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
The Designer-Maker MA is a craft-focused, research-driven programme that builds on a broad range of craft practices, with particular emphasis on ceramics, jewellery, metalwork, glass, and related digital processes, given the facilities available at the university in these areas.
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.
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.
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.
Students can develop traditional craftmanship combining contemporary creative awareness and the latest technologies, enabling transdisciplinary collaborations in art, craft and design.
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
What happens when a child does not want to give someone a kiss? What is the difference between tattling and a cry for help? First-year students on MOME’s Animation BA responded to questions like these with six powerful animated shorts created in collaboration with the Hintalovon Child Rights Foundation. The films raise awareness of child abuse and children’s rights while addressing some of the everyday issues children face.
How does a student project make it from the initial design to a Red Dot submission? A strong concept is only part of the equation. It also takes dedicated mentors and a carefully crafted submission that brings the project’s genuine innovation to the fore. In 2026, five projects by MOME Design MA students once again received Red Dot Awards in the Design Concept category. SPIN, CAREFILL, BUBI-KART, KENGURU, and ATLAS each rethink how the systems and objects that shape urban life could work in the future.
A fresh take on a forgotten lamp, a sauna on the banks of the Danube, and sustainable fashion collections – five creative practitioners affiliated with MOME, including last year’s graduates, have been selected for the 2026 BIG SEE Perspectives Award. Dorottya Bató, Valentin Szarvas and Nóra Szilágyi were nominated in the product design category, and Julianna Skrabák and the girls can scan collective in architecture. Their work forges links between current challenges in industrial design, the social issues explored through fashion, urban communities, and architectural heritage. On 21 May, the participants of the Perspectives 2026 introduced their projects to an international professional audience at the BIG SEE Festival in Portorož.
Events
German product and furniture designer Mark Braun will give a talk in English about his work, offering a first-hand insight into how truly timeless objects are created. An award-winning designer, Braun reinterprets traditional craft techniques through a contemporary lens across furniture, glass, and ceramics.
How are digital technologies transforming the possibilities of object design and making? This is the question explored in an exhibition by MOME’s Digital Object Making specialisation, offering a snapshot of how a new generation of designers thinks about objects. Put on at Medence Designlab as part of Designfest, the showcase brings features prototypes, experiments, and functional objects to demonstrate how digital tools are expanding the possibilities of traditional object design.
Debra McGuire, the costume designer behind Friends, is coming to MOME.
She has helped shape the look of some of Hollywood's most iconic films and television series, creating costumes for productions including Friends, Anchorman, Superbad, Freaks and Geeks, New Girl, and The Morning Show. During her visit to Hungary, McGuire will present her latest book, Dressing the Story: The Art of Costume Design. Drawing on nearly five decades of experience, she offers a behind-the-scenes look at the art of costume design and discusses how individual garments help define characters, tell stories, and build the visual worlds of film and television in her talk delivered in English.
Faculty
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.

















