2024 Graduates

MatAI

Nevo Himmelhoch

Border Farmers

Yuval Elazari-Volcani

Kesef

Sofia Zakharova

A close up of bead embroidery on a T-shirt

Talks with Noam

Shira Galon Lichter

Animation of a flat disk made of veneer and Tyvek that responds to humidity and self-morphs into a flower-like 3d object, and then flattens back when it dries out

Still

A sculpture hangs on a wall with plants and a sculpture in the form of a cylinder rests on a table with plants

Gap Garden

A computer screen with an image of the site built as part of the project

חִינָּםאֵיןכָּסֶף

Nastya Golubotsky

AMLANIM

At a cozy, modern interior, two comfortable warm orange armchairs are placed around a small round table. The background includes large

menti.ai

The illustration visualizes four stages in the development of a fence to illustrate the idea of a temporary fence adapted to the needs of a community over time: from a simple demarcation to a more complex design, using geometric shapes and different colors to demonstrate the changes at each stage

Home Away from Home

A collection of vases with salt formations before firing in the kiln.

Salt & Earth

Kids using the Giftbox in Lehavim community center

Giftbox

Waste's Last Chance

The colors in the card set are

The Middle Ages

The name of the application and next to it different screens from the application

Don't Wait Until It Hurts

Oria Erez Amidor

dhyana

Visitor-Oriented Museum

From right to left: a silver ring designed in the shape of an orange peeler, Forzan tiles with a blue background of the Fourth Congress of Citrus Fruits, a bowl that is also a vase with oranges placed on it and in the center of the vase green citrus tree branches. A glass of orange juice filled with juice, a relief of white orange blossoms, a relief based on a graphic by the Shamir brothers.

Asphalt Orchard

DEEVO

mage of a medical team from Soroka Emergency Department with the research question: "How can we implement within complex systems like hospitals, tools and a flexible system for intuitive decision-making that communicates and documents decisions in real-time?"

When Protocol Collapses

Role play - Parents acting - King David's sons’ Salomon and Adonia meet

The Art of Thinking

"The experimental game platform played by Y., a 9-year-old, where his expression of a sense of security at school is depicted using stickers taken from the 'sticker bank' and assembled on the playground."

With Children, for Children

A woman opens a card in the game on which she asked: Are you trying to adjust yourself to what is acceptable / to the expected standard?

Why Are You So?

Close up of the ring

Time Stamp

Liat Vardi Elstein

Co-Creative Tools

Star of David brass brooch on white fabric. the main triangle in the center and the three ends of the second triangle that complement the symbol folds the fabric between them.

Many Faces

Avital Chalemsky

Black pen sketch of a man sitting in front of a mysterious spiral of texts

Sacred Tech

Nechama

Michael Davidson

Improving Work Conditions to Enhance Personal, Organizational, and Social Resilience

False Positive / True Negative

Love is Complicated

A destroyed municipal building after an earthquake

The Day the Earth Will Quake

Avigail Gutman Amit

Photo from the chairs project

Chairs

Four white porcelain objects with cracks of different sizes and slightly amorphous shapes on a blue surface.

Embrace

Shira Silverston

A picture of a patient on a hospital bed with a hand on his shoulder as a sign of support

Purple Time

Lifelong-Tali Stern Dayan

Lifelong

Tali Stern Dayan

Graduates Exhibition

Ever since October 7, we have been experiencing an ongoing internal conflict, a life divided, full of contradictions. Since that day we have been carried away uncontrollably to those moments of horror, moments that many have experienced directly, and some still do. Our thoughts wander constantly to the moments of terror in the communities bordering on Gaza, to the scenes of the Nova music festival, to the fields of the Western Negev. We perform our daily tasks, at home, at work and in school, but at the same time the hostages, the suffering families whose lives have been torn apart and those who no longer have a home are always in our thoughts.

We try to maintain a normal routine, but we also live the ongoing war with all its pain, misery and sadness. On the one hand, we hold on to moments of sanity, but on the other we are driven mad with fear and anxiety. We are torn between the desire to live and the identification with the ongoing destruction and death. These forces of life and death, of emergency and routine, have affected us all over the past eleven months, in which we have been trying to find the right way to go on living, to go on studying and creating out of this crisis.

The Graduates Exhibition of the M.Des Program presents a series of design projects created in this period, affected by the zeitgeist and its inherent dissonance. The final projects of the students in the three tracks of this program – Design & Technology, About Design, and Design Management & Innovation – are dedicated to offering an alternative and to strive for a better life in the present and future, some of which bear directly on the post-October 7 reality and the need to cope with current challenges. The topics engaged by these projects include memory and healing, identity and faith, love, relationships and community, and matter and technology.

These projects invite the audience to linger for a moment, to observe, to find anchors to cling to in days when the ground is shifting under our feet, and regain control of attention, which we need so desperately in order to choose hope and life.

Tracks

About Design track

Design Management and Innovation track

Design and Technology track

About the program

The Bezalel Industrial Design Masters program is a two-year program educating outstanding designers and creators to take on leading roles in an ever-changing world.
The program offers three tracks: Design Management and Innovation, Experimental Design (About Design), and Design and Technology, in which the students gain tools, knowledge, and creative study. The program is based on the premise that designers are agents of change facilitating interdisciplinary connections, as well as new perspectives and original solutions to current issues. The program creates opportunities for experiencing work in various fields: hi-tech and industry, the curatorial and art world, the academic and research world, the third sector, and local authorities - as well as in the framework of international cooperations with leading academies.

The program exposes the students to the deeper meanings of central processes currently taking place in the world. It allows them to translate processes of innovation and design thinking into a distinct personal language while integrating processes related to product design and new services in a competitive dynamic world. In the course of their studies, the students build their ability to integrate into multidisciplinary teams and develop processes. In addition, the students acquire tools to act in a global environment, connect with interested parties, and balance different requirements. These skills will be the central foundation in the students’ ability to find their place and to succeed in the Israeli and global markets.

The program opened in 2003 and our graduates have taken positions in the industry and design fields: as innovation team managers in local authorities and the Air Force, hi-tech and startups product designers, UI/UX designers in global companies such as Microsoft, HP, Intel, lab managers in the Weizmann Institute and Ort education network, lecturers in design academies, and curators, creators, and entrepreneurs. Our team of lecturers includes designers and leading curators, marketing experts, and researchers with vast knowledge in strategy management, product management, and design, service management, interaction, and game design, programming, storytelling, critical thinking, curation, and writing.