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CHILD

noreply@ied.it — 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

On Wednesday 24th March, at IED Seat in Via Pompeo Leoni 3 in Milan, Sentieri selvaggi, in collaboration with IED Milan and Uovo performing arts festival, presents the unabridged performance of Child, a cycle of five chamber music pieces composed by David Lang and recorded in 1993 by Sentieri selvaggi with the New Yorker label Cantaloupe.

In Milan for a whole week, the Pulitzer Prize on music 2008 David Lang will present - in absolute premiere -the unabridged performance of Child beside an Vijing live installation realized by 11 students (illustrators and visual designers) of IED Visual Arts School and that is the result of a workshop conceived and edited by the artist Claudio Sinatti. These students are Stefano Bosi Fioravanti, Valentina Branchetti, Rossella Grossi, Omar Houssein, Alessandra Mascetti, Niccolò Masini, Tania Mazza, Eleonora Moretti, Laila Sonsino, Alice Stefani.

A temple, a mask, mechanisms, dreams, and music: five interactive landscapes accurately designed and told live; Internet 3D environments that can be discovered in real time and that are perfectly synchronized to the music and softly and slowly revealed, piece after piece, note after note.

The event resulting from the collaboration between Sentieri selvaggi, IED and Uovo performing arts festival is included in the Nuovo Mondo, the 6th season of contemporary music organized and promoted by Sentieri selvaggi that will take place from March to May 2010 and that will propose five concerts dedicated to the American contemporary music creativity.

The entrance is by invitation only. To ask for the invitation please call 02.28510170 or you can send an email to: pubblicherelazioni@sentieriselvaggi.org

Egypt Second Design + Industry Workshop 2010

noreply@ied.it — 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The programme "Egypt 2nd Design + Industry Workshop", resulting from the collaboration between IED Research Centre in Milan and Rhimal Design in Cairo and sponsored by EFEC (Egyptian Furniture Export Council), is aimed at creating new design strategies for the development of the Egyptian industrial districts.

With the aim of prompting the local development processes addressed to the interior design companies by offering constant inputs in the design management area, the project resulted in a programme that was completed by ex cathedra lessons, Workshops and technical meetings at Egyptian local companies.

The first stage of the international Workshop held in Cairo from January 29th to February 8th, 2010, actively involved four teams of young Egyptian designers and 16 interior design companies. The teams were supervised and coordinated by four "International Designers" trained in Italy: Dodo Arslan, Gumdesign, Pierandrei Associati and Salamanca Design.

The sharing of knowledge and skills, the cultural differences and the need of mutual understanding started a creative mechanism that, in few working days, produced interesting ideas that will be developed within the project in the next months.

The results of the programme will be shown during the FURNEX in Cairo in June 2010.

Expolab: creativity on the table

noreply@ied.it — 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The "Expolab: creativity on the table" multidisciplinary project aimed at increasing the popularity of the typical Lombardy agricultural and food products and at pointing out their specifications and authenticity.

The project has involved 5 teams, each of them composed by 4 students coming from different areas and fields (IED Moda Lab, IED Design, IED Comunicazione and IED Arti Visive). The teams worked hard at creative level in order to realize product concepts, service and/or communication projects able to add value and promote the popularity of the typical Lombardy products.

The workshop included the participation of 5 journalists for each team who suggested the students the subject from which developing the concept.

A catalogue with all project outputs and the entire workshop experience, mainly attested by pictures, will be distributed through different public channels and at a wine-and-food event promoted by Ersaf (www.ersaf.lombardia.it) and by the Lombardy food Companies, that will take place during the exhibition “Salone del Mobile 2010.”

Balena Mangialibri Festival

noreply@ied.it — 6 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The first edition of Balena Mangialibri - Festival di Letteratura e Illustrazione per l’Infanzia (Balena Mangialibri - Festival of Childhood Reading and Pictures) took place from Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th March at the farmer Upim Store in Lecce. The event was organized by the Association Fermenti Lattici and it is included in the 2009/2010 edition of the regional project “Principi Attivi – Giovani Idee per Una Puglia Migliore” (“Active Ingredients – New Ideas for a Better Puglia”) realized in collaboration with Lupo Editore, Manifatture Knos, Cooperativa CoolClub, Farm and Festival Maggio all’Infanzia, and with the patronage of the Province and the Municipality of Lecce.

Balena Mangialibri is a festival conceived to let children approach reading and pictures through the direct contact with the object-book as well as through different activities, such as three picture exhibitions, a theme video performance, creative labs, workshops, and literary meetings for adults and children. In the first edition more than thirty Italian publishers specialized in childhood publications were present with their latest news.

L’Equilibrio dei Sogni (The Balance of Dreams) is one of the shows organized inside the exhibition that was realized in collaboration with IED - Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan. The pictures exhibited came from the thesis projects of students who attended the Illustration and Animation course and who graduated in the year 2009.

By considering such selection, it is clear how all of them are able to present a highly rich and diversified visual proposals thanks to the expressive and stylistic as well as completely original and effective personality they acquired.

During the Festival, among its new works, the publishing house Lupo Editore located in Salento has also presented I Prepotenti (The hectors), the first title of the series 33x33 enriched by Maddalena Gerli’s pictures and realized in collaboration with IED - Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan and with the patronage of Unicef and Amref.

The book is aimed at facing current and social problems, such as the respect of the public interest, of the ecology, and of the law in an fairy-tale-like way; a soft tale, coloured images and a chorus that get into one’s head and never goes away.

Master in Brand Management: 1 year of study

noreply@ied.it — 4 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The second edition of Master IED in Brand Management and Advertising Communication will start on the 29th of April 2010, and it is structured in 12 months full time divided in lessons thought in English, case history, workshop, individual projects and group projects.

In the classroom, executives and professionals from the biggest italian companies and from abroad. At the end of the master, there is the possibility of having a stage of 3/6 month in a company or in an agency. The selection for the last available seats is now on going.

During the Master the students will develop projects of increased complexity with companies as Kraft, Nestlè, Jacuzzi, Ducati, that have represented the luxury industry and the leisure industry in the past edition of the Master.

To guide the students, great professionals as Elena Sacco – Master coordinator and brand expert at international level, Sasha Vidakovic – considered one of the best creative directors in the world in branding, Anna Matteo - ex Director-Digital Marketing of Gruppo Mondadori and now Director-Digital Marketing of Condè Nast, Angelo Ferrara – Creative Director of Robilant&Associati and ex Wolff Olins in London, Michela Ornati - Innovative Technologies for Fashion and Luxury and other important personalities Umberto Virri – Honorary President of Walt Disney, Roberto Chieppa - Marketing Director Artsana Pre Natal and Oliviero Toscani.

A Master that trains the next Brand and Communication Manager, the new professional personality that is capable of designing winning strategies, to interpret the brand and their essence, to go deeper in all the aspects of the communication and of marketing in order to deal in efficient and effective way with all the disciplines, all the media, all the challenge imposed by the market.

The master represents the right specialisation for young graduates in economics, science, humanity or social, the one who have a diploma from italian or international schools in projects of creative disciplines, the professionals with at least two years experience in the sector.

For information and application (the last available seats):

Gianluca Brusatore - Ufficio Master

IED Communication

Via Pietrasanta, 14 - 20141 Milano

Email: master.com@milano.ied.it

Tel. +39 02 55230369 - Fax +39 02 55230410

Useful LINKS:

Brochure and Admission Form

Blog of the Master: a.a. 08-09

The Video presentation of the coordinator and of teachers.

Master in Graphic Design and RSF

noreply@ied.it — 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The fourth edition of the Master in Graphic Design, that will start on April 23rd in Milan, could boast the collaboration of a first-class partner, Reporters sans frontières.

Reporters sans frontières is a non-governmental organization advocating press freedom that was founded on June 20th, 1985 by the journalist Robert Ménard. The current General Secretary of RSF is Jean François Julliard. The main objective of the association, that takes inspiration from the Ong Médecins sans frontières, is to show the tragedies forgot by media and to react against the widespread censors in some Countries of the world.

The Italian section of Reporters sans frontières, seated in Milan, will ask the participants in the Master to develop a real communication project connected to the RSF brand. The authors of the best projects will have the possibility to spend a training period at RSF in France.

The selections for the Master in Graphic Design are open.

Book your selection for the next March 3rd or contact us for a personal interview.

IED Master Milan

Ilaria Frigerio

Via Sciesa 4 – 20125 Milan

Ph. + 39 02 5796951

master@milano.ied.it

Facebook: IED Master

Photography in the Movie Industry

noreply@ied.it — 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The workshop entitled Photography in the Movie Industry, i.e. an educational programme proposed by OffiCine fare e cinema, is going to start on March 22nd, 2010.

Luca Bigazzi, who has just finished his last works with Francesca Comencini and Giuseppe Piccioni, and who has just had a great success with Il Divo (The Star), will run an intensive course about the photography direction techniques. The first day of the workshop will deal with the theory, while the following days will be dedicated to the field-experimentation of the problems concerning this profession through the organization of micro-sets. Framing and lights arrangement, focus and choice of the film type are just some of the elements composing the aesthetics of a film.

The workshop has a fixed maximum number.

Information

A Casa Nostra (At Our Home) by Francesca Comencini | photo: Philippe Antonello

Other starting courses are:

Filmmaker – the documentary as a glance – Master coordinated by the director Bruno Oliviero – April 8th, 2010.

The dialogue director-actor. Workshop with Silvio Soldini, Giuseppe Battiston and Pierfrancesco Favino. May 20th – 22nd; June 10th – 12th, 2010.

Fashion in the movie industry. Costume designer and fashion designer: how different they are and how they influence each other – workshop with Silvia Nebiolo – June 17th, 2010.

Witnesses of our Times

noreply@ied.it — 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The new number of the magazine L’Europeo, dedicated to the Italian photographers awarded by the World Press Photo, was presented on Wednesday, March 11th, at 6.00 p.m. in the Great Hall of IED – Istituto Europeo di Design, in Via Sciesa 4, Milan.

The World Press Photo is an organization founded in 1955 in Amsterdam. It is the most prestigious organization dealing with photojournalism both because of the prizes it assigns every year and of the trainings it dedicates to the journalistic photography addressed to information and not to exhibitions or auctions.

Important names of the International photography took part in the presentation and talked about their professional and personal experiences by showing their photos that went down in history.

Among them: Francesco Zizola, winner of seven World Press Photo awards and the first Italian photographer who won the highest prize of the WPP - “Photo of the year" - in 1996 thanks to his photos about the tragedy of land mines in Angola.

Giovanna Calvenzi, one of the main Italian experts in photography, journalist, photo editor and member of the WPP jury.

Francesco Cito, a great war photo-reporter and, at the same time, an aware observer of the popular and folk realities of our country. In 1995, he won the third prize in the category Reportage assigned by the World Press Photo with "Matrimoni napoletani" (Neapolitan Weddings) and, in 1996, the first prize in the same category for his reportage about the Palio Horse Race in Siena ("Siena, il Palio").

Ferdinando Scianna, one of the most important Italian photographers who was correspondent for L’Europeo for years and the first Italian photographer who worked for the famous Magnum agency.

In the presentation took part: Aldo Colonetti – IED scientific director, Rossella Bertolazzi – director of IED Arti Visive School - Milan, Daniele Protti – publishing director of l'Europeo, Roberto Tomesani - coordinator of IED Photografy and TAU Visual, Associazione Nazionale Fotografi Professionisti (National Association of Professional Photographers).

Open Doors

noreply@ied.it — 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Thursday March the 11th we wait for you at 6.00pm to inform you about our three and one year courses starting on the next academic year at IED Barcelona.

You will have the option to solve your doubts personally and visit our facilities.

Creactívate Scholarship 2010-2011

noreply@ied.it — 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Do you want to win a scholarship to study at IED Barcelona?

We will explain you how the contest works next Thursday February the 25th at 6pm.

Don’t lose this opportunity! You will have the chance to win a scholarship that covers the value of the annual tuition fee of the three-year or one year course you want to study.

Confirm your attendance. Phone: +34 932385889 / email: info@bcn.ied.es

The 00 years. The first decade of the XXI Century! is the name of the contest of the three-year and one year courses scholarships that the IED Barcelona has organized for the future students of design and that covers the enrolment fee.

The web http://becas.iedbarcelona.es is the platform chosen by the school to present the candidates and the space in which the projects will be published.

To participate in the contest you have to present a project inspired by The 00 years. The first decade of the XXI Century and present a project interpreting what you mostly emphasize about the first ten years of the XXI century, finding a connection with the course you would like to study.

Bases of the contest: http://becas.iedbarcelona.es

Good Luck!

Related Links:

http://becas.iedbarcelona.es/

Evolution Marketing and Social Media

noreply@ied.it — 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The “Evolution Marketing & Social Media” specialization course will start on April 14th 2010. The course offers the chance to follow a 3-month training path that will take place in the evening and that is exclusively conceived to meet the needs of those working people who wish to enhance their qualification by interacting with professional teachers and to learn the new promotional strategies that use innovative marketing and communication techniques, such as online and offline techniques but, most of all, cross-industry and customized ones in order to reach an increasing evolving public that, every time, answers the messages in different and new ways.

The course can be attended by a limited number of participants and uses educational methods based on case history, case study and project work.

For more details, we invite you at the course presentation held by the coordinator Umberto Luciani that will take place on Tuesday, 23rd March at 6.00 p.m. at IED Communication seat, in Via Pietrasanta, 14, Milan.

Also the company MEDIAJOBS (www.mediajobs.it), leader in the online recruitment in the Media & Entertainment fields, will be present at the event. The company will deal with job opportunities, web, and social media and will give you practical advice about the head hunters in order to find a job online.

Book your seat by sending an e-mail to: seralicsp.com@milano.ied.it

For further information:

Specialization Courses Office

Via Pietrasanta, 14

20141 Milan

Ph. + (39) 02 55230369

email: seralicsp.com@milano.ied.it

How do you see the future?

noreply@ied.it — 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

When the Director of Design Leo Mangiavacchi asked me to participate in the Open Day Workshop I was only told that what was wanted was enthusiasm and creativity...."I'm in!" I thought, I always enjoyed dinamic activities so I organised my afternoon and confirmed my participation. All hands-on, love it! The Chili beans Design Marathon was a great example of this. Apart from anything else they're always great moments to get to know other students, professionals and teachers. Brief, yet very intense and fun moments of creativity.

Our group included two assistents, Antonio Marinho, ex-Graphic Design student, myself, the Interior Design Coordinator Cris Coli, and 7 participants Leonardo Melo Norberto, Bárbara Carvalho, Nicolas Martinez, Daniele Pulito Rosa, Thais Costa, Laila Szafran e Murilo Santos Bispo. Some of them already knew each other, old friends, but most were timid, apprehensive and seemingly scared about being in a strange place, perfectly normal. We were placed in a room, all wanting a chance to win the prize, 20% off the monthly fee of a graduate course.

First each participant thought of ideas individually. Cris, organized as ever, presented the theme of the project with total clarity and all of them put their heads down, ideas flowing on their sheets of paper. Words, drawings, thoughts..."Ready?"... 15 minutes passed by, it was time to share ideas and join them to become one...or several...but all together. Multifuncionality, practicality, union, diversity, sustainability, excess...these were some of the words that came from the brainstorming.

We let them chat amongst themselves, debate ideas and reach an agreement. Everyone participated, some voices more predominant than others, but the decision was uninanimous. No one was left out, all that was missing were cries of war! "Lets create an instalation that can be used both as a table or a public space."...The materials available: one Phillips Led bulb (not yet on sale) with a 30 year lifespan, a large sheet plastic, plastic straws, plastic cups, wooden sticks, pieces of rubber flooring, thread in varied colours and safety clips.

And away they went, each with a mission, cutting, sticking, measuring, folding...all very serious, with determination and certain tranquility until time began to run out..."Guys, we have half an hour to go down to room 24..." Cris cried...Suddenly there as panic "People, I need help here!" The room began looking like factory...hands working at full speed in every corner, realising that certain elements weren't going to work anymore and quick solutions had to be found. Nothing like deadline pressure to make 10 people think at full speed. "Sticks!"..."Thread!"...Cut, place, throw...tic tic tic tic..."5 minutes...", "It's Ready!"...The result...our group won first place!!! Well done to everyone, without your participation and enthusiasm nothing would have happened. Let's all work together again!

Ritzenhoff: Sphere will be put in production

noreply@ied.it — 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

During the Frankfurt International Fair, from February 12th until February 16th, three cetrepieces prototypes projected by IED Milano second years Industrial Design students has been shown at Ritzenhoff stand.

The students, selected from the Company, are Yigit Bora, Selli Coradazzi and Robert Wilson.

On February 14th and 15th the 3 designers were present at the stand to explain the projects to the visitors.

The public indicated, through a form, wich was the favourite centrepiece.

On February 15th Salli Coradazzi was proclaimed winner.

Her project, named “Sphere”, will be put in production within the summer and it will be insert in next Ritzenhoff catalogue.

For further information about the cooperation with Ritzenhoff

click here

EYE at Geneva Motor Show

noreply@ied.it — 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin is proud to present the world premiere viewing of EYE, the futuristic concept car designed by the Master of Arts in Transportation Design – work experience a.y. 08/09 in collaboration with Tesla Motors at the 80th International Geneva Motor Show.

The concept car, produced in a full scale model version, was born out of the Institute’s desire to test the ability of its young designers and discover their vision of the future: this led us to the choice of looking beyond traditional car manufacturers and join forces with a company which is synonymous with innovation Tesla is a company which produces 100% electric cars, whose green heart is perfectly in tune with its winning design, its sporting performance and the extremely pleasing driving experience its car offer.

EYE was born out of research into the identity promoted by Tesla to achieve a new objective: designing an everyday 2 + 2 sports car conceived to become a status-symbol, a car with engaging features and sports car performance ideally suited to a young, cosmopolitan target, particularly given its accessible price tag, and all those people who are constantly in touch with the world via the web and digital technologies.

EYE is the product of the work of eleven Master Course students, coordinated by Luca Borgogno, senior designer with Pininfarina and by Andrea Militello, Senior FIAT designer. The supervision of Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla Motors’ Chief Designer was fundamental to the entire process.

EYE was produced thanks to the collaboration of: Pirelli, OZ Racing.

Next to the full scale model, IED Turin is also going to be presenting two 1:4 scale model concept cars in the stand, both designed by the students of the Three year Transportation Design – car design Course a. y. 08/09. The PYGMY jeep designed by Vasiliy Kurkov, a 2nd year student, who looks at the future of Fiat Chrysler, and, in the light of the recent agreements, imagines how the technical know how, the platforms and the values of the two labels may come together into a single vehicle which takes as its inspiration the Fiat Panda Cross 4x4, and Libido, a thesis project presented by Giuseppe Barbera, Andrea Guerri and Federico Vecchiatini, which is instead inspired by the Aston Martin brand and its values of excellence, sports performance and elegance, which they imagine transposed onto a vehicle designed for the 2025 market.

LOOK AT THE VIDEO

EYE, PYGMY and Libido have all been made by CECOMP

Creative Diary 2010

noreply@ied.it — 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) offers 34 scholarship for international students and invite you to participate by developing a projects to win IED international scholarship.

IED Rome , IED Milan , IED Turin , IED Barcelona , and IED Madrid grant 34 scholarships for attendance of three-year courses for the 2009-2010 school year.

"My Cult" is the contest theme of this competition. Ideas and objects to represents or characterize your cult.

For each IED area ( Design, Fashion, Visual Arts and Communication) a briefing has been defined. Applicants must develop the theme relating to the three-year course area you wish to apply for the scholarship.

If your project would be selected, it will be published on the site www.creativediary.net , and a jury of experts will award scholarships to best thirty works.

The deadline for submitting your project is April 12, 2010.

Find out how to participate on www.creativediary.net

Fashion Academy

noreply@ied.it — 5 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

On January 27th, the first edition of “Fashion Academy” started. It is the fashion talent show on the air on Wednesdays at 9.00 p.m. on Bonsai TV (channel 10 of Alice home TV) and on the web TV YALP!.

On February 10th, the second episode will be on the air.

During the five episodes, 25 students of IED Moda Lab Masters in Fashion Communication, Fashion Marketing Management and Fashion and Textile Design will be called in the realization of a Woman Collection whose subject will be Glam Baroque style.

The young talents will be managed and evaluated by a first-class board lead by Anna Dello Russo, Creative Director of Vogue Japan and undisputed reference person of the international fashion world, and composed of Andrea Batilla, Director of IED Moda Lab Milano, and Stefano Guerrini, journalist and teacher of IED Fashion Communication.

Click here to see the first episode of Fashion Academy.

Fashion Management

noreply@ied.it — 3 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

IED Moda Lab presents Fashion Management, the new Advanced Training Course, starting on April 15th.

The course aims at training a highly skilled figure able to observe the social reality as well as the current and future consumption trends. Moreover, such figure will have to be able to select, produce and design complete collections; to use marketing and communication tools in order to develop brand and retail strategies; to manage a point of sale and a purchase strategy by developing, on one side, the skills and abilities connected to marketing and communication activities, and, on the other side, the required techniques for the realization and the design of a format retail consistent with the brand image and values.

The Course has a duration of 200 hours, with a weekend formula: Thursday, Friday and Saturday, twice a month. After a short preliminary part on fashion marketing, the Course will be divided in different specializations: Fashion Buyer and Visual Merchandiser.

To take part in the course, send your curriculum vitae and a presentation letter via e-mail to:

Paola Buffa

IED Moda Lab

Via P. Leoni 3 - Milano

02.55

master@milano.ied.it

The new IED MADE creative professions

noreply@ied.it — 2 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Besides the traditional paths that aim at training professionals in the field of Graphics, Photography, Illustration and Video, IED - all along in the forefront in the education field - now offers modern three-year courses for the new professional figures required by the market.

In the present scenario, where new technologies are increasingly part of our everyday life, IED Arti Visive has accepted this challenge from time by introducing new courses and by updating the existing ones according to the new professional requirements.

In the 3D animation field - nowadays a very topical issue in the international cinema scope - IED proposes the CG Animation course that aims at training professionals able to manage different projects in the cinema and TV production as well as post-production fields (cinema, home video, advertising), videogames, web 2.0 and off-line supports, just to mention some of the main opportunities offered by the present world of work.

