Our Student Success Stories
Ksenia Korotkova at the Costa de Almeria Fashion Week. 13/01/2022
Our former student and now graduate fashion designer, Ksenia Korotkova, was one of the Costa del Almeria Fashion week participants!
Watch her "secret garden" catwalk and interview in Spanish.
Find out more about the Costa de Almeria Fashion week at : https://costadealmeriafashionweek.com/
Watch the the "Secret Garden" collection video presentation on our Youtube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBE1g9PmX-A
Marbella Design Academy students at Fashion Rooms 29! 20/12/2021
We are delighted that Fashion United, a leading website dedicated to the Fashion industry, featuring the latest trends, news, fashion weeks and more, have published a short article about our student's showcase at Fashion Rooms 29.
You can read the article at: https://fashionunited.com/education/news/in-pictures-marbella-design-academy-at-the-fashion-rooms-29/2021121744608
Or find out more on our own Fashion page: https://marbella-design-academy.webnode.es/fashion-students-works/
The 2021 Architecture Masterprize has just been announced and for the second consecutive year, one of our 1st Class graduates in Interior Architecture & Design is on the list! 19/11/2021
The jury, composed of over 60 top designers, architects, curators, and academics, have attributed Kristine Midjaas Heisholt with an Honourable Mention in Architectural Design.
The project selected is "Future of Experimental Retail", that Kristine developed as her 3rd-year final project at Marbella Design Academy.
Kristine created a proposal for a commercial space situated in the middle of the new port of Al-Thani in Marbella, offering a new shopping mall experience with unique outdoor landscapes.
The Plaza consists of 5 different pavilions on the roof of the building. Each one is dedicated to one of the 5 human senses. All are flexible spaces that give different brands the opportunity to create unique retail experiences for the visitors.
Congratulations Kristine!
You want to find out more?
See more of her project on the Architecture Masterprize 2021 website, or on her portfolio.
Lulu Showil, Fashion Designer 15/11/21
Huge congratulations to our graduate Lulu Showil, who has recently opened her atelier studio in Málaga city center, creating her unique collections and taking care of her clients.
Lulu is a Saudi Fashion Designer who grew up in Lebanon.
Since her childhood, she always admired Lebanese Fashion Designers and appreciated the enthusiasm they had for haute couture.
Passionate for fashion since her childhood, Lulu Show started her fashion design career at Marbella Design Academy in 2017 and graduated in December 2020.
Lulu Showil creates designs that produce contemporary, elegant, and timeless pieces representing the highest level of quality in couture wear. The goal of Lulu Showil House is to empower women, as well as to elevate elegance, glamour and present timelessness in its appearance.
In this post we showcase part of the 4 professional collections she has developed during her 1st year as a Fashion Designer, so you can judge it by yourself.
And to see all Lulu´s new collections, you can follow Lulu Showil on her Instagram profile at: https://www.instagram.com/officiallulushowil/
The Estepona Fashion Weeks starts today! And one of our Academy graduates is participating in the Young Fashion Designer Contest! 16/09/21
This event, organised by the Ayuntamiento de Estepona and directed by Miguel Toledo (stylist and fashion consultant) and Juanchy García, aims to introduce the new autumn-winter 2021/22 fashion trends and collections.
This edition, running from Thursday 16th to Sunday 19th, will host a Young Designer Contest catwalk on Saturday, and we are extremely pleased to announce that our June 2021 Fashion Design graduate, Ksenia Korotkova, is one of the 8 selected young designers who will participate in this event.
Congratulations Ksenia on your selection, and all the best for Saturday!
We will be there!
We are going to Ro Plastic Prize 2021! 04/08/2021
We are delighted to announce that one of our 1st Year BioDesign group projects, has recently been selected to be among the finalists of the 3rd edition of the Ro Plastic Prize 2021.
The Ro Plastic Prize 2021 will be part of Milano Design Week from 3 - 12 September, and our student project will be exhibited in the "Leonardo da Vinci" Science and Technology Museum.
The BioDesign Assignment aims to use innovative transformed materials, researched and developed by our students at Marbella Design Academy, to create objects that are normally used in our day-to-day life, and in order to reduce the environmental impact.
The project selected is the "The-Hand-Of-Bag" project by Anna Rebecca Schmalbach, Mayliss Widmer, Sara Edrisova, Yasmine Hussain and Þórdís Timila Guðmundsdóttir.
It is a minimalist and multifunctional bag using organic waste, orujo, gelatine, and natural rope. It can be used as a shopping bag or resistant carrier bag.
Not only is the final product 100% reusable and recyclable, but its production also helps support the local Spanish market in the Marbella region.
Good luck in the finals on 9 September!
