Prizes and Awards

QS World University Rankings® by Subject Art & Design: NABA is the Best Italian Academy of Fine Arts, in the Top 100 worldwide

In over 40 years of history, numerous awards and accolades credited NABA as a prominent institution at an international level. In 2023, for the third year in a row, NABA has been selected as the Best Italian Academy of Fine Arts in the Top 100 worldwide in Art & Design field in the QS World University Rankings® by Subject. Since 2021 it is Partner, along with the best European universities, of the interdisciplinary cultural project “New European Bauhaus”, promoted by the European Commission to build a sustainable future for the new generations. In 2024, NABA will host the Biennial powered by ELIA, European League of Institutes of the Arts — a network for exchange and professional development in higher arts education, representing over 260 members in 48 countries. From 2023 NABA is also part of Cumulus Association, the leading global association to serve art and design education and research. This underlines the recognition of the NABA’s commitment and ability to play a pivotal role among the major cultural institutions. Furthermore, over the years, the Academy was also included for its academic offer in the main sector rankings:

Selected by Frame Publishers in its Masterclass guide to the 30 best graduate schools in the world: in 2012 (MA in Design - Specialization in Product Design), in 2013 (MA in Fashion and Textile Design), in 2014 (MA in Design – Specialization in Interior Design).
Mentioned by Domus Magazine in the guide Europe’s Top 100 Schools of Architecture and Design in 2014, 2015, 2016.
Ranked in BOF – Business of Fashion – Global Fashion School Ranking 2016, in the Top 50 ranking for Undergraduate Courses (BA) and Top 25 for Graduate Courses (MA). In 2017, NABA reached again the Top 30 for Graduate Courses (MA).

2023

July - Two groups of students of the MA in Visual Design and Integrated Marketing Communication were awarded at the D&AD New Blood Awards 2023. The group composed by students Giulia Morazzo, Ilaria Rando, Valentina Rolleri, Edoardo Usai, Irene Zamboni, under the guidance of NABA Lecturers Luca Campagnoli, Giorgia Malandrino, received a Wood Pencil for the project Get Shark Confident Campaign based on the brief received by Gymshark. Michela Ciandrini, Martina Cinefra, Giulia Magnani are the students awarded with the Graphite Pencil for the project The Missing Object based on the brief received by eBay, with the same lecturers.
June - The Future scenarios course of the BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction was awarded the Menzione Comunicazione e Cultura (Communication and Culture Mention) by AIF (Associazione Italiana Formatori) Jury for the communication quality within PEF Premio Eccellenza e Formazione.
June - Design Area students were awarded two prizes at MM Award 2023 – International creative award. Sara Fesa received the Gold prize – interior design – students with her project CRESCERE INSIEME (Growing Together), Cagla Enginer the Gold prize – product design – students with the project FLUSSO and Tommaso Chiusi a special mention – “best creative is” with the project OCEAN NETS.
June - Many students and alumni of the BA in Film and Animation from both Milan and Rome campus have been selected between 13.000 filmmakers coming from 120 different countries at the prestigious Student World Impact Film Festival. The short film Miasma by alumna TianTian He has received a special mention.

June - NABA Communication and Graphic Design Area was awarded at the XXII edition of the Spot School Award, Mediterranean Creativity Festival - The Youngest Award, the international competition for students comes from the collaboration between Caritas Italiana, AIDO and other partners. The Academy students won three Bronze and the Silver School Trophy.
June - Fashion Design Area students Matteo Iervolino, Lucrezia Bruno, Laura A. Allegro, Giada Paluzzi and Gianfranco Tittarelli were selected for UNTAGGED GFW23 Catwalk Show, promoted by Graduate Fashion Week International. Matteo Iervolino’s project was also turned into an NFT.
May - The screenplay by Lucia Marinelli, MA in Creative Media Production student, won the Premio Claudio Nobis at the Nastri d'Argento 2023 edition with Ashes to Ashes – I panni sporchi si lavano nel bosco. In addition, among the finalist shorts in the Fiction section was Battima by Federico Dematté, NABA alumnus.
May - Simona Kyosovska, alumna of Fashion Design Area was selected within the semi-finalists of Redress Design Award 2023, for her menswear collection VISION HOARDER.
March - In 2023, for the third year in a row, NABA has been selected as the Best Italian Academy of Fine Arts in the Top 100 worldwide in Art & Design field in the QS World University Rankings® by Subject.