For those who want to become interface and interactive contents designers, IED offers the three-year course in Media Design: the course will exhaustively deal with the new digital media, from multimedia web to new smartphones and every kind of device and operating system equipped with an user interface, by teaching students how to design them in order to create innovative solutions for the end user.

Moreover, as a pioneer in this field, IED proposes the Sound Design course, unique in its genre. This programme trains real sound professionals able to meet the even more increasing requests of the current and future market. The sound, in its wider meaning, is increasingly present in our everyday life: cinema, media, CD and DVD-ROM, web, advertising, audio and video art, company and fair events. The sound designer is able to design the sound in its various sources and the course offered by IED Arti Visive fills an Italian teaching gap providing the labour market with skilled professionals able to meet the new company and audience requirements.

Come and visit us to discover the training path that better suits your creativity and attitudes!

On February 25th we will wait for you from 9.00 a.m. in Milan at our offices in Via A. Sciesa, 4 for the 2nd Workshop of IED Arti Visive.

We will organise some meetings for you, and we will show you - by considering your passions - the classrooms, the workshops and the experimentations offered by IED.

Book you free place and confirm your participation by calling the number + 39 02 57.96.951 and asking to be connected to the Information and Orientation Service or by sending an e-mail to info@milano.ied.it, specifying in the object “Images and sounds: creative workshops” and indicating your telephone number and the course you prefer.

See you soon!

IED Design Milano at Frankfurt

noreply@ied.it — 1 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

During the Frankfurt International Fair dedicated to the “world of table, gift and interiors” from February 12th until February 16th 2010, at Ritzenhoff stand it will be possible to see the prototype of three centrepieces projected by IED Milano Industrial Design students.

The students are Yigit Bora, Selli Coradazzi, Robert Wilson and their projects has been selected by the Company between 15 projects linked to the theme “table architecture”.

All the students have been coordinated by their professor and project’s curator, Mr Gabriel Weirich.

The selected projects are:

BlackWhite

Sphere

cReation.N.

On February 14th and 15th it will be possible to meet the designers at Ritzenhoff stand (Hall 4.0 B61 A/B)

Rock Tv and Hip Hop Tv: Now IED partners

noreply@ied.it — 1 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Rock Tv and Hip Hop Tv (satellite channels 718 and 720 of SKY) are official partners of the Advance Training Course in Music Business, that will start on Thursday, March 25th.

Max Brigante, art director at Rock Tv and Dj at Radio 105 - where he hosts the programme “105 Non stop” jointly with Ylenia and Leone Di Lernia – will belong to the famous teachers who will turn over during the course coordinated by Paolo Maiorino (Sony Music Entertainment Italy) with the collaboration of Luca Fantacone (Sony Music Entertainment Italy).

Among others, the following people will participate in the 2009-2010 edition of the course:

Luca De Gennaro - Head of Talent &Music Department, MTV ITALIA

Marco Fullone – Artistic manager, music chooser and DJ of Monte Carlo Nights at Radio Monte Carlo. Art and music director of Radio Montecarlo 2

Roberto Rossi – Art Direction, Sony Music Entertainment Italy

Nico Colaianni - Marketing & International roster promotion, Sony Music Entertainment Italy

Roberto Gandolfi - Music publishing

Klaus Bonoldi – Editions & A&R, Universal Music

Lino Prencipe - Digital sales, Sony Music Italy

Livio Magnini – Artistic production. Member of Bluvertigo group

Elena Pantera - Press Office – Barley Arts

Eddi Berni – Author of TV programmes

Maurizio Principato – Author of radiophonic programmes and journalist, Radio Popolare

Deborah Gatti – Person responsible for the external relations of Magnolia, X Factor

Eleonora Forastiero – Radio and Tv promotion, Universal Music

The registrations to the course are still open!

For information:

Gianluca Brusatore, Ufficio Master

IED Communication

Via Pietrasanta, 14

20141 Milan

Email: master.com@milano.ied.it

h. +39 02 55230369

Fax +39 02 55230410

www.ied.it/master/com/milano

At threehundredandfortypercent

noreply@ied.it — 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The exhibition called “Al trecentoquarantapercento" was inaugurated on 3rd February 2010.

The provoking title refers - as experts know - to an academic limit concerning the density of the colour and its highest percentage on a paper beyond which the shade can no longer be managed and inks do not have the same result. To realize the calendar, Fontegrafica freely exceeded this limit obtaining a crazy but perfect overlap of colours, laminations, silk-screen prints, hot and relief printings.

The project is based on the usage of recycling material to create a graphic masterpiece.

Recycling becomes original because it reinterprets a simple product by turning it into a new and unique creation.

All the 12 pages of the calendar refer to the so-called “sfogliaccio”: the sheed-fed used to start the machine printing processes and to verify the quality of the product. It is an essential element for every kind of printing process and it has been used for different and new experimentations by Fontegrafica.

At its eleventh edition, Fontegrafica Calendar 2010 has today an international value and won important Awards such as 5 gold medals and a silver one at Sappi European Printer of the Year and two major awards at the Sappi International Printer of the Year. It was also awarded at the international selection of Huber Ink Inkredible Award and received two gold medals at the Gold Ink Award of the American company NAPCO for two consecutive years.

The exhibition will be open all year round at IED Master venue in via Sciesa 3, Milan. Free entrance. Please book in advance (tel. +39-02-5796951).

Fontegrafica is partner of the Graphic Design Management master since it was established in 2007.

Some images of the calendar are available on the Facebook page of the Graphic Design Management Master.

Ben Zur Levi, the best Creative Designer under 30

noreply@ied.it — 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In agreement with the Italian Presidency, the Jury of the last edition of the Festival della Creatività decided to award a young talent under 30 representing the Italian creativity all over the world.

In order to select the creative designers to be nominated for the award and the Presidential medal, the Festival management involved important exponents working in the culture, scientific research and innovation fields.

Here below, the list of the candidates present at the competition that took place last December at Fortezza da Basso in Florence:

Antonio Rinaldi, Ben Zur Levi, Brunoni Sas, Gianfranco Berardi, Joujoux D'Antan, Letizia Russo, Lorenzo Gleijeses, Maddalena Gerli, Marco Calvani, Marco Lampugnani, Michela Basso, Raffaele Fiorella, Silvio Palladino, The Hacienda.

Ben Zur Levi was born on 28th January 1988 in Trieste.

Born into a family of upholsterers with a long manufacturing tradition, he has developed his craft roots and the artistic taste inherited by the family into a strong passion for everything that is art and interior design.

His natural talent for artistic creation brings him to enrol in the Istituto Artistico in Trieste (School of Art), with specialisation in Architecture. He left Trieste for Milan to enrol in IED Milan where he is still attending the 3rd year of the Interior Design Course.

Besides being a Designer, he devotes himself to other fields such as music productions, graphics and photography by well combining the tradition of Trieste with the cultural melting pot.

The award ceremony took place on January 21st at 6.30 p.m. at Casa della Creatività in Florence (House of Art)

Filmaker: the documentary as a glance

noreply@ied.it — 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

After three editions, the “Filmmaker master course-documentary as a Glace” left Venice for Milan where its 4th edition will be part of “OffiCine – fare e cinema”, the new cultural project signed by Anteo Spazio Cinema and IED.

OffiCine is a project of cultural development and training where real life is seen through the eye of the movie camera; a permanent workshop dedicated to documentary; a calendar of public meetings aimed at opening the doors of the cinema to a wide and very diverse public; a training project including a cross and dynamic learning program combining the filmmaker training with the subjects of the creative areas.

With advice by Silvio Soldini (the Italian Film director of Bread and Tulips and Days and Clouds) and the co-ordination of Bruno Oliviero, film director and winner of the 26th edition of Torino Film Festival (Turin), the master course aims at providing all students with the knowledge necessary to make a film by themselves, under the guide of the most interesting professionals of the field.

The main basic thematic areas include: the inversion of the relation between theory and practice, the co-operation and continuous exchange among the participants, and practical experimentation of methods and techniques for directing and realising a movie.

The Master course is exclusively open to 18 participants only.

To have information or to book an appointment, please contact: officine@ied.it/ T. 02 5796951

Fashion Academy

noreply@ied.it — 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Four groups of students of IED Moda Lab Milan, a Woman Collection to be designed and developed in just six months and a board of experts leaded by the international ‘fashion icon’ Anna Dello Russo.

Fashion Academy, this is the original title of the fashion talent show that will be broadcast on the air on Bonsai TV (channel 10 of Alice home TV) and on the web TV YALP! every Wednesday at 9.00 p.m. from January 27th.

In five episodes, the 25 best students coming from all over the world and attending the IED Masters in Fashion Communication, Fashion Marketing Management and Fashion and Textile Design will be engaged in the realization of a Woman Collection whose subject will be Glam Baroque style.

The young talents will be managed and evaluated by a first-class Board composed of Anna Dello Russo, Creative Director of Vogue Japan and undisputed reference person of the international fashion world, Andrea Batilla, Director of IED Moda Lab Milan, and Stefano Guerrini, journalist and teacher of IED Fashion Communication.

During the episodes, the young stylists will learn to work in team, to compare different ideas and point of views and to evaluate each aspect of the realization of a collection, from the choice of the theme to the final fashion show: all this under the careful eye of the Board that will have the hard task to announce the winner.

REMIX

noreply@ied.it — 27 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The “Remix Award” is a prize promoted by Feltrinelli, in collaboration with IED, among the others, for students and lovers of videos of every age, for technological film buffs, video artists – or aspiring video artists – who are asked to remix some video “materials” taken from the film RIP.

www.feltrinelli.it/remix - On line DAL 13 gennaio

RiP: A remix manifesto is an open source documentary about the copyright and the remix culture

The film, whose production lasted six years, is a collective work of hundreds of people who contributed through the website to the realization of the first open source documentary in the history.

Main character of Rip! is Girl Talk, a young musician, currently well-known and distinguished all over the world, who reached the top ten with his mashup tracks.

The game rules are easy

The users will dispose of 4 chapters of the film.

They will have to watch them and download the one they prefer.

With their own instruments they will have to remix and re-edit it, to enrich it with music, animation and computer graphics by following the brief suggestions entered next to the frame of the chapter they chose.

The remixed videos do not have to last more than 10 minutes and they have to be loaded as answer videos on Youtube on this page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reDs4ZT55Tc not later than March 15th, 2010.

The winner will be awarded during a special night in Milan.

IED Venezia and ASSONAUTICA

noreply@ied.it — 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

IED Venezia has developed an important collaboration with ASSONAUTICA for the third edition of the Master Course in Yacht Design.

The National Association of recreational boating - Assonautica - was established on December 16, 1971 thanks to an initiative of Unioncamere and numerous Chambers of Commerce with the aim of promoting and supporting the development of recreational boating and boat tourism and safeguarding the interests of recreational boating and the boating industry operators.

IED Venezia strives to be a reference in innovative expression linking both culture and education. An experimental centre able to maintain a direct connection with artistic, industrial and handcrafted designs typical of the region in order to understand and use these tools throughout the students own creative project experience.

This partnership, between education and industry, hopes to foster and develop new creative concepts for innovation in the field of Yacht Design.

To know the academic program and the lectures of the Yacht Design Master Course click here.

Are you the Masterbrand Tutor?

noreply@ied.it — 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Because as a Masterbrand tutor you’ll get both.

Now are opened the selections for the tutor position in the Master of Brand Management and Advertising Communication , that will start in Milan next april 2010.

The course is taught in English language.

We’re looking for people who are fully organized, well acquainted with the world of branding and have a strong, positive attitude. You’ll also need good leadership skills in both team and project management.

If you think you’ve got what it takes, please send by February the 26th, 2010 your CV and motivation letter to:

Gianluca Brusatore, Ufficio Master

IED Comunicazione

Via Pietrasanta, 14

20141 Milano

Tel. +39 02 55230369

Fax +39 02 55230410

Email: master.com@milano.ied.it

www.ied.it/master/com/milano

Fashion Illustration Competition

noreply@ied.it — 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

If you like fashion and are driven by illustration, this is your chance. Take part in our fashion illustration competition and win a 2010 summer course in Creative Illustration or Introduction to Fashion Design.

Read the terms and conditions carefully in http://marieclaire.iedbarcelona.es/ and seize this unique opportunity. Reinvent yourself in 2010 – this is your year!

AWARDS

1st place:

100% grant for 2010 summer course on Illustration - Idea, Concept and Image* or Introduction to Fashion Design* (this grant also includes accommodation).

2nd place:

100% grant for course on Illustration - Idea, Concept and Image* or Introduction to Fashion Design* (course only).

3rd place:

50% grant for course on Illustration - Idea, Concept and Image* or Introduction to Fashion Design*

My Own Show 2010

noreply@ied.it — 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Nicholas Iulitta, Omar Romanini, Giulia Secco Suardo, Andrea Piccione and Maria Ruano: these are the winners of the 4th edition of My Own Show, the international competition conceived and promoted by Istituto Europeo di Design, which shows on a great catwalk the collections of the best students graduated in Fashion Design from the IED Network.

This year’s finalists have been selected by an outstanding jury chaired by Mrs Franca Sozzani, Editor in chief of Vogue Italia and Scientific head of IED, and composed of Sara Maino (Fashion Editor of Vogue Italia); Paolo Riva (Marketing Manager of Valentino Fashion Group); Saverio Moschillo (owner of Moschillo – Falber); Angela Picozzi (CEO of Castor); Tiziana Cardini (Fashion Director of La Rinascente); Riccardo Grassi (owner of Studiozetamilano); Claudio Antonioli (owner of the Milanese store Antonioli); Andrea Panconesi (owner of the concept store Luisa Via Roma in Florence).

Prestigious Italian fashion companies are producing the four projecys, three womenswear collections and one menswear collection. These will be presented in February 2010 with a special event included in the calendar of the Milan Womenswear Fashion Week.

My Own Show on line

www.myownshow.it is the website dedicated to the talents of IED Moda Lab and addressed to those who are looking for information and updated news on My Own Show. Not only a website, but also an interactive container of blogs, images, videos and interviews, www.myownshow.it will follow the winners in the production of their collections by showing the work in progress of the project step by step.

A Christmas promotion for IED evening courses

noreply@ied.it — 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

This Christmas give yourself a postgraduate evening course! From December 1st 2009 to January 18th 2010, IED schools offer a 15% discount on the fee for every kind of course in Design, Fashion, Visual Arts and Communication that will start in January.

The postgraduate and training evening course are planned to fulfil the needs of those who want to attend an educational and updating course in creative subjects.

The attendance, late in the afternoon, varies from a minimum of one to a maximum of five days a week with a duration from one to nine months, and is planned to favour those who study or work and don’t want to renounce to a training program able to fulfil and update their professional profile.

To enrol or to ask more information, write to:

Milan:

e-mail: natale2009@milano.ied.it

Ph. +39 02 5796951

Rome:

e-mail: natale2009@roma.ied.it

Ph. +39 06 7024025

Fashion Profession: the theatre costume designer

noreply@ied.it — 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

For the third year, IED Moda Lab Milano organizes, in collaboration with the “Piccolo Teatro di Milano”, a prestigious and unique Costume Design Course addressed to would-be costume designer interested in realizing theatre costumes and in learning an art based on different rules and rhythms.

Thanks to the last editions and to the results achieved, this year again IED gives a Scholarship equal to euro 4,100 (i.e. 100% of the attendance fee) to those who - with their skills and attitude - will prove a great motivation in undertaking this educational and professional path. To take part in the selection, you can send you CV together with a motivational letter by January, the 22nd.

Lessons will be held partly at IED Moda Lab and partly at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano in the tailor’s room and in the theatre itself. As a matter of fact, students could experience the atmosphere of the backstage of 4 important shows scheduled during the course period:

Alice, directed by Emiliano Bronzino

A midsummer night's dream, directed by Luca Ronconi

King Oedipus, directed by Antonio Calenda

Mrs. Rosita, The Single Woman, directed by Luis Pasqual

Costumes (more than four thousands are nowadays kept in the Piccolo Teatro di Milano) and the professionalism of the most prestigious European theatre will certainly stimulate young people to become great costume designers. This area finds in the Piccolo Teatro di Milano tailor’s room a laboratory of ideas where many talents can confront each other.

This Course, organized under the coordination of Giovanni Ottonello, will start on February the 11th. The duration is 5 months, on a weekend basis.

Send your CV together with a motivational letter to:

IED Moda Lab

Master Office

Valentina Pasquini

Ph. + 39 02 583361

e-mail: master.modalab@milano.ied.it

Milan promotes young talents

noreply@ied.it — 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

IED takes part in the project MIND - Milan Network for Design promoted by Municipality of Milan, Triennale, Design Museum Foundation, and ADI - Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (Association for industrial Design).

With the aim of strengthening Milan as a world point of reference for training and research in design, MIND offers Scholarships to the best talents for the 11 Masters organized by the most important Schools of Design in the Milanese area.

IED takes part in the project with the Master in Product Design and offers - to those who will send the application form within January 22nd, 2010 - the chance to be selected for a scholarship covering the total participation fee. Send your CV and your portfolio and we will contact you to arrange a selection interview.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity - offered by the Municipality of Milan, by the partners and by the 11 Schools participating in the project - to enter an international network, to meet the main experts of design during the conferences organized by the Triennale, to work on real projects with companies and design professionals operating in the field, and to get into the professional world through the stages offered to the students.

For further information

IED Master Milano

Ilaria Frigerio

Via Sciesa, 4 – 20135 Milan

Ph. + 39 02 5796951

The complete list of the 11 Schools that will participate in the project is available on www.milanetworkdesign.it

The Graphic Design professions

noreply@ied.it — 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The student selection for the IED Milan Master dedicated to the new Graphic Design professions is open. This is an interesting subject for those who undertook studies in communication, graphics, architecture and design and are looking for an advanced education in order to work in the Graphic Design and Motion Graphics field with expertise and professionalism.

For the 2010 edition, IED Master offers 4 scholarships covering the frequency fee either totally or partially. For the assignment of the scholarship, IED Master will evaluate the candidate’s Curriculum Vitae, his/her interview with the Master Coordinator and the possible portfolio he/she will provide. The final deadline to submit the application form for the scholarship is February 26th, 2010.

See the Master programmes and book your selection.

GRAPHIC DESIGN MANAGEMENT MASTER

http://www.ied.it/Corsi/Arti-Visive/Master/Milano/Graphic%20Design%20Management/info.html?courseId=VRA1102I

A full time 12-month Master Course | from March 2010 | Milan

Coordinated by Massimo Pitis, a Graphic Designer and Art Director, this Master offers a technical and organizational qualification aimed at developing students’ skills not only as Graphic Designers but also as managers of a graphic design office.

MOTION GRAPHIC DESIGN MASTER

http://www.ied.it/Corsi/Arti-Visive/Master/Milano/Motion%20Graphic%20Design/info.html?courseId=VRA1101I

Full-time 12-months Master Course | from April 2010 | Milan

The Master trains a complete professional figure able to get into the world of the TV Networks offering generalist, thematic, unencrypted, encrypted, digital, satellite, via ether, national, and local channels, as well as in the Communication Agencies and Offices working in video, television and business fields or to work as a Self-Employed.

The Master is coordinated by Mirko Pajè, Mediaset's Creative Director and Head of Image Coordination, and Carlo Branzaglia, expert in the theory and criticism of design.

For further information

IED Master – Ilaria Frigerio

Via Sciesa 4, Milan

Ph. + 39 02 5796951

master@milano.ied.it

Facebook Page: IED Master

Ritzenhoff project Centrepiece

noreply@ied.it — 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On December 21st 2009 the Industrial Design students held the “Ritzenhoff project Centrepiece” project presentation at IED Milano.

The Company selected three projects. From February 12th until February 16th 2010, the prototypes of the selected projects will be exhibited at Ritzenhoff stand, during the Frankfurt International Fair dedicated to the “world of table, gift and interiors”.

The students who realized the selected projects are:

- Yigit Bora (second year Industrial Design English)

- Selli Coradazzi (second year Industrial Design)

- Robert Gordon Wilson (second year Industrial Design English)

The students will be present at the “Ritzenhoff” stand on February 14th and 15th 2010 to present their projects.

Studying in the weekend

noreply@ied.it — 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

For the current academic year, IED Comunicazione offers two different Advanced Study Program courses:

Music business: marketing, communication and management in the digital era will start in March 2010 with Paolo Maiorino and Luca Fantacone from Sony Music Entertainment Italy as coordinators. The course is focused on all the aspects of the Music Business: from the traditional to the more recent and innovative ones, with the aim of finding out the most important guide lines of the big change that has involved the music industry during these last years and that is still in progress.

Evolution Marketing and social media will start in April 2010 with Umberto Lucani as coordinator. During an age of low budgets available, people operating in the marketing and communication fields must “surgically” control their investments. Therefore, it becomes important for them to know their target and its language, to share the same medias and learn how to use them in a properly and productive way.

The duration of the courses is 200 hours, on a weekend basis. Attendance: Thursday, Friday and Saturday (full-time, one/twice a month).

For further information, please write to:

Gianluca Brusatore, Ufficio Master e Cfa

IED Comunicazione

Via Pietrasanta, 14

20141 Milano

Tel. +39 02 55230369

Fax +39 02 55230410

Email: master.com@milano.ied.it

www.ied.it/master/com/milano

Massimo Bollani at IED Design Milan

noreply@ied.it — 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On January 27th, the contemporary artist Massimo Bollani will meet IED students attending the course of Modern and Contemporary Art.

On this special event, students will discover his artistic background and, through images, they will have a live approach to his works.

This will be a chance to understand the “hidden” meanings of his work and some creative dynamics, as well as to find answers to the current questions about the artist profession.

The Artist

Massimo Bollani, pupil of the painter and sculptor Pietro del Frate, obtained his Degree at the Brera Academy in 1985. After the Degree he got close to international artists thanks to his numerous and long travels to United States and Australia. Bollani began his career with figuration, however his artistic development has brought him to the achievement of a creative synthesis by using the colour, the shape and the substance in a more and more unusual way. In his later career, he has worked with the third dimension: by using “petrifying” resin that he has shaped, worked and painted, he has obtained sculpture-paintings having an archaic and universal style.

