Art Studio

This course combines the study of the concepts and theories of typographic design with typography practice. Students plan and complete creative typographic designs using CG programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effect etc.

This introductory studio course presents photography as a medium of documentation, critical communication, and personal expression related to social issues and intimate involvement. It builds photography skills including composition, light, and technical expertise. Alongside developing skills, the course considers questions of identity and expression in photography and examines how photographs have been used as markers of cultural identification. The course challenge students to question, explore, and express their own identity through photography and to take inspiration from their host city environment, in synergy or contrast with their own identity. It deepens the ability to think critically and express thoughts through images and related texts by analyzing and interpreting experiences in Italian society. Through various photographic exercises and assignments, the course explores digital photography as a tool to interpret and narrate different aspects of the city and one's personal experience of and with it, reflecting on identity in a visual way. Lectures cover technical aspects related to shooting and editing, conceiving and amplifying projects, and addressing different audiences. The course also offers an overview on Italian and international photographers and different approaches in contemporary photographic practice. Classroom discussions, assigned readings, and photo responses, combined with the personal experience of the photographic medium, help to develop critical skills to understand how photographs work aesthetically and conceptually in various contexts, how they are used in contemporary society and culture, and how they become means of personal exploration.

This course is part of the Laurea Triennale degree in Sculpture. This is an advanced course for students who already have experience in drawing techniques. Enrollment is by consent of the instructor. Students are required to attend the theoretical part and the studio laboratory, and to complete individual projects. The course teaches students to perceive the human form through a structural view in order to grasp and identify the structural and plastic components of man and to reach an interpretation of the form in both analysis and synthesis. Students work under the etymological meaning of the word anatomy and dissect and analyze the form in its constitution and arrangement in space. Students apply this meaning to observe the human form from different points of view through repeated decompositions and rearrangements. The course focuses on the production of drawings (analytical, descriptive, or expressive), which involve drawing from a live model, from photographs, from art reproductions, or from anatomic studies for artistic purposes. The course includes a section devoted to the study of the human body in art from antiquity to the present and a section devoted to iconographic research on the morphological elements of animals, plants, and minerals. Assessment is based on the presentation and discussion of assigned art projects.

This course provides a study of the concept of '3D (solid)' and the structure of the product. It covers modeling software including Fusion 360 and Keyshot, and techniques that can be used for prototyping. 

This course improves visual communication skills and stimulates creative thinking. Through hands-on practice, students are taught how to use the stylus and tablet to create sketches and paintings in Photoshop. Major topics include dynamic sketching; introduction to stylus, tablet and Photoshop; understanding and applying values and light; rendering with color; silhouetting for ideation; layout for presentation. 

This introductory foundation course for beginners investigates the various materials, skills, and expressive issues involved in drawing the city of Florence, its architecture, sculptures, and the human figure from the live model. Students explore a range of compositional issues such as figure/ground relationships, light and shade, perspective, line and shape, value and color, texture, anatomy, contrapposto, and design.  Students draw on site in the city of Florence as well as in the classroom. Both are used in conjunction with exploring diverse approaches to the learning of drawing fundamentals. Emphasis is placed on drawing from perception while focusing on different cultural conventions relating to space, perspective, the human figure, architecture, anatomy, and proportion. The course includes trips to on-site locations in the city of Florence: its piazzas, gardens, museums, as well as a visit to an artist studio. There are two versions of the FOUNDATIONS OF DRAWING: DRAWING IN THE CITY OF FLORENCE, a beginner level and an intermediate level, this course is the beginning level.

The course teaches skills related to garment making, and develops the ability for students to apply the learned concepts to actual clothing product design.

This course systematically introduces students to the basic knowledge of seal printing and seal cutting, analyzes the basic characteristics of seal printing in various eras, and the aesthetic composition of seal cutting in various genres. It cultivates students' aesthetic ability to seal printing and seal cutting, explains the basic steps of seal cutting and related art production, and enables students to master the basic knife techniques and related peripheral technologies of seal cutting by themselves. Through the study of this course, students will have the ability to further develop themselves in seal cutting.

This introductory foundation course for beginners investigates the various materials, skills, and expressive issues involved in drawing the city of Florence, its architecture, sculptures, and the human figure from the live model. Students explore a range of compositional issues such as figure/ground relationships, light and shade, perspective, line and shape, value and color, texture, anatomy, contrapposto, and design.  Students draw on site in the city of Florence as well as in the classroom. Both are used in conjunction with exploring diverse approaches to the learning of drawing fundamentals. Emphasis is placed on drawing from perception while focusing on different cultural conventions relating to space, perspective, the human figure, architecture, anatomy, and proportion. The course includes trips to on-site locations in the city of Florence: its piazzas, gardens, museums, as well as a visit to an artist studio. There are two versions of the FOUNDATIONS OF DRAWING: DRAWING IN THE CITY OF FLORENCE, a beginner level and an intermediate level, this course is the beginning level.

This course provides students with the opportunity to gain an understanding and awareness of graphic design, the theory, and context associated with the subject. The course also provides the opportunity to explore a range of strategies applied effectively for recording and developing visual communication, exploring conceptual ideas to be documented in a sketchbook or visual research journal, supported by contextual secondary references where appropriate.