Staff

Director :: Helle Byrn

Interior Architect IIDA
Nationality: Danish

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Course Coordinator :: Charlie C.A. Aabø

Graphic Designer / Cartoon Artist
Nationality: Norwegian
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Secretary :: Isabelle Defayes Byrn

Secretary and personal assistant
Nationality: Swiss

Tutor :: Ivan Riis Henriksen

Graphic Designer
Nationality: Danish
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Keywords for my tuition:
Motivation / Passion
Commitment to design
Openness to new ideas and critiques
Ability to articulate your work

Tutor :: Gualberto Cerron

Interior Architect
Nationality: Spanish
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A good designer: Listens, thinks ahead and finds the best creative solution for each requirement.

Tutor :: Sally Jo Blackshaw

Interior Architect
Nationality: British
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A good designer:
Know your brief and clients expectations
Well developed and original ideas, don’t be afraid to be different!
Believe enough to make it happen!!

Tutor :: Gerardo Puche

Graphic Designer
Nationality: Spanish
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Designers must find solutions to functionality, communication or visual concepts, to help clients or users.

Tutor :: Marcos Germán Tamagnone

Architect
Nationality: Argentinian
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Feel, imagine, design, make it real and I will guide you

Tutor :: Julio Castellano

Film Director
Nationality: Spanish
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Tutor :: Nestor Espinosa Mitjanas

Architect and Interior Designer
Nationality: Spanish
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Tutor :: Jonas Søndergaard Nielsen

Cabinet maker and Furniture designer
Nationality: Danish
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You can not learn how to become a designer, you are born a designer. But you can learn the tools to design like a pro.

Tutor :: Sharon Aldred

Fashion Designer / Design Director
Nationality: British
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For me there is no comparison to the rollercoaster world of Fashion. I believe it is quite unique in its ability to incite such passion.

Tutor :: Alicia Carrió

Architect
Nationality: Argentinian
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Tutor :: Alvaro Zabala Velez

Architect
Nationality: Spanish
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It's my objective that students start their own careers well formed, with a professional attitude towards their work, and enjoying design as a way of life.

Tutor :: Frank Borrego

Digital Film Sound Producer
Nationality: Spanish
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Tutor :: Richard Ganniclifft

Cameraman
Nationality: British
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Richard is an Emmy award winning cameraman who has achieved a wealth of experience working in many areas of film and television.

Tutor :: Peter Wall

Graphic Designer
Nationality: British
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Design Theory:
The most important part of any design is to enrich the audiences experience and to entice a response.

Tutor :: Steve Fishwick

Producer - Director - Editor
Nationality: British
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Steve is a highly accomplished Producer/Director/Editor with extensive achievements including several well known television programmes.

Tutor :: Annie Rees

Line Producer
Film/Television/Commercials
Nationality: British
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I hope during this course to pass on my knowledge and enthusiasm of the industry to all the students.

Tutor :: Wayne Chasan

Photographer
Nationality: American/Spanish
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With his inspired vision, Wayne Chasan imbues magic and emotion into the imagery he creates.

Tutor :: Roy Benson

(With Sir Paul McCartney, Left)
Film Producer, Director, Writer and Editor
Nationality: British
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Roy's career has taken him though the entire scope of the entertainment business as Producer, Director, Writer and Editor.

Tutor :: Kim Randall

Graphic Designer
Nationality: British
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Design Theory:
"design is not the search for the right answers... but the for the right questions."

Tutor :: Miguel Francisco Sancho Antón

Fashion Designer
Nationality: Spanish
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My 3 keywords describing a good designer:
Creativity
Versatility
Hard work

Tutor :: Catalina Urbano Ruiz

Spanish Teacher
Nationality: Spanish
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I think it is a good opportunity for the students to learn Spanish and immerse themselves in the language as well as in the culture due to the fact that perhaps in the future they will work in Spain or collaborate with Spanish people.

Our great Cook in our student
restaurant GAUDI :: Louise Hoffman

Cook at our Academy restaurant "GAUDI"

Nationality: British

Assistant :: Isa Maria Rios Lomeña

Assistant to the Academy Restaurant "GAUDI" and

the Academy shop "El Punto".
Nationality: Spanish

Gardener and handyman :: Borislav Olejandrei Dimitrovich

Nationality: Slovenia

Sweet guard dog: Boris

Nationality: Spanish street mixture from Catalunia.