More info about the artist

27th January 2010 - from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m.

IED Design Milano

via A. Sciesa 4

The Two Kings And The Two Labyrinths

noreply@ied.it — 9 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On Sunday, November 29th, the 14th edition of Castelli Animati International Film Festival held in Genzano di Roma was opened with a great success.

The short animated movie “The two kings and the two labyrinths” (a Thesis project of the Illustration and Animation Course, 2008/2009) won the “Fabrizio Bellocchio” Award and had a special Mention at Castelli Animati Film Festival, in the category “Animation School”.

The Special Mention has been given for the graphical re-proposition of the “Oriental” imaginary characterized by traditional and contemporary aspects, and the “Bellocchio” Award for the project has been judged as a professional and elegant work showing the high quality of the animator students, who represent an Italian reality instead of just a promise.

The author/students of the short movie are:

Mike Bacchin

Federcio Gaggero

Elisa Groli

Sebastiano Lenoel

Elisa Pellizzoni

Valentina Picili

Erika Signini

Venessa Russo

Andrea Santi

Francesca Serafini

Teachers who followed the project:

Pre-production and Art Direction

Laura Fiori

Storyboard

Giorgio Ghisolfi

Animation

Patrizia Russo e Giorgio Ghisolfi

Post-production

Mauro Paffi

Try Me at Home

noreply@ied.it — 5 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

55DSL is a lifestyle brand created in 1994 as an experimental spin-off from Diesel that combines urban culture and fashion details. On the occasion of the launch of the project Try Me At Home, it organized a workshop on creativity addressed to students of IED Milan.

Which is the starting point? The TRY ME AT HOME kit by 55DSL includes 4 coloured felt-tip pens and a T-shirt to be customized as you like.

The idea to involve IED students in this project for an exciting and funny session comes from the 55DSL attention for graphics. As a matter of fact, on November 4th, twenty-five students met in the 55DSL Temporary Store in Galleria San Carlo and freed their creativity during a 3-hour lesson that “breaks with traditions”.

The graphic works were judged by Andrea Rosso, Creative Director of 55DSL, who awarded the best three projects: Caterina Manieri (Triennial Course in Art Direction), Lorenzo Albi (Triennial Course in Art Direction), and Andrea Bassan (Triennial Course in Graphics).

The prizes for the winners were 55DSL clothes and gadgets.

Fashion Profession: the theatre costume designer

noreply@ied.it — 4 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Thanks to the important collaboration of the “Piccolo Teatro di Milano”, IED organizes a prestigious and unique Costume Design Course addressed to would-be costume designer interested in realizing theatre costumes and in learning an art based on different rules and rhythms.

Alice, directed by Emiliano Bronzino

A midsummer night's dream, directed by Luca Ronconi

King Oedipus, directed by Antonio Calenda

Mrs. Rosita, The Single Woman, directed by Luis Pasqual

Please remember that for the admission at the 2010 course edition, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano offers a special 20% discount on the fee to those who own the Piccolo Card.

Send your CV together with a motivational letter to:

IED Moda Lab

Master Office Paola Buffa

Ph. + 39 02 583361

e-mail: master.modalab@milano.ied.it

If you still don’t have the Piccolo Card, buy it on www.piccolocard.it.

One year of research between Fashion and Design

noreply@ied.it — 4 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The 2009 Masters of IED Moda Lab and IED Design Schools in Milan will end in December.

Almost 150 students from 32 different Countries lived an intense year in Milan and shared pleasures and pains resulting from an unforgettable study path and life experience.

December will be the most intense and exciting month for them. The final projects, on which they worked even during the night, will be presented to important companies and to professionals that - this year - collaborated with the Schools to let students live a real professional design experience.

IED DESIGN MASTER - MILAN

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN MASTER

Project in collaboration with 3M, “Taking Command”

With the participation of Matthieu Aquino, Senior Strategic Designer 3M.

LIGHT DESIGN MASTER

Project in collaboration with IGUZZINI and CLAY PAKY, “Light In The City”

With the participation of

Louis Clair - Light Designer - Lightcible Study

Paolo Spotti - Architect - Light Designer - Ferrara-Palladino Study

Renato Ferrari - Marketing Manager CLAY PAKY

Adriana Pavin – Person responsible for International Relations of the Milan district.

PACKAGING DESIGN MASTER

Project in collaboration with Le Verdure Del Mio Orto

With the participation of Paolo Ferraris, creator of Le Verdure Del Mio Orto.

MASTER INTERIOR DESIGN

Project in collaboration with SACEA, “Work In-Between”

With the participation of Enrico Croci, SACEA Sales Manager.

Special participation of TVS for a project involving the 4 Design masters on “TVS SPECIAL SET”. With the participation of Giuseppe Bertozzini, TVS Sales Manager.

FASHION MASTER

FASHION MARKETING MANAGEMENT MASTER

Project in collaboration with COMFORT ZONE, “New sceneries on the wellness market”.

With the participation of Barbara Gavazzoli, Marketing Education Director and Paolo delle Piane, Communication and Product Manager Senior.

Project in collaboration with LES COPAINS, “Brand rejuvenation”.

With the participation of Enrico Acciai (General Manager) and Laura Bergonzini (Sales Director).

FASHION AND TEXTILE DESIGN MASTER

Project in collaboration with COSTUME NATIONAL, “Costume National: Capsule Collection”

With the participation of Ennio Capasa, brand founder

FASHION COMMUNICATION AND STYLIST MASTER

Project in collaboration with DIANA VREELAND, “Diana Vreeland: Styling Icon”

FASHION COMMUNICATION AND PR MASTER

Project in collaboration with PINKO, “New market opportunities: co-marketing strategies”.

With the participation of Elena Muserra and Cecilia Negra (Pinko Marketing Managers).

A special project that involved the 5 Fashion Masters and that was realized in collaboration with Anna Dello Russo, Fashion Editor Vogue Japan.

The event will be filmed by the Yam112003 video cameras in order to produce a web-documentary in three episodes concerning the project from its beginning to its end that shows all the realization steps.

359°

noreply@ied.it — 3 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Starting from Friday December 4th 2009 at 12.00 in via A. Sciesa 4 seat Hall it will be possible to visit the One Year Interior Design Course and the One Year Industrial Design Course projects’ exhibition.

Students, coordinated by Massimo Duroni, designed the exhibition and was responsible for the graphic and the budget management too.

The exhibition

The exhibition’s project is inspired by the travel theme, considering that all the students come from different Countries.

The exhibition simulates a plane’s interior.

From the porthole it’s possible to perceive the different projects’ areas the students work on, trough the project’s images.

Exhibition Opening

Exhibition Opening on Friday December 4th 2009 at 12.00

in via A. Sciesa 4 seat Hall, Milan.

Looks Good!

noreply@ied.it — 2 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The 11th of December at 5pm IED Florence presents 'Looks Good!', an event created in collaboration with the students and teachers of the One Year course of Fashion Marketing and Communication 2009.

The event will include also a Dj set in the cloyster of the Casa della Creatività.

Programme:

Exhibition of the 'Final Works'

In the spaces of the Casa della Creatività, the Final Works of the students will be exposed until the 31st of December 2009.

Moreover a fashion photo exhibition with images realised by the students, supervised and led by Valentina Ilardi (Stylist), Peppe Tortora (Photographer) and F&P Friends (Photographic Studio), will be presented in the Renaissance cloister of Santa Maria Maggiore.

Ray Ban ' The strategic role of the Brand'

Conference in the House of Creativity at 18,30, with

- Andrea Bocchiola, brand manager di Rayban -- Luxottica;

- Aldo Colonetti, Scientific Director IED and director of Ottagono magazine;

- Andrea Batilla, Director IED Moda Lab di Milano.

This Conference is an analysis on the brand and on its power to reply to questions like: which are the products that buyers buy?

Why people choose to buy some products instead of others even if they have both the same price?

The conference will be both in Italian and English and it will be followed by a drink reception and Dj set.

Presentation of FAKE VIDEO

Fake Factory will present the new video of the IED Florence. The video was commissioned by the IED Florence and realized by Stefano Fomasi in collaboration with the students of the One Year course Fashion Marketing and Communication.

INFO

Istituto Europeo di Design

Vicolo Santa Maria Maggiore, 1

Florence

Tel./Phone +39 055 2676311

Fax +39 055 2645685

IED at Courmayeur Noir Festival 2009

noreply@ied.it — 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Once again this year IED has renewed its collaboration with Courmayeur Noir in Festival by being present at Mini Noir, the Festival within a Festival. The event has taken place from December 7th to 13th, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Courmayeur Congress Centre and had proposed a program full of activities dedicated to children.

Mini Noir, a parallel path characterized by meetings, characters, and previews, is dedicated to an audience aged from 7 to 13 years and offers a real program based on mystery. Children can also enjoy the Mini Noir IED Lab, a multimedia laboratory and a creative location where they can “create” their own characters by using computers, Plasticine and other materials. For the 6th year in a row, the Mini Noir IED Lab is organized and managed by IED Arti Visive, particularly by the Illustration three-year course students, in collaboration with Courmayeur Noir in Festival.

IED Arti Visive has partecipated in the Noir Festival with another important event, i.e. the presentation of PECE, the project of a hypothetic image-magazine of "visions" linked to the dark world of the noir. Horror, grotesque, mysterious and unnerving stories and images described through illustrations and comics realized by the Illustration Course students – IED Arti Visive as 2008/09 Thesis project.

All students took part in the project and realized it together step by step: from the name selection to the interior graphics, up to the smallest personalized details (from the numbers to the table of contents). It is a work of style

IED at the Light Exhibition Design

noreply@ied.it — 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

“L’albero delle coccinelle”, the project realized by two IED Design Milan students, Fabio Nalesso and Federico Porro, among the winners of the first edition of the LED – Light Exhibition Design competition (section: Gardens), has been selected to light up the town of Milan during Christmas 2009. Such project can be admired in Largo Treves (Milan) from December 6th 2009 to January 10th 2010.

LED Award, launched last December, is a competition aimed at decorating the town of Milan with light and creativity. It was organized and promoted by the City Council of Milan under the sponsorship of ADI, AIDI and AIAP. The competition was addressed to young talents coming from the most important Milanese Schools and Academies and to the most contemporary celebrated designers. They were all invited to realize some lighting projects to be used to enlighten historical monuments, streets, parks and squares in Milan during Christmas 2009.

THE EVENT

Milan: the town lights up with design without ignoring, however, environment care, energy saving, creativity, and innovation.

The Light Exhibition Design lights up the town. Young talents and celebrated designers will transform Milan into an open air stage with exhibitions, projections, and light installations of contemporary art and design.

More than forty works of light for an exhibition that will totally involve the town in a single event - from December 6th to January 10th – and that will furnish and adorn its ‘open air’ public urban spaces, such as streets, squares, parks and monuments, without ignoring environment care, energy saving, creativity and innovation.

THE OFFICIAL OPENING

The official opening ceremony of the Festival of Light, and the lighting of the town, will take place on Sunday December 6th at 06.00 p.m. with an important opening event in Piazza Duomo when “light lanterns”, symbols spreading “peace”, “hope” and “love” in a Christmas atmosphere, will be launched.

The enlightened trams with their bright trails will open the ceremony. A set characterized by enlightened flowers will transform Piazzetta Reale in a green grass of light.

Then, the highest Christmas tree in Europe – more than 50 meters – will be enlightened by one hundred thousand high-energy-saving lamps, and the Cathedral by a Castagna&Ravelli designers’ project realized in collaboration with Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo.

While all works around the entire town will be switched on at the same time.

A detailed map of the light path will lead the spectator in the circuit of the Festival and a bright trail made of hundreds of “totem leds” will lead citizens and spectators to the discovery of this new vision of the town of light.

VOTING THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WORK

The most beautiful light installation will then be chosen by the visitors through cards distributed in public areas.

It is also possible to vote online on the website http://www.ledfestival.it/.

An exhibition in Via Dante, characterized by videos and photos enlightened by using solar panels and LED lights will show the visitors a full round-up on the works circuit around the town.

Click here for further information

Motion Graphics Design

noreply@ied.it — 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The advent of new digital television channels and the development of local web TVs are opening the market to a great number of professionals who - by working behind the scene of the shining show business world - edit, mix and remake programs to be broadcast on the big and small screen (Source: Il Sole-24 Ore – Monday, August 24th, 2009 – N. 232).

The expert in motion graphics, who nowadays has many job opportunities in the television field, works in a wide area ranging from the definition of the identity of a network up to the specific image of its single products by using digital technologies applied to video graphic.

Next December 2nd, from 06:30 p.m. at the School of Arti Visive in Via Sciesa 3, Milan, we will talk about this attractive world with two outstanding guests Mirko Pajè e Carlo Branzaglia, two real gurus of the motion graphics and authors of Video Sign , the third volume dedicated to the television coordinated image published by Rti – Link Ricerca, 2009 that will be presented during the conference, as well as coordinators of the Master in Motion Graphics Design starting from April 2010 in Milan.

They are:

Mirko Pajè, Mediaset's Creative Director and Head of Image Coordination, who, within the Central Communication Department, contributes to promote the Group institutional image, coordinates the network image and the TV products and is responsible for the Mediaset social communication.

Carlo Branzaglia, is involved in the theory and criticism of design and visual communication. He teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. He is the editorial director of the quarterly Artlab magazine. He is a partner of ADI, honorary partner of F2F (D), National Director of IIDD-Design for All Italy and coordinator of the Visual Design commission of the ADI Permanent Design Observatory.

December 2nd, 2009

Hour: 6:00 p.m.

IED Master

Via Sciesa 4, 20135

Free entry

For further information

IED Master

Via Sciesa 4, Milano

Ph. +39 02 5796951 Ilaria Frigerio

In collaborazione con www.motiongraphics.it

MINI Design Award 2009

noreply@ied.it — 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Antigone Acconci, a IED master student who attended the Packaging Design course during the academic year 2004, won the third prize of the Mini Design Award 2009 with the “PoliPalo” project realized together with Riccardo Bastiani.

The competition, now at its 5th edition, was organized and supported by MINI in collaboration with IED and with the participation of the Association of Industrial Design (ADI).

The prize-giving and the opening of the exhibition of the finalists’ projects were on December 1st, 2009 at the Triennale in Milan.

The exhibition “The future of the City: the environment. Fresh air in town”, by Rossella Bertolazzi, Director of IED Arti Visive Milano, had been opened to public from December 1st to 13th, 2009.

Third prize winner: “PoliPalo”

Posts are already there, along streets and on pavements. They have specific and “serious” functions (to organize traffic, to watch out for offences, to give marks and information); they “give” something to citizens.

First of all they are addressed to drivers, but they are also developed in a vertical way in order to “offer” something more, such as simpler, additional, supporting and comfortable functions for those who go around the town on foot or by bike, i.e. something for the everyday life. Many different functions can be summarized in a unique totem certainty using the existing objects.

Thanks to a universal element, adaptable to posts having different diameter and geometry, pavements are equipped with mini services – a part of which already exist however in a confusing and random way – by using a unique sign, a unique language. As a matter of fact, PoliPalo can host baskets, ashtrays, vases, information and can also act as bicycle rack and seat.

PoliPalo can be produced through recycling processes of the aluminum from the rims or of the re-melted iron from the polluting scrapped car bodies that disappear from the town streets to reappear in a new shape, however, on the pedestrian side.

For more information:

www.a-rstudio.it

www.minidesignaward.it

Workshop Sense of Place in San Paolo

noreply@ied.it — 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On the 16th of November, IED and Maxhaus will give a workshop for students of the Master Interior Design course, lead by the architect Fabiano Pereira.

The workshop has as its objective to develop an Interior Design project based on the

exploration of the concept "Sense of Place" and its underlying aspects, such as the relationship between user identity and the identity of space and access towards whats considered as "pschologically comfortable". This method widens the creativity of students

by encouraging an analisis of established exchanges between users and the environment, and their functional and aesthetic features.

In addition to having MaxHaus as a company whose focal point is "open architecture" as a

basis for their projects and focus of the workshop, IED and Maxhaus are also promoting an IED Interior Design Contest whereby the best projects will win an Ipod.

Tutor: Fabiano Pereira

Designer specialised in Italian Furniture Design, IED Milan, Italy. Having recieved his

Master at FAUUSP, he has international experience as a designer at Philips Design, aswell as being a consultant and furniture designer for corporate and residential use. He has participated at the "Brazil Makes Design" exhibition in Milan, Italy, Office solutions and the Alcoa of Inovation in Aluminio Prize.

Esa Vesmanen and European Design Labs

noreply@ied.it — 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Esa Vesmanen, interior archite, has supervised the projects of European Design Labs master students. Vesmanen offered personalized tutorship to every single student in order to develop and conclude last details of the end course project.

The EDL ’09 master evaluation will take place on 9th of December at 12.00 am, with the presence of: Paco Jarauta, Ali Ganjavian, Key Kawamura and Luis Úrculo.

Esa Vesmanen received an award for the interior design of Salme Optic in Helsinki.Vesmanen has created a unique and sophisticated style to the store. The furniture and the lightning system of the shop were designed respecting the original materials and structures of the building.

In 2004 he founded his personal study “ Pure Design ” with industrial designer Tuomas Antikainen.

Esa vesmanen has held several exhibitions of his own in different countries. In Madrid “ KOE Kitchen ” is at the Matadero . In our school, the ”Palacio de Altamira” there is a collective exhibition, “Finnish Designer Awards ‘08”, when you can observe the works of six finnish designers who have been awarded in different categories by the prestigious associations GRAFIA and ORNAMO .

Visit the exhibition at the IED Madrid until the 12th November from MONDAY to FRIDAY 10:00 - 22:00.

How to stay small and work for the giants.

noreply@ied.it — 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On November 24th, 2009 at 06.00 p.m., the Great Hall in Via Sciesa will host the showreel of the most significant works realized in Motion Design, Art Direction and Scenography for Broadcast by the creative duet Marco Ammannati and Miyo Yoshida.

But that’s not all. Castorini, their agency, is an organizational and managerial model that answers the question: How to stay small and work for the giants? Marco and Miyo will tell us their story and their business strategies.

Marco and Miyo started their activity in Italy and then they reached the UK, where they work for international clients for video realization, press graphics, packaging and web, as well as for TV Brands and other creative agencies. Together, they set up Castorini , a dynamic business that makes use of external talented co-workers.

An organizational model that allows keeping high production values at lower prices compared with a medium or large agency. Almost the whole available budget of the customer is used in the maximisation of the end result by minimizing the operational costs of the agency thanks to its expansion and reduction ability and to its presence on local or foreign markets that allow satisfying different needs.

The meeting is included in the Program of the Master in Graphic Design Management starting from March 2010 in Milan, a rich and innovative program directed by Massimo Pitis , Graphic Designer and Art Director as well as supporter of this interesting event.

November 24th, 2009

Hour: 06:00 p.m.

IED Arti Visive

Via Sciesa 4 - Milano

Free entry

For further information

IED Master

Via Sciesa 4, Milano

Ph. +39 02 5796951 Ilaria Frigerio

Immagine, Castorini for BBC Crime - Idents

In collaborazione con www.motiongraphics.it

MASTER and CSP promotion at IED Turin

noreply@ied.it — 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

IED Turin is sponsoring a promotion which allows to avail of a discount of the 15% on the Tuition Fee. The initiative is valid for everyone who enrols within November 30th, 2009 to one of the following courses:

Master and Advanced Training Courses:

Industrial Design for sport – extreme design: start March 2010

Master of Arts in Transportation Design – work experience: start April 2010

Master RSP in Sustainability for Architecture: start April 2010

CSP – continuing study program:

Creative Animation: start January 2010

Editorial Graphic Design: start January 2010

Interior Decoration: start January 2010

Event Organization: start April 2010

The promotion can not be accumulated with other discounts or Scholarships promoted by IED Turin.

For any further information:

infomaster@torino.ied.it

+39 11 54 11 11

DOVI DESIGN: THE WINNER IS A MUD “STAINED” HELMET

noreply@ied.it — 2 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The jury was impressed by the design quality and meaning of the helmet designed by Paolo Brindesi, who focused on Dovizioso’s great passion for Motocross.

Moto GP and Motocross. Paolo Brindesi, a graphic designer from Turin, was inspired by these two big passions of Andrea Dovizioso that let him win the DOVI DESIGN competition organized in collaboration with IED, European Institute of Design. The helmet represents the link between two very different but, at the same time, very similar worlds and it’s a tribute to Dovizioso’s career beginning when he rode a dirty scrambler bike.

The jury of the competition was impressed by the design quality of the helmet full of mud and tyre-screeches all around it and by the skills of the competitor to focus it on the driver’s great passion and on the World Championship in Valencia during which he will wear it. Andrea Dovizioso will wear Paolo’s creation during the last round of the MotoGP World Championship in Valencia that will take place on Sunday, November the 8th.

And now, Paolo and a lucky companion will go to Valencia to see the last round of the MotoGP World Championship and to give Andrea the winner helmet in person.

Ritzenhoff project Centrepiece

noreply@ied.it — 2 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On October 13th Ritzenhoff, a German company leader in “tableware”, held a project brief presentation at IED Milano.

The brief subject is “Ritzenhoff project Centrepiece” with the request to project a centerpiece that the user can interact and play with, while creating it.

The project is geared to the students attending the 2nd Year Industrial Design Course, the One Year Industrial Design Course, and the Master Industrial Design Course. They will be coordinated by their professor and project’s curator, Mr Gabriel Weirich.

On December 21st 2009 the above Company will select three works after the final project presentation.

From February 12th until February 16th 2010, the prototypes of the selected projects will be exhibited at Ritzenhoff stand, during the Frankfurt International Fair dedicated to the “world of table, gift and interiors”.

This is the Ritzenhoff Chairman of the Board’s comment:

“A great amount of time and effort is going into nurturing the existent designer network in Milan, the one and only design metropolis. It was then no coincidence that lead to the inspirational idea of running a project with the students of the IED Milano. The IED - Istituto Europeo di Design, stands for, among other things, a sophisticated and didactical programme. The international industrial and product design students, and their unique and individual cultural backgrounds, are simply perfect for RITZENHOFF to find and foster the young design talents of the future.”

