The new international Master’s degree in service design, Service Design Strategies and Innovation (SDSI), envisages to kick off in the Fall 2021. The new programme focuses on interdisciplinary studies and cross-specialisation in design, business, technologies and social sciences. Graduates will be awarded with a Master’s double degree, one from the University of Lapland and one from the Art Academy of Latvia.

Act fast, the deadline for these scholarships is March 19th! Type Directors Club Opens Call For 2021 Beatrice Warde and Superscript Scholarships. Recognizing excellence in female-identifying and BIPOC students with $5,000 scholarships; both programs sponsored by Monotype.

The No Waste Challenge presented by What Design Can Do and the IKEA Foundation is now open for submissions! This global design competition focuses on addressing the enormous impact of waste and consumerism on climate change. They are looking for radical new ideas and design-driven solutions to reduce waste and rethink our entire consumption and production cycle.

Cumulus President’s Message February 2021

On 23rd February 2021 at 17:00—18:30 CET (90 min), BEDA (The Bureau of European Design Association) will be holding a BEDA Wide Open Doors and welcome members of the global design education network Cumulus and their Secretary General Eija Salmi to join for an exchange of views and inputs on the New European Bauhaus.

The Foodicons Challenge will develop a cooperatively-built visual language for over 500 core concepts to explain our food system. Final selections will be publicly released at the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021, then posted permanently on The Noun Project as a free resource for all to use.

For there is always light,
if only we’re brave enough to see it
If only we’re brave enough to be it

Excerpt from the Poem “The Hill We Climb,” by Amanda Gorman, US Inaugural Youth Poet Laureate, Biden-Harris Inauguration, January 20, 2021.

Cumulus President’s Message January 2021