NABA Summer Course

I have mentioned before that I have been in Italy, for a summer program: Visual Designs. I know, it is no more summer, but for those who want to go for summer programs aboard, I want to share with you, what we have done, during 2 weeks, in Italy, Milano, in NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti).

We worked a lot with our hands and actually we did not use computer. We used movable fonts (types) for the typographic parts and used pressing machines. We made collages, and then photocopied them to make our works monochromatic and also to make 'mass production'.

It was interesting because, nowadays it is not easy to learn the old way of making visual designs, so we had the chance to learn the old techniques. Besides, it was enabled us to think more creatively.

Here are the photographs that I took during the courses in NABA:

NABA's garden 

Our teacher showed us her students work, that I really like.

The first class! We cut shapes out of colourful cartoons and formed faces.

We made sketches before doing our posters for a movie.

We learned there a lot about pop-up books.

We even learned how to make the simple ones.

While I was working my poster for 'Moulin Rouge'. 

The result after I rolled paint on the mould that I cut out with stencil.

I painted the typographic parts with a little sponge.

Moulds and the result.

This is how we rolled the paint, which was a special paint.

They took us to a wonderful book shop in Milan, called 123.

Different works of our teacher's other students.

My pop-up card inspired by Duomo of Milan. The first one before ' mass production'

My collage work. I copied it with the photocopy machine.

The engraving machines.

Movable types, that we used for the typographic parts.

Books that inspired us.

Selin, while working.

Our teacher Claude's and her students' works

The machine that we worked with. It wasn't easy!

I choose brown and orange.

Mass production, although they all have different details.

I wanted to make all of their cover in different colours, which are bright, in contrast with the inside.

You can see one of the moulds that I used.

Selin Sargut's work: Milan's people. Aren't they look adorable?

She have took all of the people's photographs from the class to make her work.

Anne, had done a really good job, too.

Bigg and his brilliant poster work for Milan.

We had fun:)

Bergamo

Some Information about Bergamo

Bergamo is a town and comune in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. Its population is 120.000. The foothills of the Alps begin immediately north of the town. Bergamo occupies the site of the ancient town of Bergomum, founded as a settlement of the Celtic tribe of Cenomani. In 49 BC it became a Roman municipality.

Historic part of Bergamo.

A fountain at the center, with mythological elements.

Como in Monogram Photographs

I've been in Italy this July for 3 weeks and travelled a lot. And of caurse took a lot of picture there. My actual aim was to go to Nuovo Accademia di Bella Arti (a school of art in Milan) for a workshop, but it was only for 10 days, therefore I've been in different places in Italy with my friends. First, I was in Bergamo and Como with Selin.

Some Information About Como

Como is a city and a comune in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como. It's proximity to Lake Como and Alps has made Como a popular tourist destination. The city contains a lot of works of art, churches, gardens, museums, theatres, parks and palaces: the Duomo, the Basilica of Sant'Abbondio, the Villa Olmo...

This is Como, and the mountain view from a little street.

At lunch, we sat down at a restaurant at the center of Como, so our view was the Cathedral.