Bernd Batthaus, October 2009

IL MISTERO DEL MONDO AT JARACH GALLERY

noreply@ied.it — 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

From 31st of October to 31st of December in Venice

Jarach Gallery San Marco 1997

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible” Oscar Wilde

Photography is an extraordinary instrument for interpreting the Visible Real. It uses the Apparent to challenge retinal perception of Reality and produces sensory forms of the non visible.

The Mystery of the World explores the quest for the supra sensitive by means of the visible, through the works by Filippo Guerrieri, Roberta Levi, Esther Mathis and Yusuke Nishimura.

Silvio Wolf has selected the works of Filippo Guerrieri, Roberta Levi, Esther Mathis and Yusuke Nishimura, having supervised their art studies at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan and at the School of Visual Arts in New York, as their teacher and thesis supervisor.

These young artists use the photographic medium in different ways and also combine it with video and sound, acting on the vibrating threshold between presence and absence, appearance and disappearance, stillness and motion.

Filippo Guerrieri investigates the reality of the human face. People’s faces appear as frozen and expressionless landscapes, totemic figures and simulacra of identities. His “faces with no face” are expressions of latent identities, mirrors that reflect those who depict them and observe them.

Roberta Levi explores the human body and places through fragments, closeups and fractions of images, which bring to mind organic figures, profound images and hidden realities of what lies on the other side, beyond sight.

Esther Mathis uses light not as an instrument of sight, but as a field in which she generates the loss and disappearance of her subjects, or cultivates their possible, sometimes disturbing, re-appearance.

Yusuke Nishimura investigates the intimate threshold between Time and Light,writing images with them in which space seems to vanish.

Exhibition in partnership with IED

www.jarachgallery.com

info@jarachgallery.com

INVIDEO 09

noreply@ied.it — 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On Thursday, November 12th, from 10.00 a.m., IED will be present at InVideo, the international exhibition of video and cinema organized by A.I.A.C.E., the Italian Association of Friends of Cinema d'Essai. It is a unique occasion to discover the art video world through a conscious path ranging from the experimental research cinema to the documentary, from the music video to the theatrical one and to understand the importance of having a wide knowledge of visual communication with its different expressions which allows you to go beyond at creative level.

If you wish to take part in the event, the meeting is at Spazio Oberdan in Viale Vittorio Veneto, 2 - Milan. For booking and confirmation: Orientation Office – Ph. +39 02 5796951.

In addition to the event at Spazio Oberdan, other appointments are planned at IED in Via Sciesa, 4, among which:

Thursday, November 12th, at 02.30 p.m. – Great Hall

Lectio by Ursula Ferrara, one of the most innovative authors of the Italian animation cinema.

Her drawings, characterized by a nervous and intense evolution, communicate her freedom and her passion for what is different that grows up and changes as well as her worry to express all this.

Booking is suggested: info@mostrainvideo.com - tel 02 5796951

Friday, November 13th, at 10.00 a.m. – Great Hall

Lectio by Alena Cincerova supported by professor Christopher Hales, expert in interactive cinema.

Projection of the movie “Kinoautomat”, the first interactive movie in the history of cinema in which the story is directly determined by the audience’s choice.

Booking is suggested: info@mostrainvideo.com - tel 02 5796951

Le Sette Porte

noreply@ied.it — 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Fabbrica del Vapore, from November 25th to December 3rd.

Via Procaccini 4, Milan.

IED participated in choosing the artists for the XIV Edition of the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean that took place in Skopje from 3rd until 12th of September 2009. In the former edition, IED Visual Art had already to organize a workshop and the relevant end exhibition by involving the group of selected artists as well as the students attending the Video-art and Photography Course.

The idea of a Milanese exhibition comes from the need to inform young creative people and the large Milanese educational system about the event, by underlining the engagement of the local Authority increasingly focused on activities aimed at introducing the expressive skills of the “Milanese youth” even at international level.

During the event held at Fabbrica del Vapore, the Milanese public could admire the works of young artists who took part in the Skopje edition. In the same period, but on two different occasions, what follows will be presented: the show proposed by the Effetto Larsen theatre group that will be performed on 25th at 09.00 p.m. in the rooms managed by Macchinazioni Teatrali in via L. Nono 7, and the instant movie directly produced in Skopje by Effetti Scenici group.

NewYorkOver

noreply@ied.it — 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A morning with Istvan Banyai, the main illustrator of New Yorker Magazine who, during his Milanese stop, will tell Arti Visive students how to represent the Big Apple mood and win a front cover.

Moreover, the collaboration will be extended to the magazine Andersen, the most famous and widespread monthly magazine informing on juvenile books, that will use the work realized by Istavan Banyai during the workshop.

Istvan Banyai

Born and admired in Hungary, Istvan Banyai quickly made his mark in the United States after his arrival in 1981, with his striking illustrations appearing in such publications as The New Yorker, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Time and Atlantic Monthly. Such magazines often commission Banyai the realization of their front cover.

From Budapest to Paris, Los Angeles to Manhattan, after many years spent in New York, Istvan Banyai now lives in Connecticut. He describes his art as "an organic combination of turn-of-the-century Viennese retro, interjected with American pop, some European absurdity added for flavor, served on a cartoon-style color palette.".

Matteo Corradini is the coordinator of Istvan Bayai’s Italian tour.

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Hour: 9.00 a.m.

Classroom F27

Via A. Sciesa, 4

Limited number workshop for the students of the Illustration course.

Eduardo Wolk wins Ecoleo Prize

noreply@ied.it — 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Eduardo Wolk, 2nd year student of Industrial Design , recieved second place in the student category with his table Mesa Cotoco.

The competition was sponsored by Ecoleo, the first company to resell wood certified by the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) of Latin America.

The participants main objective was to use certified wood for the creation of their projects, as a way of contributing towards the protection of the environment. The products had to cause minimal environmental impact and the use of natural recources had to be rationed. As well as using certified wood, complimentary materials could be used asl ong as they had a low environmental impact.

The Mesa de centro Cotoco was made from a panel of teca and sucupira, both certified, with a carnauba wax finishing. It can be dismantled and transported with ease. without the use of tools. The jury considered the fitting system contructive and innovative.

The jurors observed that the projects admitted showed a variety of themes and that the student category showed a surprisingly high quality and varieties in design.

Have a look at all the projects submitted

I Stick and IED Sao Paolo

noreply@ied.it — 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This last 7th of October Visual Arts students recieved their vinyl creations from Joana Rosa, Marketing Director from the company I-Stick and the Director of the School of Visual Arts, Eugenio Scoletta.

These were created during a workshop in February with the support of Carlo Giovani , Illustrator, and with the help of Luciano Drehmer, ex alumni from IED with a promising future in Illustration in Sao Paulo.

The purpose of this partnership was to discover new forms of communication and opportunities of broadening the line of products offered by the company.

Three winners were chosen using an online popular voting system, Samuel Muller (Lique Efeito), Bianca Marins (Àrvore) and Bruno Azevedo (Skyline). Their creations are now on sale at I-Stick quiosques throughout the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

All the other projects are being marketed on the I-Stick website.

This venture enabled students to have the opportunity to work directly with a company and see their creations marketed. The collection is charged with creativity, imagination and humour.

Fashion communicates through image.

noreply@ied.it — 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Fashion Stylist November 2009

The professional profile of the Fashion Stylist gathers many competences that up to a few years ago were not a proper subject but only a training on the field. Considered as an actual “Tv reporter”, the stylist is the link that connects the world of clothing manufacture to the client and to the reader of fashion magazines. The Fashion stylists’ ability to interpret trends elevates them amongst the main style creators and attentive observers of the transformations in fashion. A Fashion Stylist has to establish a strong connection with photographers, fashion editors and the marketing and communication professionals. With the first they will create the style brand identity, with the others they will give a proper meaning to the editorial image of a fashion magazine.

Fashion Buyer November 2009

Key of a Fashion Buyer’s success: creativity and organization.

Fashion Buyers are highly specialised profiles, able to observe the social background, the current and future consumption trends, the consumers’ perceptions and desiderata that will be transformed into fashion products; they are able to select, build and design whole collections; they are able to use the marketing and communication tools in order to develop brand and distribution strategies; they are also able to manage the potentialities of a point of sale and develop a purchase plan.

Visual Merchandiser November 2009

Considered nowadays as one of the most specialised profiles in the modern distribution scenario, a Visual Merchandiser is an attentive observer of the social context, of the market and consumption trends. Visual merchandisers deal with organising the display of the products in a point of sale so to make them immediately appealing to the customer’s eyes. They are professionals able to understand how to build the ideal set around a product by showing its distinctive features, maximising the visual impact and interpreting the brand codes and value. (commercial and creative language together). The objective of this Master course is to develop the abilities and the competences connected to the marketing and communication activities on one side, and on the other to enhance the techniques that are necessary for the development and design of a format retail consistent with the brand image and value.

Length of the master course: 10 months full-time, including 3-4 months of stage/field project

The other master courses of IED Moda Lab in Milan:

Course in Costume Design, January 2010, in collaboration with Piccolo Teatro di Milano

Course in Fashion Communication and PR January 2010, in English

Course in Fashion Communication and Stylist January 2010, in English

Course in Fashion Marketing and Product Management January 2010, in English

Course in Fashion Marketing and Retail Management January 2010, in English

Course in Fashion and Textile Design January 2010, in English

For more information

IED Moda Lab Milano

Via Pompeo Leoni 4

20141 Milano – Italy

Uffico Master Paola Buffa

tel. +39 02 583361

fax +39 02 5833660

master.modalab@milano.ied.it

IED Moda Lab students among the Elle talents

noreply@ied.it — 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Nuova Moda, Nuovi Talenti (New fashion, New Talents) is the Special attached to the Elle September Issue dedicated to the young talents of fashion representing the Italian style. Fourteen are the young promises of the Made in Italy prêt-à-porter selected this year.

Amongst these, Anna Francesca Ceccon, 35, from Milan, graduated in Fashion Design at IED Moda Lab Milan in 2002, now Fashion Designer for Moi Multiple and professor at IED Moda Lab Milan.

Great relevance has also been given to the winners of the main international fashion contests, festivals and shows, entrants coming from the best European fashion schools.

Amongst them Marco Russo, III year student at Fashion Design Course - IED Moda Lab Milan and winner of the Flandrika Crossover Prize 2009, a transversal contest hosting the challenge between IED Moda Lab Milan and the Antwerp Royal Academy Schools through projects that asked them to reinterpret and to revisit the Belgian fashion classics from a contemporary point of view.

And Emanuele Caldarera, III year student at Fashion Design Course - IED Moda Lab Milan, placed first in the Italian section of the Triumph Inspiration Award.

Vogue Talents and MI Milano prêt-à-porter

noreply@ied.it — 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In MI Milano prêt-à-porter at the Fieramilanocity, from the 25th to the 28th of September, some of the portfolios and collections of 12 talents coming from IED Moda Lab Milano, selected among ex students, professors and collaborators, were presented on the pages of Vogue Talents.

Franca Sozzani’s editorial project whose first edition has been published together with the September issue of Vogue Italia, Vogue Talents is an overview of the best talents selected in the most important fashion schools worldwide, a tool to let young fashion designers get in touch with talent scouts, companies and buyers from all over the world.

Here is a list of the IED students selected whose works will appear on the pages of Vogue Talents:

Section Graduated from IED: Giulio D’Alessio and Chiara Gaudiello, Antonio Piccirilli, Alessandro Vigilante;

Section Womenswear: ex students Anna Ceccon - Moi Multiple, Marika Masi - February, Aloye Adede – Eyola; and professors Francesca Liberatore and Fabrizio Talia;

Section Accessories: federicamorettihandmade, Federica Moretti, ex student;

Section Pistoletto’s Art & Fashion Project: Marta Forghieri, ex student;

Section news/case histories: Monica Tempesta, ex student .

On September 25th, the Milano prêt-à-porter inauguration day saw the collections of the seven Who’s on Next 2009 finalists presented. Who’s on Next is the competition promoted by Alta Roma and Vogue Italia to find out new young talents of the fashion design system, who live and work in Italy.

Among them, Anna Ceccon – Moi Multiple, ex student and now professor at IED Moda Lab Milan. Anna Ceccon has been selected for the prêt-à-porter section.

IED Design working for the “insurances”

noreply@ied.it — 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

From the 7th to the 18th of September the RSP Masters of Ied Design Milan took part in a workshop organised by the Insurance company Helvetia Assicurazioni and by the IED.

The workshop was born from the need to explore the subtle and delicate project of a brand identity and of its brand communication in the sphere of the current and progressive “glocalisation” of the processes, the roles, the systems, the usage scenario and the social contexts. Being global, by maintaining and cultivating the priorities, emergencies, and the “local” representative features, becomes today the key element on which to balance a project of a territorial presence and extension, in spite of the specific commercial nature of a given brand.

The students created from sceneries to proper adverts that have been exhibited from the 18th of September, day of the new Helvetia office inauguration , in the exhibition area in Via Cassinis, Milan.

The students were divided into 6 “mixed” groups according to the workshop philosophy: Workshops are moments of transversal design and themes that are outside of didactics and are pivoted on cutting-edge issues such as brand design and food. A moment in which students confront themselves with colleagues from the other master courses offered by IED Design Milan.

Names of the projects and of the groups (the projects will be soon available on the website Gallery):

Building as a Piece of Art

Kopytina Katerina - Hernandez Perez Citlali - Patxot Fermin Onil Carolina - Pawar Sonal - Mengyuan Liu

Beautiful Milan

Sherim Dameli - Fernandez Swetzer Wanda - Omarova Darja - Zhirnova Irina - Salazar Grau Ana Tais - Rekounov Pavel - Diana Galick

Harmony at the office

Quinonez Borboa Aldo - Miralles Escudero Alejandra - Rullan Diaz Stephanie - Miranti Margareta Amelia - Singh Isha

Lived in

Alhusaini Nouf - Skenderi Denada - Dente Giada - Bojinov Emil - Wongwiwatwaitaya Jutharat - Beretta Francesca

Opening to the world

Zunzunegui Pedro - Lopez Crespo Laura - Chiera Pietro - Kolgak Gizem - Kadurina Anna - Kocaman Pinar - Bazar Emre

Life, work, Fusion

Shen Jiong - Toro Ochoa Sara Luisa - Yakhontova Alesya - Baquero Gabriela - Orberg Fernando - Madan Richa

THE BOOK / ABOUT US

noreply@ied.it — 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On Wednesday, September 23rd 2009, on the occasion of the Milan Fashion Week, IED Moda Lab has presented The Book /About Us at the WOK Store, in Milan.

The Book/About Us is the first year-book of IED Moda Lab Milano and the very first operation of this kind for an Italian fashion school, showing the students’ best works with the aim of showing the excellences of the school as a real “art book”.

The book presents the results of the three-year programmes in Fashion Design, Jewel Design, Shoes and Accessories Design, Urbanwear Design, Fashion Communication, Fashion Stylist and Fashion Marketing: drafts, shooting and thoughts coming from the educational pathway of the last year and telling the peculiarities of the School through the works of its students.

The works’ selection, the photographs and the graphic layout, coordinated by professionals, has been developed and created by the students themselves of IED Moda Lab Milano.

What does organising the Olympics mean?

noreply@ied.it — 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Event Manager, november 2009

Business or Consumer, public or private, nowadays more and more companies invest in events, ravished by the strategic versatility of the media. Complete media, able to produce uniqueness, direct interaction with the target, emotion, spectacularization but also able to guarantee immediate results to the companies and instant measurement of one’s investments.

The Master course has the purpose to shape a new generation of "full processing" professionals, able to manage the "event machine" from the beginning to the end, from the design to the workability; events manager who, in a company or in an agency, will have the overview of the media and of the scenario and will be able to integrate and synchronize the resources and the professionals necessary to the organization of an event.

Marketing Communication and Digital Media, November 2009

Strategic thinking, domain of the digital media, culture of eclecticism, analysis of the social phenomena become the pillars on which to establish the training of the future professionals in a marketing that is more and more in the centre of a turn in entrepreneurship.

The traditional marketing mix is evolving towards the development of an actual brand culture that drives the company work both in the market choice and in the behaviours concerning employees and the scenario in which the company operates.

This master course trains professionals who will be able to face the challenges imposed by the society of consumptions that has been radically modified by the role of new technologies, by the affirmation of new social models, by the need for sustainability, not only eco-sustainability, that is at heart of every industrial and commercial strategy.

Length of the master course: 10 months full-time, including 3-4 months of stage/field project

The other Master course of IED Comunicazione in Milan:

Course in Advertising - Art Direction and Copywriting January 2010

Course in Tv and Multimedia Production - The new media properties February 2010

Course in Brand Management and Advertising Communication (in English) April 2010

For more information

IED Comunicazione Milano

Via Pietrasanta 14

20141 Milano – Italy

Uffico Master Gianluca Brusatore

tel. +39 02 55230369

fax +39 02 55230410

master.com@milano.ied.it

Special Week_September

noreply@ied.it — 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

From the 28th of September until the 2nd of October IED Florence will present, in collaboration with the Casa Della Creatività, a series of seminars focused on the role of Communication in Fashion, in the era of new media.

All the seminars are free and in English.

28 Sept

17,00 – 19, 00 Luca Scarlini - "Screen Fashion: History of Fashion in the Cinema".

Writer and playwriter will present a short and concise history of the role of Fasthion in movie productions, from Coco Chanel to Versace and Jean-Paul Gaultier, from Hubert de Givenchy to Gianni versace, designing the outline of a very fruitful and not very well known relation between the two worlds of creation.

29 Sept

11,00-13,00 James Bradburne - “ControModa”

Director of Palazzo Strozzi will present “ControModa” an exhibition held in 2008 where 200 models by international designers from the permanent collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) were displayed in Palazzo Strozzi.

14,30 – 17,00 Felice Limosani - “Marketing esperienzale”

17,00 – 19, 00 Luca Scarlini - "Screen Fashion: History of Fashion in the Cinema"

30 Sept

10,00-13,00 Alessandro Guasti - “Fashion and Tv”

Alessandro Guasti will present how a fashion program meant for the TV must be started up and set up, putting in evidence the roles that must be followed and will analize the relations between words and images.

17,00 – 19,00 Luca Scarlini - "Screen Fashion: History of Fashion in the Cinema"

2nd Oct

16,00 – 19,00 Giulio Mazzarini - “Visual Communication, Design and Art Direction in Fashion Editorials”.

Giulio Mazzarini, Central St. Martins College, will examine the the evolution and current trends in visual communication, design and art direction applied to the fashion editorial market. The tutor will also challenge the students with a series of practical group exercises aimed at improving their creative skills and lateral thinking. Participants will be asked to present their ideas.

Istituto Europeo di Design

Vicolo Santa Maria Maggiore,1

50123 Firenze

Designing the future

noreply@ied.it — 7 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

There are few days to apply for scholarships for the RSP Master course in Advanced Design for Transportation a.y. 09/10 coordinated by Mike Robinson. There is time until September 21st 2009 to send a resumé, a cover letter and design portfolio to:

Istituto Europeo di Design

Servizio Informazioni e Orientamento Master e CSP

Via San Quintino 39

10121 Torino – Italy

or by e-mail to:

infomaster@torino.ied.it

The Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin, through its new RSP Master course in Advanced Design for Transportation sets itself the objective of training those designers who are required to analyse possible future scenarios and design solutions for tomorrow for the moving of people and goods.

Starting date: November 26th, 2009

Calendar of Master Degrees Events

noreply@ied.it — 4 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The meetings organized to discover the IED Master Degrees will start in September and will be presented directly by those who designed, coordinated, managed, loved, criticised and lived them.

The meetings will be divided according to areas in order to speak to professionals coming from specific disciplines and sectors: coordinators, lecturers, former students, partner companies, testimonials.

The meetings are free. Compulsory registration.

At the end of each presentation it will be possible to complete the selection and to be interviewed by the IED staff and by the Master Degree coordinator.

22nd September

h 10 - The Best Of Visual Arts

Presentation of the Milan Scuola di Arti Visive Master Degrees (Visual Arts School)

_GRAPHIC DESIGN MANAGEMENT

_MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGN

_PERFORMING ARTS PHOTOGRAPHY

23rd September

h 15 – Creative Professions

Presentation of the Milan Scuola di Comunicazione Master Degrees (School of Communication)

_MARKETING COMMUNICATION AND DIGITAL MEDIA

_EVENT MANAGEMENT

_ADVERTISING: ART DIRECTION AND COPYWRITING

_TV AND MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION: THE NEW MEDIA PROPERTIES

_BRAND MANAGEMENT AND ADVERTISING COMMUNICATION

24th September

h 15 – From the first idea to the project. Profession Designer

Presentation of the Scuola di Design Master Degrees (School of Design)

_PRODUCT DESIGN

_INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

_PACKAGING DESIGN

_LIGHT DESIGN

25th September

h 15 – Not just Fashion

Presentation of the Scuola di Moda Master Degrees (School of Fashion)

_FASHION BUYER

_FASHION STYLIST

_VISUAL MERCHANDISER

_FASHION MARKETING

_FASHION COMMUNICATION

For more information, registration and detailed programmes of the meetings, please contact:

IED Master Milano

Ilaria Frigerio

Via Sciesa, 4 - 20135 Milan

tel. 02 5796951

A few days left to choose your future.

noreply@ied.it — 1 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

These are the last days in order to register for the 3-year Post-diploma IED Arti Visive, IED Comunicazione, IED Design and IED ModaLab courses.

The 30th of September will be the last available day to register for the 3-year courses, high-training courses with a limited number of participants.

The Servizio Informazioni e Orientamento (Information and Placement service) is totally available to organise an informative and free interview so to get an answer to all the questions and curiosities in case you haven't decided yet.

In addition, the “Apriti IED” exhibition, will be open until the end of the month, exhibiting the Graduation Projects realised by the students who concluded their studies last June by working in collaboration with important companies.

Because your future is near. The future is now!

