Lycée Raymond Loewy

The Lycée Raymond Loewy in La Souterraine, in the Creuse, is a public institution that hosts a higher education hub in design and applied arts. It owes its name to Raymond Loewy, a French industrial designer naturalized American, a major figure in 20th-century design — a namesake that sums up the school's orientation: a design rooted in production, use, and industry.

The institution offers several tracks of DN MADE (Diplôme national des métiers d'art et du design, grade licence), notably around objet, espace, and graphisme. Students follow a three-year curriculum combining culture of arts and design, plastic practices, technologies, and project methodology, with internship periods and an end-of-cycle project.

Among its strengths: a human-scale structure, close mentoring, and workshops (model-making, volume, fabrication, digital tools) that favor a quick transition from idea to prototype. The plurality of tracks also allows for bridges and cross-disciplinary projects between object design, space design, and visual communication.

The rural setting, away from major centers, often translates into a contained cost of living and ties with the local economic fabric (crafts, wood, regional industry), local authorities, and cultural actors.

After the DN MADE, graduates frequently continue on to DSAA, an école supérieure d'art or de design, a master's, or enter into an agency, studio, or bureau d'études.

Check open tracks and application procedures on Parcoursup and the institution's website.