Daily showcase of world young creatives who compete to win 4 IED international scholarship for its undergraduate courses for the 2012-2013 school year for studies in Madrid.

INTERIOR DESIGN, PRODUCT DESIGN, GRAPHIC DESIGN and FASHION DESIGN.

This competition is open to young international students. IED rewards to the creative talents of young people aged between 18 and 28 years with an undergraduate course in its schools of Design, Fashion, Visual Communication and Management.

IED calls young creatives to develop ideas and projects inspired by MY COUNTRY: how can we contribute to global innovation?

The starting point is the student’s country, with its people, language, history, nature, traditions, habits. The students have to propose some new ideas linking between the spirit of their country and innovation, tradition and new ideas, local experiences and global needs: they will have to give innovative suggestions in order to enhance the best characteristics, creations, which can be found in their countries, and to present them to an international audience.  Design and Visual Communication will be the main tools to realize that purpose, with different results depending on the program of choice, since a briefing has been defined for each area of studies.  Use your imagination!

The projects and images selected will be published on the site www.creativediary.net and can receive ratings, comments and still be sponsored by internet users through their  facebook newsfeed.

Entries may be sent by e-mail. A jury of experts will award scholarships to best works. The deadline for submitting projects is the 2nd of May 2012, 23.59 (Italian time).

Find out how to participate on http://creativediary.net

Creative Diary is part of Creative Contexts Network where you can find all the scholarships contests and opportunities promoted by the Istituto Europeo di Design. Stay tuned!

IED Madrid lanza, este año, un nuevo concepto comunicativo, Experience IED Madrid, se trata de trasmitir a nuestros futuros alumnos que estudiar en el IED Madrid se convierte en toda una experiencia de vida.

A través de los spots se muestra el día a día de nuestros alumnos, sus actividades, sus proyectos, sus nuevas amistades, en definitiva, la atmósfera, que se respira estudiando aquí.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzqejNeKyXU

El objetivo de la campaña, Experience IED Madrid, es transmitir el knowhow del IED Madrid junto con sus valores, sus proyectos internacionales, su cultura. Formamos profesionales con una visión global, capaces de desarrollar proyectos con una implicación real, que cambien las cosas a nivel local y global.

Chiara Magna, Responsable de Marketing del IED Madrid, nos comenta cómo aparecen las diferentes escuelas del IED Madrid en los spots.

“Tres spots realizados, uno para cada escuela: IED Moda, IED Visual Communication, IED Design. Todos representan el ambiente de nuestros alumnos en sus aulas, las acciones que tienen lugar en el transcurso de un proyecto, la presentación de trabajos a los profesores o a una empresa colaboradora…”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQvWcFlfttk

Por otro lado, Paula Ampuero, Project Manager del Área de Proyectos Estratégicos y coordinadora de producción de los spots Experience IED Madrid, explica las vivencias del centro que se muestran en los spots.

“Le dimos un enfoque desde el punto de vista del propio alumno. Tras sus opiniones y comentarios hicimos una reflexión y sacamos la base de las historias que se cuentan en los spots y los valores importantes para ellos como la relación con los profesores, la mezcla de gente de varias culturas diferentes, la intensa actividad de trabajo y, cómo no, las relaciones de amistad y compañerismo que se generan.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOSh3l7WqAY

The IED Madrid school of design has opened admissions for the Masters of Design and Innovation 2012.

These four Master’s programs, conceived as research laboratories, prepare professionals to overcome the challenges of a global, interconnected market through the perspective of “New Visions, New Leaders.”

Directed by major figures in the industry, these Masters are the most advanced level of training offered at the IED Madrid in the areas of design, communications, concepts and strategies:

• Master of European Design Labs
• Master of Strategic Design Labs
• Master of Communication Design Labs
• Master of Product Design Labs

In a scenario such as the present day, “changing, full of uncertainties, but also full of opportunities, new values are discernible that, inevitably, are going to be at the forefront of all activities carried out in the new social context. Among these, I would like to highlight innovation as an overall value and a new way of doing, relating, and focusing on problems and their solutions, which we could call transversal knowledge,” commented Carlos Barrabés, Director of the Master of Strategic Design Labs. In this sense, the Masters of Design and Innovation establish an ideal framework for reinforcing divergent thinking and transversal skills in our students, as well as analyzing present-day design from different perspectives.

In order to achieve these established objectives, the classes are bilingual (English-Spanish) and the academics are far from traditional methods: a major component involves international trips and visits to design studios, fairs, educational institutions, museums, companies and research centers, workshops, exclusive conferences, cultural and technical seminars, classes and tutorials with major figures and thinkers in the world of design and innovation; as well as collaborations with leading companies and a productive interaction among students from the four academic programs (students come from a variety of different countries).

