Set Design Area

Some backstage photos taken during the filming of the documentary about Maria Pyle, for Aladino Productions, directed by Jean-Marie Benjamin. Location: Canonica a Cerreto (SI) Lecturer: Marco Cristini Students involved: Hitomi Lorini and Zainab Sabirh

How to create a maquette for the set of a musical 🎭✨ Our Set Design student @riggy_tony shows you the process behind building a scaled model for a production of Grease: starting from the concept, developing the structure, and refining every detail along the way 👀 This is how his project came to life — step by step, turning an initial idea into a fully developed maquette that captures the visual identity of the musical. The final result? A detailed miniature designed to translate atmosphere, space, and character into three dimensions. 🎬 Watch Tony’s How To 👆See the full video now!

❝Nella nostra normalità ogni momento è nutrimento unico e silenzioso per noi che siamo carne ed emozione, Universo in divenire, irripetibile, in continua esplosione. ❞ — @emanuelecappelli , Direttore Artistico del GTA Contest È da qui che tutto è partito. Un invito a riconoscere lo straordinario nel quotidiano, trasformandolo in gesto artistico. Il tema “𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐞̀ 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨” ha preso forma attraverso i progetti di studentesse e studenti delle Accademie AFAM partner, tra idee, sperimentazioni e visioni, per poi culminare nell’evento conclusivo del #GTAContest al @museomaxii , lo scorso dicembre, dove si è svolta la premiazione dei 6 progetti vincitori. Un’occasione per valorizzare l’arte, il talento e la creatività delle nuove generazioni. Presidente del Contest: @gabriele.mainetti *** Grand Tour AFAM è un progetto finanziato dal MUR con fondi PNRR per promuovere la conoscenza del patrimonio culturale, artistico, musicale e coreutico italiano aumentandone l’attrattività internazionale Partner del progetto Soggetto capofila: @rufa_university Soggetti attuatori: @accademiadicomo | @accademiapoliarte | @accademiaitaliana | @accademiadellusso | @accademiascala | @ispccnr | @cnrsocial | @ied_official | @istitutomodartech | @iuad_milano | @accademia_iuad_napoli | @accademialaba | @labafirenze | @naba | @saintlouiscollegeofmusic | @sapienzaroma - Centro interdipartimentale di ricerca DigiLab | @scuolateatromusicale Soggetti associati: @italymfa | @confindustriagiovani | @comunerimini

Ever heard a costume come to life on set? Fabric slides under the sewing machine, thread pulling tight, stitch after stitch. Hands work slowly, fixing every detail. Then everything comes together with the final touches and last adjustments. And suddenly: the curtain rises and a scene comes to life No music. Just pure set design coming to life, ASMR-style! 🎧 Headphones on and volume up 🔊 Step into the magic of NABA sounds

Some shots from the beautiful project “Traditio Symboli,” created by the students of the Set Design course under the supervision of our teacher Alessandro Colombo, on the occasion of the Easter Vigil “Io Sono la Porta” held on March 28, 2026 at Milan Cathedral @al_la16 @naba Students: Federica Donati Sofia Missana Viola Girardi Voltan

Taking on “Il Casanova di Federico Fellini” and reimagining its costumes from scratch? Properly ambitious — and our students absolutely delivered! As part of a BA in Set Design project, NABA students reconstructed a scene from the iconic Fellini film, with the Costume, Make-up and Directing specialisations working side by side from first research note to final shot. As one of the students explains in this unmissable interview, the costume work meant diving deep into 18th-century Rococo aesthetics — ornate, layered, and seriously technical. Every piece was built from scratch, with lecturer Eva Marchetti pushing students to experiment with materials and construction techniques and find their own take on it. The outcome? The kind of project you need to see. ✨ Let our students’ creativity inspire you 👆 Catch the video!

