Graphic Design - Motion Graphic

Undergraduate Courses - Rome

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The goal of the Graphic Design course is to train visual communication designers. This professional designs tools for visual communication and creates images and languages that can effectively convey messages and values both in hard copy and digital forms: tablets, Smartphones and TV (Motion Graphic).

Professional Profile: Graphic Designer, Visual Communicator, Multimedia Designer, Motion Graphic Designer.

Title - The First Level Academic Diploma is recognized by MIUR (Ministry for Education, University and Research) and equated with the Bachelor’s Degree issued by Universities. 

  • Credits
    180
  • Start date
    October 2022
  • Duration
    3 years
  • Attendance
    full-time
  • Language
    Italian

Get an insight into the creative professions: Graphic Designer

The three year Graphic Design course covers traditional subjects and also makes an in-depth study of all aspects linked to Visual Culture, an interdisciplinary field of research centred on visual texts, seen as a form of  contemporary expression. Images are analysed not only as iconographic signs but as symbolic elements of the cultural system they originate from, thus becoming expressions of contemporary social reality, where visual experience is a key constant in our daily lives.

The first year covers preliminary learning providing a sound basis in cultural references and the tools and rules that distinguish and characterise project work. This includes: typography characters as a basic tool for graphic design, origin and perception of shape and colour, software for graphic production, developing images, as well as cultural knowledge that allows the student to interpret and decode the languages of visual communication from contemporary art to cinema.

The second year concentrates on methodology and guided project work. The future graphic designer  acquires awareness and skills in specific professional areas, through practical guided experience in three areas of visual communication: the sphere of expression, where signs transform and evolve to become symbols, brands, logos; the rational sphere, where stories are told through texts, images and pages, where each element has a precise role, confirmed by their graphic or typographic treatment; and finally the sphere of interactivity and motion graphics and the consequent organization of information available to the user

During the third year in the Graphic Design course time is dedicated to advanced project work and professional simulation, addressing the project areas covered by the Graphic Designer: from corporate image to product communication, from publishing graphics to interaction design and three-dimensional and television graphics, from a cross-media perspective. The thesis project is complex and structured, carried out in collaboration with companies and businesses that interact with the Istituto Europeo di Design as a means to finding original and innovative solutions.

Title - The First Level Academic Diploma is recognized by MIUR (Ministry for Education, University and Research) and equated with the Bachelor’s Degree issued by Universities. 

Professional Profile: Graphic Designer, Visual Communicator, Multimedia Designer, Motion Graphic Designer.

Remarkable is that teacher who accomplishes himself what he teaches to others.
(Italian proverb)

IED faculty are professionals that daily face the market. Here you can read their bios.

Max Giovagnoli – Coordinator of Visual Arts School at IED Roma

Max Giovagnoli – Coordinator of Visual Arts School at IED Roma
Transmedia Storyteller, Story Architect e Media Designer. He collaborates with Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, Fox e Lucky Red and tv broadcasters. His essays focusing on transmedia storytelling have been published in Italy, USA, UK. He is Movie Area Responsible for Romics and Cartoons on the bay (RAI).

Luigi Vernieri - Course Coordinator

Luigi Vernieri - Course Coordinator
He was director of IED Roma and of the Visual Arts faculty. Since 2017 he has been supervising the Special Projects of IED Roma. He is an attentive observer of the modern aesthetic trends and he has realized advertising campaigns and visual communication projects for companies such as: Johnson&Johnson, Nike, Rai, Coca Cola, Pepsi. He has won various awards, including "Absolut Vodka" and, eventually, he is the founder and creative mind behind Fefè Project. As editor of Fefè, he has designed numerous editorial and creative projects (from music to unconventional campaigns) and a series of events with a strong artistic connotation.

Andrea Ferolla

Andrea Ferolla
Art Director, Illustrator, Designer. Graduated in Letters and member of the Italian Art Directors Club. Creative director with Daria Reina of the Art Direction consulting firm Ferolla-Reina specialized in luxury brands and institutional communication. He is the Founder and style director of the luxury accessories brand Chez Dédé.

Chiara Caproni

Chiara Caproni
Graphic designer. The last spokeperson of the old guard, one of the first hands of "modern" graphics, she blends tradition and technology to improve the productive potential and find new solutions. A skilled craftswoman who believes in the limit as an engine of creativity, in the pursuit of quality, in the cultural role of the profession.

Aldo Testi

Aldo Testi
Illustrator, Visualizer and Digital Painter. He has been collaborating for years with publishing houses, advertising agencies and graphic studios. In addition to teaching at IED Roma, he has been for years a teacher at state professional schools, as an extra-curricular trainer in the field of computer graphics. Since 1986 he has been collaborating with the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana for the production of illustrations, cartography, infographics and two-dimensional animation.