Contact with different cultures, landscapes, customs and lifestyles is essential for students to develop their full potential and reinforce divergent thinking, far from the norm – innovative and extraordinary. Definitively, this is a unique personal experience and a decisive investment in your professional future.

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Professionals related to the fields of design, innovation, communications, fashion and marketing, either through education or professional experience; as well as anyone interested in exploring the multidisciplinary possibilities of creativity from a transversal, international perspective.

Dates:
January-December 2012
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The Design Experience.

Design is creation, innovation and experience. We would like to welcome you to the University of Creativity, a pioneer educational center for design, fashion and communications.

The multicultural aspect, the international vision, the development of workshops, conferences and meetings with important figures as an inherent part of academic training, the experience and closeness of professionals and companies within the industry, all make the IED a complete educational experience, leaving its mark on each of the people who pass through its classrooms.

The two branches of the IED Madrid are located in spectacular buildings, the Altamira Palace and the modernist building at Calle Larra, which serve as a nexus for design and creativity. Whoever lives in or visits Madrid is sure to discover a vital, luminous city open to the world, an epicenter of cultures, leisure and art, thanks to the numerous theaters, cinemas and museums. The character of the Spanish people, closely connected with “living in the street,” provides a rich incentive for enjoying the city’s activities and events, to establish contacts and personal and professional synergies.

Do you know the IED Madrid? Visit the website and share the design experience. Only in The Design Experience.

It’s time for some changes. Or improvements. The arrival of 2012 is a great opportunity to update your career and apply for one of the 12 master courses at IED Madrid, starting from January to April 2012. The courses are addressed to newly-graduated students and practising professionals from all over the world. The courses are held in English and Spanish.

Communication Design Labs - IED Madrid - starting in January 2012
Strategic Design Labs - IED Madrid - starting in January 2012
Product Design Labs - IED Madrid - starting in January 2012
European Design Labs - IED Madrid - starting in January 2012

European Master of Fine Art Photography - IED Madrid - starting in April 2012
Organización, Dirección y Gestión de Eventos Intensivo:
(especialidad en Comunicación o en Diseño)-IED Madrid - starting in April 2012
Intensive Graphic Design - IED Madrid - starting in April 2012
Comunicación, Marketing y Publicidad Intensivo - IED Madrid - starting in April 2012
Interior Design Intensive - IED Madrid - starting in April 2012
Diseño de Moda Intensivo - IED Madrid - starting in April 2012

Book an interview and download the application form

The jury's decision for the Grants for One-Year Design Courses (in English) is made public, for courses beginning in October, 2011. Congratulations to those selected!

Total Design (1st year of BA Hons in Design)
Grant: Maider Jiménez
Second prize: Juan Carlos Martín Izquierdo

Fashion Communication 1 Year Course
Grant: Susann Lees
Second prize: Henrique Cathcart Figueiredo

The GRANTS, one per course, cover €8,000. The SECOND PRIZES cover €1,600.

If you want to be kept up to date on information regarding the courses, grants and competitions at the IED Madrid Design School:

• Participate online, or attend the Information Session (following registration at info@madrid.ied.es) on Saturday the 3rd of September at 12:00.
• Or  get in touch with the Information and Guidance Service of the IED Madrid: 
info@madrid.ied.es +34 91 448 04 44

Scholarship Competition for the 1-Year Design Programs in English:

• Total Design (1st year of BA Hons in Design)
• Fashion Communication 1 Year Course

What and Who? The competition is intended for people of all nationalities. To participate in the scholarship competition, write a text in English about the topic Me, myself and I and send it along with an image or video, which reflects all your creative baggage through a design or fashion concept.

If you send an image, all formats will be accepted: photograph, image, drawing as a jpg (rgb), 593 × 800 pixels.

If you send a video, its duration should not exceed 30 seconds and its dimensions should be adjusted to 425 x 340 pixels in avi, mpg, wmv or mov format.

SCHOLARSHIPS:
We are offering:

• 2 FIRST PLACE SCHOLARSHIPS, one for each program, covering the amount of 8,000 €
• 2 SECOND PLACE SCHOLARSHIPS, covering the amount of 1,600 €

PARTICIPATE:
The deadline for participating is July 26, 2011. How to participate? Fill out the form available on the website Quiero ser creativo I want to be creative and send us your proposal according to the specified instructions.

We will present the judges’ decisions on July 28th on I want to be creative, IED.es.

PARTICIPATE IN THE SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION NOW!

Madrid has become an international benchmark for good practices relating to the global city. MadridDesignNet will be on show at the Madrid Pavilion of the World Expo 2010 Shanghai between 9 and 17 October.

