Google and Hyper Island team up to help turn designers into entrepreneurs
Creative business school Hyper Island has partnered with Google and top NYC design schools to formally launch ’30 Weeks,’ a program described as a hybrid of design school and tech incubator.
The program’s pilot finished in April, but will roll out again this September with double the enrollment. In total there will be 40 designers, who will be provided with opportunities to work on their own products while they learn entrepreneurial and tech skills.
Sveinung Skaalnes, global partnership director at Hyper Island, said: “There has not been anything quite like 30 Weeks before. When we announced the first course there was a feeling among the design community that we’d really tapped into an area no one else was focusing on. The success of the current program and seeing the designers develop into founders is something that we are immensely proud of.”
Besides Google, Hyper Island runs ’30 Weeks’ in partnership with The Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, Parsons The New School and the Pratt Institute.
This year’s program will take place in New York. Applicants have until 10 June to apply.