leading personalities of the automotive world

SPD Master’s course offers a professional and well established training pathway lasting 12 months. Participants have the chance to upgrade their design skills getting involved in challenging projects, in close contact with leading personalities of the automotive world. The programme is constantly updated in order to grant fresh ideas and resourses to partner companies that every year support the Master’s course.
The outcome of 07-08 edition, held in collaboration with Alfa Romeo, has been recently unveiled in presence of Lorenzo Ramaciotti, Head of Styling for Fiat Group Automobiles and Maserati. The result is nine models developed with the assistance of designers from the Style Center based in Arese (Milano). Antonio Rosti, Alessandro Maccolini and SPD tutors worked in close collaboration with fifteen international students envisioning modern interpretations of Alfa Romeo’s long and distinguished legacy of sporty yet elegant saloon cars.
The previous editions of this educational programme have been run in association with the Audi Design Center led by Walter de’ Silva first and later by Wolfgang Egger. From 2005 until 2007 students have been conducting an intense researchwork for the brand with the four-ring emblem investigating in innovative design solutions for Audi’s most successful concept, Avant, and developing the Max4 project: a compact lifestyle car in less than four metres with the typical sportiness, comfort and luxury feeling of Audi models.