IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) presents: eight appointments to fall in love with creativity.

From January 2012 IED will visit several cities in Bulgaria, Romania and Russian Federation, to reveal and explain the creative potential of its four Schools of Higher Education: Fashion | Design | Visual Communication | Management.

Discover Design in every context : from fashion to music, from motion graphics to commercial and living spaces, from illustration to strategic plans of communication.

Participate to the nearest Expo, the entrance is  free!

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1° Appointment | 28-29.01.12 | from 10.00  to 18.00  | Sofia | Bulgaria

2° Appointment | 04-05.02.12 | from  10.00 to 18.00 | Sofia | Bulgaria

3° Appointment | 11-12.02.12 | from 10.00 to 17.00 | Bucharest | Romania

4° Appointment | 18.02.12 | from 12.00 to 17.00 | Moscow | Russia

5° Appointment | 26.02.12 | from 10.00 to 17.00 | Moscow | Russia

6° Appointment | 27.02.12 | from 19.00 to  21.00 | Krasnodar | Russia

7° Appointment | 28.02.12 | from 19.00 to  21.00 | Moscow | Russia

8° Appointment | 29.02.12 | from 19.00 to 21.00 | Rostov on Don | Russia

9° Appointment | 02.03.12 | from 19.00 to 21.00 | Yekaterinburg | Russia

10° Appointment | 08-12.03.12 | from 10.00 to 18.00 | Vienna | Austria

Beginning February 2012, this innovative course takes place in Venice, Florence and Rome, lasting 18 months. Main partners will be the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Palazzo Strozzi

Guest professor for the inaugural address will be screenwriter and Oscar winner Vincenzo Cerami

Three great Italian cities of art, three leading cultural institutions as partners, three modules, for an 18-month full-immersion course in the planning, organization and management of arts and cultural events: these are the components of the new Master in Arts Management offered by IED | Istituto Europeo di Design. Thanks to its traveling feature, the Master is unique in Italy. Set in Venice, Florence and Rome, it will lead students on a contemporary Grand Tour combining education and art, with its prime focus on career development. Geared to providing graduates and professionals world over with high-quality and multidisciplinary training, IED’s Master Professional in Arts Management will be taught in English. The course will launch in February 2012 with a major event: an inaugural lecture by Vincenzo Cerami, author, screenwriter and winner of an Oscar Academy Award for the movie La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful) by Roberto Benigni.

The strength of the Master is its partnership with leading cultural institutions: the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice) and the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi (Florence) that – in true IED style – will secure for students highly skilled teachers and an experience in the field which is unique in the world. Other names of proven excellence are associated with the course: Aldo Colonnetti, philosopher, art critic and editor of the review Ottagono, is academic director.

Three seats, three cities, three projects: the Master in Arts Management is divided into three operating modules, each characterized by a different course of study according to the city in which it is held, with an examination and a final project: Cultural Management (Venice, from February 2012 to July 2012), Event Planning (Florence, from September 2012 to February 2013), Art Direction (Rome, from March 2013 to July 2013).

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 57 master courses at IED Milan, Rome, Turin, Cagliari, Venice, Florence, Madrid and Barcelona starting from January to April 2012. Students interested in the courses: Master in Design and Master in Fashion have just to have a bachelor degree or a specialized three year diploma in any disciplinary area. The courses are addressed to newly-graduated students and practising professionals from all over the world. The courses are held in English, Italian and Spanish.

