We present a moment to celebrate 2024 Visual Arts Graduates and reflect on how they portray the world surrounding them
Forward thinking visual narratives conceived to challenge and create a direct impact on society
The current context invites to constantly reflect on individual and collective convictions. Society's values and priorities change rapidly, often in a matter of clicks. Social networks, in this sense, have taken on a notorious role in punishing or elevating individuals, events or social movements.
The generation of young designers, aware of these changes, respond to this complex scenario eager of expressing their vision; either with a clear political position or with genuine doubts, by expressing in their creations their concerns.
To do so, they investigate the use of the latest technologies with traditional techniques to enhance the importance of heritage, explore digital environments while strengthening their awareness and commitment to the environment and the planet they live in, and celebrate the plurality and diversity of a convulsed society determined to raise its voice.
Welcome to the IED Visual Arts Fest 2024.
Exhibition
It's time to celebrate!
The graduate exhibition "Recollections in Tranquillity" by IED Milano Photography students spanned a variety of unseen works through different formats and themes. Relationships, disorientation, migration and the ecosystem surrounding them where a few of the topics showcased at Kemonia Lab in Milano.
Cooking a magazine
Print magazines are like great meals, you need all sense to experience them
Opening a printed magazine generates a wide range of emotions. From the enthusiasm of beginning a thrilling reading to the feel or smell of the different papers.
The images inside evoke dreams, diverse realities and great possibilities together with committed texts to current affairs. The role of the designer is to know how to combine both parts to create an exquisite final result. Like a fine chef.
Al filo de la hoja
ABONO 02
ABONO is an experimental editorial platform created, managed, designed and produced by alumni and students of the School of Visual Arts at IED Madrid, which this year presents its third issue "Al filo de la hoja".
This new issue explores the parallels between design and cuisine, highlighting the fundamental importance of process knowledge and the continuous search for aesthetic references in both disciplines.
Live performances
Turning a great show into a once-in-a-lifetime experience
There’s nothing like the energy of a live performance—the kind of experience you just "had to be there" for. Whether it's through sound, visuals, or the full immersive show, it's design that transforms these moments into something unforgettable.
Urban Jungle
An immersive and interactive installation, presented during the 7th edition of Videocittà -the festival dedicated to audiovisual and digital culture- which aims to involve the public in the co-creation of animatable digital works.
Frequenze
Arsenale Theatre in Milan welcomed IED Milan Sound Design students for their final thesis live-performance.
Posters
Digital Art allows us to visualize better futures and opens up discussions about dystopic scenarios
Artificial Intelligence has already arrived to open our minds to other worlds. This new tool is capable of making us see the impossible: Would you like to experience a music festival in the middle of space?
Amazonica Music Fest
Amazonica Music Fest by designer Laura Fonseca is a fictional expedition to a female-led exo-planet, brought to life as an ethno-futuristic music festival.
This immersive event celebrates women's strength as inseparable from the force of nature itself, blending themes of gender empowerment, environmental awareness, and speculative design. Conceptualized as the dissertation project for IED Firenze Master's in Graphic Design with a focus on new media, Amazonica Music Fest showcases innovative storytelling through cutting-edge design, technology, and cultural inspiration.
Visual Identity - Posters
The Exo-planet Music Fest - Women in Nature.
Scenarios
The student created a visual identity for this fictitious festival with a specific declination for the four scenarios conceived: The Groove, The Wild, Meteorite and River Flow.
Scenario The Groove
Scenario The Wild
Scenario Meteorite
Scenario River Flow
A sense of community
Connecting people, telling stories, and building bridges
Visual communication can honor cultural heritage while making it relevant and exciting for new generations.
From exhibition design to illustration, from archive to innovation, design weaves together past, present, and future.
Projects with meaning
How to discuss and rethink taboo?
Visual Communication has the power to denounce moral, political and/or religious repression by bringing to light what is forbiden. It opens up conversations about different cultural perspectives and values offering a wide vision of the planet we live in.
Languages of the Forbidden
Art and design, two creative tools to combat censorship and defend democratic values and freedom of expression. IED Barcelona Graphic Design students presented their final thesis projects during “Languages of the Forbidden” event held at the Museu de l’Art Prohibit.
Films
Self-discovery tales, computer-generated movies, friendship stories and new dystopian realities are on today's program
Take a sit and watch all the audiovisual projects made by our students in CG Animation in collaboration with Video Design.
Press play and enjoy!
Deliverage
‘Deliverage’ is a mixed-media animated short film that tells the story of G, a young bicycle courier living out her anger and frustration in a rainy Milan. While completing an evening delivery, G is involved in an accident, falling on the wet asphalt. Holding back tears, she begins a journey through her memories, reliving her experiences from her first fall on a bicycle to life as a rider.
Strawberry Cake
CG Animation & Sound Design - IED Milano
Echo
CG Animation & Sound Design - IED Milano
Fragile Melody
CG Animation & Sound Design - IED Milano
Insectstein
CG Animation & Sound Design - IED Milano
404 error
The mistake as a deliberate statement
As technology becomes more advanced, a new creative movement is taking shape—one that challenges the idea of perfection. Instead of striving for outstanding results, embracing glitches, errors, and imperfections has become as powerful tool of expression.
Happy Accidents
Created by Alvaro Quecedo from IED Kunsthal Bilbao aims to manifest the new aesthetic frontier that emerges from error and entropy to produce unknown results and experiment outside the predefined parameters.
