Master in Interior and Living Design

The Department was born with the objective to work on the whole universe of urban experience. In this perspective, the department has created a training project of excellence able to reflect on the changes and transformations of the built space, promoting a permanent research activity for design models and solutions that are appropriate and innovative.Domus Academy has always had a wide and multidisciplinary approach to design research and teaching, which makes it possible to have a wide vision on design. The Master in Interior and Living Design intends to focus on the need to explore all aspects that concern design: from the most technical to the most intuitive ones, and to combine them in order to contemplate the various nuances of meaning in the words to live, to dwell, to use. Milan offers a wide range of historical and contemporary stimulating examples; its long tradition in experimenting and finding practical solutions to the problems of living and dwelling makes it unique....

Urban Events: Design and Management - Barcelona

The Advanced Master aims to train highly qualified professionals to master the design and management of large-scale temporary events in public spaces, considering as the core social and environmental sustainability, planning and integration process in various phases of design and management of all actor is involved.

Recipients

The master is intended for industrial designers, architects and technical architects with degrees in communications or other related areas, and creative professionals who want management or to specialize in the design and management of collective events, all candidates will have to prove two years of experience demonstrable professional. ...

Master in Design

Nowadays, skilled designers can make it in the design world of the post-industrial and information era only if endorsed by a complex and sophisticated professionalism, which can autonomously master very dynamic and multi-disciplinary competences. A designer’s activity in fact, doesn’t only involve the design and production of a service or a product, but it implies its promotion and marketing, as well as the aptitude to keep a constant dialogue with different actors and the handling of market rules which are often unconventional.

Stemmed from this viewpoint, the Domus Academy Master Course in Design offers a path of research, experience and design which combines the theoretical richness of an expert and innovative didactic system with the close and concrete collaboration of prestigious firms and professionals who chose to follow the students in their education....

Intensive Design Furniture - Madrid

The Master in Furniture Design is facing designers to create furniture, surpassing the simplistic classical dichotomy between form and function. The furniture designer today has to be a professional with a polyhedral cross-sectional view of the changing world in which he lives and whose professional work has to meet the challenges it faces to achieving accurate and responsible solutions.

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Master in Interaction Design

Designing, producing, promoting and marketing a product or a service in the post-industrial society of information, requires designers with very specific skills, able to dialogue with different players and to handle the market following non-conventional rules.

The Master course in I-Design comes from a challenge: to bring the originality of Italian Design in the world of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The course represents the natural evolution of a series of training and research initiatives developed in Domus Academy since 1983 on theme of technological innovation and on the design of intangible relations with interactive objects and services. It is part of a permanent laboratory on the themes of digital information with the culture of design at its centre, intended as knowledge of the changing world and as a way of learning by designing. I-Design is a direct connection to the themes of information and interaction, but it is also a reference to the culture of Italian Design and of the Made in Italy, as original approach in balance between design and corporate culture. It blends creative skills and understanding of the media with the ability to transform design visions into business opportunities by adopting points of view connected to the market strategies and logics....

The Master course is structured in 4 basic areas: 3 formative modules and a final project. The final project is set out as a real project using and applying all of the disciplines, tools and techniques acquired throughout the Master course. Weekly tutoring sessions will be held for both the cohesion of the program and the project as well as for the creative execution.

 This program is aimed principally at professionals working in the fields of advertising, marketing, design, communication or general business who wish to specialize or adapt to the changes and opportunities proposed by online mediums applied to designing the users digital experience. The Master is also aimed at recent graduates looking to specialize in digital communication, becoming more competitive in regards to new challenges proposed by the current job market....

This is MaHKU

MaHKU is the working title of the one-year Master programme of the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design. MaHKU comprises five disciplines, i.e. Editorial Design, Fashion Design, Fine Art, Interior Design, and Public Space Design.

We offer an MA curriculum both discipline specific and interdisciplinary entailing a mixture of provocative seminars and workshops.

MaHKU is accredited by the Open University in London. Upon successful completion of the Master programme you earn the internationally acknowledged title of Master of Arts (MA).

Master programmes in art and design focus on a research-based process of creation. As a Master student, you critically reflect on the boundaries of your discipline through research methodologies, a variety of theoretical discourses, and interdisciplinary activities. But you will also engage in a rich mix of discipline-specific topics and discussions....

The Master will consist of two parts: one theory and one practical.

