Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Design Institute
The aim is to train open-minded designers who can respond sensitively to environmental, social and cultural processes and stand for the highest standards of quality. It seeks to enhance the competitiveness of MOME graduate designers both in the national and international arena, helping them carve out a niche in the industry for themselves.
Programmes
We train strategically-minded design professionals. Using a proactive entrepreneurial mindset they will be able to develop and implement projects to shape an inclusive and sustainable world for future generations. The syllabus is structured around the three key areas of ‘People, Planet, Prosperity’ and focuses on developing sustainable design projects through the integration of social, environmental, and economic aspects.
Our students can deepen their research and expertise in three areas, fashion, textile and costume design, to meet the highest professional challenges as expert and confident designers.
From the 2023/24 academic year, the programme will only be available as Object Design MA.
Our Master Program in Jewelery Design and Metalworking helps you build a work or collection based on a personal individual research proposal. The philosophy of the training strikes a balance between material and technical innovation and more traditional craft techniques and historical craft traditions.
The aim of the Product Design BA programme is to help students master design thinking and the steps of the design process from the exploration of user requirements and brainstorming to model building and preparations for execution – both in product and service design.
From the 2023/24 academic year, the programme will only be available in English language. The training is problem-oriented and experimental, teaching students technical skills and design methods to help develop innovative solutions adapted to our highly changeable and complex environment.
We train experts who will play a leading role in designing the most innovative digital services of the future. Our graduate designers are familiar with the international scene and its opportunities, and are well-equipped to make a significant impact on digital culture.
From the 2023/24 academic year, the programme will only be available as Object Design MA.
Whether for developing their own subject or one picked those assigned, students will receive support from their supervisors and can deepen their craft skills at the Campus workshops to become genuine masters in their own right.
Students can develop traditional craftmanship combining contemporary creative awareness and the latest technologies, enabling transdisciplinary collaborations in art, craft and design.
Our MA programme enables students to become open-minded professionals who are receptive to global trends and local challenges, and can provide sustainable responses through material-oriented solutions.
We train versatile designers who, in addition to mastering specific competencies, will also gain an understanding of the social, economic and cultural factors influencing the industry. Our students can choose from a range of specialisations such as clothing design, accessory design, woven fabric design, knit fabric design and print fabric design.
News
“I am moving forward with all that I started back then: connecting and empowering national and international creative industry, academic and business players to help boost the global embeddedness and visibility of Hungarian design”, said Réka Matheidesz, MOME’s new CEO appointed as of 1 March 2023.
A plethora of ideas is offered by the Digital Didactics in Art Education (DIDAE, ) platform targeted at art and visual culture teachers working in secondary and higher education. The website, recently completed with the participation of five universities as a result of two years of research, is available in four languages, in Dutch, English, German and Hungarian.
Two of our graduate students from last year, Szabolcs Fülöp (Graphic Design MA) and Erzsébet Jiang (Fashion and Textile Design MA), are among this year's GRADUATION PROJECTS winners. The review, whose history stretches back to 2002, focuses on work by design students in higher education in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. It has already acknowledged numerous Hungarian students, many of whom are MOME graduates.
Events
On Wednesday, March 22, from 17:00 to 19:00, Annabella Hevesi will talk about the adventures and challenges an emerging designer can face during product development - at home, as a woman. Since 2018, Annabella has been the lead designer of the Line and Round studio, and they worked with clients such as the Opera House, Sopron Basket and the Four Seasons Hotel.
Prominent figure of the contemporary Hungarian ceramics art, Mária Geszler will give a lecture at MOME on 22 March at 4 pm.
This year again, MOME's Product Design programs will offer inspiring lectures on a wide variety of design topics every second Wednesdays.
We will discuss the present and the future of design and related fields, important dilemmas and questions with our lecturers, former students and representatives of the professional scene. The sessions are not only offering inspiration but also a way to connect with the community.
Management
Júlia Herter
institute manager
herter.julia@mome.hu
Vivien Mátéfi
secretary of education
matefi.vivien@mome.hu

Péter Molnár
intézetigazgató
molnar.peter@mome.hu
Faculty

Balázs Püspök DLA habil.
associate professor, Director of the Academy, MA programme lead
akademia@mome.hu
Dr. András Szilágyi
senior lecturer
szilagyi.andras@mome.hu
Apolka Temesi
senior lecturer
temesi.apol@mome.hu
Other institutes
We aim to ensure that students of our institute as well as of the design institutes have an in-depth understanding of art in its social, historical and conceptual context, can play an active role in its creation, and are able to mediate it in both informal and formal (classes, critiques, papers, exhibitions) settings.
In our vision artistic spatial design, negotiation skills and engineering knowledge form a unit that builds on each other. The Institute aims to train responsible professionals endowed with creative power, with equal weight of tradition and innovation.
Our four knowledge centres, Animation, Photography, Media Design and Graphic Design, offer BA, MA, PhD and extracurricular programmes, as well as high standards of education, an open-minded environment, and state-of-the-art technological background.