School of Design in Rome

IED Design is the school’s concrete and complete response to the countless and diversified requirements of the professional design community.

These days, design is a crucial constituent in every area of production, contributing contents, lexica, codes of expression and of form and technical and functional aspects. Street furnishings, fashion accessories, automobiles and IT hardware are just some of the fields where appreciation of the value of design has shot up in recent years.

The designer is by definition an innovator of forms and functions, an interpreter and at the same time a precursor of emerging aesthetic lines and of contemporary functional requirements.

The courses at IED Design are tailored to develop these gifts, while at the same time favouring the acquisition of extensive technical and design skills in the course of workshops and numerous active partnerships with leading industrial concerns

IED Design interprets the excellence of Italian design through a process of training whose roots are embedded in the culture of Made in Italy: creativity, entrepreneurial drive, technological innovation and familiarity with the market.

Ever alert to evolutions in taste and new trends, IED Design keeps one step ahead with its contents, languages and expressive and formal codes in all sorts of different sectors: from street furniture or cars to technological hardware or children’s toys.These courses are tailored for high-school leavers, young graduates and professionals who want to improve their skills.

Design school in Rome, Alcamo campus

A stately, early twentieth-century building whose gardens preserve evidence of Imperial Rome: a section of the ancient aqueduct of the Aqua Felix. This is the evocative home of the courses offered by IED Visual Arts and IED Design.

In an atmosphere pervaded by research and creativity, Rome’s thousands of years of history blend with and thrive on the present, just as her most venerable traditions blend with modern design.

Located in the heart of the city’s historical heritage, yet at the same time open to the modern culture of innovation linked to the new media and the city’s fertile cinema and television production industries, this prestigious Rome campus occupies an area of some 3,000 m².

Students benefit here from comfortable lecture theatres, extensive IT laboratories for graphic and video processing, whole areas devoted to creating stage-sets, studios for the photography courses and a library with a rich collection of books and specialised magazines.