2022

December - Alice Pacor and Mario Penxho, students of the BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction, won the contest launched by Blue Note with their proposal for the renovation of the brand’s historical logo.
November - Giorgia Bucci, student of the BA in Film and Animation, wins the Student Award of the Milano Design Film Festival (MDFF), the contest inspired by Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries — the 23rd International Exhibition of Triennale Milano, with her project Gravity. Seven projects created by NABA students were selected and screened during the festival.
November - POP! Abitare, voce del verbo Popolare, the editorial project born from the collaboration with MM Spa, is part of the ADI Design Index 2022 edition. It and a related video were among the selected works, research and design products on show at the ADI Design Museum in Milan. The exhibition also took place in the ADI Design Index exhibition in Rome at the Istituto Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani.
November – The students of the BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction were awarded many prizes in the 2022 edition of the epda JUNIOR AWARD. Sara Bellesini, Serge Forgione and Riccardo Furini, who won the epda JUNIOR GOLD AWARD 2022 with Moore. Students Alessandro Biglioli, Tea Bertoldi and Federico Gonzalez Galicia got the SILVER AWARD with Organic Brothers. While the BRONZE AWARD went to Giulia Menini, Nicolò Moscatelli, Christian Napolitano, Simone Pastori thanks to Ambreous. Special mentions went to Ackua by Thomas Borroni, Zoe Bortoli, Luca Gisonno and to Kleen by Denise Cattolico, Laura Sparacio and Eleonora Tucci.
November – Three audiovisual projects realised within fashion Design Area were selected at the 14th edition of A Shaded View On Fashion Film (ASVOFF), the festival dedicated to fashion film, taking place from 10 to 13 of November 2022 in Paris.
October – The students of the MA in User Experience Design Sara Buongiorno, Sara Gambino, Michele Lomonaco and Elena Migliorino received the special mention for their project Mamma Mia at Digital Innovation Days Italy 2022.
October - Giovanna Pia Montrone, student of the BA Graphic Design and Art Direction, won the VIAPADOVAMONDO contest, a competition born from an initiative of Tunnel Boulevard to regenerate a railway passage in Via Padova in Milan.
September - Liliana Ray, Bazzurro and Eleonora Arcusio, students of the BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction, were awarded at WPP Talent Award 2022 with their project, created for Bridgestone.

September - Simone Bozzelli, alumnus of the BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts, has realized the Maneskin’s video clip I Wanna Be Your Slave awarded as the Best Alternative Video at MTV Music Awards.
July - At the 18^th edition of the Who Is On Next? 2022, the contest promoted by Altaroma and Vogue Italia three NABA alumni, Riccardo Scaburri, Alice Curti and Alberto Petillo, took the third position with their emerging brand Lessico Familiare.
July - The filmmaker and NABA lecturer Yuri Ancarani with Atlantide got the Special Mention for his visionary talent at the Extra Explore film festival takes place thanks to the collaboration between Fondazione Cinema per Roma, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, NABA and the Departments of History Anthropology Religions Art History, Media and Performing Arts of Sapienza Università di Roma.
June - Important achievements for NABA at the XXVII ADI Compasso d'Oro. Andrea Alice Cappelli, alumna of the BA in Design with her thesis project, SEI UNO - 61 elementi per il tuo essere unico, got the Mention to the Targa Giovani. The lecturer Claudio Larcher and Massimo Martignoni curator of the Design from the Alps 1920-2020 catalog with Ursula Schnitzer received the Honourable Mention.
June - NABA Communication and Graphic Design Area scoops the XXI edition of the Spot School Award, Mediterranean Creativity Festival - The Youngest Award, the international competition for students comes from the collaboration between RAI Pubblicità, Caritas Italiana, Legambiente, SIET and other partners. The Academy students won four Bronze and two Gold medals. Their success earned NABA the Golden School Trophy for the overall quality of entered campaigns.
May - Inchei, the short film by Federico Demattè, student of the BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts, has been selected among the finalist at CORTI d’ARGENTO 2022.
April - Also for the 2022 edition and for the second year in a row, QS World University Rankings® by Subject named NABA as the best Academy of Fine Arts in Italy and among the top 100 universities in the world in Art & Design field.
February - NABA won the Erasmus+ KA210, one of the small-scale Partnerships in school education, launched on March 2021 by the European Commission, with the project Augmented Reality multi-user virtual spaces connected to Virtual Studio set within NABA campus in Milan and its innovative technologies. Presented together with Belgrade SAE Institute, partner institution of the initiative, the research project was curated by NABA Research Centre and Innovation Hub.
January - NABA Fashion Design Area students Valentina Barbaro and Lia Ngujen have been selected among the finalists of MMF Milan Music Fashion, contest promoted by Piattaforma Sistema Formativo Moda.

2021

December - Several prize for NABA BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction students at the epda JUNIOR AWARD 2021, the prize dedicated to sustainable packaging design. Rebecca Taveggia, Valeria Turati and Filippo Tondini with the GLOB project won the epda JUNIOR GOLD AWARD 2021. Ligui Hu, Samantha San Felice, Margherita Soresina were awarded the SILVER AWARD with their project KEIN, and Desirée Pintimalli, Noemi Pelligra, Davide Pedrazzini were awarded the BRONZE AWARD for “BIT”. Denise Cattolico, Laura Sparacio and Eleonora Tucci’s project “DELA” obtained the Special Mention.
December - The thesis project Circe's spell by Alessandro Montali, NABA BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts student, has been selected at Torino Film Festival, within the section "Italiana.Corti". In the same section, Simone Bozzelli NABA Alumnus won with the short movie Giochi.
November – Ambra Castagnetti and Gaia De Megni, NABA Visual Arts Area students, are finalists of the first edition of the Pini Art Prize, a prize promoted by the Adolfo Pini Foundation with the patronage of the MIC - Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Milan.
November - Francesco Rogante, NABA BA in Design student with the project Macchine Sonore has been selected for Targa Giovani by ADI Design Index, the yearbook published by ADI Italian Association for Industrial Design that collects the best of Italian design, selected by the ADI Permanent Design Observatory.
November - Ludovica Anversa, former student of the BA in Painting and Visual Arts, has won the tenth edition of the Premio Fabbri per le Arti Contemporanee in the section Arte emergente.
November – The NABA Design Award 2020 catalogue, edited by Claudio Larcher, NABA Design Area Leader, with the graphic design by Atto, has been selected for the Design for the communication category by ADI Design Index, the yearbook published by ADI Italian Association for Industrial Design that collects the best of Italian design, selected by the ADI Permanent Design Observatory.
September - The student Federico Dematté with its short film Inchei has won the Best Short Film Award and Best Director Award at Venice International Film Critic Award during the Venice International Film Festival.
September - Il Giornale dell’Arte had included in the Power 100, the list of the top player of the contemporary art system: Marco Scotini, Visual Arts Department Head, Ilaria Bonacossa, Course Advisor Leader of the Master in Contemporary Art Markets, Francesco Zanot, Course Advisor Leader of Master in Photography and Visual Design.
August - The students of the Communication and Graphic Design Area were decorated at Spot School Award, Mediterranean Creativity Festival - The Youngest Award, the international contest dedicated to communication and advertising students, curated by RAI Pubblicità, Caritas Italiana, Legambiente e Centri NeMO. Three Silver Prizes and three Bronze Prizes were awarded; moreover NABA obtained a particular recognition for the number of projects awarded.
August - Gabriele Sassone, writer and NABA lecturer of Critical Writing, with the novel Uccidi l’Unicorno (Il Saggiatore) is the winner of the XXVIII edition of the Literary Prize Giuseppe Berto.

