57 Design Summer Course Programs

Design Immersion Days (DID) is an immersive four-week summer program that introduces high school students to design and architecture. It is intended to inspire curiosity about the world of design, introduce basic design knowledge and critical thinking skills, and familiarize students with the expansive architecture and design culture of Los Angeles.

The course introduces the Italian design industry and current trends in interior design in order to enable you to develop the necessary skills to produce layouts for high-level showrooms and shops with an essential expressive value.

Explores modern project management by providing an enterprise-level, experiential view of the discipline focused on connecting projects to the organization's mission, vision, and values. The theme of the course is applying key project management tools and techniques, through case-based group work, which helps students identify, analyze, and develop practical proposals to real-world issues.

We introduce you to Summer School, Elisava's tailor-made specialisation programs for you: a series of design courses designed so that you can perfect your knowledge and improve your skills in a creative and cosmopolitan context.

If jewelry design is your passion and you want to spend the summer in the city of the “Grande Bellezza”, then our Summer Course in Jewelry Design Lab is the perfect choice for you. Rome boasts centuries of history in the field of jewelry: it spans periods ranging from the Etruscans to Roman times, all the way to the present day with the evolution of the concept of contemporary jewelry. If jewelry design is your passion and you want to spend the summer in the city of the “Grande Bellezza”, then our Summer Course in Jewelry Design Lab is the perfect choice for you. 

Dive into the world of fashion, product, interior and graphic design in this unique summer experience. Work as a member of a design team, practice your English, discover exactly how far your creativity can go. This Global Design Junior Summer Course in English opens the doors to the wonderful world of design and invites you to take your first step developing projects in a variety of fields that may be where your true passion lies.

The Sacred Art School, a training area of the Foundation for Contemporary Sacred Art, offers a Summer School in painting and drawing, sculpture and drawing and jewelry in the city of Florence. During the month of July, the Sacred Art School organizes intensive courses in goldsmithing, painting and drawing and sculpture and drawing lasting one month. Art tours and visits are included in the city of Florence as part of the curricular activities.

Design Made in Italy Summer course focuses on the basic skills and methodologies employed in product design, understanding the quality of Made in Italy products, especially in craftsmanship-based Italian SMEs.

The Advanced Graphic Design Summer course provides you with the necessary skills and a solid understanding of the key areas of graphic design. You will increase your level of expertise and confidence in the many components of visual communication.

The Design Experience Summer Course is an intensive, full immersion, practice-based learning experience in the different fields of contemporary design. Each week of the 3-week course, taught in English, focuses on one particular discipline, the workflows involved, the history, context, and techniques used, etc. As part of the learning process, you’ll develop a specific weekly project to acquire an intimate understanding of each particular field.

Summer Course in Fashion Design and Creative Methodology is a one-month intensive Summer Course that leads students through a creative methodology to open a different perspective and vision of creating a collection. It is a course to have a vibrating brushstroke of how to discover your own creative universe through a very specific methodology to arrive at an unexpected and surprising result.

Discover design, styling and art direction with this summer course, taught in English and in one of the best design schools.

The Summer Graphic Design in Branding course explores the relationship between visual interfaces and user experience and seeks to understand how they are linked to printed and digital media, social media, digital dissemination, and promotion platforms, and how it all applies to the environments around us.

Immerse yourself in the dynamic world of fashion through interactive workshops complemented by personalized guided outings. Whether you want to delve into Fashion Culture and History, Master Illustration Techniques, or explore different Creative Approaches, our courses offer a hands-on experience.

The Sustainable Fashion Summer Course gives you the techniques and tools you need to make a fashion brand, its products, design processes, marketing, management and the materials it uses, truly sustainable. It’s a fundamental theme for the industry and involves every stage of the product life cycle: design, the purchasing of materials, production, logistics, product use and end of life.

Application design thinking to make sustainability compelling, impactful and realizable. Analysis of contextual, functional and human-centered design thinking techniques to promote sustainable design of products and environments by holistically considering space, form, environment, energy, economics, and health. Includes Studio project work in prototyping, modeling, testing, and realizing sustainable design ideas.

The Fashion Design: Design your Capsule Collection enables you to experiment with the basic tools of design. Theoretical lessons are enhanced by creative workshops, visits to companies and trade fairs, and possible seminars with industry professionals.