A new innovative educational product has been launched for international students who wish to spend their summertime in Italy, while attending a course able to start or complete their artistic preparation in any field related to the world of Italian design.
Design Summer Programmes offered by NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts, in Milan) are at their 6th edition, for summer 2009. NABA’s collaboration with Central Martins London, The University of the Arts, is continuing for the 4th consecutive year, improving past programmes and offering new ones.
Courses for any need and preparation level expected by students are supported, starting from Introduction level and passing through Intermediate and Advanced level courses, all summer courses that students have the possibility to attend dependig on their initial level of knowledge on a specific subject. In fact, Design Summer Courses are 2-weeks summer programmes open to students with a high school diploma and from first and second year of university, and they give the possibility to choose among a great variety of new subjects to study and to get in touch with.
Just to mention some of the most interesting among them, think about the Introduction to Fashion Accesories Course - focused on the designing of contemporary accessories - whose objectives are: the anaysis of contemporary accessories design through the technical skills that are necessary to produce shoes and bags in Italy and future trends, designing a woman shoe or bag collection, designing a shape on a shoe last, demonstrating the new knowledge on made-in-Italy accessories design acquired throughout the course. Again, the Fashion Photography Studio, - focused on photography and at the end of which students will be called to choose a location to produce a photography/fashion photography project of their choice - the Fashion Textiles and Fibres Studio, - proposing an unusual opportunity to study, touch and acquaint oneself directly with materials that each have a distinct personality; this course develops for example, the skills to reuse wastage from textiles trade and create new ethical and commercial frontiers in global trade - the Graphic Art Design for Fashion Studio and the innovative Photography and the Moving Image for Beginners course.
Important to say that NABA’s education integrates the more traditional disciplines of visual representation with the new digital technologies and the critical-project culture of Italian Design, so it is the ideal recognized insitute for trying a deep total immersion inside Italian country and the famous world of well appreciated Italian design.
Spend a different learning holiday this year! For summer 2009, choose one of the special Design Summer Courses offered by one of the most renowned, high quality design academy in Milan. Choose NABA’s Design Summer Courses for painting your summer with bright colours this year!
Find more information about NABA and its Design Summer Courses in Milan on Learn Languages Abroad website.
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For foreign students in our country, often to learn Italian language is not so easy because Italian is a very complex language with a huge vocabulary. Moreover, not everyone is agreeable to sacrifice entire days to the study, there are many students who would like to enjoy every beautiful thing that is possible to find in our country, or maybe people who have other interests to which dedicate their time.
