Short Master in Packaging Design

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Milan, 18 to 22 July 2022

Do you want to become a packaging designer?
The IDI Master in Packaging Design is a full-immersion course that will allow you to learn about the various phases related to product packaging design, from concept development to product communication.

What you will learn

  • The history of packaging
  • Packaging evolution
  • The brand concept
  • Communicate through packaging
  • Restyling
  • Study of shapes and materials
  • Packaging and luxury
  • Case history
  • Lettering
  • Packaging and direct marketing
  • The design of a packaging

Course program

The History of Made in Italy

  • History and forms of packaging
  • Famous names and brands

Packaging evolution

  • Relationship between social and technological changes
  • Development of new product categories (ready-to-use food, organic products and fair trade products)
  • The packaging and the service: the packaging as an instrument of use
  • New packaging generations
  • Packaging and the environment: 4 R rule (reuse, reduction, recycling, recovery)

The brand concept

  • Brand extension
  • Line extension

Communicate through packaging

  • The packaging as a media
  • Color and communication strategies

Restyling

  • The packaging lifecycle

Study of shapes and materials

  • The shape as a brand property
  • Metal, plastic, glass, cardboard, thermoformed packaging and tetrapak

The design of a packaging

  • Analysis and research
  • Concept development
  • Graphic format realization
  • Utilizzo dei software: Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign

Packaging and luxury

  • Case history
  • Lettering
  • Packaging and direct marketing

Intervention on branding

The value of the brand

Job opportunities

The Packaging Designer will be able to work in specifically to packaging e-commerce, take-away packaging, packaging redesign, cosmetic and pharmaceutical packaging, luxury products packaging, food and beverage packaging and other fields. He will be able to collaborate with corporate realities and within companies consultancy specializing in the enhancement of corporate brands, as well as in design studies in the product field.

Phases of the course

Preliminary lessons: teaching material
Lessons: 40 h
Project work
Max. participants: 18

How to apply

Fill out the information request form and we will contact you within a few days. In the selection of candidates the scholastic CV, work experience and motivational letter will be considered. It is possible and advisable to send a portfolio of previous works. The examining commission, considering these elements, will communicate the result of the selection and the admission to the Course by filling the application form.

Facilitations

Possibility of financing for the registration fee;
Professional orientation meeting during the classroom phase;
Video CV creation during the full-immersion;
Revision and update of the CV;
Reports of accommodation facilities, in areas adjacent to the classroom.

Italian Design Institute is a partner of Materially

IDI students will have access to Materially for 1 year.
Materially is the largest categorised archive of 7000 innovative and sustainable materials and production processes in the world.
Each month the Library is enriched with 40 new materials and technologies selected by an international, interdisciplinary jury of experts.

Training course

Short Master in Packaging Design

The Short Master in Packaging Design was created with the aim of providing specific skills through a faculty composed of professionals in the sector, with which it will be possible to follow the development phase of the project starting from the brief, moving on to the brain storming phase, of the elaboration of the concept to arrive at that of 3d rendering. Through a practical approach, the Short Master in Packaging Design aims to stimulate the creativity of the participants as well as to bring them to acquire techniques and executive modalities that will allow the designer to free their potential through a packaging project capable of communicating to the consumer a winning image of the product. Not only packaging, but also branding through a cutting-edge educational program that perfectly synthesizes technique, communication and marketing starting from the analysis of significant case histories.

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Company data

Sviluppo Europa s.r.l.
Via Albricci, 9 - 20122 Milan
P.I. 10282190965
unique code: M5UXCR1
[email protected]


Province Register Office. chamber of commerce Milan Monza Brianza Lodi
Fiscal Code is the VAT number
REA number MI-2519496
Share Capital 10,000

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