ADI DESIGN INDEX 2008

noreply@ied.it — 1 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The long and challenging work of the ADI Permanent Observatory for the year 2008 has ended. Last June the choices made by the territorial delegation managers and by the thematic committee were made public. For the Section Exhibition Design they selected, amongst the different choices, the multimedia exhibition Rossa Immagine e comunicazione del lavoro 1848-2006, by Luigi Martini, with the design and realization by N!03 studio ennezerotre (www.ennezerotre.it).

The selected projects, contained in the ADI Design Index 2008, together with those of the next two Annual Indexes, will compete in the next Compasso d'Oro ADI Award.

This multimedia exhibition, promoted by MIBAC (Comitato Nazionale per le Celebrazioni del Centenario della CGIL - National Committee for the CGIL Centennial Celebrations) and by the Giuseppe Di Vittorio Foundation - , is dedicated to the iconographic evolution of work and was exhibited in the Naples City of Science (città della Scienza) and in the Turin Palafuksas. This exhibition witnesses the use of the ultimate multimedia and interactive technologies in a chronological journey through images and communication produced by the Worker Movement and, more generally, by the communication system, between 1848 and 2006.

This narration invites the spectator to alternate spectacular movements to in-depth movements, in a journey through history that is made of events, fights and conflicts, but also of ideas, relationships, social cohesion and participation.

Amongst the members of N!03, who designed and realized the exhibition, we can number Davide Sgalippa, lecturer and coordinator of the Video Design Course in IED Milan and Riccardo Castaldi, Paolo Ranieri and Cinzia Rizzo, also lectures of the Video Design Course.

Dovizioso, IED and Redbull for Dovi Design 2009

noreply@ied.it — 1 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On the 5th of September, on the occasion of the Moto GP in Misano, the second edition of the Dovi Design took place. This competition is organised and promoted by Red Bull, in association with IED with the purpose of rewarding the creativity of the new generation designers.

Dovi Design challenges you to design the graphics of the crash-helmet that Andrea Dovizioso will wear on the 8th of November in Valencia, for the last race of the season. From the 5th of September to the 16th of October designers and young creators, but also sports and GP lovers could challenge each other in a battle of creativity, by sending their projects to the following website: www.redbull.it/dovidesign.

A committee, formed by the rider himself and the representatives from Red Bull and IED will choose, amongst all the projects, the one with the best quality and ability to interpret the values that are important to Andrea Dovizioso.

The prize for the winner is the possibility to see his/her work realised and transmitted worldwide, on the Forlì champion's crash-helmet during the GP of the Comunidad Valenciana and two tickets to watch the GP directly from the garages.

For more information: www.redbull.it/dovidesign

Prima del Tempo inaugurates at N. Rusconi Gallery

noreply@ied.it — 1 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On the 18th of September, from 18.30, Silvio Wolf, lecturer of the Photography course at IED Visual Arts in Milan, will inaugurate a new personal exhibition called Prima del Tempo (Before Time), presenting a new project to the public that was specifically conceived for this gallery.

The installation presented within this exhibition is conceived as one-piece work, composed by seven different elements in a path that is articulated in a series of stations. The exhibitions is characterized by a new dynamic approach between the artwork and the observer; Wolf, after many years of questioning images and their role in contemporary art, today moves the attention to whom perceives it and on the interaction rising from the subject/object relation.

The invitation that the artist makes to the observer does not deal with the perception of images but on the fascination caused by their absence. It is not about icons, but expressions of light and/or its privation, in other words the (in)visibility condition that characterises each image: black surfaces conceived as an excess of visual information, abstract architectures that are backlit by light-colour, surfaces of partially mirroring images conceived as thresholds or passages, or the neutral-grey colour directly applied on the wall, so that the reflected light becomes the visible subject of the artwork.

Silvio Wolf was born in Milan in 1952, where he lives and works. Last May he took part to “The Edge of Vision-Abstraction in Contemporary Photography” exhibition, to the Aperture Gallery in New York and he is amongst the Italian artists who have been invited to expose in the Italian Pavilion at the 53rd Biennal of Venice.

Opening:

Friday 18th of September, from 18.30 to 22.00

Open to the public:

from the 19th of September to the 7th of November 2009, Tuesday to Saturday, 15.00 - 19.00.

Closed: Sundays and Mondays.

In the occasion of the extra opening hours of the Milan galleries taking part to Start, it will be also possible to visit the exhibition:

Saturday 19th of September, from 12.00 to 21.00

Sunday 20th of September, from 12.00 to 19.00

The Piccolo and IED Visual Arts

noreply@ied.it — 1 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The agreement between the School of Visual Arts and the Piccolo Theatre of Milan has been signed for a collaboration in the renowned theatre's next season.

The courses of Video Design and the advanced course of Performing Arts Photography have been involved. The work of the Video Design students, in addition, will help to increase the programming of the Piccolo Web Television, a web channel that will be seen worldwide. The lecturers who will follow the project are Giuseppe Baresi and Francesco Lupi Timini.

www.piccoloweb.tv

www.piccoloteatro.tv

The documentary Il Piccolo by Maurizio Zaccaro

noreply@ied.it — 1 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On the occasion of the 66th Venice International Film Festival (2-12 September 2009) the documentary IL PICCOLO, by Maurizio Zaccaro, will be presented in the Controcampo Italiano section.

The screening is scheduled for the 9th of September, at 11 a.m. in the Sala Grande.

The documentary tells the story of the Piccolo Theatre from its establishment up to today. It is produced by CASANOVA ENTERTAINMENT SRL, RAI CINEMA.

This documentary witnessed the collaboration as camera operators between Alessio Balza and Livio Di Miceli, two students who graduated this year from the IED School of Visual Arts in Milan, supervised by Piergiorgio Gay, coordinator of the Video Design course.

Not only does IL PICCOLO tell the story (that is still important and unique in its kind) of the Piccolo Theatre in Milan, but also the dualism between performance and reality, between life and its double; in the background of the city that has always hosted it, with all its contradictions and its expectations, often frustrated, to be a real cultural capital in Europe.

In the subtext of this work it is important to underline the remark on the quality of culture as an inescapable source of knowledge and mutual tolerance.

The Aston Martin of the future

noreply@ied.it — 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Thirteen projects for a brand that is synonymous of excellence: III year students of the IED Turin Three year post-diploma Transportation Design – car design course has accepted the challenge sent by Aston Martin, thinking of a car capable of providing an interpretation of the needs of the near future while remaining consistent with the brand and its mix of passion and elegance. The brief of the thesis project (a.y. 08/09) looking forward the 2025, has involved the young designers in a research on the Aston Martin of the future, not constrained to any form of limitation with regards to the car’s packaging or architecture, but taking the brand’s values of exclusivity as their starting point and involving technology feasibly developed within the next 5 years.

The students, coordinated by Fulvio Fantolino, Transportation Design – Car Design Course Coordinator and head of the F&F Design Studio, visited the Aston Martin site in Gaydon (Great Britain) where the team headed by Marek Reichman provided the students with useful indications for the development of the project. The 43 students, divided up into teams, developed 17 proposals, that were subsequently narrowed down and the 13 chosen projects were developed either as an alias or in clay. A further selection led to the short listing of 8 project that were then produced in 1:4 scale models thanks to the collaboration with Cecomp. Great importance, at the final evaluation stage, was given to the feedback provided by Aston Martin’s Julian Wiltshire, Design Manager of the British car manufacturer.

Look at the gallery

The projects can be viewed at the IED headquarters in Via San Quintino, 39 – Turin until the 30th of September 2009 from 9 am to 1 pm and 2 pm to 6 pm.

Photo: LIBIDO: AMORE E PSICHE – Barbera, Guerri, Vecchiatini

© E. Piva

Master in Sustainable Architecure

noreply@ied.it — 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Istituto Europeo of Design of Turin provides the Master course on Sustainable Architecture coordinated by the architect Mario Cucinella.

A course specifically conceived to provide designers with an understanding of the dynamics affecting environmental strategies and the ability to manage them. A new breed of professionals who have the tools to address the problem of energy consumption in buildings as a creative opportunity, combining architectural design competence with the technical knowledge required to develop sustainable construction projects.

Beginning of the Master course: April 2010

Full and partial scholarships are avaiable. Request deadline: February 1st 2010

Look up the schedule of Master in Sustainable Architecture.

Info:

IED Turin

Ph. +39 (0) 11.541111

Email: infomaster@torino.ied.it

MINI DESIGN AWARD 2009.

noreply@ied.it — 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

“Aria nuova in città” (A breath of fresh air in the city) is the subject of the MINI Design Award 2009, the competition that MINI, in collaboration with IED, offers to all who believe that creativity and design can contribute to live one's city and everyday environment in a more sustainable way.

“Aria nuova in città” is a competition that challenges you to re-design objects and systems belonging to your world, in the pursuit of what is essential, to improve these objects without adding anything, but by removing something, towards a pure and eco-sustainable dimension for the contemporary living. In order to enter this on-line competition visit www.minidesignaward.it, register and upload your project. You can also vote the other contestants' works and say what you think on the blog. Re-design your world with “Aria nuova in città”, your work could be part of the exhibition curated by Rossella Bertolazzi that will be held next autumn at the Triennale of Milan.

The competition will end the 30th of October 2009.

Flandrika: Crossover Award 2009

noreply@ied.it — 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Marco Russo, a second-year student of the IED Milan course in Fashion Design, is one of the winners of the Flandrika Crossover Award 2009, the competition organized by Flanders Tourism within the first edition of the Flandrika Lifestyle Festival, an event dedicated to music, culture and fashion that took place at the Milan Idroscalo from the 6th to the 12th July 2009.

In this first edition the students from the Antwerp Royal Academy and from the IED Fashion Lab were asked to challenge each other with projects that required to reinterpret the work of the “Antwerp Six”. The two winners, Marco Russo from IED Design Lab Milan and Annette Kolling from the Antwerp Royal Academy, exhibited their projects through an installation in the Sala Azzurra (The blue hall) at the Idroscalo last 11th and 12th of July.

It was the two winners’ interpretative ability that positively impressed Edith Vervliet, director of the Flanders Fashion Institute in Antwerp and judge of the competition first edition: “The aim of the chosen subject was not to ‘copy’ one of the Antwerp six but to draw inspiration. The projects of the two winners, Marco Russo and Annette Kolling, show a personal and refined interpretation through garments that revisit the chosen subject with great consistency”.

Andrea Batilla, director of IED Moda Lab, adds: “ The project set free the creativity of two students who come from very different backgrounds. For the first time two visions, that are opposite and parallel at the same time, confronted each other on the same stage: the Belgian handmade artistic skills and the Italian poetic concreteness.”

PISTOLETTO: Bio Ethical Sustainable Trend

noreply@ied.it — 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Art approaches social responsibility together with the world of fashion that looks for a new trend of ethical and sustainable development.

Marta Forghieri, former IED Moda Lab student, winner of the 2007 edition of My Own Show and of Next Generation, took part in the workshop, dedicated to low environmental impact strategies that can be applied to the world of fashion.

The protagonists of Cittadellarte Fashion will be: companies manufacturers of fibres, yarns, fabrics, accessories and emerging international designers. The products of the event partners will be exhibited in an artistic arrangement designed by Michelangelo Pistoletto, whilst a lounge zone will be dedicated to the exhibitors for business meetings, b2b, between companies.

The event will start with two high-impact days dedicated to eco-conscious fashion and supported by a communication campaign by the main art, culture, and fashion newspapers and tv channels and it will go on with workshops, debates, cultural and business meetings that are introductory to the subsequent developments of the Cittadellarte Fashion activities.

Cittadellarte invites a number of companies that have been selected according to criteria of process and/or product sustainability to show themselves in an international event where art, manufacture and fashion meet in the background of an economy based on social responsibility.

In Cittadellarte Fashion - Bio Ethical Sustainable Trend the following will be presented:

The products coming from the exhibiting companies.

The creations of the eleven designers selected by Franca Sozzani (director of Vogue Italia) realized with the products provided by the exhibiting companies.

CREATIVE PROFESSIONS PROJECTS

noreply@ied.it — 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The competition for the 18 Scholarships linked to 8 Master Degrees in IED Milan and IED Venice started on the 7th of July. Every time a project is received it is possible to find it on line just after a few days;visit: www.professionicreative.com and see the projects that have been sent so far, and send us yours. You have time until the 7th of September.

Find all the infornation you need at www.professionicreative.com or write to professionicreative@ied.edu.

Enjoy your summer!

Ufficio Master IED Milano e IED Venezia

MA IED Milan and IED Venice Offices

IED Milan

MA Office: Ilaria Frigerio

Via Sciesa, 4 - 20135 Milan

tel. 02 5796951

CREATIVITÀ LIQUIDA

noreply@ied.it — 9 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The beachwear in couture version. For the first time in Rome, the international brands are scouting the young designers in the fashion show event of the closing week of the capital Fashion.

On the catwalk, "Bon Ton", a collection designed for GOLDENPOINT by 20 students of the second year of the three-year course of IED Roma Fashion Design.

The fashion show-event, dedicated to the World Swimming Roma 09, called Creatività Liquida, will be held on July 15, 2009 at 10:30 PM in Room 26, in the heart of Eur.

The event represents the transition between the calendar of AltaRoma (12-15 July) and the World Swimming Roma09 (July 17-August 2).

The current of surrealism art is the lecture key from which the whole IED collection springs, which speaks of a feminine and ironic woman. The movement has influenced the fashion of our century by releasing the ideas and to find the sense of the wonderful. The IED project idea is to incorporate the exasperated aspects of the artistic current, playing with elements outside of the common sense. The result is a collection characterized by the exaltation of the "liquidity", surreal for the artistic and historical citation but contemporary due to the use of the materials.

There are three inspirational figures through which the entire collection runs: Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Man Ray.

The collection relies on the experimentation. Costumes embellished with giant plastic flowers, processed by recycling PVC bottles funds, the reference to the environment sustainability of the materials transferred to the clothes, through the colored plastic, an illusion of aquatic tones.

IED Turin on Skype

noreply@ied.it — 9 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

From today the Information and Orientation Service of the Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin is up and running on Skype.

Get in touch with “IED Turin” and discover the three-year post-diploma courses, understand your creative potential, find out about professional opportunities available in the various areas of Design, Fashion, Visual Arts and Communication. The Institute’s expert staff is at your disposal to answer questions, outline student projects and assist you in choosing your future.

The service is available, even via webcam, Mondays to Fridays from 9 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.

Click on the button to make the call

Award for Innovation to Giulio Iacchetti

noreply@ied.it — 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Award for Innovation to Giulio Iacchetti, lecturer of IED Design in the past years.

ADI –The Industrial Design Association together with Confindustria PNICube (the Association of Incubators and of the Italian academic Plan Competition) and other institutions have been involved in order to assign the Award for Innovation, established thanks to the president of the Republic’s concession at the National Foundation for COTEC Technological Innovation, meant for the industrial and services sectors, for the university, public administration and tertiary.

The Public Administration and Innovation Minister Renato Brunetta inserted ADI, by means of a decree, amongst the representatives of the Award in virtue of the value of selection by Compasso D’Oro (Gold Compasses) that, for more than 50 years, has been promoting the Italian Design by showing the innovative qualities of the project and of the product.

The Award will be assigned every year. The recommendations for innovation to the Ministry made by ADI, will refer to the Index, the yearly selection that the permanent Observatory of the ADI Design highlights every year. In this way design ratifies its value in promoting innovation.

For the 2009 edition of the Award for Innovation, on the 8th of June, 26 awards were assigned, at the Quirinale, in front of the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano, of the Minister Renato Brunetta and other representatives of the politic, entrepreneurship and research world.

The three recommendations by ADI are pivoted on the valorization of the project contribution, and therefore of its designer, since there are processes of innovation that brought to the creation of excellent products already individuated by the ADI Design Index.

In the 2009 edition the people who receive the ADI Award are : Roberto Giolito for the project of the new 500 Fiat Style, Giulio Iacchetti for the Eureka Coop projects and Christian Tomadini for the project of the Climacustic Patt System , Gruppo Fantoni.

Amongst its excellent lecturers, IED numbers Giulio Iacchetti, industrial Designer since 199. Assigned with many International Awards, in 2001 iacchetti won the ADI Compasso D’Oro for his "Moscardino" , designed together with Matteo Ragni and now on permanent show at the New York MOMA.

Don’t take your education for granted!

noreply@ied.it — 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

IED Comunicazione is pleased to announce that also this year the educational proposal of the CSP Specialization Courses has been much appreciated and that the activated courses were attended by many young professional students with great interest.

In view of the start of registration for the new academic year, we communicate with great pleasure that, those who register to the CSP Courses from the 1st of July to the 31st of July will benefit from the summer promotion that offers a 10% discount on the fee of the courses planned for the 2009/2010 academic year:

MARKETING:PRODUCT & SALES MANAGEMENT (150 hours)

INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION (150 hours)

PLANNING AND COMMUNICATING EVENTS (150 hours)

ADVERTISEMENT COPYWRITING AND CREATIVE WRITING (150 hours)VISUAL COMMUNICATION: ART DIRECTION (150 hours)

MARKETING, MANAGEMENT AND COMMNICATION IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL SECTOR (75 hours)

For any information on the programmes, on the costs and to fix a pre-registration appointment:

Corsi di Specializzazione

IED Comunicazione

Tel. 02 55230369

seralicsp.com@milano.ied.it

THE ART BIENNAL HOSTS TWO IED MILAN LECTURERS

noreply@ied.it — 8 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In the setting of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, on show in Venice until the 22nd of November, under the aegis of the Ministry of cultural heritage and activities and of the Venice Art Biennal Foundation, the Collaudi exhibition is taking place at the Italian Pavilion, in Tese delle Vergni dell’Arsenale. It is an homage, in the year of Futurism, to F.T. Marinetti, supervised by Beatrice Buscaroli and Luca Beatrice.

The artists who have been invited to take part in the exhibition with purpose-made works are: Matteo Basilé, Manfredi Beninati, Valerio Berruti, Bertozzi&Casoni, Nicola Bolla, Sandro Chia, Marco Cingolani, Giacomo Costa, Aron Demetz, Roberto Floreani, Daniele Galliano, Marco Lodola, MASBEDO, Gian Marco Montesano, Davide Nido, Luca Pignatelli, Elisa Sighicelli, Sissi, Nicola Verlato and Silvio Wolf.

Amongst these great artists of contemporary Italian Art we are proud to point out Silvio Wolf, Photography lecturer at IED and at the School of Visual Art in New York, and Jacopo Bedogni (Masbedo), lecturer at the Video-art and Photography courses in the IED Visual Arts department. Two great artists who put their creativity to the use of the young who walk the difficult and fascinating path of art.

Silvio Wolf displays the installation I Nomi del Tempo (The Names of Time), Light, photography, sound and architectural space. On the other hand Masbedo show Schegge d'incanto in fondo al dubbio (Splintes of enchantment at the bottom of doubt),a video/audio installation shown on two screens.

In communicating the event to the selected artists, the curators Beatrice Buscaroli and Luca Beatrice wanted to underline some elements at heart of their choice. First of all the logic from which the choice itself derived: “Not a easy selection of artists but an actual exhibition, that deals with a specific topic, with a concept. The point of departure – the curators affirm – is a homage to Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Collaudi’s guru. What matters to us is the vitality of the Futurism, the first and only Italian avant-garde of the 20th century. A movement that is open to the coexistence of all languages, from the historical ones like painting and sculpture, to the experimentations of art film, of photography, of performance and of anomalous materials. This vision with no established barriers is exactly what we wanted to adopt, paying a lot of attention to the art works, designed and created for the occasion, and not for the image of the artwork or for the artists themselves. In conclusion our attention –Beatrice and Buscaroli state – has concentrated most of all on the generation of people in their forties-fifties, by enriching it with some younger proposals and thanks to teachers who represent a visual and cultural point of reference.

“I applaud the coming back of the Italian Pavilion, – affirmed Sandro Bondi, Minister of cultural heritage and activities – that doubled its spaces thanks to the fruitful collaboration with the Venice Biennal Foundation. The Italian creativity becomes again pivotal in the International Art Exhbition, by recovering a crucial role in one of the main exhibitions in the world dedicated to contemporary art. I want to thank Luca Beatrice and Beatrice Buscaroli for the precious work done so far and I wish them every possible success in continuing it.

Creative and supportive

noreply@ied.it — 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The students of IED are gifted with creativity and are sensitive to social issues. This has been confirmed by their participation towards the initiative promoted by “Aiutare i bambini” (Help the children), the Milan-based association that endorses projects in favour of children in both Italy and worldwide.

The two classes of the Milan IED Comunicazione course Pubblicità: Art direction (Advertising: Art Direction) and Pubblicità: Copywriting (Advertising: Copywriting) have been asked to create the new greeting cards that companies, donors and volunteers of “Aiutare i bambini” will buy to send their next Christmas wishes.

All the students accepted this invitation with enthusiasm and understood the charitable purpose of the initiative as an opportunity to put their best foot forward. The themes that were elaborated are different, and also the most classical like the Christmas tree have been interpreted in an original way.

The four best creative ideas have already been included in the catalogue of the “Aiutare i bambini” charity gifts. The copy work of the students on the message of the letter that will be sent to companies and donors together with the catalogue proved extremely important.

IED and the Foundation “Aiutare i bambini” hope that this kind of collaboration will happen again in the future, and for this reason they invite all boys and girls who are interested in volunteering activities - both in Italy and abroad - to visit the website: www.aiutareibambini.it.

A special thanks to lecturer Barbara Pietrasanta and to Matteo Battiston, Director of IED Comunicazione in Milan, who wanted this initiative and made it possible.

Dodo Arslan – The attractions of matter

noreply@ied.it — 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The MINI & Triennale CreativeSet project presents Dodo Arslan, lecturer and former student of IED. Le attrazioni della materia (The attractions of the matter), edited by Fabio Verdelli (Designer and Director of IED Research Centre), that continues the series of exhibitions dedicated to contemporary Italian design in the CreativeSet location of the Triennale Design Museum.

On show a selection of projects by Dodo Arslan, witnessing his multifaceted creative universe, made of complex polymorphic elements that interact with the most different materials: from leather to metal, from plexiglas to glass, from steel to carbon, from marble to polyurethane.