Marco Colognola

Marco Colognola
Graphic Designer and Art Director, he lives and works in Rome. Partner of Bets. In 2002 he was awarded by Bruno Munari in the Paper Ideas competition. In 2012 he won the Oscar del Vino prize as best label for the Dodicidodici del Castello di Cigognola.

Giuseppe Coccoli

Giuseppe Coccoli
After high school and a brief experience in typography, in 2008 he obtained the IED diploma of Video Design in Rome. He started his career as a Motion Graphic Designer for MU.design, where he had the opportunity to carry out identity projects and television promotions for Italian and foreign broadcasters. He is actually a freelancer.

Roberto Terrinoni

Roberto Terrinoni
He is part of the creative and organizational core of FEFÈ Project, an important Italian visual art magazine. He has realized projects for Amnesty International, Nike, Atac, Sony BMG as a freelancer. Furthermore, he has designed contemporary and visual art newspapers. He has graduated at IED Rome.

Andrea Indini

Andrea Indini
He has been working in the Design field for more than 10 years. He has collaborated with many agencies in Rome, Milan and other Italian cities. He has been member of Angelini Design since 2005, first in Paris, then in the Rome office, where he is currently creative director.

Alessandro Leoni

Alessandro Leoni
He has learned video motion and post-production by working for Fox Internation Channels. Together with some collaborators he has founded a graphic studio called Entrophia that produces motion design works for Magnolia entertainment, Rai and Sky. He teaches Adobe Illustrator.

Stefano Luceri

Stefano Luceri
Visual communication expert. He is specialized in communication projects for the music industry, in visual communication for the cinema, in photo editing for fashion and contemporary art publishing. He founded LuceriDesign in 2013, a creative boutique serving small and medium-sized companies.

Alessandro Risuleo

Alessandro Risuleo
He has been a graphic designer and art director since 1992. In 1995 he founded the VISUAL Creative Studio. In 1996 he started working as web designer and project manager. In 2008 he became one of the first Italian iPhone Developers. He has realized 300 apps to date and he still offers his services to Mondadori, Giunti, Pearson, RCS, Panini, Harward Business Review.

Monica Umena

Monica Umena
Graphic Designer. She worked for companies such as: Sony Music, Polygram, EMI, Colgate Palmolive, Rai, Sky, Comune di Roma and she realized the covers for the albums of: Renato Zero, Giorgia, Ivan Graziani, Mauro Pagani. She taught at LUISS University, at the professional training classes organized by Rome City Hall and she has been collaborating with IED Roma for many years.

Giuseppe Guariniello

Giuseppe Guariniello
Web / Multimedia Designer and Digital Artist. He has been working in the web and interaction field since 2005 with 5 years in the editorial staff of Repubblica.it. He has been teaching web design at IED since 2009 and he started managing the web design advanced training course from 2014. He works as a freelancer for brands such as: Save the childrens, Nike and Tim. Furthermore, he is a Visual performer and creator of installations for Italian and international festivals and institutions.

Marco Michiorri

Marco Michiorri
Digital Art Director with decades of experience in graphics, digital animation, post-production and motion graphics. He has carried out communication projects for brands, TV brodcasters and national communication agencies with clients such as: Renato Zero, Andrew Mackenzie, Trellerborg, Dan John. Since 2001 he is a lecturer at IED in ROME. Teaching area: After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere..

Antonio Strafella

Antonio Strafella
Photographer and post-producer for advertising. He collaborates with various agencies in Rome and Milano creating campaigns for important clients such as: PD, the Minister of Transport, L'Unità, ATAC and Nissan. He is also an artist that showcased his artworks in various art galleries in Rome, Naples and Lecce.

Davide Scarpantonio

Davide Scarpantonio
He is an Art Director and Graphic Designer with a vocation for typography and illustration. Before specializing in corporate and brand identity he had approached visual arts trough graffiti and street art. After graduating in Graphic Design he came back at IED to teach Phenomenology of Contemporary Art.

Daniela Ubaldi

Daniela Ubaldi
She is one of the founders of FEFÈ Project, important Italian magazine of visual art. As a freelance she has realized projects for: Amnesty International, Nike, Atac, Sony BMG. Eventually, she has taken part in the realization of contemporary art and visual art newspapers. She is graduated at IED Roma.

Daniele Nonne

Daniele Nonne
He is a Designer and Art Director with over ten years experience in Design and Advertising. He has graduated in Graphic Design at IED Roma. From 2003 to 2005 he worked in Korus ADV on the BTL of important clients such as: Enel, De Agostini, Medusa Film. From 2005 and 2013 he was Senior Designer in Leo Burnett Roma and he worked for Philip Morris International, Marlboro Racing, Telecom, Fiat, Nintendo. His 3D skills range from Industrial Design to Logo Animation.

Matteo Modena

Matteo Modena
After having experienced IED formative method he got immediately close to important agencies and he entered in the Publicis group. He has worked as Designer and Art Director at Leo Burnett in the offices of Rome, Milan and Berlin. Moreover, he has been Director and Founding Partner of We meet Brands since 2016, design and communication studio in Rome. Eventually, he has designed communication and creativity strategies for ATL about design, retail, packaging, interactive and digital collaborating with important national and international brands.