June - The design projects developed by the former students of the BA in Design, Borgomezzavalle: Il paese degli Specchi by Miriam Re Cecconi and Nicole Eleonora Pizzi and Sei Uno - 61 elementi per il tuo essere unico by Alice Andrea Cappelli, were selected by ADI Design Index, the yearbook published by ADI Italian Association for Industrial Design that collects the best of Italian design, selected by the ADI Permanent Design Observatory.
June - NABA Master in Creative Advertising students, Mariasole Barberio, Sophie Resnik, Leticia Pereira, have been awarded with a Merit mention for the entry project Burger King - Augmented Regality presented at The Young Ones 2021 awards.
June - Carla Giaccio, alumna of the NABA BA in Painting and Visual Arts, has won the DucatoPrize Academy Art Award.
May - The former students of the BA in Set Design, Chiara Calvi, Gaia Bozzi, Martina Sala and Nicola Di Lollo, alumnus of the BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts, have realised the video for the mezzo-soprano Andrea Nino; the video obtained the first prize in the Opera category at the SOI Fiorenza Cedolins Virtual Opera Competition.
May - Camilla Alberti, alumna of the BA in Painting and Visual Arts and of MA, was among the nine artists invited by Hyundai from all over Europe to create unique pieces of art inspired by the design of the new Hyundai BAYON.
May - Marco Antelmi and Jacopo Rinaldi, the ex-students of the MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, are among the 70 artists from 21 different countries selected for the Biennale of Young European and Mediterranean Artists titled The School of Waters! organised by BJCEM – Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée hosted by the Republic of San Marino. Moreover, alumnus Nicolas Vamvouklis is a member of the international scientific committee which curated MEDITERRANEA 19.

May – The second volume of NABA Insights editorial series published by Quodlibet, Design a spoon to change the city, by Claudio Larcher and Valentina Dalla Costa, is the Winner in Education, Teaching Aid and Training Content Design Category at A'Design Award and Competition.
May – NABA BA in Painting and Visual Arts alumnus, Tomaso De Luca, is the winner of the second edition of the MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE the important award that allows the collection of the MAXXI museum in Rome to be expanded with new acquisitions.
March - Named in the 2021 edition of the prestigious QS World University Rankings® by Subject as the Best Italian Academy of Fine Arts and among the only 3 Italian in the top 100 of the best universities worldwide in Art&Design field.
February - Emanuele Lomello, Course Leader of the BA in Creative Technologies, won the second prize with the short film Birds of a Feather at the international Virtual Production for Storytellers challenge, launched by the Unreal Engine and ArtStation; Giovanni Visai, lecturer of the same BA, was awarded with t an Honorable Mention for the project Return.
January - Tobia Faverio, alumnus of the Academic Master in Photography and Visual Design is among the ten finalists in Student category at Sony World Photography Awards.

2020

December - NABA Alumni of Design Area have won several prizes at Ro Plastic Prize 2020, the contest conceived by Rossana Orlandi within the international project RO Guiltless Plastic.

