Course objectives

• Design logos and coordinated images for an agency
• Design and create dynamic websites
• Create a catalog, magazine and illustrations for children’s books
• Demonstrate knowledge of product packaging and create a final package
• Create a full page advertisement for a newspaper
• Design an advertising campaign
• Produce 3-D animation
• Create graphic interface for interaction with an electronic book
• Create an academic portfolio
• Create a professional portfolio

Admission Requirements

• Requirements for admission and documents to submit for enrollment
• 12 years of previous schooling background are necessary to apply to official degrees in Italy. If you do not meet this requirement, you can attend our Foundation Year pre-requisite program or enroll into the non-degree versione program (private diploma from Accademia Italiana)

Costs

EU Students

• Admission exam fee: 150 Euro
• Enrolment fee (1st year only): 1.300 Euro
• Tuition fee (yearly*): 8.330 Euro
• DSU regional tax (yearly): 140 Euro

Extra-EU Students

• Admission exam fee: 150 Euro
• Enrolment fee (1st year only): 1.900 Euro
• Tuition fee (yearly*): 8.930 Euro
• DSU regional tax (yearly): 140 Euro

Partial scholarships are available for International students: check the available scholarships here

*Yearly tuition fees can be paid in two instalments with a small surcharge.

Educational path

First Year

• History of Printing and Publishing
• Project Design Methodology (Life Drawing, Design of the Illustrated Image)
• Technical Design and Planning (Basic Design, Geometrical Drawing)
• Computer Graphics (Basic Computer Design)
• Graphic Design I (Color Techniques, Computer Graphic Design)
• Lettering
• Elements of Publishing Design (Computer Publishing Design, Elements of Publishing Design)
• Aesthetics
• Elements of Information Technology

Second Year

• Contemporary Art History I
• Technology of Materials for Graphic Design
• Graphic Design II (Graphic Design, Computer Design)
• Techniques of Digital Modelling –3D Computing (3D Animation)
• Web Design I
• Packaging
• Photography
• Elements of Cultural Marketing
• Foreign Language
• Theory of Perception and Psychology of Forms

Third Year

• Contemporary Art History II
• Theory and Methods of Mass Media
• Graphic Design III (Advertising Design, Packaging)
• Art Direction (Corporate Design)
• Web Design II
• Linear Audio Visuals (3D Animation)
• Advertising Communications
• Workshops and participation in academic events
• Final Exam (Thesis)
• Law, Legislation and Economics of show business