From June to August, NABA offers two-week intensive courses in the fields of Design, Fashion, Fine Arts, Multimedia Arts, Communication, Italian Culture in Milan and Rome.
You will be immersed in Italy’s thriving creative community through visits to museums, companies, production facilities, and design studios. Guided by skilled Italian and international professionals, you will explore trends in fashion and design and learn how to research and present a creative idea.
Upon successful completion of each 2-week summer course in Milan, in Rome as well as for the Two Cities, Double Experience programmes (45 hours), NABA will issue 3 CFA credits that can be transferred at the option of each student’s home university.
All Summer Courses are conducted in English.
Summer Courses
OUR COURSES
Milan Campus
This course combines critical-cultural knowledge, creative research, technical and technological practice, analysis and design of sound in different production areas: from electronic music production to sound design for film, television and radio.
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Milan Campus
The course explores the field of motion graphic by focusing on and putting into practice After Effects software skills, for the realisation of graphic design projects or other multimedia production experimentations, characterised by different types of animations and dynamism.
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Milan Campus
This course is intended for students without any academic background in the specific subject area and for students attending their first year of university studies in Art and Design.
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Milan Campus
Students will develop an understanding and gain experience in style-hunting and image styling as the foundations of fashion and project-development approach. They will be given an overview of the Italian Fashion System, and they will be inspired to develop their ideas and their potential to the fullest.
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Milan Campus
Students will be introduced and exposed to the design process, in order to understand what lies behind the creation of a product and to dive into intensive project work geared towards creative thinking and explore form and functionality.
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Milan Campus
Providing students an overview of the Italian design methodology, the course introduces them to the analysis of the elements of space, enabling them to focus specifically on interior design and to dive into intensive project works.
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Milan Campus
An inspiring discovery of the Italian fashion pipeline with lectures by experienced professionals and guided visits to Milan’s best fashion areas and showrooms. Students will be given an overview of the Italian Fashion System, and they will learn to produce fashion sketches and to carry out research to be used to develop a fashion collection.
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Milan Campus
The course introduces students to the fundamentals of User Experience (UX) design, and its central role in problem-solving, from idea generation to digital product design.
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Milan Campus
The course introduces students to the fundamentals of graphic design and enables them to develop print-based and digital outcomes, dwelling on creative ideas and including nods to Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
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Rome Campus
The course develops skills in typographic visual outputs through an in-depth knowledge of the possible approaches, observation, photography, writing, and editing, emphasizing an idea of visual communication through the graphic translation of the urban city space.
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Milan Campus
The course develops skills in filmmaking, photography, writing, and editing, emphasising idea communication through film. Students create social media content, portfolios, or sizzle reels, building technical expertise and confidence, culminating in a ready-to-upload sizzle reel.
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Milan Campus
The course teaches participants to create professional visuals with AI, focusing on crafting prompts to control style, composition, and atmosphere. It covers advanced techniques for refining visuals and mastering AI-driven workflows.
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