LABASAD opens applications for its October/November 2025 intake

LABASAD has opened applications for its October/November 2025 intake. With a new academic year, the digital school aims to continue it’s mission of making creative education ever more accessible and contemporary – solidifying itself as an institution of our digital age. As such, LABASAD offers over 30 online master’s programmes – available in both Spanish and English – covering a broad spectrum of creative insights, from pure graphic design, brand design, illustration, motion graphics, UX/UI design, art direction, photography to generative AI and interior design. 

At the core of LABASAD’s structural and educational approach is its Online and #Onlive model, whereby classes are live-streamed at a specific time – akin to a typical lesson – and students can dial in and interact with lecturers and peers in real-time. Through asking questions, responding to and sharing feedback, and conversation, connections are built between students and teachers across the world, making it an ultimately (and intentionally) human, collaborative experience. Alongside these styles of classes, recorded sessions, and a personalised academic coordinator, you can learn on your schedule, with plenty of practical and creative support.

LABASAD’s school structure is refreshingly flexible too, designed around the lives of already in-work creatives, those doing extra work on the side and those curious about a career change. Its digital campus is fully stocked with resources, discussion forums, collaborative projects and portfolio-building assignments that replicate an IRL creative coworking space of sorts. 

Equally as refreshing and exciting is the calibre of its faculty, made up of a plethora of active industry professionals who bring contemporary tools and techniques into every lesson, alongside unparalleled creative insight. Far from armchair experts, its roster of art directors, brand designers, motion graphic specialists, and illustrators are those shaping the creative industries today. For an Online Master in Graphic and Digital Design student like Fleur Willems, the course’s tutors were paramount. “One of the highlights was learning from teachers who are active professionals in agencies, studios, or who run their own businesses,” Fleur says, “their insights and experiences brought a practical, real-world perspective to the coursework.” As such, students are learning what actually matters to employers, and building portfolios filled with real-world work rather than hypothetical, speculative projects.

Graduates from LABASAD are ready to enter (or re-enter) the job market with a renewed mindset, an up-to-date portfolio and a solidified professional approach. As former student Zuzanna Wasążnik says, “I’m grateful to LABASAD and my teachers for giving me the tools and freedom to express my ideas visually and find my own voice,” reinforcing her commitment to using design to create positive change.

From here, creatives venture off on a number of paths, including setting up their own studio, moving into commercial work or going fully freelance. Moreover, many of LABASAD’s students, both during and after their master’s, were nominated for, and won, international awards the likes of the Pentawards, the ADG-FAD LAUS Awards, the Motion Design Awards, the LAMP competition, or the Cannes Young Lions. 

The people behind LABASAD are particularly proud of is it’s forward-thinking approach to AI. As conversations around the technology continue to evolve, LABASAD is positioning itself at the heart of this dialogue, with an entire area of study dedicated to AI – including the launch of their first specialised programme in the field, the Online Master in Generative Artificial Intelligence for Creatives. By providing students with hands-on experience using AI tools for branding, animation, sound, and more, its practical and strategic approach to design affords creatives the skills and mentality to experiment confidently with new tools whilst progressing the technology further. Likewise, even outside of this specialised programme, AI is woven into the curriculum across disciplines with a specific, thoughtful approach that asks how to wield AI as a practical force in creativity, rather than fan the fear of replacement.