Pubblicità Art Direction and Copywriting - IED Milan - starting in January 2012
Product Design  - IED Milan - starting in January 2012
Interior Design -  IED Milan - starting in January 2012
Design Experience IED Milan - starting in January 2012
Fashion Design - IED Milan - starting in January 2012
Fashion Communication  Stylist and Pr - IED Milan - starting in January 2012
Fashion Marketing Product & Retail Management - IED Milan - starting in January 2012
Fashion Experience - IED Milan - starting in January 2012
Brand Management and Communication - IED Milan - starting in January 2012
Fotografia - IED Milan - starting in February 2012
Motion Graphics Design - IED Milan - starting in February 2012
Brand Design - IED Milan - starting in February 2012
Fashion Management -  IED Milan - starting in April 2012
Brand Management And Communication - IED Milan - starting in April 2012
Visual Communication Experience - IED Rome - starting in January 2012
Arts Management - IED Rome - starting in January 2012
Interior Yacht Design - IED Rome - starting in February 2012
Digital Scenography - IED Rome - starting in February 2012
Comunicazione e Marketing per la Moda - IED Rome - starting in February 2012
Curatore Museale e di Eventi -  ED Rome - starting in February 2012
Marketing e Comunicazione - IED Rome - starting in February 2012
Event Planning and Management - IED Rome - starting in February 2012
Copywriting -IED Rome - starting in February 2012
Architettura dell'informazione - IED Rome - starting in February 2012
Graphic Design Direzione Progettazione Creativa - IED Rome - starting in February 2012
Food Design - IED Rome - starting on April 2012
Brand Management - IED Rome - starting on April 2012
Luxury Marketing Management - IED Rome - starting on April 2012
Stylist per la Moda e lo Spettacolo - IED Rome - starting on April 2012
Marketing and Communication - IED Cagliari - starting in January 2012
New Media Communication - IED Cagliari - starting in January 2012
Education Management - IED Cagliari - starting in February 2012
Yacht Design - IED Turin- starting on February 2012
Advanced Design for Transportation - IED Turin - starting on March 2012
Sustainability Communication -  IED Turin - starting on March 2012
Transportation Design -  IED Turin - starting on April 2012
Sustainable Architecture  - IED Turin - starting on April 2012
Arts Management - IED Venice - starting on February 2012
Graphic Design - IED Florence - starting on February 2012
Arts Management -  IED Florence - starting on February 2012
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 January 2012
Diseño de Interacción - IED Madrid - starting in January 2012
Videogames - IED Madrid - starting in January 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
Shoes and Accessories Design -IED Barcelona - starting in January 2012
Diseño Gráfico tecnologías creatividad estratégicas-IED Barcelona - starting in January 2012
Interior Design for Commercial Spaces - IED Barcelona - starting in January 2012
Fashion Management:Marketing, Retail Comunicación - IED Barcelona - starting in January 2012
Design Management - IED Barcelona - starting in January 2012
Diseño de Moda - IED Barcelona - starting in January 2012
Digital Experience Design-
Marketing Design Advertising&Communication Web 2 - IED Barcelona - starting in January 2012

Book an interview and download the application form

Milan, Rome, Turin, Cagliari, Venice, Florence, Madrid and Barcelona 2011

"Creative diary"-  IED grant 38 international network master scholarships in Italy and Spain  

Daily showcase of world young creatives who compete to win 38 IED international scholarships for its master courses for the 2011-2012 school year for studies in Milan, Rome, Turin, Cagliari, Venice, Florence, Madrid and Barcelona.

This competition is open to young international students. IED rewards to the creative talents of young people aged between  20 and  45 years with an graduate course in its schools of Design, Fashion, Visual Communication and Management.

IED calls young creatives to develop ideas and projects describing My Reuse Design: please apply the reuse concept to the area of studies that you prefer, Fashion, Design, Visual Communication, Management.

“Reuse” means using an item more than once, for the same function, or for a second life, when it is used for a different purpose. By reusing, we can create new shapes from old materials. Reuse helps save time, money, energy, and resources, it can offer quality products to people and organizations with limited means, it can generate jobs and business activity that contribute to the economy. Reuse is a very important part of a sustainable behavior. Reusing is different from recycling, which consists in processing used materials for the production of new objects.

Reuse can consist of different actions:  remanufacturing (reconstruct the object), regiving/regifting (taking a gift and giving it to someone else), repurposing (changing the function of an object), and nearly everything we buy and consume can be reused: old metal cans, clothes, textiles, plastic bags, bicycle tires, packaging tools are just a few examples of objects that can generate creative reuse.


