Transportation Design and Mobility - IED

Professions in the area Transportation Design and Mobility

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

IED students are currently working as: 

  • Car Designer
  • Yacht Designer
  • Bike Designer
  • Mobility Consultant
  • Color & Trim Specialist
  • Automotive Interaction Specialist
  • Transportation Designer
  • Urban Mobility Manager
Find out who he is, what he does and how to become: Transportation Designer
IED Open Day - September 2025

Projects

Transportation Design and Mobility

Turin

Didactic projects
MOON HIVE

Transportation Design and Mobility

Turin

Didactic projects
HEART CORE

Transportation Design and Mobility

Turin

Didactic projects
GAIA

Transportation Design and Mobility

Turin

Didactic projects
EMBER

Transportation Design and Mobility

Turin

Final projects / thesis projects
Suprema

Transportation Design and Mobility

Turin

Meraki

Transportation Design and Mobility

Turin

Final projects / thesis projects
Icaro
Motorcyclist on an amphibious motorcycle in a beach and rocky landscape

Transportation Design and Mobility

Barcelona

Final projects / thesis projects
Ride the coastline
Off-road electric motorcycle with blue details and large wheel volumes on a dark background with parquet flooring.

Transportation Design and Mobility

Barcelona

Final projects / thesis projects
Stark Escape

News

12 January 2026

Portfolio Review Design 2026

The annual showcase of standout projects by final-year students in Interior, Product, Transportation and Business Design at IED Barcelona presented innovative proposals that envision the companies, objects, homes and vehicles of the future.

11 December 2025

IED x CNH: four visions of the future presented under the stars of the Planetarium of Turin

An evening dedicated to design creativity, imagining systems and vehicles capable of generating life beyond Earth

A futuristic car in black and white colours

05 December 2025

Design excellence nurtured at IED Barcelona triumphs at Cairo Design Award 2025

Youssef ElBarbary, a Transportation Design alumnus, wins the award in the Automotive/Industrial Design category with his final degree project “Polestar Negative + Elemental”.

01 December 2025

AQU Catalunya and IED Barcelona begin a mass survey to gauge the satisfaction of recent graduates

More than 60,000 people who finished their university and artistic studies last year will receive the survey, which will serve to improve the degrees currently being taught. Participants will be entered into a prize draw for the latest generation iPhone.

14 November 2025

From all over the world to Turin: IED welcomes its new international students

Two days between campus spaces and the city center, where new international students, guided by a treasure hunt, started to find their way, meet each other, and grow as a group

06 November 2025

Casa IED opens in New York: a new space for design culture and creative exchange

In Williamsburg, the creative heart of New York, Casa IED has opened as the first of the spaces that IED will dedicate to cultural exchange and collaborative design.

03 November 2025

Design Sketch Battle 2025: Imagining the “Cockpit of the Future” with Ferrari

Students from IED Torino and IED Barcelona challenged each other in a day of pure creativity and design, under the attentive eyes of Ferrari’s designers.

31 October 2025

IED at the 4th CarDesign.es Awards

Raffaella Perrone, Director of the Transportation Design program at the Barcelona campus, and Dominico Lee, car designer and professor at the Turin campus, members of the jury for the awards that recognise creative excellence in the automotive world.

27 October 2025

Rethinking Tomorrow’s Connections: Mobility Design Beyond the Vehicle

At Italian Tech Week 2025, IED explored how design is redefining the way we live, feel, and shape the future of mobility, merging experiences, people, and technologies into an intelligent, human-centered ecosystem.