Very rarely the designer makes use of the canonical figures of solid geometry (parallelepipeds, prisms, spheres...) in his projects. The references actually convey an idea of a frame and of a structure (like the skeleton, like weaving and knitting).

In Arslan's work shapes become what they are in the moment in which he finds the material that can be best employed to represent them. The experimentation is actually one of the trademarks of his way of working. In order to discover the inner nature of objects, Arslan disassembles them, he studies their components and analyses their materials. His projects grow out of the combination between technique and manual ability, between a hand-made approach and an engineering one.

The designer is persuaded that a project is created “in fieri”, working step by step with gradual attempts and adjustments.

Very often the designer draws inspiration from the will to defy the laws of physics, to experiment with the characteristics of a metal or the resistance of a stone or the elasticity of a polymer.

As written by Silvana Annicchiarico, “in an overview of contemporary Italian design, Arslan is a solitary 'artifex': a sort of Doctor Frankenstein of design who assembles shapes and substances to pursue the dream of manipulating matter and give it life”.

Biography

Dodo Arslan is Italian with Armenian origins, he currently lives and works in Milan. He studied Industrial Design at IED in the mid '90.

Today he is a renowned designer, selected by Taschen for Design Now!, a volume that gathers 90 worldwide designers and producers and by Design/Art Limited Editions, an updated collection of DesignArt works created by 70 international designers..

Arslan won the Young&Design award, the Mini Design Award, Pirelli Pzero Logo and theArt Directors Club.

Arslan's products were shown at The New Italian Design exhibition in the Triennale of Milan and in occasion of the Welltech Award in the Science and Technique Museum in Milan. They were also exhibited in occasion of the Inside Art event at the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation and at the Italian Design on Tour in New York, Las Vegas, Shanghai, Mumbai, Berlin and London.

He also held some courses at the IED (Milan, Turin and Sao Paulo), at the Italian School of Design in Padua, at the Faculty of Design in Boras and Vaxjo in Sweden and at the Furniture Counsil in Cairo.

In addition he organized intensive workshops in association with Chicco Artsana, Ikea, Firme di Vetro and Timberland.

Before founding his studio he worked at the Studio & Partners (N. Bewick, M. De Lucchi, T. Fritze, E. Torri) for Deutsche Post, British American Tobacco and Zumtobel Staff and won the Design Plus award. In the Continuum studio (Milan - Boston – Seoul) he worked for Motorola, Hewlett Packard, Elan, Voelkl and Samsung and won the Good Design Award and the KIDA Grand Prize.

APRITI IED 2009

noreply@ied.it — 25 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

24-26 June

Via Alcamo, 11 - Via G. Branca, 122

Creativity and special guests Three days to recount a year of works, under creativity and contamination emblem.

Ideas and projects of IED’s talents, available to the public in an area where you can share and exchange thoughts, resources and connections. It’s also scheduled a meeting with Zero Assoluto and a theatre play at Acquario Romano.

The program is:

Wednesday, June 24

6:30 PM Opening Cocktail of IED library and presentation of the publication Mad in Italy

by IED Visual Arts, in collaboration with Fefè Project

IED head office, via Casilina 57

8:00 PM Take me off everything but not my Facebook! - WEEK of INTERNET @ ROMA event by Roma Province. The President of the Province, Nicola Zingaretti, shall be involved.

Special guest: Zero Assoluto.

IED garden head office, via Alcamo 11

Thursday, June 25

6:30 PM Award ceremony TUTTO IN UNA NOTTE 2009 (TUTTO IN UNA NOTTE 2009)

IED head office, via G. Branca 122

7:30 PM Opening Cocktail of IED projects exhibition projects, IED Communication and IED Moda Lab

IED garden head office, via G. Branca 122

Friday, June 26

18:00 Ceremony of diploma delivery

IED garden head office, via Alcamo 11

7:30 PM Opening Cocktail of IED projects, IED Visual Arts and Design

IED garden head office, via Alcamo 11

9:30 PM L’uomo di fumo (Man of Smoke) - Theatrical Performance

by IED Design

Architecture House - Piazza Manfredo Fanti, 47

11:30 PM IED Summer Party

Sporting Club - Lungomare Amerigo Vespucci, 8 - Ostia

In both locations an interactive exhibition will accompany the visitors on a tour where the creativity is the true protagonist.

In exhibition, the thesis projects that will remain on display until September 30.

We thanks Planet Image

With the sponsorship of the Cultural and Communication Policies Department of the City of Rome

With the support of the Province

JOB PLACEMENT IED ROME

noreply@ied.it — 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Companies meet IED new graduates.

An excellent opportunity for a direct confrontation with the working world will be held in IED Rome locations, within the calendar Apriti IED, the closing event of the academic year.

Within the program there are important meeting moments with the 2008/2009 new graduates.

The locations of Testaccio and San Giovanni become the space interviews for all graduates in IED Design, IED Visual Arts and IED Communication who aim to interact with important companies representatives, presenting their projects and purpose to start their working journey.

Among others, we remember the presence of the representatives of Officine Interni, Solution Group Spa, Modostudio, Alma Edizioni srl, Casini Editore, Decnet srl, Francesco Miscioscia ADV, MAG MediaArtGroup, Nexta, Pan Advertising, Zowa, TBWA, Lowe Pirella Fronzoni.

IED Moda Lab students were able to interact, during the presentation of the thesis project with a committee composed by Valentino, Fendi, Sixty Group, Paola Volpi Jewelry and Lorenz.

Videogame made in IED Roma

noreply@ied.it — 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Lore - the Game. One of the most ambitious projects undertaken by students IED Roma.

In a future of conflict for the hegemony of one species, it plays the challenge with no exclusion of hits for the survival of the stronger, clever and cunning.

It is the dark and realistic setting of Lore - the Game, one of the most ambitious projects undertaken by IED Roma students.

The third year’s boys of Digital and Virtual Design - under the guidance of their teacher Raoul Carbone, a professional expert in video games development and managing director of Black Sheep Studios - have designed a video game for PC that will be presented in these days to the Wings of Magic Roma Media Festival , at Villa Torlonia and the 'Independent Game Festival in San Francisco on 2010.

On the official site www.lorethegame.com, in addition to trailer, the screenshots and numerous art on video games, you can download the MOD of the game that can be installed immediately if you have Unreal Tournament 3 on your PC.

IED Milan final projects

noreply@ied.it — 8 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

From June 3rd to 25th students on three-year post-diploma courses meet the toughest challenge in their school career.

Over these days, in fact, the final projects developed during the last year of their three-year course will be presented.

They are actual projects developed in collaboration with several prestigious companies working within IED areas, design, fashion, visual arts and communication.

Presentations are open to the public. They are an interesting opportunity to become aware of the competence developed in three years at IED!

The downloadable calendar is a useful tool (it can be searched by day or by school) to retrieve all scheduled appointments, with a brief and clear description of the types of projects to be presented.

Please download the calendar!

IED TALKS: Woody Pirtle

noreply@ied.it — 5 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On June 15th-16th-17th IED will host the workshop held by Woody Pirtle “Recycling on a mega scale" in its premises in via Sciesa 4.

Woody Pirtle, Alain Le Quernec and Yossi Lemel are the three protagonists of the workshops organised contemporarily in Milan on the occasion of the opening of Good 50x70, an exhibition staged at Triennale di Milano from June 19th on.

The three workshops aim at analysing the themes of design and visual communication, providing young designers and practitioners from all around the world with the opportunity of exposing their work. The five best posters created by workshops participants will be selected and included in the exhibition Good 50x70.

The workshops require an admission fee. Further information on the event and applications is available at http://good50x70.org/2009.

WOODY PIRTLE CONFERENCE

Following that, on June 17th at 6.30 p.m. in aula Magna of IED Woody Pirtle will talk about himself in a free-entry conference. Massimo Pitis, supervisor of the Master’s programme in Graphic Design Management will chair the conference. Pasquale Volpe, a Master’s program lecturer, will take part in the event for Good 50x70.

For further information contact Ufficio Master IED Arti Visive

Tel 02-5796951.

Please confirm your participation in the conference clicca qui.

CREATIVITY FOR A NEW COMPETITIVENESS:

noreply@ied.it — 4 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Troy Robert Nachtigall, lecturer at IED Florence for the Course Fashion Marketing and Communication (One Year), will attend in:

CREATIVITY FOR A NEW COMPETITIVENESS: TRADITION AND KNOW-HOW

June 11 2009, Auditorium Fondazione dei Commercialisti, Viale Spartaco Lavagnini, 42 - Firenze

11th June 2009

Auditorium Fondazione dell’Ordine dei Commercialisti

The event aims to give to students, professionals and entrepreneurs an innovative perspective of creativity in the design, fashion and architecture areas, showing both the training available in the Florence territory and examples of new techniques, spaces and shapes. The open debate which will follow aims to be a chance for a free and uncompromising meeting among experts, entrepreneurs, local governments officials and consultants, all together bringing their experiences and ideas to build a tusacn way to creativity.

Program:

Viale Spartaco Lavagnini, 42 Firenze

9.00—9.30 REGISTRATION

9.30—10.10 TRAINING AND CREATIVITY: A WINNING COUPLE

- THE TOP-LEVEL EDUCATION IN FASHION AND DESIGN, Massimo RUFFILLI, TAeD - UNIFI

- ISIA PRESENTATION AND BEST PRACTICES , Stefano BETTEGA, ISIA

10.15—10.30 A LOCAL SPACE FOR CREATIVITY

- SAM: A NEW PLACE FOR ARTS AND CRAFTMANSHIPS, Cristina DEGL’INNOCENTI, author, designer and

evnts coordinator for SAM

open debate

10.40—11.15 TUSCAN EXPERIENCES: FROM TRADITION TO INNOVATION AND BACK

- TEXTILES AND SUSTAINABILITY , Benedetta ZINI, IBIMET-CNR

- IN HAND: INNOVATIVE HANDICRAFT, Cristina DEGL’INNOCENTI, IN HAND coordinator

11.20—11.40 MAKING IN ITALY: THE CREATIVITY OF RAW MATERIALS

- EL WIRE PROJECT, Troy Robert NACHTIGALL, IED Firenze

open debate

11.50—12.10 RECYCLED CREATIVITY

- Re-using space and shapes , Guido INCERTI, nEmoGruppo architetti associati

open debate

12.20—12.50 DESIGN FOR ALL

- Designing the public space , David BENEDETTI, nuvolaB architetti associati

open debate

12.30-13.00 CONCLUSIONS

Incontri Cinematografici Stresa

noreply@ied.it — 4 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Amidst lake Maggiore superb scenery, Incontri Cinematografici di Stresa (June 17-21, 2009) renews its format. Not only a festival, but a dynamic event characterised by a strong international character which has established itself year after year as a fundamental appointment for followers and practitioners.

Over five days, projections, previews and retrospectives will alternate in order to explore guest countries’ cinematography, with special attention to independent films.

Beyond doubt, professional meetings among practitioners of the audiovisual industry from various countries, aimed at promoting cooperation and coproduction projects, are the very heart of the event. The calendar schedules panel discussions on domestic and European funds for production and development, digital media and new technologies, case histories, tax shelter system analysis, and the traditional forum on coproduction.

A group of students from IED Milan schools of Arti Visive and Comunicazione will document the festival in its entirety with photographs, videos and dailies.

IED students will also be responsible for the creation of a soundtrack for the festival opening, and of some signposts.

LED Award 2009

noreply@ied.it — 4 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

IED was awarded two prizes for its participation to the contest Light Exhibition Design Award, set up and promoted by Comune di Milano under the aegis of ADI – Associazione per il disegno Industriale, AIDI – Associazione Italiana di illuminazione, and AIAP – Associazione Italiana Progettazione per la Comunicazione Visiva.

The contest aims at decorating Milan with light and creativity. IED wins the section Giardini with the project Ladybug, by Fabio Nalesso and Federico Porro, students on the third year of Interior Design – based on low energy consumption technology, 100% recyclable, Ladybug is designed to respect forms and lighting layout, and pays particular attention to the play of light and shadows.

Moreover, in the section Architecture, the project Glimmer Light was awarded. Created by Sofia Carnovali, Giulia Boccola and Emanuela Corrado, students on the third year of Interior Design, Glimmer Light is an installation aimed at helping citizens perceive Milan, instead of living the town only as spectators. The project is characterised by a “string” of light which, going through the historical centre, guides the exploration of six key spots of town.

Visitors are guided along a path of light and colours which enhances the historical sights and attractions of Milan.

The thirty projects selected for the contest finals, including the two awarded IED projects, were exhibited within Urban Solutions in the exposition area Livinluce at Fieramilano, from May 26th to 30th.

SCHOLARSHIPS 2009-2010

noreply@ied.it — 4 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

THE FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS

THE SELECTED PROJECTS WILL BE PUBLISHED ON UNCREATIVOALGIORNO.COM

AND MAY BE COMMENTED AND VOTED.

I AM THE FUTURE! Wherever you are, you are the future: the coming world is in your hands, like those of any young man who one day will be able to make their dreams come true. Which model are you going to propose for the future?

This is the theme chosen for the award of ten scholarships provided by IED Rome for the academic year 2009/2010.

IED rewards the creative talents of young people aged between 18 and 26, with their admission in a three-year courses completely free, in its schools of Design, Visual Arts, Fashion and Communication. There are four design ideas to be developed, one for each school. The future is the central theme. Participants should express through images, texts, drawings, graphics, and audiovisual, their personal vision of the tomorrow.

The designs and images will be selected and published on the site www.uncreativoalgiorno.com and may be voted and commented by visitors. Send your project too, register yourself and visit the site: you can check the public acceptance, read the opinions about your idea, and express your opinion.

Participation is permitted to young Italians and foreigners, and the deadline for submitting concepts is July 15 2009. Entries may be sent by e-mail addressed to the appropriate active address until the end of the selective process. A jury of experts will award scholarships to the best works among those published.

Find out how to participate!

IED and LED

noreply@ied.it — 28 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

During the lecture about Led technology, the students of Light Design Master Course improve themselves in this technique of illumination.

Supported by Lux Italia (Luxury Lighting Aplliances), international leader in the production of Led, the students received the brief from an important landing institution: to project a new type of illumination for each subsidiary in order to have a constant illumination during all the day. The illumination has to be correlated to the external and natural light. According to new philosophy about work spaces, in this way the wellness notably increase .

Another request was to use only Led technology because it has lower servicing costs, but a long life and a larger lightness respect all the normal lamps.

The coordinator of the Master, Raoul Shoumaker , followed the students during the develop of the projects.

A barbecue for an exigent target

noreply@ied.it — 22 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Campingaz , multinational company that produces barbecue and camping equipement, asked to the students of the Industrial Design Master Couse to restyle the barbecue structure.

The company had different requirements: develop a project about a new type of barbecue, innovative and user-friendly. A project with an innovative aesthetic for an exigent target, has to had a very compact shape.

Through a deepen research and analysis, supported by the Company, he students known the social situation and how people in the world use the barbecue. After this phase the students made an innovative project and the client was very satisfied about the results.

The project was followed by James Luther, the coordinator of the Master.

SUMMER COURSE 2009

noreply@ied.it — 22 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The new Summer Course Design Experience starts at the end of June. Eighty hours of full immersion of language and Italian style.

A summer course of Italian language in Rome for all foreigners that, in addition to learning the language, desire to know more about fashion, design, cinema, photography.

Besides the Italian language, students will also acquire the fundamental elements of history and methodology of creative disciplines, such as visual arts, architecture and design.

The course program also includes design paths and guided visits to leading companies in the production of design objects and fashion collections.

DOWNLOAD STUDY PROGRAM

Meet IED Master’s programs

noreply@ied.it — 21 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On May 26th IED will take part in the XIX edition of Job Meeting & Trovolavoro.it, a career day organised by Sapienza University of Rome.A great opportunity to meet and exchange views addressed to University students, graduates, representatives from companies and higher education institutions.

IED staff will be there to provide information on post-baccalaureate programs addressed to young graduates and professionals: structure of courses, methodology, project work and laboratories, partner companies and institutions, professionals and managers of the teaching staff.

Not only that. IED staff will provide career guidance on the sectors of design, fashion, communication and visual arts. They will also give detailed information on the possibilities of internship and work, and advice on the curriculum vitae of people aiming at creative careers.

Free entry. All-day opening, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Rome, May 26th, 2009

Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Rome

Via Eudossiana, 18

The next Master starting from IED Roma

noreply@ied.it — 21 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

IED Rome suggests the starting cycle of master's degree in May 2009.

The master in Stylist for entertainment aims to form the mass media show expert, the fashion connoisseur and interpreter of the objectives of the images and communication of the entertainment world.

The Art Direction Premium. Communicating Excellence is the master, in collaboration with Saatchi & Saatchi, which aims to specialize communication operators introducing them to the topics related to the category of goods of excellence. A multidisciplinary path, strongly oriented to creativity and stylistic research.

The master's degree in Web Media Design, coordinated by Cristina Chiappini and Franco Zeri, wants to form and train professionals capable to produce a new generation of services, making use of the advertising and marketing web 2.0 techniques, to produce and share ideas online, through communities and companies online.

The Master in Brand Design Communication , organized by Living Roome in collaboration with ADI, is the course that aims to train a professionist able to interpret the design communication.

The master's degree in Video Game Design grants an integrated specialization of the entire cycle of the design and game product development, including both general and technical skills, oriented to the use of the main and most popular tools for prototyping and development.

The master in Strategic Marketing and Product Management is intended to give a specialized background in marketing, not only giving an extensive multidisciplinary preparation of the issues of strategic and operational marketing, but also approaching the new aspects of the managerial area of the company management.

The master's degree in Public Relations and Institutional Management wants to provide the tools to define the communication strategies toward the reference public, and the necessary competences to represent the legitimate interests of companies, associations, organizations and non profit institutions at the national, regional, local and supranational entities.

The master courses are taught in local language.

Triumph contest: Emanuele Caldarera wins

noreply@ied.it — 18 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Great success at La Rinascente for the Italian finals of the Triumph “Inspiration Award 2009”, an international contest created in order to spot the most inspired and inspiring lingerie design ever imagined.

The national finals were held on Tuesday May 12th at 7.30 p.m. on the 7th storey of La Rinascente and under the portico of live window exhibition. A crowd of fans and curious visitors welcomed Alena Seredova, brand endorser for Triumph, and Francesco Facchinetti, who presented on this occasion a very special night.

The creations 21 students made for Triumph Inspiration Award were admired “live” in La Rinascente’s windows, animated by large screens and embellished by an amazing and curious show of designers’ bras.

The winners of Triumph Inspiration Award 2009 Italian finals are:

1st place winner: Caldarera Emanuele – A Global, International, Equalizing Icon: Light – IED Moda Lab, Milan

2nd place winner: Iura Genna – Rastafun – NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle arti, Milan

3rd place winner: Gallo Barbara – Continuum - IED Moda Lab, Milan

Even on this occasion Eurojersey was with Triumph, renewing a valued partnership resulting in the most fashion and innovative lingerie and beachwear designed at every season by Triumph, where Sensitive® fabric plays a key role.

IED and Kenwood thinking together

noreply@ied.it — 17 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The students of RSP Interior Design Master Course realized for Kenwood an ‘Emotional Room’ area for the shops in which the brand Kenwood is distributed.

The main request of the Company: to project a big space, a ‘shop in a shop’ in which Kenwood products (from the dolby surround wiring to Television and dvd) are presented in a new way, exalting technical and aesthetic properties.

This space had to be: charming and overall, realized by new materials but non expensive and adaptable to the different spaces in the different shops.

Giorgio Grandi, coordinator of the Master , followed the students from the research of new trends to the selection of new materials. He helps the students to develop the project and to present it to the Company.

Special Week

noreply@ied.it — 12 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

IED Special Week 18 – 22 May 2009

IED Florence presents, in collaboration with the Casa della Creativita`, a series of seminars focusing on the role of Communication in Fashion that are included in the academic calendar of the One Year in Fashion Marketing and Communication course.

Monday18 May 2009, from 10:30 to 13:30

Isabella Cardinali, Responsible of the Communication Department for “La Perla”, will introduce the “La Perla – Magazine” project, starting with how the project was conceived (contents and graphic set up), inserting it into the wider frame work of the communication to the final client.

Tuesday 19 May 2009, from 10:30 to 13:30

Andrea Panconesi, of Luisa Via Roma, will present the www.luisaviaroma.com portal, one of the most important e-commerce sites of international fashion, tied to the concept store of the same name.

Wednesday 20 May 2009, from 09:30 to 12:30

Costanza Menchi will hold a seminar on” Costume and Fashion in Cinema -The Italian Perspective”, in which she will illustrate how the creativity of some masters of Italian handicraft has influenced both the success of the movie and the diffusion of the “Fashion Made in Italy”.

Wednesday 20 May 2009, from 16:00 to 18:00, Aperitif will follow

Elisabetta Cianfanelli, Fashion City Council Member of the Province of Florence, will present, along with Fashion journalist Betti Barsantini, the Lagabbia project, organized in collaboration with the Assessorato, the Casa Circondariale di Sollicciano (Firenze) and a few Tuscan Fashion industrial entrepreneurs.

All seminars will be held in ENGLISH

IED is an International network in continuous expansion that operates in education and research of disciplines in the fields of Design, Fashion, Visual Arts and Communication.

The seminars will be held in the CASA DELLA CREATIVITA'. Located in the historical center of Florence, on the side of one of the most ancient churches of the city: Santa Maria Maggiore. The building is host to a unique and innovative structure, a space dedicated to innovation and contemporary art. The premise promotes and hosts’ initiatives dedicated to the worlds of Architecture and Design, of Writing and Publishing, of Visual Arts and Digital Communication.

For further information on courses and activities visit our site

Istituto Europeo di Design

Vicolo Santa Maria Maggiore, 1

50123 Firenze (Fi)

Tel./Phone +39 055 2676311

DEMOCRATIC FASHION PARADE

noreply@ied.it — 11 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

MILAN

MAY 12TH, 2009

7.30 p.m.

Triumph Inspiration Award 2009, Italian finals

Live Window Exhibition Portico

Triumph “Inspiration Award” is an international contest created in order to spot the most inspired and inspiring lingerie design ever imagined.

