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Aims

A post-graduate course aimed at communication professionals.
Do you need to launch a product? Do you need to consolidate your brand? Are you looking for a new image? Visual communications experts must be able to provide a solution for all marketing needs. The visual and communication concept must fit in with the graphics and means chosen to get the message across.
The art director manages and coordinates the visual look of specific events and communications campaigns, is responsible for choosing images and the ideal professionals (illustrators, graphic designers, etc.) to get the effect exactly right.

 
Study Plans

Communication

Creating the visual message
Advertisers planning a campaign must first of all know how to single out the characteristics of the product and the target. As well as this, advertisers must be able to transform the visual and spoken message, which must be planned when programming the advertising campaign strategies, into communication.
Visual communication, advertising, image promotion

This module explains which mechanisms and methods visual communication uses to capture our attention. How to promote an image and which techniques can be used to enhance it.

Design and photography: image semiotics

This module deals with the different ways of creating and understanding images (design) and photographic language on the basis of where they will be used: in the press, on the web, on the TV.

Psychology and message graphics
In order for the graphics used in the message to capture the potential client’s attention, they must fit in with the target market psychology.

Aspects of traditional communication and innovation: digital communication 
The aim of this module is to provide knowledge of the methods and techniques for designing, creating, organising and managing communication using IT, on-screen and multimedia systems.
How to create an effective communications strategy
Talking to everyone is the same as talking to no one. It is of paramount importance to single out the target of the communication and the best communication methods for getting the message across in the most effective way.
From the marketing brief to the copy strategy (communication strategy)
Transforming communication processes and languages into strategy.
Creative presentation strategies
The best ways to present creativity.
Building an advertising campaign
The parts of an advertising campaign.

The art director’s function and role in advertising campaigns and organising events
Copy writer - art director relations 
From the written word to the visual message.

Marketing

Operational marketing: the marketing mix
Techniques and tools for price, buying and service management.

On-line business strategies
Traditional companies are adopting the extended company concept more and more. The purpose of this is to integrate increasingly innovative processes and transform corporate organisation and management.

Digital marketing: new marketing tools for the new media
   search engine positioning
   action marketing and direct marketing
   permission marketing
   viral marketing
   CRM relational marketing
  

Technology

Technology and competition in the new media

This module covers all the aspects linked to the web and the new media: from analysing the technology involved in the new media and the resulting competition to new marketing and web communication applications.

 

Web Design

Communication design:
Designing graphics, ID, information and communications systems.

Interaction design:
Hypermedia systems, interface, new media, multimedia and web design.

 

 

 
 

The course is aimed at graduates and undergraduates preferably in Communication Sciences, in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
The course is also open to all those with a minimum amount of experience in the marketing and/or communications sector:

copywriters
graphic designers
marketing and communication experts
advertising specialists
advertising agents

 

Admission

 
The course is for a limited number of students in order to guarantee the quality of the training.
 
Duration  

The course lasts 1 month.
From 1 to 25 July  2008
4 hours a day from Monday to Friday

Time:  9:00am – 1:00 pm


 
Course Cost  
 

1600 euro + 90 admission fee  (Euro 40 refunded if the course does not go ahead)

 
Pre iscrizioni e scadenze  
 
The deadline for enrolment is 30th April.
The deadline for registration is 15th March 2008
The early-bird promotion expires on 31st January 2008.


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VILLA STROZZI, VIA PISANA 77,
50143 FIRENZE
summer@polimoda.com
Tel 055-7399645


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