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 the best works. The deadline for submitting projects is the 20th of September 2011.

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

IED Master presents WE LIKE TALENTS, a call for the best talents to participate in the selection for the assignment of 16 scholarships. The scholarships will cover 50% of the enrolment fee for the IED Masters starting in the next autumn session.

WE LIKE TALENTS is addressed to candidates, either graduated or with a diploma from schools at university level, wishing to achieve an excellence level in creative careers by attending one of the following IED Masters:

1. Fashion Stylist, IED Milano
2. Graphic Design, IED Milano
3. Event Management, IED Milano
4. Design Management, IED Milano
5. Interior Design, IED Roma
6. Art Direction, IED Roma
7. Web Design, IED Roma
8. Digital Imaging, IED Roma
9. Cartoon Animation, IED Roma
10. Interior Design, IED Torino
11. Publishing Planning, IED Torino
12. Marketing e Comunicazione, IED Torino
13. Corso in Fashion System, IED Venezia
14. Corso in Photoart, IED Venezia
15. Corso in Design Management, IED Venezia
16. Corso in Food Design, IED Venezia

The knowledge of Italian is compulsory.

The documentation to be sent in order to participate in the selection is the following:

>  Updated Curriculum Vitae;
>  Motivation Letter, in which the candidate explains the reasons why he/she wants to attend the Master clarifying the importance of this choice within his/her educational path;
>  Portfolio of academic/professional projects (compulsory for Masters in: Graphic Design, Interior Design, Art Direction, Web Design, Digital Imaging, Cartoon Animation).

The whole documentation shall be sent to the e-mail address weliketalents@milano.ied.it by next July, 11^th. The Master for which the candidate applies must be specified (only one submission is allowed). From July 18 to 22, the interviews for the selection will take place. The results will be communicated by July, 31^st.

Please click here to download the Rules of Participation (only Italian version is available).

ATTENTION: Deadline for submitting projects postponed to May 25th 2011!

Milan, Rome, Turin, Cagliari, Venice, Madrid, Barcelona and São Paulo  2011

"Creative diary"- IED international network grant scholarships in Italy, Spain and Brazil

Daily showcase of world young creatives who compete to win 36 IED international scholarships for its undergraduate courses for the 2011-2012 school year for studies in Milan, Rome, Turin, Cagliari, Venice, Madrid, Barcelona and São Paulo.

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 ‘your creative energy’: everything that you like so much that it pushes you to create, that you feel like your strong creative force, that you always have in front of your eyes when you think about doing something new. It can be related to anything you dream about and you believe can make this world better; it can be linked to the traditional meaning of energy, to the usage of sun, water, wind or any other renewable sources of energy, or to sustainable and eco-design, to recycling and reusing in new productions, to self-production.

It can also represent your main source of inspiration, the metaphorical energy that feeds your creativity, a person, an object, a location, a historical period or a successful singer, a rockband in the history of music, an artist, an actress or actor, a stylist, a designer, a model, a public or historical name. 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 25th of May 2011.

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

An unprecedented event, organized by the Istituto Europeo di Design of São Paulo, on 14 and 15 April 2011, 15h to 20 hours, bringing together the best professionals in the fashion world as designer Mario Queiroz, journalists Susana Barbosa (Elle ), Carla Raimondi (Style), Adriana Yoshida (Capriccio) and fashion bloggers Bia Perotti, Laura Artigas, Ceci Lima (Closetonline), Carla Palmieri (Closetonline), Carolina Crown, Cristina Zanetti and Fernanda Resende (Shop Style / UOL), among others.

Participants will have 15 minutes - each one - to present a topic about fashion.
At the end of both days there will be a round table will discuss the topic: What fashion the internet provides you? from four topics:
1) The communication in the fashion world
2) Fashion and Business
3) Advances in textile technology
4) Trends

The event has the institutional support of the Secretary of Education of the State of São Paulo, and the Italian-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture of São Paulo.

