Media Design

Undergraduate Courses - Rome

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A Media Designer is a producer and digital artist working in the communications field across various platforms, mixing languages of communication in an increasingly integrated way in creative and editorial choices, technological solutions and production formulas. The activity of the Media Designer integrates the design and development of interactive contents with a transmedia story for entertainment, communication, gaming, advertising and information.

Professional Profile: The Media Designer can work freelance or in collaboration with agencies for communication and human-computer interaction development, web agencies, and cross media factories, production companies, new media broadcasters, integrated graphic design studios, publishers for digital products, e-games, apps and interactive interfaces, companies working in communication and distribution for entertainment, information and communication, artistic enhancement, net marketing, community management and cross-media editing for large editorial groups or independent productions.

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 2020
  • Duration
    3 years
  • Attendance
    full-time
  • Language
    Italian

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).

Tiziana Amicuzi

Tiziana Amicuzi
Managing Director of tad (studio) design, a creative design and experimentation atelier that combines multiple languages, ranging from architecture to scenography, from cinema to digital arts and new media. Working in a multidisciplinary form, he creates immersive and interactive environments, videogames and interaction design projects, urban cross-media and performing media paths.

Lorenzo Vignolo

Lorenzo Vignolo
He is one of the most important videoclip filmmakers in Italy: since 1997 he has produced about 150 artists such as: Baustelle, Irene Grandi, Subsonica, Max Gazzé.  He directed  the feature films 500! (co-directed with Giovanni Robbiano and Matteo Zingirian), Tutti all’Attacco and Workers.

Sergio Alberini

Sergio Alberini
Film Editor and colorist he collaborated with Nel Blu Studios for which he edited the short film La storia sono io by Ugo Gregoretti, for HDEyes he edited VND Voci nel nel deserto, for FGC Production he edited spots for BBC News , British Airways, and documentaries for National Geographic.

Sabrina Perrucca

Sabrina Perrucca
Artistic Director anco Co-founder of Romics – International Comics, Animation, Games Festival. Writer and researcher, among her publications: Il cinema d’animazione italiano oggi, Bulzoni Editore, CinémAnimationS, Corlet Publications Francia. She teaches in masters, high specialization courses, seminars and university courses.

Paolo Bravi

Paolo Bravi
Director of Photography (D.o.P.) and camera operator 35/16mm and Digital HD. Among the feature films as a D.o.P.: The Protagonists, Ballo a Tre passi, Turtles on their back, all screened at Venice Film Festival. Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at Ischia Film Festival 2005. Among the documentary films shot, Voci nel Deserto and Nobody Excluded.

Maria Letizia Bixio

Maria Letizia Bixio
Art historian,  she curated numerous exhibitions in galleries, academies and museum, compiling critical essays for the catalogs. She is also correspondent to several art magazines, including Inside Art, Sofà and Borsa & Finanza and contributes to other art publications.

Luigi Sardiello

Luigi Sardiello
Writer, Screenwriter, Director. Winner of many awards in Italy and abroad. Among his literary works: The point I don’t know (nomination for Premio Strega) and the writing manual Write to Communicate. Among his cinematographic works: Foot of God (13 national and international awards) and The Pastry Chef (7 awards and many nominations). Editor in chef of Filmaker's magazine.

Francesco Rosati

Francesco Rosati
Electronic Musician, Sound & Visual Artist, Creative Technologist. He divides his professional activity between audio / video live-sets presented in Italian and international festivals, including Le Bains Numerique, 90dB Festival, didactics with workshops about C'74 Max software for interaction and new media, up to the realization of music for events and fashion shows related to brands including Gucci. Professor of Synthesis of Sound and Interactive Systems at IED Rome.

Francesco Ugolini

Francesco Ugolini
He works on architectural 3D, design visualization, character animation, vfx, videogames. ACI teacher (Autodesk Certified Instructor). President of Ecosystem3D association for ethic 3D graphics development. President of AAUGA Rome (Autodesk Animation Users Group).

Tommaso Fioretti

Tommaso Fioretti
Graduated in Graphic and Multimedia Design at the Faculty of Architecture Valle Giulia, specialized in compositing to Escape Studios Londra.He collaborated with several facilities in Rome, London and Shanghai, working on commercial, shorts and features  film such as Hugo Cabret and 300: Rise of an Empire.

Filippo Manni

Filippo Manni
Coordinator of Sound Design, he is Music Producer and Sound Designer. He collaborates with record companies, brands and audiovisual production companies including: RAI, Ministry of Sound, Universe, Hitmania, Nike, Mercedes, Unicef, FAO, WWF, Germany next Top Model. He founded the NUtone Lab studio.

Claudia di Fabio

Claudia di Fabio

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.

Carlo Frinolli

Carlo Frinolli
Struck by User Centered Design and Graphic Design in 2002, he became Web Designer and then Creative Director at nois3lab since 2007. In 2013 he founded nois3 and got the User Experience and the web the heart of the project. He loves designing and making beautiful things.

Projects

Unlock Museum
  • Città: Rome
  • Scuola: Visual Communication
  • Corso: Media design
The School of Visual Arts designed the visual image of the Historical Museum of Communication in the Eur district in Rome. This is an augmented reality App, offering motion graphic videos, comics and official catalogues of some exhibitions.
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Schism
In an ancient ruin, Cy, a village thief, steals a golden glove from a skeleton. He discovers that this glove is magical. He then uses its magical powers to climb the social ladder. The highest recognition: hunt down ancient primordial creatures. Departments involved in the project are CG Animation and Media Design
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Mindlock
  • Città: Rome
  • Scuola: Visual Communication
  • Corso: Media design

This is an AR puzzle game with cyberpunk imagery and immersive gameplay.

Media Design third-year dissertation project

Departments involved - Media Design, CGAnimation, Sound Design

In partnership with Oniride

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