Master in Product & Interior Design
Raffles Milan - International Fashion and Design School
Key Information
Campus location
Milan, Italy
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
10 months
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 21,000 *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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* Tuition fee for students from the European Union and EFTA
Introduction
Ten extraordinary months, with teachers of international standing. A unique opportunity to learn directly from the protagonists. Master Raffles Milano: finally someone thought about it.
Course leader: Marc Sadler, Industrial designer
French born in Austria, Marc Sadler lived and worked as a designer in France, the United States, Asia and Italy. One of the first graduates in Esthétique industrielle at the ENSAD in Paris with a thesis on plastics, he pioneered the experimentation of materials and the contamination between technologies, which have become distinctive aspects of his activity. At the beginning of the 70s he developed the first ski boot in fully recyclable thermoplastic material, industrialized by the Italian Caber (later to become Lotto). Today, thanks to his eclecticism, he is a consultant for companies in every sector of the industry. Over the years, he has obtained important awards and recognition at an international level, including 4 Compassi d'Oro ADI (1994, 2001, 2008 and 2014). The back protector designed for Dainese is in the permanent collection of the MOMA in New York and the Mite lamp by Foscarini is part of the design collection of the Center Pompidou in Paris. He is passionate about painting and drawing, to the point of considering them his most authentic interests.
Find out "Why choose Raffles Milano" and get to know the Master in Product & Interior Design with Course Leader Marc Sadler.
Because?
Why do design projects that seem to have all the credentials fail to pass the market test? Is there a recipe for success? The answer is: there are no recipes. There is the talent, the energy, the seriousness of the project. There is an understanding of the complexity of the world, and the ability to model oneself on it. There is tenacity, analysis and learning.
Student of the year
At the end of each academic year, RM awards the best talent of each year of the course.
The recognition is given to the student who, for academic career and portfolio, has distinguished himself in the evaluation of both a commission of internal teachers and that of a commission of external professionals, called in this case to judge a portfolio guaranteed by anonymity.
Project teachers
Learning directly from the protagonists means acquiring the most advanced visions and methods at the source. Unlike traditional Masters, the Raffles Milano Masters bring knowledge into the classroom thanks to 10 professionals at the top of the market who take turns in the classroom over the ten months.
Each professional spends a month with the students. 8 months of 4 weeks and 2 months of 3 weeks.
For each week there is a 6-hour day and an 8-hour day of lessons with the professional.
At the end of each month the student receives an evaluation on the project carried out.
Some of the professionals could be replaced during the Master, with other professionals at the top of the market, keeping the level of the international Faculty unchanged.
- Danilo De Rossi (Designer)
- Lorenzo Gecchelin (Architect and Designer)
- Makio Hasuike (Industrial designer)
- Yossef Schvetz
- Barbara Tornaghi (Industrial Designer)
- Motoki Yoshio (Designer)
Method teachers
There are also theoretical knowledge and skills that are not learned in the race and require ad hoc study. It is not known when they will be able to serve, but one thing is certain: they will serve.
For this reason, students have during the 10 months 200 hours of lessons with the method teachers, the lessons are distributed during the 10 months of the Master.
Some of the method teachers could be replaced during the Master, keeping the Faculty level unchanged.
- Alice Barki (Industrial designer)
- Marco Capellini (Architect)
- Mindert De Koningh (Patternmaker)
- Laura Lisi (Translator / Interpreter)
- Anna Santi (Researcher)
- Giulio Vinaccia (Designer)
Companies
In almost thirty years of activity, Raffles Group has built a solid network of partners who collaborate in the Three-year Courses and in the Masters. The reputation of the companies and the quality of the relationships developed are the guarantee of a decidedly fertile encounter between the education and business worlds.
Adidas, Aigner, B&O - Bang & Olufsen, Boucheron, Brother, Bulgari, Burberry, C&A, Cartier, Chanel, Chloé, Design Business Chamber Singapore, Diesel, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, Dunhill, Elle, Fendi, Fujifilm, Furniture Design Award Singapore, Giorgio Armani, H&M, Heinz, Hermes, Hogan, HP Technology, HSBC - Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, IKEA, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Kohler, Lear Corporation, Lego, Li & Fung, L'Oréal, Louis Vuitton, LVMH, Mahogany, Max Mara, MediaCorp, Metro, Michael Kors, Microsoft, Nippon Paint, Nokia, Orchard Road Business Association, Pepsi, Philips, Prada, Puma, Ralph Lauren, Redworks, Richemont, Richmond, Rolex, Saatchi & Saatchi, Saint Laurent Paris, Samsung, Shiseido, Siemens, Singapore Furniture Industries Council, Singapore Jewelers Association, Sony Pictures, Standard Chartered, Textile & Fashion Federation, Tiffany & Co., Valentino, Versace, Y&R, Yves Saint Laurent.
Raffles Talks
Every Monday evening, at 6.30 pm Raffles Milano invites students to meet a great figure from the design scene, style and culture of the project. Listening live to the stories and ideas that influence the market and advance our mindsets is an opportunity of great depth, which complements academic programs.
Ideal Students
To whom it is addressed
The Master is aimed at graduates in Design and Architecture, as well as young designers, planners and professionals who are curious and eager to open up to new aesthetic horizons. They will be the future protagonists of creative planning. They will be the ones to write the design agenda of tomorrow, in companies, in architecture and design studios, in research groups, in large global organizations, and also in professional contexts and fields that today we still cannot imagine.
Career Opportunities
Professional opportunities
The Master is designed to provide students with a methodological and skills “toolbox” that enables them to effectively design products in a very wide range of industrial sectors.
Admissions
Curriculum
Program
Students have the opportunity to experiment with different approaches to design according to different types of interlocutors. The research design is extremely proactive and in favor of unusual formal or constructive solutions. In execution design, the designer becomes a business man, capable of offering solutions that can be integrated into consolidated production but also capable of emerging in terms of personality. The breaking design finally leaves more room for pure creativity, provided that there is the basis for good research and good execution.
Topics
- Know-how of materials and production processes.
- Conceptual developments of new materials and surfaces.
- Developments of new aesthetics and graphics.
- New products and new distribution models.
- New product frontiers: nomadic products.
- New frontiers of production: the metamorphosis of 3D printing.