Graphic Design and Visual Communication

Professions in the area Graphic Design and Visual Communication

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

IED students are currently working as:

  • Graphic Designer
  • Art & Design Director
  • Web Designer
  • Motion Graphic Designer
  • Data Visualizer
  • Editorial Designer
  • Illustrator
  • Creative Digital Designer
  • Interactive Art Director
  • Packaging Designer
  • Typography designer
  • Visual Designer

Find out who he is, what he does and how to become: Graphic DesignerIllustrator, Copywriter, PhotographerDirector of Photography

IED Open Day - September 2025

Projects

Graphic Design and Visual Communication

Madrid

Special projects
Tejiendo Comunidad - Carabanchel Distrito Cultural

Graphic Design and Visual Communication

Madrid

Didactic projects
Interstice

Visual and Interactive Arts

Madrid

Didactic projects
NEUº

Visual and Interactive Arts

Madrid

Didactic projects
Typolab

Visual and Interactive Arts

Madrid

Didactic projects
Hellraiser

Graphic Design and Visual Communication

Madrid

Didactic projects
Sinestesia

Graphic Design and Visual Communication

Madrid

Special projects
Abono 03. Hogar

Visual and Interactive Arts

Madrid

Didactic projects
Ñaño
Still life of postcards and letters on building materials and stone

Graphic Design and Visual Communication

Barcelona

Final projects / thesis projects
UDON: Asia comienza aquí [UDON: Asia begins here]

News

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 and Filippo Rossi brought new perspectives on materiality and contemporary audiovisual practices within the #TimesNew concept.

03 March 2026

This was IED MUSES Talks: Omar Sosa

The co-founder of ‘Apartamento Magazine’ shared his creative dynamics at the intersection of art, architecture and editorial design in the second episode of the second season of the IED’s inspirational talk series.

Display case of a typography exhibition

26 February 2026

TDC 71: The Power of Typography Arrives at IED Barcelona

From 25 February to 25 March, the campus will host, for the second consecutive year, the exhibition of the finest international works awarded by the Type Directors Club (TDC) of New York in 2025.

23 February 2026

IED Kunsthal Bilbao presents “¿Y TÚ? TA ZU? ” in collaboration with the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum and the Mayor of Bilbao.

The graphic intervention emerges from the students’ direct engagement with the exhibition dedicated to Barbara Kruger at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, inviting the public to reflect on their role within today’s complex reality.

23 February 2026

IED Kunsthal Bilbao launches 4 new postgraduate programs

IED Kunsthal introduces the Postgraduate format and begins a new academic phase focused on specialization.

20 February 2026

VISIONI DAL FUTURO - A century of posters from the Triennale Milano Archives, animated and reinterpreted by young designers

The installation, part of the European project SISS – Sounding Images, Screening Sounds, was presented in the Agora of IED Kunsthal Bilbao with a live performance.

Overhead view of a labyrinth of fabric panels and light

10 February 2026

IED Barcelona bathes Llum BCN 26 in warm light

The lighting design installation “Fabric Maze”, a labyrinth of fabrics, lights and shadows inspired by the textile past of the Poblenou neighbourhood, created warm visual compositions with each visitor’s passage.

09 February 2026

Creativity, design and architecture at the Workshop Week 2026

From 2 to 6 February, 430 students at IED Barcelona took part in this annual multidisciplinary academic activity, which offered 25 multidisciplinary workshops inspired by the Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026 event. And, for the first time, it included mobility between campuses.

Poster for the Saló Ensenyament 2026 showing two cheerful young people against a blue background

03 February 2026

IED Barcelona at Saló de l’Ensenyament 2026

From 18 to 22 March, attendees at this event focused on educational guidance will have the opportunity to explore the school’s design training programmes at stand D-453, located at the Fira de Barcelona Montjuïc venue.