell of our almost 90 graduates, as well as the new cooperation with the Zhejiang Wanli University. President Prof. Dr. h.c. Shan Fan opened the festivities with his speech. He emphasized that in times of "big data", the university must no longer focus just on the [...]
Apply Now for the Winter Term! Deadline September 15.
Time’s ticking! Applicants who do not require an entry visa for Germany are welcome to apply for one of our 2 Master’s and 5 Bachelor’s programmes until September 15th. The winter term starts on October 1st. Apply now!
Brand Academy appoints Dr. Stefan Waller as Professor of International Brand and Innovation Culture
Quite some time ago, Brand Academy advertised a new professorship with the denomination „Intercultural Brand and Innovation Culture“, to be added to its Communications department. The new professorship focuses on current and future influences on brand development and brand culture as well as the framework conditions applying to both – especially in the Eurasian and Sino-German context. Since it can be considered the key driver [...]
How do you feel about living and studying in Germany? 5 Chinese BA students share their views
Brand Academy is cooperating closely with reputable Chinese universities, more specifically Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai, China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and, recently, Zhejiang Wanli University in Ningbo. For some of the students incoming from China, their time at Brand Academy represents their first visit to Hamburg, Germany and/or Europe. Naturally we are curious how they feel about living and studying here. Five of [...]
#bagoesningbo! 8 BA students embark on a special kind of excursion
Brand Academy has always been the perfect place for those who want to focus their studies on brands. Now they can add an extra challenge by experiencing brands in an intercultural context during an exchange semester at our new partner institution Zheijiang Wanli University in Ningbo (China)! To kick off the new cooperation, 8 BA students from various study programs will be able to enjoy [...]
Spotlight On: Marco Ivers – Alumnus Brand Design B.A.
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Brand Academy @ VR HAM
VRHAM! is Germany’s first artistic Virtual Reality festival: 16 inspiring, creative VR experiences sure to transcend the borders of traditional perception and experience of art. We were deeply impressed by the virtual reality works of international artists like Jonathan Meese, Ip Yuk-Yiu or Lester Francois and especially VRHAMMY! award winner Dani Ploeger’s „THE GRASS SMELLS SO SWEET“ - an installation with gut-wrenching audiovisual simulations and [...]
Discovering 3D Printing @ Beiersdorf
The new joint practice project of Brand Academy and Beiersdorf recently reached phase 2, i.e. the so-called feedback round. As part of the module "Consumer Psychology & Insights" supervised by Prof. Dr. Yonca Limon-Calisan, our International Brand Communication Master's students pitched their proposed approaches to solving the task at hand in a lion's den-like format at our partner's HQ. While the jurors were busy deciding [...]
Brand Academy @ Forward Festival
Forward Festival is one of the biggest creative festivals in Europe - and this summer it will be in Hamburg for the first time. On Thursday, July 5th 2018 we will join the event at Millerntor Stadium St. Pauli with a sizeable group of our students. Forward Festival includes workshops and top-class international speakers from the creative industries, among them world-famous Stefan Sagmeister (AT) and [...]
Spotlight On: AlShiemaa Rafik – Alumna International Brand Communication M.A.
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Impact Week Receives Award – Participating BA Students are delighted
The Impact Week project “Workshop for Ideas in Developing Countries and Emerging Economies“ is one of the 100 innovative winners of the “Excellent Places in the Land of Ideas“ competition 2018. Following this year’s motto „Connecting Worlds – Strengthening Cohesion“, the project demonstrates how experimentation, curiosity and courage to rethink development aid can foster innovations in developing and threshold countries. The „Germany – Land of [...]
Spotlight On: Annika Egan – Best Bachelor’s Thesis in Brand Design
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Brand Academy @ Superunion
On May 8, International Brand Communication Master's students following the module "Consumer Psychology & Insights" were treated to a double-feature: Firstly, they had the opportunity to get to know Superunion (formerly Brand Union) as a potential employer. Superunion is the roof under which WPP has decided to bundle its agencies, and the perspective of joining such a massive global network alone makes for an excellent [...]