Hungarian University of Fine Arts

Graphics DepartmentSpecialization In Graphic Design

The Hungarian University of Fine Arts was founded in 1871 under the name Royal Hungarian School of Model Drawing and Drawing Teacher Training (Magyar Királyi Mintarajztanoda és Rajztanárképezde), and after the Second World War it operated under the name Hungarian College of Fine Arts. In 1949, Sándor Bortnyik became director general, a five-year training program was introduced, and after the final defense students received an art diploma. During this period, the applied graphics program was launched at the university as a specialized graphic design education, and György Konecsni was invited to lead the program.

At the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, the Department of Graphic Arts is currently the largest department, with the highest number of students and applicants. The department operates with three independent yet organically connected specializations, thereby covering the full spectrum of graphic disciplines. In addition to Graphics Art and Graphic Design, the Illustration specialization, which emerged from these fields, has been operating as an independent track for several years.

Graphic design education at the university covers almost the entire range of classical and contemporary genres and media within the profession. After acquiring the classical foundations of fine art education, students work in small creative groups on independent professional assignments, allowing them to experiment and develop the visual language closest to their own approach, enabling them to enter the forefront of the profession after graduation.

For this year’s thematic assignment of Typozone, three graphic design classes worked simultaneously. Diverse, conceptual and experimental solutions were created, and the large and highly varied body of work produced here formed the basis for the selection presented in the exhibition, complemented by works created for this call by the professors teaching them.