The national finals will be held on Tuesday May 12th at 7.30 p.m. under the portico of live window exhibition.

The creations 21 students made for Triumph Inspiration Award can be admired in La Rinascente’s windows, animated by large screens and embellished by an amazing and curious show of designers’ bras.

Istituto Europeo di Design IED Moda Lab Milan, NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milan and Accademia Italiana of Florence are the schools competing in the Italian finals of Triumph Inspiration Award.

Also this year Triumph Inspiration Award will be divided into two stages: national and international finals. First of all, our creative talents are to compete at national level.

The first place winner of the Italian finals will be awarded a € 7.000 price and will participate to the international finals to be held in Milan on September 23rd.The second place winner will be awarded a € 4.000 price and the third place winner a € 2.000 prize.

This year’s design motto is “Icons”, a theme young talents can interpret and develop in any form and in any field of art and human knowledge.

The finals will be presented by Francesco Facchinetti. Special guest of the event will be Alena Seredova, the beautiful brand endorser for Triumph.

Even in this occasion Eurojersey will be with Triumph, renewing a valued partnership resulting in the most stylish and innovative lingerie and beachwear designed at every season by Triumph, where Sensitive® fabric plays a key role.

IED design awarded!

noreply@ied.it — 10 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On the occasion of Salone del Mobile 2009, IED design students and ex-students were awarded several prestigious prizes in two important contests.

The first one is "Abitare x Due" (Living x two) organised by AIPI, the Italian association of interior designers. This year’s theme, "Abitare x Due", involves drawing up a project of a living space to be developed over a surface area of maximum 70,00 square metres as a home for two adults, related or not, who spend the day out working.

IED was awarded the 1st prize in the professional category thanks to ex-students Gisella Alfieri Sabattini, Fabio Bozzetti, Valentina D’Amico, Mario Sgargi and Vittorio Pieroni, all IED ex-students, who graduated in Interior Design in June 2008 and set up the design studio Untilsix_www.untilsix.com_. The project they submitted is YoursMineOurs_Empty, an empty but equipped space, unrestrained by the limits of standard living areas.

IED was also awarded the 1st prize in the students category thanks to Ben Zur, an Italian-Israeli student on his second year of Interior Design. Architectural barriers are the central theme of his project. It aims at making elderly and differently-able people independent using custom-made furniture, which conceals “medical” details by making them expressive elements of aesthetic character.

The second international ideas contest, where IED students were protagonists, is “Planning and design for everyone”, promoted by the non-profit organisation "lo Spirito di Stella" and Autogrill – also with the support of Estel Spa and under the aegis of DFA e ADIM.

Theme of the contest was the careful planning of a barrier-free area for Autogrill.

Students Claudia Bussolari, Gabriele De Andreis and Valeria Morbioli, on their third year of interior design, were awarded the third prize in the students category for the project UNIVERSAL DOCKING SYSTEM. Such system permits disabled people to use purpose-made self-service trays to move and carry food in the equipped areas.

IED honorary member of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi

noreply@ied.it — 10 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Leonardo Ferragamo, President of the Associazione Partners Palazzo Strozzi, recently invited IED to join the group of honorary members of the APPS project.

The Associazione Partners Palazzo Strozzi supports Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in seeking to engage companies, in Italy and abroad, which are keen on becoming disinterested patrons of arts and culture for the good of Florence and of the people who love it.

According to the President’s words, the invitation represents a recognition for IED Group’s commitment to students’ intellectual growth, through generous and enthusiastic day-to-day work in teaching and nurturing talent and personality.

For information on activities and exhibitions organised by Palazzo Strozzi, www.palazzostrozzi.org

The Italian Design Council is established

noreply@ied.it — 10 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The Minister of Cultural Heritage, Sandro Bondi, has created a new Italian council for design. The council, a continuation of the previous and larger council established by Rutelli, will raise awareness of the culture of design in public administration, private companies and the media. It will also formulate and propose actions involving the active participation of Italy to key international events in the field.

Adolfo Guzzini has been appointed president.

The council is formed voluntarily by several exponents of Italian design, amongst whom IED has the honour to see its scientific director, Aldo Colonetti.

The list of members includes:

Silvana Annicchiarico, Luisa Bocchietto, Andrea Branzi, Pierluigi Cerri, Beppe Chia, Medardo Chiapponi, Aldo Colonetti, Arturo Dell'Acqua, Bellavitis, Pietro Di Pierri, Frida Giannini, Stefano Giovannoni, Carlo Martino, Antonio Paris, Nadia Salvatori and Andrea Vallicelli.

Women Are Heroes

noreply@ied.it — 9 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On May 25th the photography exhibition “Women Are Heroes”, created by students of IED Milan photography course in collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières, will be presented in the Cinema Massimo foyer in Turin.

The event, promoted by Médecins Sans Frontières in collaboration with the National Museum of Cinema, will set off showing two episodes from “Invisibles”, a serial following one thread: the desire to give voice to people covered by a veil of indifference. The film was produced by Javier Barden for Médecins Sans Frontières.

A meeting on “Telling about humanitarian crisis through images and words” will follow. Participants:

Francesco Zizola – Press photographer

Mimmo Candito – President of Reporters Sans Frontières and correspondent for "La Stampa"

Sergio Cecchini - Communication manager of Médecins Sans Frontières Italy

May 25th,2009 - 8.30 p.m.

Cinema Massimo

Via Verdi, 18 – Turin

“IO DONNA”: BUT EVEN MEN AND STILL LIFE

noreply@ied.it — 6 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The first edition of Fashion Stylist 08.09 Master’s program (400 hours) ended today with the presentation of portfolios created by students.

It was an occasion for students to present the outcome of their work to Bruna Rossi (Co-director of "Io Donna" magazine) and Marina Malavasi (Fashion desk "Io Donna" magazine), showing the shoots they took along the master’s course.

The shootings included: Men’s/Men’s &Women’s/Women’s/Still life. Each time they worked with different photographers, modeling agencies and hair & makeup studios

Students gained a depth of knowledge in disciplines like photography techniques, history of fashion, history of photography and fashion writing, and developed publishing skills, both on the creative/communication side and on the editorial one.

CAREER DAY: A TOKYO CON TOYOTA

noreply@ied.it — 5 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The series of appointments Career days, aimed at helping IED students meet the business world, has come to an end.

Students were provided the opportunity to meet personally various companies. Many of them had interviews with fashion companies and were selected for internships in the areas of Marketing, Communication, Fashion Design, Accessories and Textile.

Jana Letilovic, a student on the third year of Fashion Textile Design, provides a successful example of the events outcome. She has been awarded a 8-week internship in the textile development office of Toyota Japan.

The student will go to Tokyo on a programme fully covered by the company, enjoying a unique opportunity to experience a very interesting reality from a business perspective, but also for her personal growth.

CULTURAL APPOINTMENTS

noreply@ied.it — 3 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On April 20th another IED series of events came to an end: the second part, allowed professionals from various sectors to give voice to their life experience.

Feelings, commitment, sacrifice and satisfaction of people who fully followed their dreams and keep doing it.

 musician Omar Pedrini with “communication through art: from the inspiration to the creation and distribution of a project”;

 journalist Luca Sofri with “Traditional information in Italy is dying: no one finishes it off though. The quality crisis affecting Italian media and the incapacity of the Internet to take advantage of it”

 stage director Serena Sinigaglia with “Theatre make sense... Are cinema or television better, or nothing at all?”;

 artist-painter Gabriele Arruzzo with “Gabriele Arruzzo – As Himself. The dualism between reality and fiction. The subtle relation between life and art”;

 chef Davide Oldani with “Pop cooking”;

 journalist Massimo Torrigiani with “Present indicative: why and how to write an independent magazine”;

 researcher Judith Sutherland of Human Right Watch with “Activist: working for an international human rights organisation”.

Students had the possibility to get acquainted with professions closely connected to communication, hence they were able to catch a sneak preview of their immediate future.

Thanks for the great and active participation, enthusiasm and interest. Special thanks to all speakers for their will to meet (and open out to) an unusual audience.

Professional Automotive Designers from SEE

noreply@ied.it — 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

auto(r) is the biggest automotive design conference in Europe in 2009 and the first ever held in South East Europe (SEE).

The conference theme is “Professional automotive designers from SEE”, born or originated. This is the first time ever that this subject has been taken to the public.

A title auto(r) has been chosen because it combines two words - automobile and author.

During the conference there has been an exhibition of drawing and sketches, photos and production cars designed by speakers.

The event's mission is to present designers as authors through hand drawn sketches and drawings.

Today, as for hundred years, every idea is materialised through “pen” and paper. Despite computers this ancient form is still basic for every designer.

Visit the auto(r) website

For those interested in automotive IED Torino organizes:

- 3 Year Course in Transportation Design - Car Design

- Master of Arts in Transportation Design

- Master Course in Advanced Design for Transportation

It's time for Workshop in Venice!

noreply@ied.it — 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The next Workshops organized by IED Venezia will be dedicated to fashion show and to the research and interpretation of new fashion trends.

Organized on week end modules, these workshop will start in the next months in the Vencie IED Seat

Fashion Show is articulated on three week ends beetween May and June

Fashion Trends is articulated on 4 weekends in the months of June and July

Both courses are in local language (Italian)

For informations and enrollment

Per informazioni e iscrizioni:

IED Venezia

Isola della certosa – Venezia

Tel. 041 2771164

VIEDRAM AT SALONE DEL MOBILE

noreply@ied.it — 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The international observatory of video design organized projecte towards Digital Entertainment Jam.

Saturday April 25 at the National Museum of Science and Technology.

The first edition in Europe of the Digital Entertainment Jam will be presented on the occasion of the ¨Salone del Mobile¨. This manifestation is at the same time intended as an exhibition and as an interactive competition of the new media art, animation and entertainment made in China.

In this context, FDI will present VIEDRAM Rome, Video Design International Festival, first exhibited in 2003, with the aim to spread the culture and the innovation of the video communication.

The initiative, was born from an idea of Luigi Vernieri, Director of the School of Visual Arts, and the long experience of IED, becoming a monitoring report on current trends in the area of production of digital videos involving some of the most important and innovative international realities.

VIEDRAM, International Festival of Video Design

April 25, 2009, from 5:00 p.m.,

Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci"

Via S. Vittore 21, Milan

In the Salone, FDI will also participate with a corporate event "That's design."

LOOKING UP FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE

noreply@ied.it — 5 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Looking Up for the Impossible is an installation realized for Fuori Salone 2009 visible on a balcony at Corso Como 14.

The installation is relized by God Design, group of four young international designers, who are attending the second year Industrial Design course in Istituto Europeo di Design Milano.

Rishabh Agrawal, Ivan Diaz, Sebastian Botero B. and Alexandra Kaminski, from India, Mexico, Colombia and Polland, step into the world of design by making this exposition.

The display is a set of 3 chairs. Markings on the street of Corso Como indicate the view of this new and fresh aerial exposition.

The installation take place in corso Como 14, from April 21st until April 27th

Info: www.groupofdesigners.com

groupofdesigners@hotmail.com

Sardinia film festival awards IED students

noreply@ied.it — 2 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

“Vitellopoli”, a musical video clip created as final project for Elio e le Storie Tese by students of Illustration and animation and Video design courses, won Sardinia Film Festival as best film of the section Very short films.

It won for its remarkable complexity supported by fast editing speed, both of animated and reality shots. It succeeded in creating, through simple word play, allegory and satire on how the media represent our days.

http://www.sardiniafilmfestival.it/home.htm

http://www.sardiniafilmfestival.it/comunicato.doc

IED MODA LAB CAREER DAY

noreply@ied.it — 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

From 25th of march to 22th of may the third year students of IED Moda Lab Courses will have the opportunity to meet representatives from a lot of companies that work in the fashion field: Max Mara, Bally e VFC (brand Napapijri, Wrangler, The North Face, Lee, Vans) and other selcted brands already answered.

During the month, at the Spazio Teatro of Via Pompeo Leoni 3, will be prepared some corners where companies will open their doors to third year's IED Students.

Fashion Show

noreply@ied.it — 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

A fashion parade is the eagerly awaited moment the development of a fashion collection reaches its climax on. How to plan a fashion parade? Which professionals are involved in the process? Furthermore, is a fa

IED brings fashion parades into spotlight to reveal all the secrets hidden behind this fascinating and complex world, looking for answers and new solutions.

The workshop consists of three weekends:

1st weekend – May 15th/16th, with Marialaura de Franceschi, event producer, owner of MDF srl, a firm offering services in the field of image events. She has organised fashion shows for Antonio Marras, D-Squared, Diesel, Dior, Hermes, Miss Blumarine, Moschino...

The workshop will be introduced to participants through a focus on fashion parades from the origins up to the present. The most sensational and original events will be analysed in order to delineate future scenarios.

2nd weekend – May 29th/30th, with Simona Bielli, Producer for Random, an agency in Milan dealing with the organisation of fashion parades.

The weekend workshop will be entirely addressed to the planning of a fashion parade or of an alternative event, in order to provide students with an actual understanding of all the tools (from the choice of location to shooting, from selection to music and fitting...) and steps necessary to compose an organisation process.

3rd weekend – June 5th/6th, with Paolo Bazzani, Antonio Marras Art Director.

The final part of the course will focus on the study of brand in order to plan a communication strategy consistent with identity. The events organised for Antonio Marras, famous for their eclectic character and for the strong brand identity they convey, will set an example.

Fashion Show:

3 weekends (Fridays and Saturdays).

May 15th-16th, June 29th-30th; June 5th-6th, 2009

Restricted entry course.

For information and enquires:

IED Venice

Isle of Certosa - Venice

Tel. 041 2771164

IED Milan Scholarship!

noreply@ied.it — 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Don't miss the chance to get one of the scholarships offered by IED Milan! Send us your project, show your talent and take part to the selection of the best works, you have time until May 17th 2009!

The three-year lasting Scholarships have different levels and schedule facilitations: from 100% to 50% and 30% on the tuition fee of IED Courses.

Find out the briefs on the website www.diariocreativo.com and let your creativity ride, IED is waiting for you!

info:

www.diariocreativo.com

DO MORE. FIND THE HERO IN YOU.

noreply@ied.it — 8 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Are you a hero of creativity? Show us Listerine superpowers, take part in the contest “Do more. Find the hero in you. Create Listerine super powers!”.

Reinterpret the image of the Listerine bottle personalising it with pictures, illustrations or decorative elements which can convey Listerine powers, its special and exceptional qualities.

Participating is easy: Sign in on the website www.do-more.it, join the community “do more” and upload from March 8th your reinterpretation of the Listerine bottle image in the assigned “contest” area. The best 10 projects, selected by Ied Research centre, will be displayed in a travelling exhibition in Milan, Turin, Bologna, Rome and Catania.

And it’s not all: a super-jury composed of expert designers, creative and graphics professionals, will select the the best project, whose author will be awarded a weekend in New York for two people and tickets for MoMa, the most famous modern art museum in the world. The winners of the second and third prize will be special guests in a programme on Radio DeeJay (media-partner of the contest together with DeeJay Tv and All Music).

An event on June 24th will bring the contest to an end. The winners will be announced-they will be special guests of the party, together with a lucky voter from the community.

IED TALKS – THE STRENGTH OF IDEAS

noreply@ied.it — 8 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The last appointment of the IED TALKS conference calendar:

Takamasa SAKURAI ( media contents)

Japanese animation

History and characteristics of Japanese Anime, with reference to the past, the present and to the future perspectives of Anime's industry. During the conference also various Anime's clips will be projected.

Dott. Azuma Hiroshi, Consul General of Japan at Milan, will be present.

Monday May 18th, 2009 at 10.00 am

Guests from previous editions:

Linus

A journey in the world of radio broadcasting (January 22nd )

Werner Aisslinger

Design is pioneering (January 29th)

Saul Saguatti

aMano (February 9th )

Renato Mannheimer

Design and society (February 18th )

Pati Nunez

The practice of excellence (March 12th)

Mimisma Orchestra

Network design (March 16th)

Bruno Rainaldi "streetwalker designer"

Exposing design (March 30th)

Luca Fois

Organising design: sales and culture (April 8th)

N! 03 Studio

Interacting with design (May 6th)

For further information:

p.r@milano.ied.it

IED at TRIENNALE DESIGN MUSEUM!

noreply@ied.it — 8 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Inauguration of guided tours and special topics classes at the Triennale Design Museum. On Wednesday March 25TH students on their last year of secondary school at IPSIA M. Fortuny of Brescia and Istituto Statale d'Arte of Monza (MI) will admire the most remarkable examples in the history of Italian design and share their experience with Davide Gallina, product designer at studio [1+2=8] and IED ex-student. A unique opportunity to become acquainted with the origin of the most important objects in the culture of Made in Italy.

The event is open to all secondary schools!

Information on applications:

tel: 02 5796951

From leather accessories to solidarity

noreply@ied.it — 2 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

IED Moda Lab Milano divided it's soul beetween innovation and technology in the leather accessories field and contributed to a social action that linked the school to "San Vittore" Prison of Milano.

SICERP

Students of 3 year Course of Shoes and Accessories Design met Stefano Parotti, a representative from SICERP Tannery, who did a special lesson dedicated to a deepening into leather market, it's use in contemporary fashion system and related main working techniques. SICERP is one of the most important italian companies in this field, collaborates with prestigious designers and fashion brands (Chanel, Marc Jacobs, Luis Vuitton) and attends all important wolrdwide fairs.

SAN VITTORE

Fashion's language, it's history and it's protagonist's life, jewels and accessories fascination, and tailors art magic: these are just some of the topics faced in this educational path organized by IED Moda Lab in joint venture with "Centro Territoriale per l'educazione degli adulti dell'Istituto Comprensivo cavalieri per la Casa Circondariale San Vittore di Milano". Some volunteer teachers held lessons and seminars into feminine row of the prison, picking the great opportunity fpr a confrontation with a different reality to transmit a message full of creativity, knowledge and study.

Marta Forghieri wins Next Generation

noreply@ied.it — 2 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Next Generation is an initiative promoted by Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana in collaboration with Camera di Commercio di Milano. This project main objective is to find a new generation of stylists and to develope the future of Made in Italy. The initiative wants to characterize and value new talents, to support them into their first steps into hard path of indipent creativity, and is aimed to young designers that still haven't 30 years of age. An ambitious program, a real accompanyment path useful to place young designers side by side to important italian Fashion Brands.

Marta Forghieri, ex IED Fashion student and winner of 2007 edition of My Own Show, is one of the four winners of this contest that allowed her to get an important support into the release ofaÂ new collectio. Her creations have been paraded on 25th of february 2009 at 13.15 p.m. at Sala Spiga of Milano Moda Donna.

Marta, italian, 28 years of age is graduated in Literature and Philosophy. She has an extended culture filled by her interest for Music, design, Cinema and Contemporary Art.

After her first experience at Central Saint Martins College of London she get a Fashion Design diploma at IED Moda Lab in Milan.

Collection's concept is taken from a deepening of her thesis work and form "Psycho Candy" collection awarded at My Own Show. A dialogue beetween opposites is the real thread conductorof the research that developes in a overlap of soft volumes and tailor constructions.

PLAST09

noreply@ied.it — 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

In the fairground of FieraMilano, Rho, from March 24th to 28th 2009, about 1.300 exhibitors –Italian and foreign ones, from over 40 countries, direct sellers and sales agents on a net surface area of about 60.000 sq m in 7 pavilions- will start the 15th edition of PLAST.

Ied Design will take part in it showing some final projects at Pavilion 16 stand D 021.

Information:

PLAST 09

Opening hours: 10:00 - 18:00

Sponsored by: ASSOCOMAPLAST - EUROMAP

Web site: http://www.plast09.org

E-mail: info@plast09.org

FASHION INNOVATES ITSELF

noreply@ied.it — 8 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

CFA Cool Hunting 2nd edition 2007/08 STYLE.IT dissertation project

Style.it is an Italian reference website for new trends and fashion created by the great experience and expertise of Condè Nast S.P.A Publishers. (Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, GQ, AD).

Students on the Cool Hunting advanced training course, in occasion of their dissertation project, engaged in the design of a website aimed at pinpointing the cool on the Internet. They were given great support by STYLE.IT. The starting point was the possibility for the students to have an assigned blog where to post ideas, images, concepts and experiment the dynamics of web communication. They practised until they became able to design in detail an experimental website aimed at spotting and filtering even the most hidden hints of innovation on the web.

Final projects were presented to style.it’s Director, Bettina Jacomini, at IED Moda Lab in via Pompeo Leoni.

Master RSP Fashion & Textile Design 2007/08 PUMA Heritage project

Master RSP Fashion & Textile Design students faced an ambitious project in the final part of their course, engaging with one of the most energetic brands of sports and lifestyle in the world: PUMA. The design of a collection able to reinterpret and modernise the spirit of the 70ties, according to the brand core-values: genuineness, simplicity, iconic product.

The final output stood out for its originality in reinterpreting the brand. The individual sensitivities of students, coming from various countries with different cultural backgrounds, succeeded in merging into one goal.

IED REINTERPRETS 60 YEARS OF FASHION FOR ADIDAS

noreply@ied.it — 8 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The celebrative collection of Adidas Originals, “60 years of soles and stripes”, is based on a modern interpretation of styles, silhouettes and colours which most represents the years between 1949 and 2009. An international group of IED students were asked to work on this concept, looking back at their past in order to understand their present and imagine the future.

A trend book which may even be considered an Art Book, an emotionally engaging assignment on perceptions carried out by the talents of the future, an analysis on the recent past in the imagination of future generations. The outcome of typical fashion editorial staff, whose protagonists were IED Moda Lab students assisted by the young photographers from IED Arti Visive and supervised by the IED Research Centre team.

IED students were absolutely free to look into family albums, indulging in their personal history and choosing among dusty photographs the ones they identified with.The result is a published work at professional level and, at the same time, a dynamic and young product thanks to the creativity of young students. The result you might expect when comparing different generations.

The Book was first distributed with the January issue of l’Uomo Vogue; its presentation flanked an important adidas Originals event at Pitti Firenze on January 13th 2009.