The first part will focus on project management, elements of strategic programming, business strategy, marketing and sales, and finance and human resources, among other topics.  The second part will include different workshops, historical case studies and the final project.

The course is targeted to the following profiles:

Designers interested in coordinating interdisciplinary projects.Designers that want to acquire a profound knowledge of the design business field in order to conceive successful products and to efficiently manage all the production processes.Designers that already run a studio or own a small brand and want to expand.People coming from general business and management areas and who are interested in the design field....

Master in Business Design

In Design driven firms, managers must be able to combine managerial skills, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit, within a perspective able to embrace at the same time design and production, tradition and innovation, reality and vision, everyday life and future. The modern manager is a figure that gets trained and thrives in a border area where designers, managers and entrepreneurs, experts in enterprise and corporate organizations, in information technology, communication, marketing, contribute to the creation of new operative codes and a new strategic language for the companies and the market.

The Master Course in Business Design stems from the core idea that the project is the hinge and the guide of the enterprise and it aims at bringing quality within the territories of product, services and social enterprises....

By being an environment made up of companies of all levels, the Italian Design System is the best opportunity for professionals from all over the world to express their innovation freely 'cause it resumes everyday different requests to experiment new methodologies.By being an integral part of this system, the designer has the chance to cooperate with big companies being involved in a process strictly connected to real life trend and competition market.At the same time it has the chance to cooperate with small-medium concern companies, real core of italian economy.By working for this reality the designer has to fit his work to more accurate requests by the client enhancing his ability in market analysis, material research and project strategy definition whilst also considering modern trends that nowadays ask designers semi-custom products realized also in self-production.For this reason Product Deisgn Master allows students to analyse thoroughly different project fields: product design for large scale and medium concern businesses, packaging design, furniture design and self-production products design....

Editorial Design

The course master Editorial Design IED São Paulo aims to enable the student to work in publishing magazines. Believes that this vehicle of communication is of fundamental importance in shaping opinion and in the construction of lifestyles.

The idea is to train professionals to work with competence, insight and creativity in the field of graphic design.

The professional...

The aim of the curriculum is to combine the basic competences of engineers and designers to develop the framework for a strong interdisciplinary cooperation. During two years of joint studies a firm base in design and engineering theories will be built and a whole set of professional skills of both disciplines will be developed. Besides the two core study areas of design and engineering students will get a firm understanding of contemporary entrepreneurial world. The core of the course is formed around development projects run in multidisciplinary teams and industry partners.

The aim of the programme is following:

• to provide engineers with wider understanding of creative product development making them acquainted and aware of the role of design in it; • to provide designers with deeper understanding of technology to give knowledge how to join technology innovation with design process....

Transportation Design

The master course in Transportation Design IED São Paulo specializes professionals to work in the competitive sector of transportation, especially automobiles. Enables them to develop their own solutions, innovative, creative and anchored in sustainability.

The program of the master IED São Paulo is divided into three stages. The first deals with the advanced understanding of design thinking. In the second phase develops creativity as a strategy for the sector. In the final step deepens the strategic management for innovation. Project management and advanced planning are cross-cutting topics developed in all disciplines of the course. ...

Master Program in Graphic Design

Taught in Italian or English

The Master of Graphic Design program is one-year, full-time course of advanced study in the field. The program places primary importance on the ability of students to be critical agents; to seek problems and to pose questions. Faculty evaluate graduate students on their ability to define individual investigations and to support their decision-making with an independent program of reading and research, an ability to critically evaluate and articulate discoveries, and an ability to synthesize ideas through the creation of design projects.

The main thrust of our graduate program is to provide a research dimension to the field by contributing to the understanding of graphic design through investigations into its history, theory, criticism and methodology as well as its practice. Graduate students come from a variety of academic and professional practice experiences. The department accepts students who have an undergraduate degree in graphic design or comparable professional practice experience as well as those with degrees in other disciplines who see a connection between their previous study and graphic design....

Program includes- Laboratories directed by notable design professionals, in its various disciplines. They will be held with the support of prestigious European companies.- Cultural observatory structured into expert conferences given by some of the most prestigious people in the world of culture on our continent.- Throughout the program, there will be agreements, meetings, visits and seminars with both public and private Entities, which will provide not only sponsorship, but also technical and practical support for the general development of each of its stages.- We will visit the most important trade fairs, exhibitions, museums, schools and professionals studios in Europe.- Thesis project....