scuola politecnica di design (SPD) in milan is one of the oldest schools of design, who since 1954 has been working within the italian design scene, aiding its development and shaping it into what we know it as today. artist nino di salvatore founded the school back in 1954, bringing together artists, designers, professionals and students from around the world to work and study at the renowned institution. previous professors include bruno munari, gio ponti, max huber, pino tovaglia, isao hosoe, and has seen such guest lecturers and professors as achille castiglioni, donald norman and tomato.

today, training the new and upcoming talent are contemporary design greats andrea branzi, stefano giovannoni,  piero lissoni and denis santachiara.

for those interested in pursuing their masters in the design capital of the world, SPD would like to award five full tuition scholarships to young design talent to attend the school for the calendar year of 2011-2012 (the course would commence in october 2011 and is taught in english).

in collaboration with designboom, SPD is offering one full paid placement in each of their master’s programs: master’s in industrial design master’s in interior design master’s in visual design master’s in transportation and car design master’s in web design and multimedia (*please note: the scholarship only includes tuition, and selected individuals would need to support their own costs of daily living, transportation, housing etc.)

interested applicants should send their portfolio PDF and CV to: [email protected] with subject line: designboom scuola politecnica di design scholarship *e-mails should not exceed 2MB

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS is october 04th, 2011.

work by previous students of the scuola politecnica di design:

scuola politecnica di design + designboom full paid master's in design scholarships industrial design program ‘in & out’ for serralunga pablo crespo pita (spain), martin franzen (sweden), isaac pineiro (spain)  

scuola politecnica di design + designboom full paid master's in design scholarships industrial design program a collection of hand blown glass lamps that originates from production leftovers, collected from the murano furnaces and hand-stiched creating unique colour and pattern combinations isaac pineiro (spain), kelly pearson (USA), hiromi fukikoshi (japan), roberto rossi (italy) – supervised by huub ubbens and armando bruno

scuola politecnica di design + designboom full paid master's in design scholarships interior design program for the 50th anniversary of the milan design fair, superfarm investigates the social impact of design in the future and its power to shape our behaviours… hafsteinn juliusson (iceland), joana pais (portugal), rui pereira (portugal)

scuola politecnica di design + designboom full paid master's in design scholarships interior design program an instore design platform for special events in milan and namely the fashion and design weeks. the business objective is to create an interest for people who are attending those events through a creative concept that brings them into the originals store and wins a new consumer group mauro marciante (italy), marco manicone (italy), marina gloulobtchik (sweden) – supervised by diego grandi with andrea schmidt, adidas

scuola politecnica di design + designboom full paid master's in design scholarships identity project for the studio-museum of achille castiglioni in milan. castiglioni, one of the prominent designers of all times, was universally acknowledged for his playful, unconventional approach these works share to describe his world and his works. antonio senia (italy) – supervised by sergio menichelli and cristiano bottino, studio fm

scuola politecnica di design + designboom full paid master's in design scholarships research around the aesthetics of recycling and the language of sustainability. experiments with nivea packaging. onofrio magro (italy), marta pellò (italy) – supervised by daniele barbiero

scuola politecnica di design + designboom full paid master's in design scholarships AUDI concepts for clever urban mobility in 2020. in less than four meters the electiric propulsion meets the brand of the four rings: sporty, progressive and sophisticated richard cullis (uk) – supervised by andreas zapatinas with sergio cianfarani, steve lewis and klemens rossnagel for AUDI

scuola politecnica di design + designboom full paid master's in design scholarships new bixy is the electrically assisted bicycle that won first prize in the contest organized by bixy at SPD. the batteries are hidden inside the frame and can be easily removed thanks to a joint similar to the ones used for folding bikes. clean lines and good weight balance are thus achieved. alessandro stabile (italy), iulian bumbu (romania) – supervised by carlo dameno

scuola politecnica di design + designboom full paid master's in design scholarships it’s the 100th anniversary of nivea créme. one year to celebrate also online, time travelling between past and future or dressing up the blue tin in the colours of contemporary art. vladimir strajnic (serbia), priscila morgante bohlsen (brazil), luigi console (italy) – supervised by paolo iabichino

scuola politecnica di design + designboom full paid master's in design scholarships the social network is a key tool to spread around more sustainable mobility models. in this farmville of car sharing the number of cars is reduced blurring the line between game and reality whereas the portal on green mobility starts online conversations about user generated topics and solutions to help people get informed and think their way. supervised by marco catani and paulo bernini. federica gandolfo (italy), martina gatti (switzerland), lucia longo (italy), marco melluso (italy), fabio secci (italy)