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
Students will be introduced to the world of CGI, throughout the fundamental teachings of polygonal modeling, in order to learn how to develop humanoid and mechanical figures. The course includes the teaching of basic knowledge of Maya software, the use of well-defined shootings, and practical workshops.
Milan Campus
This course is focused on the discovery of the fundamentals of luxury accessories brand collections, specifically of Made-in-Italy shoes and bags. Students will acquire the basic skills needed to coordinate and to develop a personal collection proposal for a luxury accessory brand as a final project.
Milan Campus
Practicing with various tools, students will learn how to create effective graphic vector images, from simple graphs to basic shapes, icons, illustrations, and logos, applicable in many different professional and design areas.
This course is not available at the moment
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.
Milan Campus
In this course students will create a capsule collection, experimenting studio and workshop practice. Concepts, moods and themes will be conceived and developed to provide inspiration for clothing, colour and shape and for the development of a prototype with handcraft tailoring methods.
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.
Milan Campus
Through a theoretical and practical training in the field of fashion styling, the course enable students to create a new image encompassing make-up techniques, hair shapes, location, light, photography, and to ideate a real photo shooting for a fashion magazine.
Milan Campus
The course will show different techniques, processes and approaches to hand drawing, providing students the basic technical and artistic skills necessary to turn their imagination into professional illustrations and acquire a creative sign.
Milan Campus
The course will enable participants to understand the combination of aesthetics, functionality, and of operational aspects necessary to design successful hotels, analysing the contemporary hotel typologies and the latest hotel design trends, materials, furniture, and lighting.
Milan Campus
Students will have the chance to analyse contemporary interior spaces through observation based on individual research. They will develop a professional designer’s attitude and will be able to create a model of interior layout using only regenerated or discarded materials.
Milan Campus
The course gives an overall vision of the art of lighting and its related functions, from a technical and stylistic point of view, enabling students to develop a personal design language and a final project consisting in a new light system applied to an interior design case history.
Milan Campus
This course is suitable for students with some background in product design, and for students who have completed one or two years of university studies in art and design.