Visual Design - Three Year Course in Milan

The visual designer is a creative who is also capable of co-ordinating the skills of a team specialising in a variety of disciplines. He also knows how to face, as the orchestra conductor, omplex issues at stake in institutional communications, services and products. This course enables students to acquire a methodology to use in the different phases of a project and its execution and to apply for employment as designers (in professional offices, agencies or organisations) or creative consultants for industrial or commercial firms, or – by opening an office of their own – to take the plunge as entrepreneurs of their own careers.

The course is intended for students who have a high school leaving diploma coming from either an Italian or a foreign university. Applicants will be expected to show a strong interest in design disciplines (visual, graphic, exhibition and digital design, lettering, photography and video), in social sciences (anthropology, theories of communication and mass media, sociology and semiology) and in the culture of the visual arts (art and design history). Students who attend this course are future designers of digital and analogical communication, creative directors and brand experts.

The Three-Year Courses calls for a maximum participation of 20 students.

The candidates go through a selection process by means of an individual interview with the Course leader.

Teaching staff:

The course leader is Francesco Cavalli, the renown Creative director

Francesco Cavalli has accumulated more than twenty years of experience in the area of visual communication as a creative director and strategic designer. He lives and works in Milan, where he founded Leftloft together with Bruno Genovese, David Pasquali and Andrea Braccaloni while studying town planning at Milan Polytechnic. Since 1997, the office has designed more than 900 projects for clients in Italy and abroad. From corporate identity to publishing and event curating, he has worked for Moleskine, Documenta, FC Internazionale, Milan Triennale, Cassina, Colmar and Subito, among others. In 2009, he left Milan temporarily to open a subsidiary office in New York. Over the years, he has combined his professional work with promoting design culture through the Ministero della Grafica association and teaching at the Milan Polytechnic Faculty of Design and in other schools. In 2015, he created Luft, Leftloft’s research think tank, a workshop for brainstorming about the meaning and practice of contemporary design processes that organises multidisciplinary discussion events.