UP THERE, WITH THE BEST OF THE BEST
Maranello Design Academy offers a two-year Master course accredited by the Italian Ministry of Education and by the European University of Rome.
The Students' Projects will be supported by professional designers, modelers and engineers from Italian and international vehicles manufacturers.
The Courses will be taught in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean.
Towards the end of the three-years Program, the Students can do a work placement between 3 and 6 months in design studios of international vehicles' manufacturers.
A work placement offers the chance to gain valuable experience spending time working for an employer and carrying out duties or tasks as a professional designer.
BETTER THINKING, HIGHER VALUE
Maranello Design Academy offers a three-year car design courses based on an innovative
“FULL IMMERSION PROGRAMME”.
Students will learn design by practicing with professional designers from the local automotive industry in a unique and exclusive Campus in the outskirts of the city of Maranello, in the very heart of Motor Valley.
Here, the students will become immersed in the visual and structural landscape and its cultural context where some of the most famous sportscar and motorbike manufacturers such as as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Ducati and Pagani were born very long time ago and still today manufacture their beautiful dynamic art forms.
Maranello Design Academy provides the students with a unique opportunity to experience Motor Valley through the lens of the design professionals most deeply engaged with shaping the future of these famous brands.
The world renowned domestic manufacturers are both subject and object of a total immersion in the how and why of the role of design in the making of a car or a motorbike.
This is a course about the car itself—how it is built, how it works, and how to design it: students at the Maranello Design Academy will have the opportunity of visiting the factories of Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati and Ducati to develop a deep understanding of the processes involved in the manufacturing
of high performance sportscars.
Maranello Design Academy offers unique “live sketching” classes: students will learn how to draw cars in a professional way fully immersed and surrounded by contemporary and historical examples of automotive excellence.
They will have the opportunity of studying design and develop a special understanding of forms and proportions by looking directly at beautiful, unique historical and contemporary models of Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Pagani, Alfa Romeo and Ducati.
The artistic skills necessary to become a succesful designer will be nurtured, honed and carefully developed by visiting the world’s unique Italian Art heritage sites in the most famous and unique location in Italy.
Visits to Rome, Venice and Florence and to the excellence of Italian sculpture and architecture will serve to promote and enrich a visual curiosity and design appreciation.
The instructors for this program are all practicing designers who conduct design exercises with participating students as a way to both share their own creative design process