For the Packaging Solutions category, Pietro Gaeli, Simone Caronni and Paolo Stefano Gentile have won the second prize with the Peel Saver project, ecological packaging for the street food; for the Industrial Design Category, Filippo Zonno won the third prize with the project RE-BOE born from the idea to recover e reuse the plastic from the sea.
December - Emanuele Cantò, NABA student of the MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies, won Jury Prize of Concorso Prospettive 2020 on occasion of Filmmaker Fest with his short movie Io mi fermo qui.
December - The students of the BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction were the winners of the epda JUNIOR AWARD 2020 dedicated to good design and functional packaging. Winners (ex aequo): Catalin Cazac, Alessandro Fera and Camilla Fracassi with their project for a re-usable food delivery packaging; the team of Leon Accurso, Giovanni Caglio and Panpan Wang, and the team of Valentina Aquilini, Alessandra Negri and Corinna Parravicini with a concept for a mask packaging, re-usable.
December - Cantica21, the public call for Italian contemporary art, launched by both MAECI e MiBACT, selected 5 NABA students and alumni to be part of the 45 artists whose works of art will be presented in its exhibition, which will be displayed through foreign countries’ Italian Cultural Institutes, Embassies and Consulates. In the under 35 section was selected: Giacomo Segantin, student of the MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies; the ex-students Camilla Alberti, Irene Coppola, Giovanna Repetto and Eleonora Roaro. Into the section Cantica21 dedicated to the poet Dante Alighieri, the artist and NABA Lecturer Marinella Senatore has been selected among the 5 winners.
December - The students of the Communication and Graphic Design Area were decorated at Spot School Award, Mediterranean Creativity Festival - The Youngest Award, winning: Gran Prix Città di Salerno-RAI Pubblicità prize, a Golden prize, a Silver and a Bronze prize in the Press Section, as well as a Bronze prize in the TV Section. NABA also won the Golden School Trophy, awarded to the Academy for the overall quality of the submitted campaigns.
November - The students of the Communication and Graphic Design Area were awarded at ADCI Awards 2020, the prize promoted by Art Directors Club Italiano, with 3 Bronze prizes:
Riccardo Rossi, student of the BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction, for the Design category; Sanjana Kadam, student of the MA in Communication Design for the Classic category; Sarah Alexander, Andrea Cornali, Deniz Eroglu, Francesco Fanizza, Lianne Van Lieropfor, students of the Academic Master in Creative Advertising for the Experience category.
November - NABA student Giuseppe Rocca with the project Basket Chair was awarded among the four finalist projects of the competition Una seduta per i musei promoted by MuseoCity with the patronage of ADI. The competition asked to design a mobile seat to be placed in the halls of museums to make them more welcoming for visitors.
September - Lucia Grande, student of the BA in Fashion Design, was awarded with the special prize for the category YKK Italia, for her outfit “Everyone sees what they know”, at the 6th edition of Milano Moda Graduate, the event organised by Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, dedicated to Italian fashion school excellence.
September - Matteo Brasili, NABA MA in Product Design student, with his Final Project Cloud of Sea, is the Italian Winner of Dyson Award 2020, international contest that this year have been focused on sustainability issue. Cloud of Sea is an innovative user-friendly tool, adaptable to any type of boat, which encourages and facilitates seafarers interested in the health of the marine world, to remove microplastics that contaminate the waters of our planet.
August - Ettore Favini, artist and lecturer of the NABA Visual Arts Department, has been awarded with Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2020-2021, international award titled to the American abstract Pollock and his partner Lee Krasner, the foremost abstract expressionist painters.
The artist has been awarded for his constant research regarding political issues, such as borders, migrations and the daily micro-stories that form the basis for official history.
August - Isabel Mazzolini, student of the BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts, was decorated with the Audience Award for her short movie Pillow at the 60th San Francisco State University Film Finals, during an international exchange period she spent there.
July - NABA has won several prizes at D&AD New Blood Awards 2020 resulting among the most internationally awarded academies; NABA obtained:
Yellow Pencil with the project Burger King's Burger Pooling developed by Andrea Cornali, Sarah Alexander, Francesco Fanizza, Deniz Eroglu, Lianne Van Lierop, students of the Academic Master in Creative Advertising;
Wood Pencil with the project The water path designed by Anna Carolina Nicoletti, Alessandro Silva de Oliveira, Luca Castelli, Carlo Antonio Romano and Giulia Tofi, MA in Communication Design students;
Wood Pencil with the project The King Chat made by Leonardo Pedergnani, Fabio Colombo, Antonio Mazzei and Rui Hu, MA in Communication Design students.
June - Jingyi Zhao, Li Shao, Selenay Geyik, Yuqing Li, MA in Interior Design students, have won the second prize at Accor Design Award 2020, international contest promoted by Accor Group, the world leader in the hotel. The students presented the Crossing Road project reinterpreting the orient express room in the wagon car.
June - Two Alumni of the BA in Painting and Visual Arts have been awarded at Ducato Prize 2020, conceived to promote a dialogue between contemporary art and the historic territory of the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza. Guendalina Cerruti is the Winner of the Contemporary Art Prize; Byron Gago is the winner of the Academy Art Prize.
May - Beatrice Bocconi, student of the BA in Fashion Design, has been selected as one of the finalists of Redress Design Award 2020, one of the most important sustainable fashion design competitions, for her project Felt in the streets, a capsule collection based on zero-waste and upcycling.
May - Margherita Palli, Course leader of the BA in Set Design, has designed the sets of the Chovanščina by Modest Musorgskij, conducted by Valery Gergiev and directed by Mario Martone which have won the Best production prize for 2019 for the 39th edition of the Franco Abbiati award.
March - Giacomo Manzotti, NABA lecturer and alumnus of the BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts, with the experimental animated short film The Immortality of the Crab was selected at Ann Arbor Film Festival, the oldest and one of the most prestigious experimental film festival in the world.

