Institute Europeo di Design (IED) is the biggest European School of Fashion, Design, Visual Communication, Management, Fine Arts and Hospitality.

IED can boast full state of University level recognition in all the three countries in which it is located: Italian state recognition (MIUR), Brazilian State Recognition (MEC), and the Spanish recognition of both the Generalidad de and the Comunidad de Catalunya.

IED has wonderful centrally located calorence, Cagliari, Como, Madrid, Barcelona, SaoPaulo, Rio de Janeiro. IED offers 50 types of Bas (taught in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and English / One year full immersion courses / Post graduate Master courses). IED has trained 60,000 students coming from 100 countries, during the last 45 years and now has more than 10,000 studying at its various campuses.

IED teaches all types of design: Product , Interior, Transportation, Set / Theatre, Fashion Design, Jewellery, Fashion Management, Fashion stylist, Graphic, Illustration, Multimedia Animation,Photography,Archetecture,Exhibition, Furniture, Yacht Design, Environmental Design, Advertising, Fashion Marketing, Fashion Communication, Fashion Retail Management, Video, Accessories and Shoe, Sound Design, Design Management, Event Design, Audio Video production, Marketing and Business Communications, Painting, Art restoration, Arts Management etc.

Above all, IED is an evolving educational system with capability and dedication to reinventing itself on a daily basis. Its mission is widespread and clear: to offer young creatives a thorough training - both theoretical and practical – and hand them the ‘Design Knowledge and Mindset’ that will accompany them throughout their lives.

IED is far more than a school: thanks to its unwavering commitment to innovation, it is the melting pot where new generations of professionalism are constantly unfolded.

IED is a powerhouse of ideas that develops creativity through its range of:

• undergraduate courses
• masters courses
• advanced training courses

Four Schools for four creative worlds. IED Design, IED Fashion, IED Visual Communication and IED Management.

IED Fashion Milan

IED Fashion is a complete, exhaustive response to the increasingly diversified and specialised training requirements expressed by the fashion system.

A complete school in its own right, based on the principle of cross-fertilisation and the completeness of its teaching methods which, in line with IED philosophy, combines knowledge with knowhow, theory with practice.

Fundamental to this approach is the school’s relationship with the entrepreneurs and professionals working in the Italian fashion business, the world’s largest concentration of clothing industrialists and creative.

The people who work in this industry have achieved success and international renown as a result of the fashion system’s ability to blend an entrepreneurial spirit with creativity and a perception for innovation.

IED Fashion points the way for its students to live and feel this sense of fashion, in an embracing whole and in its individual parts, as an interaction between different perspectives and a combination of diverse professional skills.

IED Fashion points the way for its students to live and feel this sense of fashion, in an embracing whole and in its individual parts, as an interaction between different perspectives and a combination of diverse professional skills. As the courses aim at training the professional profiles vital to the industry, these range from the more purely creative to the strategic areas, from organizational to commercial aspects, from marketing to image and communications work.

IED Design

IED Design is the school’s concrete and complete response to the countless and diversified requirements of the professional design community.

These days, design is a crucial constituent in every area of production, contributing contents, lexica, codes of expression and of form and technical and functional aspects.

Street furnishings, fashion accessories, automobiles and IT hardware are just some of the fields where appreciation of the value of design has shot up in recent years.

The designer is by definition an innovator of forms and functions, an interpreter and at the same time a precursor of emerging aesthetic lines and of contemporary functional requirements.

The courses at IED Design are tailored to develop these gifts, while at the same time favouring the acquisition of extensive technical and design skills in the course of workshops and numerous active partnerships with leading industrial concerns.

IED Management Lab

IED Management Lab trains professionals to be capable of working at managerial level in the various different areas of advertising, public relations, marketing and human resources.

The range of curricula available from IED Management Lab caters for the increasing need for new professional profiles in all areas of communications: these are extremely dynamic, continuously expanding sectors, whose increasingly strategic value means that they need well-trained, aware operators, specialists and professionals.

The lecturers are all professionals who work actively in the area of communications: their experience of both work and teaching ensures that the rapid transformations taking place in various contexts of production are immediately reflected in the contents of our courses.

IED Visual Communication

IED Visual Communication is the creative lab where one can learn about the instruments, the specific language and expressions, new techniques and the technology needed in order to develop a visual communications project.

We live in a world where images and sounds pervade our daily existence and are the primary vehicles we use to transmit values and significance of our ideas and products, which between them are so diverse, such as fashion, design, different types of industrial production, and advertising; but also cultural, political and social fields.

The way a concept or project is ‘presented’, is no longer considered just an accessory. It determines and contributes significantly to the success of the communication of a message. Knowing how to operate in this environment with professionalism and competence means you possess an eclectic and varied cultural background, based on a deep understanding of both the social-cultural aspects of the situation, as well as the new information technologies which are continually changing the role of the images and sounds of communication itself.

Today, one designs and produces within the system of multimedia, but multimedia must be considered from two points of view; the impulsive and constant changing of digital technology, and at the same time, the coexistence of other types of media which require other skills and creative competencies.

The courses offered in IED Visual Communication are a source of continuing pride and make this school unique in the panorama of Italian educational programs.

The continuous technological updates which students have access to, following a long and historic tradition, make this school a research laboratory where one can experiment in order to develop higher creative skills, both in relation to the contents of the program, as well as the language, thereby helping to form and qualify its students and prepare them for the job market of today.