Diploma - Illustration
- 3 years
- Duration
- 20,200 EUR/year
- Price
- Oct 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Diploma
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Florence / Italy
- Location
Program description
Here at IED Firenze, we see the modern illustrator as someone who can draw from a wide range of experiences and perspectives, both in terms of culture and business, and who can use their own unique set of interpretative abilities to bridge these gaps. Visual artists, like real-life news reporters, learn to fully immerse themselves in a scene and capture its essence through rapid and accurate responses to outside influences.
Our three-year Illustration degree program is exceptional since it provides students with the opportunity to study abroad and takes advantage of interdisciplinary approaches. Come explore with us the most effective way to let your imagination run wild. If you want to broaden your mind and develop your visual sense while also honing your narrative skills, then our curriculum is for you. Digital and interactive projects that break new ground in terms of creativity and user engagement are within your reach with this potent mix. Come and join us as we explore the world of art and technology, embracing the possibilities along the way.
During these three years, you will learn to express yourself clearly and develop your own voice. You will be prepared to build a successful career in creative visual production, with opportunities to work on a global scale, and receive all the resources you need to do so. A high-level professional with strong writing skills, strong technical and expressive abilities, and an eye for detail when it comes to interpreting and managing visual elements of communication is your goal.
Program structure
1st Year
- History of contemporary art
- History of drawing and artistic design
- Iconography and anatomic drawing
- Perception theory and the psychology of form
- Drawing for painting 1
- Digital animation techniques 1
- Illustration 1
- Computer graphics 1
- Arts semiotics
- Seminaries/Interdisciplinary workshops
2nd Year
- Elements of morphology and figure dynamics
- Drawing for painting 2
- Digital animation techniques 2
- Illustration 2
- Computer graphics 2
- Phenomenology of contemporary arts
- Sociology of communication
- History of cinema and video
- Fundamentals of video production
- Scenography
- Elective courses
- Seminaries/Interdisciplinary workshops
3rd Year
- Drawing for painting 3
- Illustration 3
- Theory and Methods of Mass Media
- Integrated media techniques
- Multimedia Design
- Graphic Design
- Illustration 4
- Elective courses
- Traineeship/Career counseling
- Seminaries/Interdisciplinary workshops
- Contests
- English
- Thesis project
Price
Fee for 1 year education is 20200.00 EUR for international students
Requirements for applicants
Upon request
About the university
Since 1966, we have been the largest Higher Education Network in the creative area to keep both a worldwide perspective and a strongly Italian cultural matrix.
Our educational strategy has evolved over time, but at its core remains the same: we mix theoretical study with hands-on experience and the expertise of working experts. One of the things we emphasize in our classes is always thinking ahead, in the here and now. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary institution that views design as a tool for social transformation.
Among the many international academic networks in which we participate are Cumulus, Elia, and WDO, just to name a few.
Campuses
In the 1970s and 1980s, we expanded to Rome (1973), Cagliari (1984), and Turin (1989) in Italy.
Beginning in 1994 with the Madrid campus and continuing on to Barcelona in 2002, Spain's modern era began in the 1990s.
The Group also spread internationally, establishing a presence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2005, and then in Venice, Italy, in 2007, Florence, Italy, in 2009, and Como, Italy, in 2009, with the acquisition of the Aldo Galli Academy of Fine Arts. The Group expanded its footprint in Brazil in 2014 by renovating the Cassino da Urca and opening a campus in Rio de Janeiro; in 2020, the Group will expand its presence in Spain by purchasing the Centro Superior de Diseo Kunsthal in Bilbao.
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