New Idea Design Workshop

31/03/2026

Behind the scenes!

We were visited at the Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius Academy of Arts by the Education Exchanges Support Foundation together with 15min (Lithuanian media agency), who are preparing video stories about awarded projects and their everyday activities.

Following the Quality Award 2025 for the outstanding implementation of an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme, the NewIDeA team — Andrejus Repovas, Greta Gilvanovaitė and Egidijus Valentinavičius — shared their insights in an interview.

Full report coming soon — for now, a quick behind-the-scenes glimpse.

20/03/2026

Our project NewIDeA Design Workshop has received the “Quality Competition 2025” award from the Lithuanian Ministry of Education, Science and Sport and the Education Exchanges Support Foundation.

The award recognises the project for its exceptionally high quality of implementation and for promoting the internationalisation priorities of the Erasmus+ programme.

A special THANK YOU to the entire Design Department and our colleagues for their continuous support — and especially to our partner institutions and all participants who make NewIDeA possible.

13/02/2026

What do our partners actually receive?

Real briefs + Real pressure = Real results

Previous clients — from public institutions to national organisations — entrusted NewIDea with concrete challenges:

• Beach navigation system for Neringa region
• Visual identity for Lithuanian Sports Centre
• Social campaign design for Open Lithuania Foundation
• And many many more...

And they received:

- Multiple design directions developed in parallel
- Brave, innovation-driven concepts ready for further development
- Fresh thinking from outside their institutional
- Tangible assets — from concept frameworks to production-ready files

Three international creative teams.
Students working alongside professional design tutors from Italy, Poland, Czech Republic and beyond.
Different design methods. Different cultural perspectives. Different problem-solving approaches.

One intensive week.
A wide spectrum of outcomes.

If your organisation is ready to receive bold alternatives instead of predictable answers, let’s start the conversation.

📩 DM us to become a participating partner
📍 Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
🎓 Organised by Vilnius Academy of Arts
🗓 Every September / October

Workshop leads:
• Andrejus Repovas — [email protected]
• — [email protected]

13/02/2026

How to participate in NewIDeA?

Simple. Structured. Efficient.

1. You bring the challenge.
Your organisation identifies a need: new ideas, fresh design solutions, strategic innovation.

2. We shape the brief together!
In collaboration with Vilnius Academy of Arts, we refine a clear and focused design brief that reflects your objectives and real constraints.

3. Three international creative teams get to work according to the brief.
Students and professional design tutors from Lithuania, Italy, Poland and other countries approach your challenge through different methods, perspectives and creative strategies.

4. You receive results!!!
Within one intense week:
• Multiple concept directions
• Bold, innovation-driven proposals
• Digital presentations
• Files ready for further development or manufacturing if required

📩 DM us to become a participating partner
📍 Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
🎓 Organised by Vilnius Academy of Arts
🗓 Every September / October

Workshop leads:
• Andrejus Repovas — [email protected]
• — [email protected]

13/02/2026

Welcome to NewIDeA.

A space where ambitious organisations meet international creative minds.

NewIDeA is an intensive design workshop week held every September/October at Nida Art Colony, where art, design and strategic thinking intersect. Here, real challenges from real organisations become the starting point for focused creative exploration.

We bring together:
• International design students
• Professional tutors from across Europe
• Forward-thinking companies and institutions

In one concentrated week, ideas are questioned, reframed and transformed into clear design concepts.

This platform exists for organisations willing to step outside routine processes and open their challenges to diverse perspectives.

If you believe innovation happens through collaboration — you are in the right place.

📩 DM us to become a participating partner
📍 Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
🎓 Organised by Vilnius Academy of Arts
🗓 Every September / October

Workshop leads:
• Andrejus Repovas — [email protected]
• — [email protected]

06/10/2025

03/10/2025

Dear participants and partners,

On behalf of Vilnius Academy of Arts Kaunas Faculty (Vilniaus dailės akademijos Kauno fakultetas), the dean of the faculty prof. Jonas Audėjaitis and us (Andrejus Repovas and Greta Gilvanovaitė, representing the Department of Design in Kaunas) personally, we want to thank you for participating and enriching this workshop together with your student teams in ways impossible to put in just a few sentences. Together we create projects that's not only about design, but also about experiences, teamwork, joy and our own stories behind every image. Please keep it that way. We definitely will.

With big thank you to workshop tutors Alice Azzolin (SID - Scuola Italiana Design), Jan Korabečný (Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, University of West Bohemia), Karol Drobniewski (Architektura Przestrzeni Kulturowych, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk), Aistė Bankauskaitė (Vilniaus dailės akademijos Kauno fakultetas) and Aurimas Švedas (Vilniaus dailės akademijos Kauno fakultetas).

30/09/2025

Day 7 ✨
Final Presentations & Closing Day.

Shaky voices, heavy eyes… some with no sleep at all. Day 7 was all about: preparing, presenting, and finally pinning NewIDeA pins to certificates — a small mark of everyone’s input into this workshop.

But here’s the truth: this workshop isn’t only measured by the number of concepts or the perfection of slides. It’s measured in connections made, emotions shared, and bonds built that last far beyond this intense week.

And just like that — the heavy eyes turned sparkling as soon as we stepped out of the working zone and onto the ship. When it sailed, so did the tiredness, replaced by NewEnergy!

Special thanks to PinProof and Juozas Baranauskas for joining online and giving such a sharp, summarised feedback — a great closure to an intense week.

Huge thank you to all participants from Italy, Poland, Spain, Czech Republic, and Lithuania.

Until NewNextTime.

29/09/2025

Day 6 🌙

An all-nighter it was. Dust under the tables, piles of sketches left behind, and only the strongest ideas racing to the presentation's finish line. Sleepless eyes, messy desks, determined minds — deadline day at its finest.

28/09/2025

Day 5 ⏳

Deadlines are getting tighter… and nights are getting longer. At this point, we’re not even counting hours anymore — just the number of prototypes piling up on our messy tables. Coffee cups? You won’t find them here. They’ve been lost somewhere under sketches, models, and sticky notes.

28/09/2025

Day 4 ☀️

Walking session instead of working session — for the first time this week! Sometimes the best ideas need a little air, not just another sticky note. And yes, the sun manifest truly worked: the sky was shining, and so were our faces.