School of Visual Arts in Milan

IED Arti Visive is the fully self-contained School focusing on image and everything related to its communication.

A creative laboratory where students learn about the tools, the codes of lexicon and expression and the new techniques and technologies pertinent to designing, conveying and elaborating images.

In every area of the market, image is today’s main vehicle for conveying values and meanings: it is used to communicate about widely different areas of production, such as fashion, industrial design and advertising, but also culture, politics and topics of social concern.

The way that a concept or a project is presented visually is anything but an accessory: it makes a decisive contribution to ensuring that a message is communicated successfully.

To act professionally and expertly in this field calls for an eclectic, cross-cultural background based on extensive knowledge on the one hand of the socio-cultural context where the visual designer is operating and, on the other, of the new information technologies that never cease changing the role played by imaging in communications.

IED Visual Arts Milan gives real answers to the actual needs of the working world through seven specialised training courses – Media Design, CG Animation, Photography, Illustration and Animation, Sound Design, Graphic Design, Video Design: Direction and Performing Video - organized in synergy to give the participants the possibility to develop a protean and complex vision of one's activities.

The innovative teaching methodology, the close bond with the working world and the synergy with the other IED Schools (Design, Communication and Fashion), also in terms of seminars, projects, exhibitions and events, provide the School with a readiness to grasp the fast change of trends and requirements of the economical and cultural systems. Therefore students are given a complete and efficacious general and specific training.

The School is provided with always up-to-date technology equipment and with laboratories that allow to keep up to the market requirements. Students have the possibility to experiment the use of digital technologies in order to develop their creativity, both in relation to the contents and to the languages of communication, by taking the vertiginous developments of multimedia into account.