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School Leonardo Da Vinci Organizes Preparatory Italian Courses for Fashion & Design Academies

In Italy there are prestigious fashion and design academies which are attended by students coming from every corner of the world, who chose to build their future with fashion and creativity.

The Italian Language Schools for foreigners Leonardo da Vinci located in Florence and Milan, decided to create some new courses to help all those guys whose desire is to attend a fashion and design academy in Italy like NABA, Domus Academy, Istituto Marangoni, Polimoda, Scuola Politecnico di Design, Fashion School Carlo Secoli, UptoDate Fashion Academy, Istituto Europeo di Design, etc.

The “Preparatory Course for Fashion and Design Academies” can have a duration which varies between 2 and 24 weeks, and its main goal is to prepare students for the entrance test of the Academy they have chosen, by helping them to hone and improve their skills thanks to the attention and the support of a qualified and experienced teaching staff.

During this course, the guys will learn and improve their knowledge of Italian language, in particular they will focus on the study of fashion and design terminology. In fact the course is open also to students who have a low-level Italian language knowledge, and students will have the opportunity to establish their starting level and the resulting course duration with a self-evaluation test to determine their Italian knowledge.

In the end of the course, students will obtain all the necessary instruments to face the entrance test of the academies with satisfying results.

The first session of the “Preparatory Courses for Fashion and Design Academies” will start on 9th February 2009, in our schools of Milan and Florence.

So guys, if your passion is design and fashion, and you would like also to learn Italian and enter in a fashion and design academy in our country, then the “Preparatory Course for Fashion and Design Academies” is just right for you!

For all the information about Dates and Prices, consult the School Leonardo da Vinci’s website.

Do You Want to Become a Designer or a Fashion Designer?

Are you searching for an undergraduate professional design course?

For the Academic Year 2008/2009 NABA presents different design degree programs, and among them the Bachelor of Arts Degree Program.

NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, is an Italian Design Academy founded in 1980 and located in Milan, that offers a variety of programs inherent to creative and business design world.

In our design and fashion school we integrate the more traditional disciplines of visual representation with the new digital technologies and the critical project-oriented culture of Italian Design.

Naba training courses are based on a cross-disciplinary method aimed at developing artistic-professional skills and profiles in the fields of art, design, fashion, media and graphic design.

The Bachelor of Arts program (BA) is a three-year undergraduate program held in the following areas:

Interior and Industrial;

Fashion and Textile Design;

Theatre Design;

Graphic Design and Art Direction;

Media Design (Computer Animation, Editing and Compositing of Film and Video);

Visual Arts (Painting, Videoart, Photography, Public Art).

All these Italian design undergraduate programs are based on different learning methods of individual and group course:

· Theoretical-critical lessons: students will develop cultural and methodological tools in order to face professional work in a critical and conscious way.

· Project workshops: students works and products are developed through free practical exercises or through projects made in collaboration with firms and companies

· Instrumental workshops: techniques and tools are acquired for the realization of projects according to the needs of each teaching program.

All qualifications awarded by NABA are internationally recognised: the undergraduate three-year courses are Bachelor of Arts programs that corresponds to 180 credits.

Therefore, this degree, entitles you to continue your studies (at a master level) in any country in the world.

Undergraduate programs will start in September but application deadline is April.

NABA graduates work for many important Italian and international firms.

Therefore NABA BA programs facilitate direct access to the world of work.

All BA curricula are available in our website: Italian design academy

Fashion Business Tips: Find The Way To Present Your Fashion Design Items To The Public

A lot of student who graduated from fashion design school somehow has expectation of having their own fashion design business. Some of them may want to be a designer and just want to have own little studio then taking the job from outside, mean while some other want to join reputable fashion design schools or institutes or even work for the company which can pay highest income. However, the fashion business today has more variety of options. As the fashion business actually can be started from very small scale like family business where one or two family member could set up by using only little budget, to the very large fashion items manufacturers.

There are so many business owners who are now are very successful and are the owner of very famous fashion design companies, and these people started their business only from home business. However, it is fairly to say that at present time, there will be only a little chance for the home business to become success without having huge amount of money. Therefore, many of graduates who finish from good fashion school and they also paid the expensive tuition fee may not want to go back to start his/her own home business for just to get a little of money.

Even though the key of success seem to be the money that designer have to invest on the business, but in fact, the most important thing that is really keys of the success is the idea of the design. No matter the size of the business that you have just started, it is very important for you that you have to find the chance to get your design out to the public and if your design are acceptable by the market, then you will have more work as well as possibility to expand your business.

There are so many for example of the people who just started from very small home business but finally gain reputation from their design and it means that you can gain reputation by doing in the same way too!. The most effective way to present your design items to the word it the internet. If we were in ten years back from now, I would say that there is very least chance for small business to compete with giant companies because there are very limited channel for small business to present products to public.

But now we are in internet age, where everything is possible and the competitive advantage is no longer limited by the size of the business at all. There are places on the internet to present your work and also not just to present and you can sell them on line as well. There are also many of online auction site that you can capture the market and sell your products. It is the place where any one who wants to sell not only fashion item goes and present the design to people all over the world. Now it is you decision if you are one of the people who want to start up your fashion design career and want to gain competitive advantage of your design.