2019

Dicembre – Alessandro Spalletti, studente del Triennio di Graphic Design & Art Direction ha vinto il contest internazionale ‘Olympac’, Olimpiadi del Packaging Design, a Tokyo, con il progetto ‘Doggy’, un packaging innovativo sul tema del Pet Food
November - Francesco Magni and Silvia Sciotta, students of the BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction, took first and second place at “Visioni d’impresa” contest, in the context of the project “Genio e Impresa” promoted by Assolombarda and devoted to Leonardo
November - Perla Sardella, alumna of the BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts, won the Perspective Prize 2019 at Filmmaker Festival of Milan with her documentary "Prendere la Parola"
November - Gaia De Megni, MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies alumna, awarded the Lydia Prize 2019 at Lazzaretto, Milano, with the project “San Carlo”
November - Roberto Valdivia, BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts student, won the “Jury Special Mention Prize” at Aquerò Film Festival, in the Short Films Contest, with his film "¿Querido amigo hoy a donde vamos"
October – The project “Terra” by NABA has been included in the category Social Design in the 2019 ADI Design Index, the yearbook published by ADI Italian Association for Industrial Design that collects the best of Italian design, selected by the ADI Permanent Design Observatory
October – Marco Antelmi and Camilla Alberti, MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies students, are among six under 35 artists selected to join the residence “Neuro-Revolution”, undertaken by Air Trieste, with support of MiBACT and SIAE within the program “Per Chi Crea”
October – Edoardo Trombin and Giorgia Salamanca, BA in Design students, have been awarded, with their thesis project "Ago", the Critics Award at the 23rd edition of Targa Bonetto, with patronage of ADI and Fondazione ADI Collezione Compasso d’Oro
October - Jacopo Martinotti, NABA BA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies student, is among the ten young artists winners of Premio AccadeMibac, Premio per i giovani artisti dalle Accademie di Belle Arti, promoted and produced by MiBACT – Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea e Rigenerazione Urbana, in collaboration with la Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma
October - Francesca Antolini, NABA student, awarded, in the section “Scenografia teatrale, cinematografica e televisiva” at XIV edition of PNA, Premio Nazionale delle Arti at FISAD, il Festival Internazionale Scuole d’Arte e Design “Building a new world”, promoted by MIUR. Jury’s special mention to the student Riccardo Rossi, in the section “Arti Grafiche” for his project “Sector”
October – Voyage Ice Cream by Alessia Pala (BA in Graphic Design) is the winning project at EPDA Award, Category Students (Glasgow, October, 10). Second prize ex aequo to Marta Deias and Marina Benetti and third prize to Fabio Aurelio. Special mention to Alessia Bompani, awarded by Stora Enso
October - NABA students Hyemin Min (BA in Interior Design) and Soyeon Lee (BA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies) have been awarded at Jumpthegap Roca International Design Contest in Barcelona, with the project “Tik-Tap” for a sustainable water use
September – Thomoulla Chrysostomou, NABA BA in Fashion Design alumna, has been awarded the Absolute Prize Creativity offered by Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana and the Knitwear Prize offered by Benetton Group at International Lab of Mittelmoda - Fashion Award 2019
July – Marta Solari, BA in Set Design alumna, designed scenery and costumes for the play “Una vera tragedia”, winner of Premio Scenario 2019
April – NABA alumnus Ruggero Magrì (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) winner of the SOTA Catalyst Award 2019
March – Italo Rota, NABA Scientific Advisor, is among the winners of the international design contest for the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai with CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, Italo Rota Building Office, F&M Ingegneria and Matteo Gatto & Associati
March - Michael Dell’Oro, Giorgio Freni and Dario Pasqualini (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) winning project #SHOUT YOUR MESSAGE, contest of Brand Design - John Richmond
January – NABA is the winner of the contest “Vesti il Parco Archeologico del Colosseo” in collaboration with Altaroma. First Prize for NABA students Sahadya Aisyah Agus, Catherine Charista Jayadihrja and Arianna Monticelli (BA in Fashion Design)