IED Madrid, institutional partner of the Madrid Pavilion at the Expo 2010 Shanghai, is to showcase MadridDesignNet on 11 October, the on-line platform created by young designers from around the world (1,000 students from 17 different cities), all united by the simple goal of innovating and generating creative ideas and proposals on the Spanish capital under the Expo theme of Better City, Better Life.

Thanks to its very structure, the network has effectively become a hub for both culture and the economy, an open meeting point geared towards modernisation and modern times via creativity, while encouraging new models of learning and cross-collaboration among professionals from different disciplines.

Madrid, the only Spanish or Latin American city to have its own pavilion, and the only one to feature two elements, namely the Bamboo House and the Air Tree (both replicas based on buildings already constructed in Madrid), will showcase, as part of its programme of professional and business activities, the 20 best ideas selected from no fewer than 1,000 proposals on how to improve urban life within the city created over months of work at MadridDesignNet. The 20 selected projects are prime examples of innovation at work, and are set to become reference points for work and research on urban transformation and social housing policies, both of which take on crucial importance in highly dynamic countries such as China. Madrid’s involvement in hosting and presenting the MadridDesignNet network confirms the city’s unflinching commitment to the future of design on the international stage.

With this in mind, Madrid’s programme of activities, which will run from 9 to 17 October, will include not only exhibitions at both the Bamboo House and the Air Tree (of which we would highlight a video on the on-line universe shaped from the visions of hundreds of young people, and a system that enables users to find out, in real time, all the open events that a given city is offering), but also workshops intended for Chinese businessmen and businesswomen, and Spanish companies with business concerns in China.

The MadridDesignNet programming will also include the conference Innovation and Technology in Developing the Cities of Tomorrow, which will be held on 13 October at the prestigious Tongji University of Shanghai.

The Madrid Pavilion, which will soon reach the impressive milestone of 4 million visitors, and which has already received more than 300 high-profile visits from prominent figures (academics, businessmen and businesswomen, urban planners, economists and politicians), will remain in Shanghai as a lasting legacy of the Spanish capital following the end of the Expo.

MadridDesignNet at the World Expo 2010 Shanghai
Date: 9-17 October
Venue: Exhibition Hall of the Madrid Pavilion

IED Madrid launches its competition for scholarships for studying our 1-year-long courses in Design, Fashion and Communications.

• One year course on Total Design
• One year course on Fashion Communication

That are geared towards people who want to begin their studies in the areas of design and communications in our design school.

Click here to participate in Design Scholarships One Year Courses In Design, Fashion and Communications.

Participate until June 28, 2010.

IED Madrid launch a new competition for Jewerly and total Design Summer Scholarships taught in English, basic 3 -weeks- long courses in design, fashion and communications:

• Summer Jewellery Design Course
• Total Design Summer Course

These courses combine an academic experience in different areas of design and communications with the intense cultural and artistic life of the city of Madrid.

Click here to participate in the Jewellery Design and Total Design Summer Courses Scholarship Contest.

Participate until June 7, 2010.

Santiago Cirugeda, artist and architect, will hold the conference Collective architecture as part of the Cultural Observatory cycle on Wednesday, June 2nd at 7:30 p.m. at the IED Master, C/ Larra, 14, Madrid.

After 7 years of solitary work, Santiago Cirugeda created the studio Recetas Urbanas ("Urban Recipes"), which continues to develop subversion projects in different environments of urban reality that help us endure this complicated social life. From the systematic occupation of public space with waste bins, to the construction of prostheses on façades, patios, rooftops and even empty lots.

Through Recetas Urbanas, he carries out architectural projects, writes articles and participates in different educational and cultural media (Masters, seminars, conferences, workshops, exhibitions, etc.). In 2007, he presented the book Urban situations, which shows legal strategies and social demands through architectural projects. In 2008, he presented the documentary Spanish Dram, along with Guillermo Cruz, which reveals the causes and effects of the real estate bubble; and in 2010, the documentary On the network was presented, regarding work among network collectives.

The Cultural Observatory is the place to learn about where the world of creation is going, from very different perspectives and with the intervention of major global reference points of design and thoght.

Free admission
Broadcast online at madriddesignnet.com

IED Madrid along with The City of Madrid realized MadridDesignNet: a 50 international workshops project (30 of them in Madrid) and cultural events from May 17th to 22nd. It's based on an interactiv platform that helps creative designers to develop sustainable solutions for the global environment.

MadridDesignNet will be joined by 1000 designers across 17 cities in the world: the best ideas of this phenomenal lab will be displayed at Madrid stand at Shanghai Expo 2010 (Oct. 4th to 15th).

Full details are available at MadridDesignNet.

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.