Piergiorgio Paolinelli

Piergiorgio Paolinelli
Graphic Designer and Art Director. From 2002 to 2006 he took care of the visual identity of Mambo, the Contemporary Art Museum of Bologna, realizing publishing and exhibition design projects. In 2012 he won the international contest with the project Near Field Communication and he entered the ADCI Awards 2012 Identity short list. In 2010 he created Retrogusto Creatives, a communication platform devoted to graphic design and to similar subjects, from contemporary art to new media.

Leo Colalillo

Leo Colalillo
For over ten years he has been in close contact with the world of type design. After obtaining a second level Master in Type Design, he has been publishing his typographic works since 2016 in various editions of Typodarium (Verlag Hermann Schmidt), works that have also been distributed by MyFonts.

Tommaso D'Angelosante

Tommaso D'Angelosante
After the IED Diploma in Video Design, he started working as Motion Graphic Designer for various television broadcasters, including Fox, Discovery, Rai and Mediaset, as well as for communication agencies and video production companies with which he develops promotional videos for TV or the web.

Fabio Folgori

Fabio Folgori
He has been coding for passion since he was 15 years old. Especially this passion, together with the curiosity for computer science and the fascination for design brought him to collaborate with important communication agencies and web agencies since young age. Today, he is a freelancer and he mainly realizes internet websites, apps and softwares. Eventually, he is an IT consultant for international brands.

Riccardo Ippolito

Riccardo Ippolito
Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Art Director. He is an IED graduate and he has a degree in Language Phylosophy. After the first work experiences at the studio of Chiara Caproni and at McCann, he kept working with various studios and agencies, supporting them - eventually - as a freelancer. He has collaborated with: Red Cell, Scholz & Friends, Teknoart, The Brand Shop, Thesign, Yes I am, Rekuest.

Valenzia Lafratta

Valenzia Lafratta
Graduated in illustration at IED Rome, she dedicates herself to illustration for children, editorial illustration and graphic design, alternating over the years collaborations with publishing houses and graphic design agencies. Among these, Pubblipress and Piergiorgio Maoloni, for which she produces scientific, educational and advertising posters. She creates editorial illustrations for the cultural page of Il Giornale and other publishing houses. She has also supervised murals and performances for Italiacamp and Masweek.

Susanna Contoli

Susanna Contoli
Designer, Illustrator and teacher. Her skill set and passion make her a versatile designer that can work in different design fields, from the industrial to the interior and the product one, from graphic design to advertising. Her thesis project has won a national contest in public design and it was displayed at the London Festival of Architecture in the Sustainab.Italy pavilion. She has been working for 7 years in the international agency Leo Burnett as art director and deputy manager of the design department. She often designs for various international brands, as Polaroid and Smeg, that participate at Salone del Mobile. She became Head of Design at the We Solve Design studio in 2018 and Creative Director and founder of the studio Bretti - Contolli.

Valerio La Terza

Valerio La Terza
He is graduated in Economics & Business with a Master in Marketing & Communication at PMI. He has specialized in Advertising, Marketing and Business at the Pine Manor College of Boston (USA). After having worked at J. Walter Thompson he collaborated with various advertising agencies as an Account Executive. In 2008 he is author of the first Italian blog about the direct relationship between advertising, copyright and new technologies.

Jacopo Benci

Jacopo Benci
He is an artist and researcher, graduated in Contemporary Art History at the Sapienza University of Rome. From 1984 he has been taking part in exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. He is Assistant Director Fine Arts and Senior Research Fellow at Modern Studies and Contemporary Visual Culture at the British School of Rome. He has curated about 70 exhibitions of artist and architects residing at the BST, in Italy and London. He has held conferences and has published peer-reviewed essays about Antonioni, Pasolini, Ghirri.

Projects

Percorsi
  • Città: Rome
  • Scuola: Visual Communication
  • Corso: Graphic Design
Supervisor Luigi Vernieri This is an independent magazine, created by IED Roma, which explores the subject of the “percorso” (journey) as experience, travel and discovery. The first issue examines the journey in a broad sense. PERCORSI is a magazine with a strong visual character.
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Buffetti
  • Città: Rome
  • Scuola: Visual Communication
  • Corso: Graphic Design
Graphic design students were given the task - as a dissertation project - to unleash their creativity and use the technical knowledge acquired over the three-year course to design a range of binders and related products for the Buffetti Group.
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Journey to the centre of the earth
  • Città: Rome
  • Scuola: Visual Communication
  • Corso: Graphic Design
The dissertation project was developed to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first publication of the novel "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" by Jules Verne. This is a modern reinterpretation of the book, through visuals created using the collage technique. Published by Armando Curcio Editore.
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