If you are a designer or blogger likes or "social media" and new technologies do not miss this opportunity to participate and come to discover how the world of fashion is incorporated in this context.
Join us and submit your idea for the ModaCamp.net

Discover how you can participate by accessing www.modacamp.net
Follow the event on Twitter and on Facebook

A partnership with Professor Yunus; an International Conference where Economists,Designers, Academic Professors and Business Entrepreneurs get together to share anddiscuss their views on design for social business; the first Master entirely dedicated toreal projects on Social Business. These activities frame the cultural project IED4SB.

Milan, October 17-18-19th, 2010 – Design culture is in the service of the new contemporaryworld challenges. This is the main purpose of Istituto Europeo di Design in fostering theproject IED4SB, IED for Social Business, therefore assuming an active role in promoting theidea, the cause and the projects of Professor Muhammad Yunus, economist and Nobel Prize,becoming a bridge between an advanced Design culture and the world of Social Business.Conceived by Professor Yunus, Social Business is a new kind of business with social aims,without loss and without distribution of dividend, exclusively operating to reach a targetedsocial objective: a world without poverty, whereas the main leverage is humanity andempathy.

IED4SB, born from the agreement with Professor Yunus, includes: an Academic course inDesign for Social Business (D4SB chair) holding research and design activities for socialbusiness; a two-year conference on Design for social business (D4SB Conference) with openingon Monday October 18th, taking place in Milan at the new IED Campus in via Bezzecca 5; thefirst worldwide Master in design for Social Business (D4SB MA). Finally, the project aim toencourage participation to Social Business projects in Italy and abroad.

All these activities will be collected in one “container”, IED4SB, that will work as a socialbusiness itself and will be open to Institutional and Private partners, yet to Grameen CreativeLab (GCL) – the organization lead by Professor Yunus and Hans Reitz, taking charge of socialbusiness projects – with whom IED signed a partnership today.
The focus of the agreement between GCL and IED is the joint activity IED4Y7Y that will honour7 young diplomats, selected between the best International IED Alumni, to participate tothe Master D4SB and an “on site” Internship aiming to design new real solutions to socialproblems. They will cooperate at GCL social business project at worldwide level in Albania,Colombia, Haiti e Bangladesh.
“With this project we enter the advanced frontier of Social and Sustainable Design, a disciplinejoining together social needs and solutions”, says Carlo Forcolini, IED CEO.

“The essence of Social Business lays in creativity”, says Professor Yunus, “The objective is tocreate very good products and services for the poor people, products and services with theright price and sustainable from an economic and environmental point of view.
This cultural IED project sees also the start of the new “International Advisory Board”, countingInternational personalities of excellent value: the sociologist Prof Derrick de Kerchove,the philosopher Prof Remo Bodei, Business Design Theorist Prof Richard Buchanan, thephilosopher Prof Francisco Jarauta, the economist Prof Muhammad Yunus.
“The ambition is to collect the experiences coming out of the Advisory Board and D4SBconference and then translate those experiences into Academic programs of IED. IED couldturn into the first Italian Design Business school of Tomorrow. “Design for social business willfind here its dedicated space” – commented Carlo Forcolini.

Grameen Creative Lab
The GCL is a social business company with the mission to eradicate poverty. It supports poor people worldwide to lift themselvesout of poverty through the promotion of the social business idea and the implementation of social business projects. In closecollaboration with Prof. Muhammad Yunus GCL’s objectives are obtained through hosting events, engaging in partnerships withuniversities, consulting companies to start their own social business activities and implementing such projects.

Istituto Europeo di Design
Founded in 1966 IED is an international educational network of excellence operating in the fields of Design, Fashion, Visual Arts
and Communications. With schools in Milan, Rome, Turin, Florence, Venice, Cagliari, Madrid, Barcelona and Sao Paulo IED offers
Post-secondary school courses, Masters courses and advanced training courses to over 10.000 students coming from more than 90
countries.