2018

December - Giuditta Zorzi, Sara Cillerai, Marinela Lleshi, Simone Citron, Isabella Petricca (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) winning team of the contest in collaboration with Arctic Paper with the project “Bittersweet agenda”
December - Martina Guandalini, Francesca Liantonio, Maddalena Pesaresi, Enrico Rossin, Emanuele Rotoli (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) won the San Benedetto contest “I Love You’’
December – Chiara Versaico, Matteo Varisco, Lorenzo Rogante (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) won the Lampo contest
November – Special mention at Dreamers 02 contest of Francesca Paladino (BA in Fashion Design). NABA joined the contest “La Camicia Bianca Del Futuro” in collaboration with the Gianfranco Ferré Foundation
November – Students Matteo Varisco, Elisabetta Vedovato, Chiara Versaico, Lorenzo Vivaldini (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction) won the First Prize at EPDA Student Award Future Packaging
November – 3^rd Prize for the BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction students in the STUDENTS category for the annual ADCI Art Directors Club Italiano. The two winning projects: “Sla” by Simone Citron and Giuditta Zorzi and “App” by Daniele Franchi, Elena Casartelli and Denise Sagucio
November – Elena Andrei, Giulia Barillaro, Danilo Casile, Paola Convertino, Mohamed El Habak, Giulia Miggiano, (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) winners of the Pigna Mumble, “Back to school project”
October – Matteo Brasili (BA in Design) First Prize at the 22^nd edition Bonetto Plaque with his thesis project “Louis”
October – Students Lorenzo Waller and Nicole Giavaldi (BA in Design) First Prize “Design per la cultura e lo sviluppo” at the 13^th edition of Premio Nazionale delle arti, design section, with their thesis project “Cora, barca per il tempo libero”
October – Special mention “Design per i diritti” at the 13^th edition of Premio Nazionale delle arti, section design, with the “Design is Blind” project curated by Giovanni Dipilato (BA in Design)
October - Matteo Brasili (BA in Design) Bonetto Plaque ADI Design Index 2018 with his thesis project “Louis”
October – Projects “Cora, barca per il tempo libero” (Lorenzo Waller and Nicole Giavaldi, BA in Design) and “Design is Blind” (Giovanni Dipilato, BA in Design) have been selected for the International Ocean Art Festival 2018 Contest that consists on the exhibition of the selected projects in South Korea and in Shanghai
October - Elia Strepparola, Felipe Acevedo, Kristina Hernes, Camila Rivero Lake (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) have realized the project selected by Zelig
September – Andrea Piva (BA in Fashion Design), First Prize in the Manufacturing Technique category at the “Fashioning Sustainability” event, organized by Freudenberg Performance Materials
August – First Prize for best dramaturgy and best direction in the Contemporary Theater season 2017/2018 for the performance “Buon anno ragazzi” by Francesco Brandi, 14^th edition of “Premio Nazionale Franco Enriquez anno 2018”. Set design realized by NABA BA in Set Design professors Francesca Pedrotti and Alice De Bortoli, with students Francesca Antolini, Giulia Mazzoleni and Marika D’Abronzo
July - Maria Capellaro (BA in Fashion Design), Lectra Award in occasion of the international contest launched by ISKO
July - Students Diletta Fachechi and Giacomo Fagandini (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction) winners of the 11^th contest of social communication Socially Correct 2018 announced by “Paolo Ettorre – Socially Correct” Association, in collaboration with Direzione Generale per lo Studente, the integration and participation of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, on the cyber-bullying theme
June - Angelica Massa, Gabriele Muselli, Nicolò Pavin, Mattia Pavin, Jennifer Gazzignato Fabiana Natali Eleonora Valenitini (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) finalists of Premio Nazionale delle Arti 2018 with the Social Campaign for LILA Milano Onlus
May - Students Erica Caimi, Federico Croci, Raffaella Sabella, Alessia Tempestini (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction) won the contest “Embrace the future” launched by EPDA (European Packaging Design Association) in collaboration with Drupa Fair 2020 @Messe Düsseldorf
May - Sara Cillerai and Marinela Lleshi (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction), Premio Pollicione d’oro 2018 al XXVI Pellittieri’s Day
May - Valentina Baronchelli, Sara Berardi, Federico Croci, Giorgia Di Lernia (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) won the project for Centro Style
May - Martina Guandalini, Francesca Liantonio, Maddalena Pesaresi, Enrico Rossin, Emanuele Rotoli (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) winners of the San Benedetto contest
April - Rebecca Avalli, Domenico Carnimeo, Simone Citron, Giuditta Zorzi (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) won the contest Green Future, Porsche 2018
January – Students Simona Pedone, Allegra Bertazzi, Naomi Oke, Virginia Mio, Madeline Stone, Nicolas Marcantonio (BA in Fashion Design) and Raffaella Tarantola (MA in Fashion and Textile Design) are the winners of the Colorama Awards by Filmar, with the project “Aesthetic of Beauty”

2017

December- Luca Toscano, Giulia Surdo and Daniel Alexander Von Johnson (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) winners of the San Benedetto contest
November - Karen Andrea Lanza, Giulia Goi, Nicole Dova, Sarah Fratellani and Giorgia Mattiato (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction) winners of the Pubblicità Progresso contest
November- Sara Dresti (BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts) won the Special Prize at Torino Film Festival 2018, “COL TEMPO” (Italy/2017)
October- Emre Kolukisa (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction) and Isabella Courtney (Erasmus student) winning the First Prize in the Student category EPDA Packaging Award 2017
September- Sara Monacchi, Andrea Pelino and Luca Toscano (BA in Design), First Prize of the 12^th edition of Premio Nazionale delle arti, design section, with the “Gilfo” project
September- Pietro Codazzi, Maria Laura Martinez and Mariana Gaspar Ferreira (MA in Design – Product Design) winners of the contest DECO - Design Competition Condivisione, within the collaboration of Regione Lombardia and Unicamere Lombardia, with ADI - Associazione per il Disegno Industriale and Fiera Milano
September- Students Tarek El Shishiny, Windy Huang, Alessandro Erik Adorno and Marco Fiecconi (Master in Creative Advertising), 2^nd Prize in the Student category at ADCI Awards 2017 contest
July - Giulia Masciangelo (BA in Fashion Design) Special Project Swarovski Award: contest established by ISKO I-SKOOL
July - Andrea Morelli (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction) 2^nd Prize at Arte e Pelle 2017 contest conceived by Louisiane S.p.a.
June - Alessandro Elifani, Filippo Fratta Pasini, Stefano Brunati, Leonardo Profeti, Carlo Di Primio, Andrea Agnisetta and Amos Vespero (BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts) selected as five winners of the IMRA contest - Italian Mixed Reality Association
June- Vashish Soobah, Elizabeth Cinalli, Leonardo Canzi, Alessandro Lazzari, Diana Borinato (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) winners of the Elba Active contest for Dove Academy
May - Emanuele Cantò (BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts), Web Award, Corto in Accademia, Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata, “LE NUBI” (Italy/2017)
May - Giorgia Miele, Mamata Javkar, Poojitha Nandakumar, Luigi Morradel (Master in Creative Advertising) awarded in Young Ones Social Brief Competition
May - Austero Sandro and Bentivoglio Danilo (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction), Premio Pollicione d’oro 2017 at XXV Pellittieri’s Day
May - Chiara Marradi, Jessica Anselmini, Silvia Anesi (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) winners of “Stories of Milan” Porsche 2017 contest
May - Andrea Morelli (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction) 2^nd at contest Arte e Pelle – H.C.P. Hèrmes Cuirs Précieux - Louisiane Spa
March - Simone Bozzelli, Best Short Film Award, L'Aquila LGBT Film Festival, L'Aquila, “LORIS STA BENE” (Italy/2017)
March - Luca Ariaudo, Fabio Caruso, Alessandro Cassera, Francesco Fanizza, Leonardo Losio and Andrea Zicolillo (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction) winners of Imago Mundi contest
March - Iresha Warnakulasuriya and Giada Frassetto, (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction) awarded during the ceremony of Premio AIF Adriano Olivetti for their thesis’s project “Naturally Unconventional”
February - Simone Marangi (BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts), 3^rd Prize for Visioni Acquatiche, Visioni Italiane - Officinema (festival) with the short movie “LU PISCATORI” (Italy/2017)