MR.CROPPERFIELD WINS AGAIN

noreply@ied.it — 8 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Mr.Cropperfield keeps enjoying considerable success. The short 3D animation was realised by a group of students (Samuele Barbieri, Luca Bigliazzi, Gabriele Coen, Simone Ghilardotti, Ivan Primo Peroni) of the CG Animation course last June as dissertation project.

On Thursday January 29th it was presented at Europe Cinema during the event Bologna Future Film Festival in the section “Future Film Short 2009”.

In the period between last June and the present time, the film has become one of the 70 finalists of PISAF 2008 (Korean Student Animated Film Competition) out of 1300 short films participating in the event.

In November 2008 at Castelli Animati in Genzano, Italian animation schools festival, it won honourable mention.

It has achieved good results even on-line. The web site www.mrcropperfield.com has been visited by 1865 users. The video is on Drommels blog (http://drommels.blogspot.com) and ranks 28th out of 1257 films in running for aniBoom Awards 2008 Cartoons (http://www.aniboom.com).

Keep fingers crossed for Cartoon on the Bay and Annecy!

You can watch it at www.ied.tv

OSCAR PRIZES FOR ILLUSTRATORS

noreply@ied.it — 8 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

After gaining recognition for the beautiful editorial projects Jetlag 1 and 2 created in collaboration with Franco Cervi and Ferruccio Giromini, winners of the GOOD DESIGN Graphics Award 2007, Alessandro Gottardo aka Shout, who obtained a IED diploma and teaches illustration at IED Scuola di Arti Visive, went overseas to collect the most prestigious prize an illustrator can be granted: the golden medal of the American Society of Illustrators.

read the interview on Repubblica:

www.repubblica.it

www.fanzinarte.com

www.societyillustrators.org

find more images of the author on:

http://altpick.com

http://illoz.com

Missoni Workshop with European Design Labs’09

noreply@ied.it — 4 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Luca Missoni is to coordinate the first workshop of the new European Design Labs course. Entitled “The Missoni Universe: Multiculturality and the Avant-Garde“, the workshop will run from the 16th to the 20th of February, and will centre on experimentation within the realm of fashion design and interior and product design linked to the fashion house.The workshop also coincides with the “Las Experiencias del Color, desde las Abstracciones hasta el Design“ exhibition, which will be staged at IED Madrid until the April 1st.

The Missoni fashion house was born in 1953 from Ottavio and Rosita Missoni’s shared passion for materials and colour. By blending artistic research and technology, they have been able to create their own unique approach to clothing. Nowadays, Missoni is widely known as one of the leading and most valued figures within the world of fashion and design, never losing sight of the values that helped to forge its identity.

Italian winners of the LG HI-MACS 2009 contest

noreply@ied.it — 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The project HI-CUT by Andrea Grecucci, Paolo Lay and Michele Radice Fossati – on their 3rd year of industrial Design in Milan- is the Italian winner of LG Hi-Macs 2009 contest, sponsored by LG Chem Europe and Glem Gas Spa.

The project

Students developed HI-CUT, a module system/unit formed by 6mm-wide back-lighted LG HI-MACS panels which can suit any type of public or private environment. They were assisted by professor Barro De Gast during the P6 Competition design course. Light completes the product by revealing hidden parts and evoking feelings which could be hardly inspired through other means. Its design aimed at reducing any production reject of the material, whose waste is not recyclable.

The contest

The huge success of the previous editions motivated LG CHEM EUROPE to take part in the prestigious 2009 Design Week in Zona Tortona fair in Milan (April 22nd –27th,2009).

This year 17 European countries will participate to the Design Contest: France, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, England, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Greece, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Germany and certainly the Netherlands.

LG HI-MACS® will be assisted by the best specialized journalists, famous designers and renowned architects in order to choose the winner of the Design Contest 2009. The election will be held during the exhibition of the prototypes in Zona Tortona.

For further information on the contest click here

European Design Labs’09 gets underway

noreply@ied.it — 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

This year’s pan-European creative laboratory for excellence, European Design Labs , is due to commence this coming 28th January. This year round, 16 young designers from 11 different countries are to take part in workshops, seminars, meetings, conferences and trips across the breadth of EuropeOver the course of the year, they will be plunged into the world of design and will learn from its leading figures as they take part directly in innovation and development projects within the creative realm.

Participants of European Design Labs’09:

Agustín Plancarte, Mexico - Anna Tomich, Ecuador - Annye Wyss, Switzerland - Claudia Caviezel, Switzerland -Enrico Romo, Mexico - Francesco Sillitti, Italia - Isidro Pérez, México - Ivna Vukelic, Croatia - Keira Burgués, Canada - Lucía Grompone, Uruguay - Rafael Zaragoza, Spain - Sonal Verma, India - Tatiana Jordan, Colombia - Teng Teng Chong, Canada - Victoria González, Spain - Victoria Ovín, Argentina.

The year starts out a workshop with MISSONI , coordinated by Luca Missoni and entitled “The Missoni Universe: Multiculturality and the Avant-Garde”. The workshop will focus on experimentation within the realm of fashion design and interior and product design linked to the fashion house. The event also coincides with the staging of the “Las Experiencias del color, desde las Abstracciones hasta el Design” exhibition at IED Madrid .

European Design Labs’ main purpose is to offer an innovative and outstanding RSP Master in Product Design, Fashion Concept and Visual Communication, which goes beyond what the infinity of existing postgraduate programmes propose. Being in the avant-garde of design means being aware of new networks and trends.Production systems are moving towards Asiatic markets and technological developments are established in North America.

Meanwhile, Europe is the world reference for innovation and concept creation in Design. Knowing what happens in Europe today is a key tool for any design professional.

Orson Welles' Roast

noreply@ied.it — 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

On January 22nd, at 6 pm at Teatro IED Moda Lab (Via Pompeo Leoni, 3) students of Video Design – Art direction and Performing Video will have the opportunity to attend a unique lesson realized by the author/actor Giuseppe Battiston.

They will have the possibility to watch the performance Orson Welles' Roast, inspired to the American cineaste who directed - and also acted in - a masterpiece in the history of cinema, Citizen Kane.

It is a monologue largely consisting of extracts of interviews given by Welles along the years. It starts off with thoughts about food, then moves to his beloved Falstaff, then England, Shakespeare, the two hundred black actors starring in Macbeth, Around the world in eighty days and its music by Cole Porter and finally Martians, whose invasion was announced during a famous radio program.

What would Orson Welles say if he could came back, with us, just for one hour? Would he talk about his life, his films, his less known theatrical success? Would he reveal any secret of his extraordinary technique or would he indulge in telling hilarious anecdotes? Would he hurl invectives against old times enemies and the horrible modern times, or would he grant them a gentle grin?

What is the reason of a show on Orson Welles? Citizen Kane’s author is a symbol of the contradictions and ambiguities of the artist in a key-moment of the 20th century, when Hollywood set off to conquer the world.

Because of these reasons the show becomes an important didactic moment. We have the chance to watch the actor’s performance while the eternal conflicts between the artist’s world and the show industry come to light.

After the performance, the author/actor Giuseppe Battiston will talk about the making of the film and answer students’ questions.

IED Arti Visive at Courmayeur Noir in Festival

noreply@ied.it — 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

From December 4 to 10 at “Centro Congressi di Courmayeur”, the Noir in Festival took place, whit meetings, workshops and film shows.

Mini noir is a Festival inside the Festival. It represents a space for a younger audience and screens shows whose actual theme is mystery. Mini Noir is meant to introduce young people to the various creative techniques concerning image.

IED Arti Visive, in particular students of the three-year Illustration course, have created and run the mini Noir IED Lab. It is a multimedia lab created to provide young visitors with an environment where to “create” their own characters using computers, modelling clay and other materials.

“For those ones dealing with the dark side of society, like us – festival organisers say – it has been a real challenge, since the beginning, finding an attractive and educationally proper way to involve an young audience in the big festival game.

The outcome has been amazing: in short time Mini Noir has become a very crowded section-lab, rich in novelties and previews.

European Design Labs 09 Informative Sesssion

noreply@ied.it — 9 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

IED Master opens its seat to do a European Design Labs Informative Sesssion on campus at c/ Larra 14 (Madrid) and on-line at www.europeandesignlabs.com . They will take place simultaneously on the 10th of December at 18:00 Madrid time (GMT+1).

Dario Assante , IED Master Director, and designer Gala FernÃ¡ndez , who created European Design Labs, will do a live presentation explaining all about this Research Study Program Master. Three alumni from EDLÂ´07 will also tell us about their experience and how it boosted their value as designers and improved their professional potential.

Online attendees will follow the presentation through live video at www.europeandesignlabs.com . After the presentation, all attendees (on campus and on-line) will have the opportunity to ask questions to the speakers. On-campus attendees will also be able of visiting IED Master seat and the dedicated spaces, classrooms and workshops used by EDL students.

To participate, please fill in this form. The session will be conducted in English.

Please contact us if your need further information on this session or want any additional information on European Design Labs.

Roma Design Più

noreply@ied.it — 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

IED Design Milan is glad of the success obtained by Lorenzo Longo and Alessio Romano, ex-students of the Industrial Design course at IED Design school in Milan, for their lamps, Hexagon and Mirage.

HEXAGON and MIRAGE were selected to participate to the exhibition DAS - Design After School – which will take place in December 10 to 21 in Largo Ascianghi, Trastevere district, in Rome. The opening is on December 10 at 6 pm.

The event is part of the calendar of Festival Roma Design Più 2008, organised by “Sezione Arti Design e Nuove Tecnologie” of Dipartimento I.T.A.C.A. of Università La Sapienza di Roma, under the aegis of ADI and Delegazione territoriale ADI Centro.

The selection of the 25 projects on exhibit at DAS was carried out by a scientific committee composed by:

Tonino Paris (Coordinator), Arturo dell'Acqua Bellavitis (Triennale di Milano), Alberto Bassi (ADI Selezione Compasso d'Oro), Andrea Granelli (scientific manager Domus Academy), Chantal Haimade (general manager Intramuros), Justin Mc Guirk (general manager ICON), Ron Arad (Designer), Denis Santachiara (Designer).

European Design Labs Scholarships

noreply@ied.it — 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

MUJI / MilMilks European Design Labs 09 Scholarships

European Design Labs is the only Research Study Programme Master course in the field of design which is carried out throught Europe. A unique opportunity to truly boost your creativity and design network with the best international companies and designers.

MUJI and MilMilks/S,C,P,F…(part of WPP communication group) organize in collaboration with IED Madrid a scholarship contest for the 2009 edition of European Design Labs. Two scholarships will be awarded, each covering the course fee (15.300 euros), to the two applicants with the best curriculum and portfolio. Technical expertise, creative skills and motivation will be assessed. The application period will be open from the 14 th of October until the 16th of November, 2008. The scholarships winners will be communicated on the 19th of November, 2008.

For more information on European Design Labs RSP Master and its scholarship program: www.europeandesignlabs.com

IED Arti Visive invites you to play

noreply@ied.it — 6 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

IED Arti Visive takes part in the first edition of Ludica, the Italian festival of games and videogames, a not-to-be-missed appointment for games lovers and an engaging event for all curious people who approach for the first time the world of games and videogames.

Countless initiatives are scheduled: tournaments, shows, contests, prize-giving ceremonies, LAN parties, together with meetings with experts and even a considerable number of conferences held by prestigious personalities of the games, videogames and journalism world. Several side events will also be staged: a special event at Ludica will be the created by the Scuola di Arti Visive of Istituto Europeo di Design of Milan. An interactive space, an experience involving sight, feeling and emotions.

Ludica will take place at DatchForum in Assago, Milan, from November 21 to 23. Opening hours are: On November 21 from 1 pm to 10 pm, on November 22 from 9.30 am to 10 pm, on November 23 from 9.30 am to 8 pm.

IED lands overseas

noreply@ied.it — 5 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

IED takes part in Living (New York, October 27 – December 20, 2008 - 172 Mercer Street, Soho, New York City), an event organised by Lombardia region, Promos and Chamber of Commerce of Milan.

Living aims at promoting the high quality of Lombard design in New York staging a permanent exhibition throughout November and December. Together with the products of several leading companies in the furnishing and design industry, the schedule presents various appointments whose protagonists will be IED and the professionals working with us.

On Tuesday 18 at 6 pm the seminar “Feeling The Body and Soul” will take place, on Italian product design connected to cookery and our cooking habits.

Aldo Colonetti (Scientific Director IED), Elio Fiorucci (designer), Silvio Wolf (photographer and IED lecturer), Paolo Barichella (Food Design ® Studio), Marco Pasanella and Paolo Cravedi (Alessi USA), Laura Guido-Clark (colours and materials expert), will participate in it and be chaired by Deborah Wilk (Senior Editor Interior Design Magazine).

On Thursday November 20, the night will be dedicated to IED: Emanuele Soldini and Rossella Bertolazzi (IED Milan School Board) will take part in it, representing IED and its identity.

Furthermore, Francesca Torri, as art director of the project, will present the interesting initiative Maasai Women Art, developed by the NGO Oikos in collaboration with IED Moda Lab Milan (students in Jewellery Design course were particularly involved).The project set up as a means to provide Maasai women with a permanent and, most importantly, a sustainable source of income. It consists in the design of collections of jewels which are manufactured using technologies and techniques peculiar to Maasai tradition and culture, still can enter the western market and therefore be merchandised.

IED Arti Visive also took care of the photography shooting for the event catalogue.

IED takes part in job fair

noreply@ied.it — 5 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Three appointments await all people interested in the training programmes the European Insitute of Design has offered for more than 40 years.

Three-year post-secondary school courses, Master programmes and Advanced training courses suitable to everyone’s needs in the fields of design, fashion, visual arts and communication.

IED will present:

from November 20 to 22 the three-year post-secondary school courses at the Job Orienta fair in Verona, the XVIII edition of the show-conference which has become a reference point on the themes of career guidance, school, training and employment, even beyond national borders.

from November 27 to 29 the three-year post-secondary school courses in Cremona, at Salone dello Studente, the XIII edition of the appointment with training, employment and free time.

on December 4 the Master programmes at Palazzo delle Stelline in Milan, at Job Meeting. The event is addressed to graduated and final-year university students. It stands out as one of the most significant appointments at national level, capable of connecting the world of university, employment and advanced training.

In these three occasions you will have the opportunity to meet IED staff who are willing to give you information, career guidance and help in the selection of your ideal training course.

We look forward to your participation!

IED nominated in the Interactive Key Award 2008

noreply@ied.it — 3 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

WEEPR, a dissertation project developed by Roberto Brancolini and Marco Papale, Media Design 2007/2008 (ex Digital Design), got a nomination in the Interactive Key Award 2008, the first national award dedicated to the web and the interactive communication world, aimed at stimulating creativity and technological innovation related to on line and wireless communication.

Project are divided into two main areas: Web Sites and Digital Tools, hosting 15 categories in total. Weepr won a nomination for the area Web Sites and the category "Social marketing", which includes a growing area connected to new communication trends.

WEEPR is a synthesizer built on Flash technology which through a simple and intuitive interface allows everybody to create musical bases or loops. WEEPR also makes it possible to share one’s creations through a viral mechanism such as Widget. The application can be downloaded from the support home page www.weepr.com.

The prize-awarding ceremony will take place on November 24,2008 at 6.30 pm at IULM University, Via Carlo Bo 1, Milan (MM2 Romolo).

New IED Fashion-Lab Specialization Courses

noreply@ied.it — 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

From today on you can choose the most suitable course to make your professional profile more competitive, even receiving a 10% discount on the attendance fee. Evening courses aimed at preparing the main figures of the field start in November.

Courses topics range from creative to strategic fields, from organisational aspects to sales, from marketing to image and communication activities in the fashion area. Outsmart the future!

For information click here and fill the on-line form or contact info.modalab@milano.ied.it

IED Moda Lab and Triumph for new talents

noreply@ied.it — 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Inspiration means a lot of things: a creative explosion, a sudden idea or the great result of a long and difficult process, but certainly a new and fresh idea. In lingerie inspiration comes from care for detail, passion for design and deep love for fashion.

With this philosophy Triumph goes looking for a great innovative idea.

Triumph “Inspiration Award ” is an international contest created in order to spot the most inspired and inspiring lingerie design ever imagined. At its first edition this year, it challenges young design students from Milan to Tokyo and Munich, from Brisbane to Sao Paolo, from Antwerp to London.

The award moves through two stages, a national and an international final trial. The first one has ended with the selection of the best project spotted in the design by Mattia Frassinella, a young talent at the second year of the textile design course at IED Milan Fashion Lab.

Mattia Frassinella has won the Italian final trial of the international competition launched by Triumph, a leading company in the lingerie industry. TheTriumph Inspiration Award. Mattia in fact will stand for Italy at the finals to be held in Beijing on July 31, 2008. Mattia has presented a bra created with innovative materials: the 'Fleximirror'. Around the neck a medallion containing material which captures light and activates three small leds on a wrist band which, actually, hides a battery charger. A visionary and futuristic project that struck for the image of a sexy and precious woman coming out from cold technological materials.

IED Design Milan takes part to Venditalia 2008

noreply@ied.it — 6 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

During Venditalia trade fair 2008, the international vending fair held at Fiera Milano City from May 21 to 24, some prototypes designed and modelled by students in their second year of the Industrial Design course will set up an exhibition stand dedicated to espresso. The innovative coffee machines fit in the most modern environments: flats with a combined sitting room and kitchen, and offices with increasingly less space for the coffee break.

Milan – The espresso, the Italian coffee appreciated all around the world, looks to the future through the imagination of the students in the second year of the Industrial Design course. They studied and designed the innovative coffee machines exposed at Venditalia, the international trade fair for the vending industry.

Our young creatives were asked to re-interpret and give new life to one of the symbols of Made in Italy. Under the direction of professors Bjorn Blisse, Andrea Panto and Pietro Riolo, they carried out a market survey on coffee machines, developed new concepts for the product and, finally, realised the prototypes.

Tutors extraordinaire were the top managers of CONFIDA, the Italian Vending category association, and Venditalia Servizi srl. They took part to classroom activities and supervised the final stages of the design, playing the key role of “clients”. It is fundamental for creativity to develop following economic feasibility and functionality, both in the classroom and in real life.

“We feel highly honoured by the collaboration with Istituto Europeo di Design, a school famous for its international and innovative character”.said Sergio Pieralisi, Venditalia Director . “What are in essence fair trades, if not a display for innovation? We have always been aware of it, and we subscribe to it even more now, while flicking through the list of innovations exposed in the fair. Who takes part to a fair must someway show the future. A future made of new products, new processes, new technologies, new models. In Venditalia we have the opportunity to display the future of vending, an industry which has lived on innovation since its birth, 50 years ago”.

“The Istituto Europeo di Design has always positioned itself as the training place for future designers aiming to work for the Italian industrial system”, said architect Alessandro Chiarato. The collaboration with Venditalia shows how designers’ minds, searching for innovative solutions, together with Venditalia corporate system, can reinforce Italy’s image in the world.

This synergy has given birth to tabletop coffee machines, which stand out as design creations suitable for new environments: flats with combined sitting room and kitchen; offices with increasingly less space for the coffee break.

Some prototypes have been selected for the trade fair, where they will be exposed in a dedicated stand. A students’ exhibition will so be created, providing the young creatives with an important display opportunity, since Venditalia considers internationality one of its key points.

Progettare e realizzare per tutti 2007

noreply@ied.it — 5 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ideas contest “Progettare e realizzare per tutti 2007”

Autogrill’s new concept of rest area – the Ecogrill, whose opening is scheduled for next autumn near Ravenna – will include some of the awarded projects from the year 2007 edition of the international ideas contest “Progettare e realizzare per tutti 2007”, promoted by the non-profit organisation "lo Spirito di Stella" in partnership with Autogrill Group.

Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos, Autogrill’s CEO, announced it during the award ceremony held on April 18, 2008, at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan trade fair. “We were very impressed by the broad participation in the award and by the high quality of the projects, full of imagination and innovative ideas”. Carlo Ancelotti, Milan’s soccer couch and also sponsor for the catamaran without barriers “lo Spirito di Stella”, took part to the event. He congratulated the winners for the great care they put in re-thinking autogrill’s rest areas with reference to the concept of wide accessibility, inspiring to the boat realised by Andrea Stella, paraplegic sailor. Andrea Stella thanked the many participants, Autogrill Group who placed a bet on the initiative and Estel – a leading company in the furniture industry – which will soon realise prototypes of the awarded projects.

The contest

The goal of the contest was to attract design students and professionals and challenge them in proposing new ideas on some internal areas in Autogrill’s service stations. The design was to consider accessibility needs of phisically-challenged people, moreover inspire to Andrea Stella’s projectual philosophy in realising the first catamaran in the world without barriers: "lo Spirito di Stella".

The philosophy “Progettare e realizzare per tutti 2007” consists in creating, as for the catamaran, rest areas which enhance comfort and functionality to everyone’ advantage: the proposed solutions guarantee both functionality of the items of furniture for physically and sensory challenged people, and the overcoming of psychological barriers in the relationships between disabled and able-bodied people, thanks to innovative design elements.

The partnership between Autogrill and "Lo Spirito di Stella" is part of “a future”, a corporate project to design and create a new type of enterprising inspired by the principles of long-term sustainability, as stated in the guidelines of the Corporate Social Responsibility paper.

Contest figures

452 designers (Italian and foreign students and professionals) took part to the third edition of the international contest “Progettare e realizzare per tutti 2007”: the jury examined 204 projects. The contest was promoted by the non-profit association "lo Spirito di Stella" in partnership with Autogrill, sponsored by ADI (Association for Industrial Design) and IIDD - Design for All Italia, and also enjoyed the collaboration of Estel, a leading company in the furniture industry – which will soon realise prototypes of the awarded projects.

Winners of the student category

Maria Lacu, Silvia Caloni and Francesca Cattaneo won the 1st prize for the bar counter area. As for the cash register area, the group represented by Marta Bertolli, Chiara Sposini e Alessandro Dati won the 1st price, while the 3rd award was granted to Federica Burei, Samuele Tavani, Nadezda Filkova. All students are in their third year of IED Design in Milan.

See in the photograph: Gianmario Tondato Da Ruos, Federica Burei, Samuele Tavani, Nadezda Filkova