One Year Course - Interior Design

  Italy

• All Other Areas in Italy: 
Milano

Term: Not Applicable 
Dates: January - October

Description: One Year Interior Design Course-Study Programme

Cultural Area. Approach to Design. Determination and classification of all designing stages, from the creative ideas to the final product, while highlighting the intellectual process that encompasses researches, ideas and the routes of human sight. Twentieth-Century Art. Historical and critical analysis of the main modern and contemporary artistic movements in relation to the evolution of culture and society. History of Architecture and Design. This course includes an historical digression from the 50s to the present day and an analysis of the aesthetic production of each decade. The second part of this course contemplates an in-depth study about the use of fabrics for interior design. Basic Italian Language. Basic Italian aimed at helping to fit into the Italian background.

Tools Area. Modeling Laboratory. Laboratory activities targeted at teaching the techniques for building study and presentation models in materials such as polystyrene, cardboard, foam core or balsa wood. Geometrical Design. Basic geometrical constructions, descriptive geometry, orthogonal projections, axonometry and perspective. Real Life Drawing. Free-hand drawing, principles of visual perception and proportion. Analysis of volumes, rotations and permeations and their representation by means of quick techniques. Rendering. Qualifying course about representation techniques targeted at monitoring all possible communication modes for a project. Hands-on simulation of the submission of a course paper to a client.

Economics Area. Marketing and Business Culture. This course provides the basics for a proper understanding of the business dynamics involved in defining the strategies for product positioning and communication. The theoretical contribution will be supplemented with appropriate case histories. Technology Area. Ergonomics Training about this essential factor for the definition of a project. Analysis of the relationship occurring between man and his surroundings, between man and machines and between man and everyday objects. C.M.F.T. Colour Material Texture and Technologies. This preparatory course about colors, materials, textures and technologies provides our students with a hands-on analysis of the main issues involved in the use of such techniques. Materials Technology. An overview of natural and artificial materials and their transformation processes. Production technologies for industrial manufactures. This course is supplemented with lectures held by qualified businesses.

Light Laboratories. Knowledge of the theory of light and technique of lighting. Analysis of the light source. Light-engineering calculation and the various types of light sources. Information Technology Area Corel Draw - Adobe Photoshop. A course about the use of two of the most important software programs for computer design. Computer AutoCAD. An overview of AutoCAD, the industry-leading software, to be intended as an introduction to a later deeper knowledge of computer-aided design.

Design Area. Design Methodology. This course explains the most important guidelines for obtaining a graphic rendering of an environment through the learning of conventions and their proper use. This course aims at introducing our students to design methodology by means of the following outstanding stages: survey of the existing area, analysis of the customer's needs, collection of the proper materials and design synthesis. Design 1. Home design - Development of a project for reinterpreting and renovating a home environment after carefully analyzing the behavioral modifications occurring in it. Design 2. Shop design - Analysis of the issues related to product/service display and communication at a selling outlet or corner. Design of an expository space taking great care of lighting, materials, colors and layout.

Visits and Meetings. Visiting Professor. Topic-specific meetings with professionals and specialists sharing their own design experiences in the most diverse fields. Tours of Showrooms and Industry-Leading Businesses. Visits to the most important showrooms, companies, manufacturing plants and architectural sites. Guided Tours. One-day visits at shows, fairs and expositions.

Highlights: Full Immersion in Milan: The World Capital of Fashion and Design. One Year Interior Design, One Year Fashion and Textile Design and One Year Jewelry courses are conceived and structured as a comprehensive (taught in English language) overview on the Italian protagonists in design and fashion: professionals, companies, trademarks, events and trade fairs connected with the world of style. You will breathe the unequalled atmosphere of Italian Design World: with its continuous innovations in style, its unrivalled number of style production connected companies, its worldwide famous fashion shows and design events, its incredible concentration of posh boutiques. Thanks to our both theoretical and practical thorough full-immersion, you will have the opportunity to perfection, in a limited period of time, a full expertise and a clear view of Italian Interior Design, Jewelry Design and Fashion and Textile Design. Our One Year courses will put you in touch with a real workshop school: the Milan School will act as a multinational container of stimuli and as a training ground where you will learn and experience under the ongoing guidance provided by our teaching staff of professionals. We offer theoretical and practical classes and laboratories, workshops, meetings with companies, tours of trade fairs and showrooms: a whole heap of experiences that aim at exploring the diverse moods of fashion and at providing a first-row glance at the skills of interior designers, fashion & textile designers and jewelry designers. Highlights of the One Year Courses.

* More than 1,000 class hours (full time tutoring)
* Advice and information about the existing activities, trips to the major cultural assets and places in Italy
* Access to the Internet and Internet mail, to the library and to qualified labs: modeling, computer lab, tailoring, textile, knitwear and to the most important and newest light laboratory of Italy
* Interesting new product: especially suitable for those people who intend to study in depth Italian Design, Fashion and Jewelry in Italy without necessarily be obliged to learn the Italian language
* Beginning January 20th 2003. Admission closing on December 15th 2002.
* Fee is 8.900 euro (3000 enrolment fee, 5.900 euro to be paid before the beginning of the courses)
* For those who are interested in continuing studies at IED there is the possibility of Admission (after the end of the One Year course in English) to the second year of the three-year-courses in Italian.
* For each subject there will be an examination. Final certificate with indication of the average mark.
* Admission requisites: High School Diploma, High Intermediate knowledge of the English language (Toefl 450- * Italian language course included in the fee.

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Experience Required: no

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, Madrid and Barcelona 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