The Master in Food Designaims at developing the essential creative skills to excel in the field of food design, representing a great opportunity for graduates in design, marketing and communication, as well as for professionals active in the field.
The program analyzes food markets, focusing ondesign as an approach and method.
Multidisciplinary Approach
A lot of practice, laboratories, outdoor visits and workshops are the core of the SPD method. The program provides students with the opportunity to collaborate with industry professionals and companies, fostering teamwork and skill development.
SPD Experience
Studying at SPD means immersing yourself in a fresh, dynamic and international environment, where foreign students account for 70% of the total student population. Each student is followed individually by a faculty composed of professionals coming from different fields.
Internship/Advanced Practice
This module provides the opportunity for the student to experience either a vocational internship with external institutions and companies, an internal research internship, or a period of study abroad.
Major Project
The Major Project module aims at enabling students to develop and direct their own design project, taking into account learnings from previous modules. It aims also at encouraging students to demonstrate a high level of professional competence and to have a deep understanding of the social and philosophical context, in which they are practising. Students are expected to demonstrate the enterprise potential in their ideas and to understand the future possibilities and contexts, in which ideas will exist. Students critically reflect upon their own learning and become prepared for continuous professional development.
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Discover your path. Become Food Designer.
The Master in Food Designaims at developing the essential creative skills to excel in the field of food design, representing a great opportunity for graduates in design, marketing and communication, as well as for professionals active in the field.
Educational Partner
Course Length
2 Academic Years
Start
January 2025
Language
English
Where
Milan
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Master of Arts in
Food Design
The program analyzes food markets, focusing ondesign as an approach and method.
Multidisciplinary Approach
A lot of practice, laboratories, outdoor visits and workshops are the core of the SPD method. The program provides students with the opportunity to collaborate with industry professionals and companies, fostering teamwork and skill development.
SPD Experience
Studying at SPD means immersing yourself in a fresh, dynamic and international environment, where foreign students account for 70% of the total student population. Each student is followed individually by a faculty composed of professionals coming from different fields.
Internship/Advanced Practice
This module provides the opportunity for the student to experience either a vocational internship with external institutions and companies, an internal research internship, or a period of study abroad.
Major Project
The Major Project module aims at enabling students to develop and direct their own design project, taking into account learnings from previous modules. It aims also at encouraging students to demonstrate a high level of professional competence and to have a deep understanding of the social and philosophical context, in which they are practising. Students are expected to demonstrate the enterprise potential in their ideas and to understand the future possibilities and contexts, in which ideas will exist. Students critically reflect upon their own learning and become prepared for continuous professional development.
Course Leader
Martí Guixé
Martí Guixé formed in Barcelona and Milan as an interior and industrial designer.
In 1994, living in Berlin, he formulated a new way to understand the culture of products. Martí started to exhibit his work in 1997, a work characterized by the search for new product systems, the introduction of design in food ambits, and presentation through performance. His non-conventional gaze provides brilliant and simple ideas of a curious seriousness.
He is based in Barcelona and Berlin and works as a Designer for worldwide companies such as Camper, Chupa-Chups, Desigual, Droog Design, and Watx, and has exhibited his creations at the MoMA in New York, the Design Museum in London, the MACBA in Barcelona, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Study Plan
*The study plans, including laboratory activities, may be subject to updates.
First Year
Food and Design Intertwined - 20 credits Object Food and Food Objects - 40 credits Food Contextualized and Displayed - 40 credits Food Experience - 20 credits
Second Year
Advanced Practice
Major Project - 60 credits
Career Opportunities
Those who complete the Master in Food Design at SPD Scuola Politecnica di Design are ready to pursue careers in:
+ Food Product Designer
+ Food Communication Designer
+ Food Design Researcher
+ Sustainable Food Consultant
+ Food Event Designer and Manager
+ Food Experience Designer
+ Food Entrepreneur
Employability
82% of our students find work after a year from their master’s degree.
About 10% of our students after the Master’s Degree decide to pursue their career by pursuing a higher education level.
Students of the Masters are mainly employed in communication agencies or design studios.
Training Programm
SPD’s goal is to prepare every student to be a complete professional. The courses are divided into a theoretical part, consisting of lectures and external visits, and a project part for each teaching area with workshops held in collaboration with important studios and design agencies.
Faculty
In SPD each student is followed individually by a teaching staff composed by designers, professionals from various sectors and tutors. Many of the most important international names in Design, such as Patricia Urquiola, Denis Santachiara, Ross Lovegrove and Chris Bangle gave lectures in SPD.
Aimed to
SPD’s Masters are aimed at graduates in subjects similar to the master; the students who want to undertake, in the Italian capital of design, a specialization path that allows them to improve their manual and creative skills; the places are limited and the selections happen in a previous cognitive call.
Milan
Milan, world capital of Design and Fashion, ideal for young international talents, thanks to museums, architecture, hotels, showrooms that give an incredible source of inspiration. The city offers great business opportunities, a bustling social life and exclusive events.
