Project work experiences in post-graduate education on color design

In this paper we expose some of the most significant color design experiences and results conducted in the Master program in Color Design & Technology, organized by Politecnico di Milano in cooperation with Associazione Italiana Colore and Università degli Studi di Milano. This Master aims to provide advanced multidisciplinary training to professionals, so as to enable them to understand and manage the technological and design issues, often across many disciplinary areas, typical of all the professional and research sectors in which the use and management of color are essential. This one-year post-graduate master program consists of three main phases: the first phase is composed of lectures on color fundamentals by different academics and professionals; the second phase, which we expose here, is composed of five specialized extended workshops about Color in Communication, Fashion, Interior, Product and Urban Design. In the last phase, the students go through an Internship period, to establish contacts between the academia and companies who work with color in the field of design, architecture, textiles and paints, among others