Monika Kis is one of the winners of the Green Product Award 2021! 17/04/2021
We are delighted to announce that the Bio Leather project by our 2nd Year student Monika Kis is one of the winners of the Green Product Award 2021, in the Circular Materials product section.
Monica chose to create a biomaterial that could replace both real leather and the one we call "fake leather", both being popular in the fashion industry and harmful for the environment.
This new product based on organic onions, black pepper and a few more natural ingredients could help to decrease the impact of plastic and non sustainable fabric material on the environment.
Not only is it sustainable, but it also provides natural organic based benefits for skin health.
Face masks created through this bioleather would have anti inflammatory properties that would not only reduce the acne, but also treat it."
The onion bio leather is proving to be a versatile material able to replace natural and artificial leather from the market, while reducing inflammations produced by pollution, bacteria and smoke.
Congratulations Monica for this great achievement!
3 of our Interior students have been nominated for the Green Product Award 2021! 20/12/2020
The Green Product Award is a platform for sustainable design products & concepts. Since 2013, the Award has distinguished sustainable, innovative products and services and offers participants a platform for networking.
The projects selected are:
Onion bio leather by Monica Kis.
Wai House, by Hanadi Al-Ganadi.
Ibiza Tiny House, by Paola Ross.
You can see more details of the projects on our Interior students blog page: https://marbella-design-academy.webnode.es/interior-students-works/
Max Goodwin ùblished in Logo Lounge 12! 28/11/2020
Great news for our 2019 Graphic Design & Media graduate Max Goodwin!
2 of his logos were chosen from 43,000 logos, 63 Countries, 731 published designers. And they will be published in the Logo Lounge 12 book.
Famous designer names are on the judging panel, including Dan Jannsen (Lincoln Design Co.), Mackey Saturday (Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv), and Chris Do (The Futur) to name a few.
On top of this great achievement, one of Max´s logos was also published by Logo Inspirations, the Instagram community of logo designers that gathers over 1.2 million followers, and he got just over 1,600 likes on it!
Fantastic work Max!
The 2020 Architecture Masterprize has just been announced, and one of our June 2020 1st Class graduates in Interior Architecture & Design is on the list! 30/10/2020
The jury, composed of over 60 top designers, architects, curators, and academics, have attributed Oscar Feria Bright with an Honorable Mention in Architectural Design and Recreational Architecture.
The project selected is "Street Embassy", part of his 3rd-year programme at Marbella Design Academy.
An innovative proposal to form part of a future urban marina masterplan, the Street Embassy design explores the concept of the circle, in its architectural and symbolic context, in conjunction with the use of sustainable materials for clean construction and multifunctional design.
Congratulations Oscar!
See more of his project on the Architecture Masterprize 2020 website : https://architectureprize.com/winners/winner.php?id=2471&mode=hm&compID=12791&fbclid=IwAR2JcZ_9ktLmV4-8XgqVD1AjLThgjBqKkaJbKRyOVpjPQjWnzIt4JAoFjng
or on his Behance profile: https://www.behance.net/oscarferia
HAUS LAB - Modular Aquitectural Competition results! 25/02/2020
Congratulations to our Interior student Caroline Stenros who was awarded the second prize of the HAUS LAB - Modular Aquitectural Competition!
In order to participate, she had to create a modular house full project (seen here), including full specifications: floorplans, sections, renders.
Well done Caroline!
"Swissport Aviation Business Lounge Swissport - Interior Design" by Nahla Hemeda and Ghizlaine Bennouna. 13/02/2020
It is so fulfilling for us at the Academy to see the great projects that our former students are bringing to life. It is even better when 2 of our former Interior Architecture students, Nahla Hemeda and Ghizlaine Bennouna, get together to create such a beautiful space for the Swissport Aviation Business Lounge.
"So proud and happy to have finally finished one of the most instructive and fulfilling projects with the best partners Ghizlaine Bennouna and Dounia Benjelloun !!" - Nahla Hemeda.
Interior Architecture! We are in the competition! 11/02/2020
We are very excited to announce that our Interior Architecture student Caroline Stenros has been selected as one of the finalists of the latest HAUS LAB - Modular Aquitectural Competition.
In order to participate, she had to create a modular house full project (seen here), including full specifications: floorplans, sections, renders.
The official winner will be announced in a few weeks, so we will be holding our breath!
Good luck Caroline!
Monda in Video! 21/11/2020
We are very pleased to share today a video made for the Hotel Castillo de Monda, filmed and edited by our talented summer course videography student, Frederic D'Hont.
You can find out more about Frederic D'Hont and see more of his projects at Frederic D'hondt Photography
You can find out more about our 2020 summer courses at: https://www.designschool.com/summer-courses/
You can see more of Frederic's works at https://fdphotography.azurewebsites.net/home