Summer Course: Graphic Design at IED Venice

  Italy

• Venice: 
Venice

Term: Summer 

Description: The course wants to be a concise yet comprehensive experience on Visual Communication in Italy, and will develop along three parallel paths.

The first is a journey into Italian Graphic Design, to understand its most significant aspects, and analyze its relation to the International scenario. A historical course through the players of the most prolific period, from the world war to the seventies, onto the next generations to reach an overview of contemporaneity with its IT revolution and recent contamination with similar languages such as web design, video, multimedia. Visits, meetings with graphics designers, case-histories will be the stages of this journey.

The second journey wants to provide and deepen the knowledge of the designers' tools. Professional software to draw, for image management, lay out, and for the development of interactive presentations and animation will be taught. Participants will also be guided to the rediscovery of manual ability as it is a necessary and essential component of a designer's profession: relationship with objects, materials, life scale dimensions.

The third and final journey will be a design laboratory that foresees the contribution of various graphic designers on a strategic and up-to-date theme for the development of a country like Italy: communication for the promotion and improvement of a territory, its distinctiveness, its values, its roots and traditions, its vocation and development perspective. Venice, with its history, art, charm and atmosphere will grant the perfect stimuli and scenario.

Highlights: This course is the perfect solution for those who wish to combine their spare time with a stimulating and new cultural experience.

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Minimum Education: Diploma/Certification

Cost in US$: Inquire for more information

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Italy Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 5

Scholarships are Available. Visit our website to discover all scholarship opportunities for 2009 / 2010 academic year.

Application Process Involves:

• Other
• Resume
• Written Application

Istituto Europeo di Design- International Office-'s Mission Statement: For over thirty years, the Istituto Europeo di Design has been operating in the fields of Education and Research in the disciplines of Design, Fashion and Visual Communication. Today it is an international network with Seats in Milan, Rome, Turin, Venice, Madrid, Barcelona and Sao Paolo and organizes three year courses that are alternative study pathways to those offered by traditional universities, together with refresher and permanent training courses, advanced courses and post-graduate Masters degree courses. The scope of the Istituto Europeo di Design is in fact, to offer young professionals working in the fields of Fashion, Design and Communication, the most efficacious tools necessary to answer the demands of the production world: a project and communication culture that will accompany them throughout their careers.

Year Founded: 1966