2016

February - Margherita Palli (BA in Theatre Design Course Leader) with Marco Cristini, First Prize, Surface Design Award 2016 – Light and Surface Interior category
March - Cem Yilmaz (MA in Product Design), Third Prize, Olivetti Design Contest 2016
Marzo - Rea Jabara (Master in Creative Advertising), Gold Prize, Young Glory
May - Andrea Pedrina, Marco Siccardi, Barbara Magazzù, Federica Fulloni, Paolo di Mauro, Renè Domenico Pangallo (MA in Communication Design), Silver Pencil e Honor Mention, One Show – The Young Ones
May - Silvia Cantucci, Zeynep Gokcek, Nur Sezen (MA in Interior Design), First Prize for the project "More or Less" promoted by Accor Hotels - IBIS
May - Lucia Vitiello, Ilaria Bilancia, Xinyi Zhao (BA in Fashion Design), respectively 1°, 2° and 3° prize for the contest "Tempo Libero trascorso tra parco e città" promoted by I Pincopallino. They will be hosted at Pitti Bimbo 83
May - Rita Mathe, Pablo Valls Pascual, Joan Guivernau Bartra (MA in Product Design), Winners of the contest "Il drago verde si veste" promothed by MM S.p.a. Company
May - Michele D’Aurizio e Matteo Lucchetti (MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies) selected as curators for the 16° Edition of La Quadriennale d'Arte, event promoted by La Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma and Azienda Speciale Palaexpo
May - Miao Ran (MA in Fashion and Textile Design), selected as young talent by Giorgio Armani to be hosted in Armani/Teatro
June - Valentina Panichelli and Luana Pizzi (BA in Fashion Design), winners of the contest "Create with Arena" promoted by Arena for the design concept of the swimming suit wore by Tania Cagnotto during Rio Olympic Games
June - Matteo Bonacci and Alice Giulianini (BA in Design), First Prize for the project Special Stage promoted by Officine Buone
June - Valentina Candido e Elisa Ripamonti (BA in Graphic Design & Art Direction), First Prize for the visual merchandising contest promoted by Testanera
July - Martina Devicienti, Lectra (Licenza Modaris and Diamino) and Missoni (3 months intership) awards during NABA Final Fashion Show hosted in Campus
July - Sahra Masrour (BA in Design) and Stefano Baldini (MA in Product Design) respectively selected for the projects Hobuca and The Smart Fridge during Audi Elevator Pitch
July - Andrea Violante, Meeratchata Rujinarong and Yi ting Chiang (MA in Product Design), third prize for the "Velasca Progetto Design – Idee Sotto La Torre" contest promoted by Unipol Sai
July - Luigi Lombardi e Chiara Leonardi (MA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts), respectively selected fot the short films "dodici pagine" and "Alice" during the 31° Settimana Internazionale della critica at the 73° Venezia Film Festival
July - Giorgia Tronconi and Giulia Premia (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction), selelected for the contest Socially Correct promoted by Saatchi & Saatchi
July - Sandi Djoulfian (Master in Creative Advertising), Silver Award in the Student Category for the SCA (Summit Creative Award) by SIA (Summit International Award)

2015

January - The BA in Fashion Design students selected for Première Vision, international fair dedicated to fashion and fabrics
February - Sonia Mongillo (BA in Fashion Design), finalist for the event "Vision To Come" promoted by Calzedonia. Her projects showcased in Triennale
February - Giovanni Caccamo (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction), winner of Categoria Giovani Sanremo 2015
March - Deyse Cottini (BA in Fashion Design) selected to take part to the Milan Fashion Week durang the event "Next generation" promoted by Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana
March - Margherita Palli (BA in Theatre Design Course Leader) winner of the prize Master of Scenography at Schweizer Theaterpreise 2015
April - Enzo Lo Re (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction), winner of the "Rewind Video Challenge" contest. Participation at ArtFest
April - Riccardo Scaburri (BA in Fashion Design), winner of the "Sportswear" contest by Max Mara
April - Teresa Maorais Ribeiro (MA in Fashion and Textile Design) winner of the Tosca Blu contest for the bag design dedicated to Expo 2015
April - MA in Communication Design projects exhibited during FuoriSalone for the event L'arte del Luppolo promoted by Birrificio Angelo Poretti
June - Cecilia Benassi, Alessia Nespoli, Veronica Galante, Francesco Munari, Tiziana Pesenti, Elisa Picchi, Erica Pizzetti, Riccardo Vecchi and Xie Shiyun (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction) winners of the Fluid contest by Valverde-Spumador
June - Francesco De Carli (BA in Fashion Design) winner of the Milano Moda Graduate promoted by Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana. Interniship at Missoni
September - Federico Di Corato (BA in Media Design Multimedia Arts) selected by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities for the funding of his film "La Baracca"
November - Perla Sardella and Alessia Zampieri (BA in Media Design Multimedia Arts) selected to take part to the 33° Torino Film Festival with their short films "Comfort Zone" and "Rite of Passage"