It’s time for some changes. Or improvements. The arrival of 2011 is a great opportunity to update your career and apply for one of the 22 master courses offered by the Istituto Europeo di Design, in Italy and Spain, starting from January to October 2011. For the first time ever, students interested in the courses: Master in Design and Master in Fashion, both at IED Milan, have just to have a bachelor degree or a specialized three year diploma in any disciplinary area.
IED is a school that graduated more than 90,000 students from around the world and it has become a 100% Made in Italy international network of excellence, operating in the fields of training and research, in the disciplines of Design , Fashion, Visual Arts and Communications.

The courses are addressed to newly-graduated students and practising professionals from all over the world who are interested in fashion, design,  visual arts and communications. The courses are held in English, Italian and Spanish at IED's schools in Italy and Spain and have the duration of a year, except from Transportation Design and Yatch Design, both two years.

Master Courses IED

Master in Product Design – IED Milan – starting in January 2011
Master in Interior Design – IED Milan – starting in January 2011
Master in Design –  IED Milan – starting in January 2011
Master in Fashion Design – IED Milan – starting in January 2011
Master in Fashion Communication – IED Milan – starting in January 2011
Master in Fashion Management – IED Milan – starting in January 2011
Master in Fashion – IED Milan – starting in January 2011- Book an interview.
Master in Brand management – IED Milan – starting in April 2011
Master in Visual Communication - IED Rome - starting in January 2011
Master in Enviromental Design – IED Rome – starting in March 2011
Master in Management for luxury good – IED Rome – starting in April 2011
Master in Advanced Design for Transportation – IED Turin – starting in February 2011-
Master in Transportation Design – IED Turin – starting in April 2011 (2 years course)
Master in Sustainable Architecture - IED Turin – starting in April 2011
Master in Graphic Design – IED Florence - starting in January 2011
Master in Arts Management - IED Rome ,IED Venice, IED Florence - starting in October 2011
Master in Yacht Design – IED Venice - - starting in April 2011 (2 years course)

Master in Design Management - IED Barcelona - starting in January 2011
Master in Interior Design for commercial spaces – IED Barcelona - starting in January 2011
European Design Labs - Master in Product design - IED Madrid - starting in February 2011
Master in Communication Design Labs - IED Madrid - starting in February 2011
Master in Business Strategy and Design - IED Madrid - starting in February 2011

Find out more about the courses, request information and book an interview through www.ied.edu

The aim of presenting MadridDesignNet in Shanghai is for companies and institutions alike to look upon the projects as prime examples of innovation and to use the MadridDesignNet network as a platform from which to launch projects and research in their own particular fields.

MadridDesignNet Programme for Shanghai:
1. Exhibition: MadridDesignNet at the Madrid Pavilion, Best Urban Practices Zone:
9-17 October, Madrid Pavilion at the World Expo Shanghai (opening hours: 09:30-22:30).

Air Tree
Projection of the 20 best ideas developed by 1000 designers from across the globe on design as a driver of change and innovation.

Bamboo House – Exhibition Hall
• Videosphere to project your city: video showcasing the virtual universe forged from the visions of hundreds of young creators, based on an approach that observes the modern world from a design-oriented standpoint.

• Trend Mapping projection: offers a virtual look at urban places and venues that set trends by layering an assorted array of different information.
• Concept: Design & Innovation.

2. Experimental Workshops
• Business Innovation through Design
Focusing on innovation and aimed at Chinese and Spanish companies with interests in China. Carlos Barrabés, Riccardo Marzullo, Felice Morelli and Dario Assante will be directing the work¬shop, which enjoys the support of the Madrid Chamber of Commerce and Madrid City Council.
• Me and My City
Intended for Chinese students and featuring the participation of students from Tongji and Donghua Universities.

3. Future Observatory

The Future Observatory is a committee of experts and visionaries brought together to analyse society from various different disciplines. Conference: “Innovation and Technology”. * This event has been cancelled

www.madriddesignnet.com

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

Yesterday IED team, under the leadership of Prof. Jurgen Faust, did a very important step towards a recognized design academy offering global design education where students can easily move from one seat to another within IED international network studying the same program and the same curriculum.

