Graduation Catalogue Design Academy Eindhoven 2021

Inviting you to browse through the themes, materials, and methodologies of this year’s 166 graduation projects, the 2021 graduation catalogue of the Design Academy Eindhoven presents four navigational indexes. Each is a symbolic index of both the design field and our times. To understand “reality” as an index, it should be noted that the word “index” does not only refer to an ordered list or directory. After all, it is also the finger used to point, notably at touchscreens. So rather than providing an overarching narrative, the indexes here (standard index, visual index, word frequency index, project index) are tools to explore how different readings and realities emerge by design.