2014

February - Alex Okune (MA in Fashion and Textile Design), winners of the Pandora Prize for the contest "Moments in Design"
May - Valeria Shapak (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction), winner of the contest "I Food Good" promoted by EPDA - European Packaging Design Association
May - Giuseppe Salviulo (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction), best project selected by Sony Mobile for the Xperia Design Week
June - Alessandro Manzi (BA in Fashion Design), italian winner of the contest "Here for Good" promoted by Laureate Universities
September - Federico Di Corato and Alessandro De Leo (BA in Media Design e Multimedia Arts), selected to participate to Milano Film Festival with their short film "La Baracca"
October - Maria Pecchioli (MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies), her film "Lei disse si" screened in the Italian cinemas
November - Giulia Pellegrini (BA in Painting and Visual Arts), winner of the Nescafé Dolce Gusto Prize during the contest #35ModernArt promoted by Nescafé® Dolce Gusto®

2013

June - Gianmaria Cerutti, Yoogin Kim and Marco Imperiale (BA in Painting and Visual Arts) winners of the contest “Dove c’è pasta c’è…” promoted by Barilla e Young&Rubicam
June - Valeria Querini (MA in Communication Design), winner of the contest promoted by MIUR for the logo design of the Unesco Third World Confernce on artistic education
September - Micol Ottina and Ilgin Utin (BA in Fashion Design), finalists for the contest "Foot Rockers" promoted by Rolling Stone magazine. Their project exposed at Micam
September - Beatrice Bonato (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction), winner of the Lantieri Prize for the wine label of the Franciacorta DOCG Lantieri Riserva
September - Riccardo Bernasconi (BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts), finalist during Venice Film Festival with his film "Death for A Hunicorn"
October - Gizelle Hetland and Mariaflavia Buzzita (BA in Fashion Design), winner respectively of the first and second prize of the Fashion Warriors contest promoted by Linea Pelle
October - The BA in Fashion Design students, winners of the ComON Fashion Talents contest promoted by Unindustria Como

2012

May - Laura Marin (BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction) winner of the “Lipton Ice Tea Limited Edition Contest 2012” promoted by Lipton Ice Tea
July - Giancarlo Petriglia (BA in Fashion Design) winner of Who's on next Accessori Award 2012
September - Andrea Segato and Viviane Yazdani (BA in Design) winner of the contest "Orange vous confie le clés – Concours jeunes designers #2" promoted by Orange (Telecom Francia)
November - 8 winner projects and 2 special mentions for the BA in Design students partecipating to the contest "Un designer per le imprese" promoted by Camera di Commercio di Milano, Provincia di Milano e Material Connexion. The project exposed at Triennale Design Museum. Winner Projects: “Bastard Upgrade” by Matteo Bruschi, Pierleone Loreti and Nicolau Dos Santos for Comvert; “Amelia” by Valentina Di Rosa and Valentina Fontana for Davsar Design; “Folia” by Stella Orlandino, for Opella; “SPA” by Giovanni Busetti, for Rogari; “Cantuccio Urbano” by Sara Ricciardi, for Warli; “Filo Rosso” by Alessandra Rota, Chiara Vuono and Carlo Altera for Rossociliegia; “Ruggero” by Michele Bianconcini, Michele Favale and Astrid Luglio, for ComfTech; “Phytolife” by Chiara Martella and Francesca Mazzari, for Terraneo. Jury special mentions: “I do robot” by Luca Arosio and Paolo Nava in the Innovation and Design category; ; “Bastard Upgrade” by Matteo Bruschi, Pierleone Loreti and Nicolau Dos Santos in the Aesthetic Languages category
November - The BA in Graphic Design and Art Direction students together with the MA in Communication Design students winners og the Best of European Design and Advertising 2012 promoted by ADCI - Art Directors Club Italiano

2011 - 2010

June 2011 - Marcella Foschi, Ornella Zaza, Alice Gemignani, Francesca Colleoni winners of the D&AD International Students Award 2011
November 2011 - Mirco Fragomena and Sara Ricciardi together with Jacopo Sterlocchi (Design students) respectively winners of second and third prizes of the contest "Un designer per le imprese" promoted by Camera di Commercio di Milano, Provincia di Milano and Material Connexion
June 2010 - Olga Bukhalova (MA in Communication Design), winner of the D&AD Student Awards 2010 (Bronze Prize)
July 2010 - Maddalena Selvini and Michele Sterchele (BA in Design) winners of the first prize of the contest "Un designer per le imprese" promoted by Camera di Commercio di Milano, Provincia di Milano and Material Connexion for the Brednest project developed for Industreal. The other winners: For EBI, Michele Bianconcini and Arjeta Lesaj with the project SSSplin; for My Special Guest, Elisa Tremolada and Alice Barki with Shopping Angel Bag; for PRM Design Lorenzo Polo and Francis Leo Tabios with Condividimi; for Eurotubi Graziano Carbone, Paola De Marini and Nicolò Gerin with Spring Free; for Olimar legno Francesca Nigro, Elisabetta Sapia and William Raffredi with Quanto basta; for Momo Design Simone Scalia and Erika Zorzi with Leaf bag; for DZ sas Clara Brusetti and Monica Candido with Bou House; for Universal Selecta Nicolò Previati and Matteo Sangalli with Di- Vision; for Lineapelle Elena Atzei, Silvia De Bellis and Valeria Martignoni with Leather Sensation