Design Strategy e Management - IED

Professions in the area Design Strategy and Management

Working in the creative industries requires passion and curiosity for the world around us: there are endless possibilities.

IED students are currently working as: 

  • Design Strategist
  • Design Manager
  • Design Consultant
  • Open Innovation Manager
  • Business Development Manager
  • Innovation Strategy Designer
  • Business Design Strategist
  • User Experience Designer
  • Product Innovation Manager
  • Design Thinker
Find out who he is, what he does and how to become: Communication DesignerArt Director , UX Designer, Concept Designer
IED Open Day - September 2025

Projects

Graphic Design and Visual Communication

Madrid

Special projects
Abono 03. Hogar
An open laptop on a gray background

Design Strategy and Management

Barcelona

Final projects / thesis projects
PAL – Plastic Alternative Library

Design Strategy and Management

Turin

Didactic projects
MnemoOs
Various graphics and images of trees on a wallpaper

Design Strategy and Management

Barcelona

Final projects / thesis projects
Virtual Garden

Product and Service Design

Milan

Didactic projects
Moleskine

Product and Service Design

Milan

Didactic projects
Manetti and Roberts

Product and Service Design

Milan

Didactic projects
TVS

Marketing and Communication

Milan

Didactic projects
VASELENS

Marketing and Communication

Milan

Didactic projects
The Jolly Jelly

News

06 May 2026

IED at the “Lápiz de Acero” Award in Colombia

IED joins Lápiz de Acero 2026 in Bogotá, supporting emerging talent and the future of design.

17 April 2026

Vote for IED Madrid projects among the ten finalists in Accor Design Awards 2026

For the second year running, four IED Madrid students have reached the grand final, placing their projects among the best in the world

Dos premios para el documental The Designer is Dead de Gonzalo Hergueta, Alumni IED Madrid

13 April 2026

Three awards for the documentary The Designer is Dead by Gonzalo Hergueta, IED Madrid Alumni

The film has won the Jury Prize at the International Festival of Films on Art, the Best Documentary Award in the Official Selection at Moritz Feed Doc and the Audience Award at the Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest

A group of people posing behind a long table with food

17 March 2026

IED Barcelona hosts BIP – Erasmus+ KA131: The Future(s) of the Mediterranean Food System

Focused on imagining possible—and desirable—futures for the Mediterranean food system, this interdisciplinary programme took place from 23 to 26 February together with students from IED Rome, Università Federico II of Naples and University Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne.

09 March 2026

IED Barcelona at 4YFN 2026

Sylvie Gornes-Martin, Alumni of the Master in Strategic Design Management, has presented the project CarSight for SEAT, developed within the framework of the CBI (Challenge Based Innovation) programme in collaboration with UPC and Esade.

06 March 2026

IED Madrid’s Workshop Week 2026 explores new creative territories with international guest lecturers thanks to the Erasmus KA131 programme

Guest lecturers Lavinia Rosseti, Filippo Rossi, and Nicolas Lambouris brought new perspectives on materiality and contemporary audiovisual practices within the #TimesNew concept.

25 February 2026

AD100 IED Alumni: a talk series with Architectural Digest

The protagonists are three alumni who have been included over the years in the prestigious AD selection. The series opens with Federica Biasi, followed by Francesco Meda and Studio Klass.

24 February 2026

Care, Value and Place: A New Agenda for Design

John Thackara presented the lecture Care, Value and Place for the Master in Social Ecological Design at IED Torino, in collaboration with Circolo del Design, bringing a timely and radical reflection on the future of design.

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17 February 2026

Recruitment Days at IED Barcelona

From 3 to 5 February, leading companies from the fashion and fragrance sectors visited the campus to meet and interview final-year Communication and Master’s students.