The validation team from the Westminster University in London granted the maximum time of approval for the fashion design program BA of Honors; the degree will be given by University of Westminster and IED.

Westminster University is regarded one of England’s premier Universities and is very restrictive with such relationships: IED is the first external validation relationship of its kind in Europe.

Upon the fulfillment of providing some formal documents to Westminster before the 24th of September, the fashion design program in English (BA of Honors) in Milan and Barcelona will be given to the students starting from 1st of October 2010.

Istituto Europeo di Design, the international education group in design, fashion, visual arts and communication and The Grameen Creative Lab (GCL), hub of the social business movement with the mission to eliminate poverty, announced a social business initiative to develop sustainable design.

The two leading organizations will combine their strengths to form a unique project, 'Y7Y Design', aimed at making social business excellent through adequate and future oriented design solutions. IED students from the campuses in Italy, Spain and Brazil will put their passion, enthusiasm and motivation into developing projects which will demonstrate that it is possible to innovate and generate new products and services on a multinational scale under the constraints of sustainability and social responsibility.

The concept of social business has been developed by Peace Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and microcredit pioneer, who will work in close collaboration with Istituto Europeo di Design in order to leverage the synergies of design and social business and achieve the mutual objectives.

The agreement was signed by Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Co‐Founder of The Grameen Creative Lab, Mr. Hans Reitz, Co‐Founder of the Grameen Creative Lab and Mr. Carlo Forcolini, CEO of Istituto Europeo di Design, during the Social Business Tour 2010.

“It is within our mission to create a new class of citizens capable to develop and find sustainable solutions to solve ever‐growing problems and fulfill the needs of the planet population at all social level”, declared Carlo Forcolini, CEO of Istituto Europeo di Design.

“Social Business aims at providing excellent and high‐quality products to the poor people at an affordable price. Launching a joint initiative with the leading design school IED will give us the opportunity to bring the products of our social businesses to a new level.”, declared Hans Reitz, Co‐Founder of The Grameen Creative Lab.

Full article is published on "Venerdi" by  "La Repubblica" on 23/07/2010 (PDF)

IED Istituto Europeo di Design, the school that graduated more than 90.000 students around the world – launches/promotes "Creative diary", the Daily showcase of young world creatives who compete to win 38 IED international scholarships for attendance of master courses for the 2010-2011 school year at IED Rome, IED Milan, IED Turin, IED Florence, IED Venice, IED Barcelona, IED Madrid.

Scholarships are to be distributed among the four IED schools: Fashion, Design, Visual Arts and Communication. Students between 20 and 45 years old can participate to the competition. There are two kinds of programs:

First Level Master where candidates must have a Bachelor degree or a specialized three year diploma in any disciplinary area. For the Second Level Master Programs (professional and research) the student needs a bachelor degree or a specialized three year diploma in fashion, design, communication, visual arts or management and a portfolio for programs related to design.

There are four design ideas to be developed, one for each school. The selection theme is: “My City”. IED calls creatives to develop ideas and projects describing ‘your city’: this can be the city where you were born, a city that you visited and that became your ideal one, the city from where your family originally comes, the city where you would like to live or have lived, the city that constitutes for you a symbol of historical, artistic and cultural development and human achievement, the city of the future, where all the human beings will live in freedom or even the city of your dreams, a place that you can create with your imagination.

The projects and images selected will be published on the site http://creativediary.net/ and can receive ratings, comments and still be sponsored by internet users through their facebook newsfeed.  
The deadline for submitting projects is September 13th, 2010.

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

A total of 50 workshops, conducted simultaneously in different cities world revolve multiple parallel events, conferences, exhibitions, roundtable discussions and workshops based in the city of Madrid. This is  MadridDesignNet from 17 to 21 May,  2010.

The origin of the workshops include seminars conducted by students of IED MADRID (from 22 March to 12 April 2010) to inquire about proposals for different areas of the City Hall of Madrid. Projects produced from these seminars, around the problems that emerge from the development of cities, have led to different workshops of MadridDesignNet. More than twenty universities in three continents, participate actively and simultaneously.

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.