OFFF presents NXT for the third consecutive year, a platform dedicated to showcasing the next generation of emerging talent. This year, we present student-led pitch sessions from 10 leading creativity and design schools. One student from each school presents their projects to a global audience and begin making their mark in the professional design world.

General info:

Thursday, 16 April at The Twist (4th floor, Disseny Hub Barcelona)

Session 1 – 16:15:

Brother Barcelona

IED Barcelona

LCI Barcelona

MMi Montbéliard – Université Marie & Louis Pasteur

Elisava, Facultad de Diseño e Ingeniería

Session 2 – 17:40:

IDEP Barcelona

CITM-UPC: Art i Tecnologia en Diàleg

BAU, Centre Universitari d'Arts i Disseny de Barcelona

AMD / Fresenius University of Applied Arts

LABASAD, Barcelona School of Arts & Design

Access: OFFF ticket holders + accreditations

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Official selection of participating schools and students:

Sol Viscarra – Beyond Cinema

(AMD / Fresenius University of Applied Arts)

Beyond Cinema reimagines the cinema experience as an immersive, emotionally driven format. Through communication design, the project integrates visual identity, brand systems, spatial design and the customer journey into a single narrative framework. As a case study, it develops a first edition inspired by Coralie Fargeat's film The Substance, including audiovisual pieces and a promotional teaser with typographic animation.

Nacho Hormaechea – 90% AI

(BAU, Centre Universitari d'Arts i Disseny de Barcelona)

90% AI is an experimental project that pushes artificial intelligence to its creative limits within motion graphics. Structured as a creative laboratory, the project develops an author- driven audiovisual piece using AI across every stage of the process – from research and ideation to animation and presentation – questioning how AI reshapes the relationship between authorship, technology and the creative act.

María Carbonell, Chie Sato & Manu Ponce de León – #NotWithMyType

(Brother Barcelona)

#NotWithMyType is a collective project that probes the boundaries of typography when used as a vehicle for hate speech. Developed by three graduates of Brother Barcelona's Integral Creativity programme, the project raises urgent questions about the role of design in the circulation and legitimisation of harmful language.

Guillem Franco Garriga – Art i Tecnologia en Diàleg

(CITM-UPC)

Art i Tecnologia en Diàleg examines how contemporary artists incorporate digital tools – generative visuals, immersive media and digital scenography – into their creative and performative practices. The project maps the evolving dialogue between artistic creation and technology, tracing where the two disciplines meet on stage and screen

Yi Shi Yu Ye – Tributo en Llamas

(Elisava, Facultad de Diseño e Ingeniería)

Tributo en Llamas is an editorial and artistic project rooted in the Chinese funerary tradition of shāozh ǐ (烧纸) — the ritual burning of paper offerings for the afterlife. More than a book, it is a ritual tool: the reader is invited to read, cut out, assemble and ultimately burn. Drawing on thinkers such as Byung-Chul Han and Baudrillard, the project reclaims grief as an act of care, memory and resistance against the symbolic depletion of contemporary consumer culture.

Louis Pasteur & Yaroslav Yermakov

(MMi Montbéliard – Université Marie & Louis Pasteur)

Yaroslav Yermakov, 21 years old, who is preparing a Bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Internet Professions, presents the project OFFF Visual Identity 2026, an academic project that explores a new way to present the OFFF festival by using a modular identity that adapts to each host city and draws inspiration from the foundations of graphic design - pixels and binary code.

Davide Molinari – The Gift of Obsession

(IDEP Barcelona)

The Gift of Obsession explores how personal obsessions shape a distinctive visual language and creative identity. Through a generative visual system, users respond to a series of emotional and formal questions, and their answers are translated into animated abstract compositions – unique portraits of each person's inner world, rendered through form, rhythm and movement.

Jaime Rose de Candole – What the Trees Told Me

(IED Barcelona)

What the Trees Told Me is a data-driven sensory installation that investigates the relationship between human well-being and environmental health. The project centres on a single question: does our emotional and physiological state mirror the health of the environment we inhabit? By weaving together data and sensory experience, it invites audiences to reflect on the deep interdependence between body and ecosystem.

Guillermo Ferré Mur – Vue

(L ABASAD, Barcelona School of Arts & Design)

Vue is a UX/UI app designed to support autonomous navigation across both physical and digital environments. The project explores how intuitive interface design can empower users to move through complex spaces independently, combining clarity, accessibility and purposeful interaction design.

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