Virtual Set Design✨ Some clips of the final video realized by our Set Design students during the courses Direction Lab and Costume Design! Federica Donati Silvia Lanfranconi @la_lanfry Yushan Tang @t123.4690 @giusepperagazzini @emilia.zagnoli @nino__st

What does Set Design look like when it goes global? At the Winter Games Opening Ceremony, NABA Alumni and students, each from a different part of the world, teamed up with @balichwonderstudio , the Milan-based creative force behind some of the biggest live ceremonies on the planet. They moved as one crew across props, costumes, scenography and live direction — handling real materials and keeping a show this huge running flawlessly together. A full-on next-level leap from Academy to international scale, proving that Set Design doesn’t stop at traditional stages. Sometimes it throws you straight into the biggest productions on the planet. So how do you actually make that jump? They spill it all in this interview! ✨ Dive into the full conversation 🎬 Watch it on YouTube 🔗 Link in bio

Reworking a cinematic legend is no small move and our BA in Set Design students went all in! For this curricular challenge, they went straight into “Il Casanova di Federico Fellini”, stepping inside the theatrical visual world of one of Italian cinema’s most iconic directors and rebuilding a scene through a tight collab across the BA in Set Design specialisations: Make-up, Costume and Directing. From first ideas to final takes, they built everything themselves: costumes cut and constructed from scratch, ageing transformations crafted through detailed special effects make-up, direction shaped around space, light and movement. Scenography drove the composition, pushing the relationship between body and environment right to the centre of the frame. This is Set Design at NABA — collaborative, immersive and fully hands-on from start to finish! 🎬 Watch the full video 👀 And see how it all came together 🔗 Link in bio

Set design, turned into a Subsonica live concert experience! “From Blurry to Stage” is the NABA workshop that redefined what set design can look like today. During Matter of Identity 2025, students jumped into a real brief, exploring how set design goes beyond classic stage formats and becomes a powerful visual language for live concerts and large-scale events. Led by Jordan Babev, NABA lecturer and co-founder of Blearred Milano, the two-day workshop threw participants straight into an industry-style workflow. Starting from an existing stage designed by Blearred Milano, students reworked five original visual concepts for an upcoming Subsonica concert. Lights, screens, projections, text and space synced up to build immersive visuals that hype both the performance and the crowd. New tools, unfamiliar software, quick decisions — the outcome? Bold ideas and a very current take on set design! 💥 Step inside the experience 👆 Catch the video

A transformation in the making ✨ This timelapse captures the special effects make-up process that turns youth into age, revealing the power of detail, patience, and storytelling through skin. Developed by the 2nd and 3rd year of the BA in Set Design, the project reinterprets the movie “Il Casanova” by Federico Fellini through a multidisciplinary collaboration across make-up, directing, scene and prop creation, and costume design, under the guidance of Donatella Mondani, Giacomo Andrico, Anna Fumagalli, and Eva Marchetti. Stay tuned — this is just one step of the journey! 🎭

Avventura, scoperta e identità Questo è il costume di Alice realizzato per il corso di Progettazione per il costume (@set_design_naba ) per un cortometraggio su Alice nel paese delle meraviglie Il costume è stato progettato e realizzato da Federica Donati Silvia Lanfranconi (@la_lanfry ) Tang Yushan (@t123.4690 ) Fotografie di Federica Donati e Silvia Lanfranconi Fotomodella: Tang Yushan --- Adventure, discovery and identity This is Alice's costume made during the Costume design course (@set_design_naba ) for a short film about Alice in wonderland The costume was designed and made by Federica Donati Silvia Lanfranconi (@la_lanfry ) Tang Yushan (@t123.4690 ) Photography by Federica Donati and Silvia Lanfranconi Photomodel: Tang Yushan --- 冒险、探索与身份 为短片《爱丽丝梦游仙境》在服装设计课程（@set_design_naba ）中制作的爱丽丝服装 服装由以下人员设计与制作： Donati Federica Lanfranconi Silvia （@la_lanfry ） 唐菀珊（@t123.4690 ） 摄影：Donati Federica 与Lanfranconi Silvia 模特：唐菀珊 #aliceinwonderlandcostume#alicenelpaesedellemeraviglie♠️ #costumedesign#aliceinwonderland