IED Istituto Europeo di Design
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Published: 28.06.2024
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- Management:
- Alberico Guerzoni
The versatility of the designer reveals the complexity and the excitement of the contemporary jewelry landscape. Constantly contaminated by different creative languages, it is the expression of the socio-cultural reality.
Istituto Europeo di Design was founded in 1966 in Milan by Francesco Morelli. For more than fifty years, the IED has been operating in the fields of education and research in the disciplines of design, fashion, visual communication, and management.
The Jewelry Design Department at IED Milan fosters a complete and cross-disciplinary education in the contemporary jewelry field. The complex scenario is embraced by opening a dialogue between two apparently distant realities: an intimate and experimental approach and a company-oriented design, both fundamental for jewelry designers.
In this framework, the jewel artifact is considered as a multifaceted design object, constantly contaminated by different creative languages as well as by socio-cultural phenomena and occurrences. Thus, it is a means of communication, aimed at conveying both individual and collective meanings.
The IED approach - based on learning by doing and project culture - provides a balanced mixture of goldsmith skills, design methodology, and experimental research. Students are encouraged to combine tradition and innovation, considering themselves and their personal stories and experience as a precious and unique narrative resource, capable to build their future identity as designers.
During their path, they may profit from different design approaches under the guidance of a faculty of professionals, trained with specific skills in their areas of expertise. Furthermore, collaborations with galleries, international competitions, and events offer the possibility for students to take the first steps in the professional environment.
The school trains students to manage independently the making of a collection, providing them with knowledge and tools to handle the numerous aspects of the design process: concept phase, design, prototyping, production, as well as visual and strategy communication.
Students can benefit from a privileged student/teacher relation thanks to the limited number of participants in a course.
In this framework, the jewel artifact is considered as a multifaceted design object, constantly contaminated by different creative languages as well as by socio-cultural phenomena and occurrences. Thus, it is a means of communication, aimed at conveying both individual and collective meanings.
The IED approach - based on learning by doing and project culture - provides a balanced mixture of goldsmith skills, design methodology, and experimental research. Students are encouraged to combine tradition and innovation, considering themselves and their personal stories and experience as a precious and unique narrative resource, capable to build their future identity as designers.
During their path, they may profit from different design approaches under the guidance of a faculty of professionals, trained with specific skills in their areas of expertise. Furthermore, collaborations with galleries, international competitions, and events offer the possibility for students to take the first steps in the professional environment.
The school trains students to manage independently the making of a collection, providing them with knowledge and tools to handle the numerous aspects of the design process: concept phase, design, prototyping, production, as well as visual and strategy communication.
Students can benefit from a privileged student/teacher relation thanks to the limited number of participants in a course.
Courses
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Jewelry Design
18Oct2023 - 31Jul2026DEADLINE: 18/Oct/2023
Application
Tags: Design , ProfessionalPractice
Management person: Alberico Guerzoni
The three-year BA degree course will suit you if you are deeply interested in jewelry, eager to learn a wide range of skills, and develop your individual creativity.
Since the first year, the curriculum provides a good balance between workshop activities, theoretical knowledge, and drawing, in order to provide students with the tools to evolve their personal design research.
The participants learn to manage the development of a project through various assignments of increasing complexity and different approaches. During the program, they design and produce original contemporary jewelry pieces that will contribute to the setting of their portfolio.
The peak of the study program is the major project, intended as well-structured and in-depth research applied to a jewelry collection. This project lasts an academic year and expresses the area of specialization and interest of the future designer. The process is enriched by the tutoring of renowned professionals, each one assigned according to the typology of the student’s field of research.
Title Degree: Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fashion Design – specialization in Jewelry Design. This BA is recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research (MIUR) as an Academic Diploma Level I.
Duration: 3 years.
Main areas of study:
History of Art, Fashion and Architecture.
History of Jewelry.
Arts Semiotics.
Design Methods.
Materials Typology.
Drawing Techniques.
Graphic Design
3D Computer Modelling and Rendering.
Design Management.
Public speaking.
Goldsmith Techniques.
Advanced Jewelry Project Development.
Independent Practice and Professional Research.
Companies Collaborations and live projects.
Fine and Fashion Jewelry Design.
Contemporary Jewelry.
For more detailed information visit the Website:
https://www.ied.edu/milan/fashion-school/undergraduate-courses/jewellry-design/MBA1979E
Application information:
Use the following link to request information from an advisor https://www.ied.edu/request-information
Grant and Scholarship info and exchange program:
https://www.ied.edu/profession/scholarships-and-facilitations
https://www.ied.edu/students/international-mobility
Events 
A short visual presentation of the IED Jewelry Design academic in Milano.
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Earrings: Etheral, 2023
Brass, gold plated silver
Photo by: Killian Agath
From series: Benison
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Bracelet: Octopus, 2023
Cubic Zirconia, elastic wire, FDM filament, metallic paint spray, resin
5.7 x 5.7 x 6.6 cm
Photo by: Lara Reduzzi
From series: Phtongos
Phtongos is the word used by Omero to describe the mermaids’ voice.
The project represents a 21st-century mermaid inspired by the two sisters rocks legend about a woman half fish.
This project raised various questions like: How could be a Mermaid today? In which way is she dangerous? Where does she live? How can she hurt the people who are getting in contact with her? What kind of Hybrid being is? Is it a hybrid between humans and what kind of animal? What is attractive to me? Which kind of jewelry is attractive?
The mermaid is an aquatic mythological creature which has undergone several metamorphoses through the ages; I represent her nowadays.
My collection is attractive and dangerous thanks to the shiny but sharp stones. When the viewer comes in touch with the wearer, attracted by the jewelry, can hurt himself as the mermaid does with the enchanted man. When the jewelry is worn, the body mutates, it becomes half animal and half human. The design is inspired by Ernest Haeckel’s illustrations to simulate the microorganisms with which my hybrid being is constantly covered, almost encrusted, under the water.
I used the 3D printer, a symbol of today’s technology. The project is made using plastic and resin that were subsequently lacquered and decorated with Cubic Zirconia.
The project represents a 21st-century mermaid inspired by the two sisters rocks legend about a woman half fish.
This project raised various questions like: How could be a Mermaid today? In which way is she dangerous? Where does she live? How can she hurt the people who are getting in contact with her? What kind of Hybrid being is? Is it a hybrid between humans and what kind of animal? What is attractive to me? Which kind of jewelry is attractive?
The mermaid is an aquatic mythological creature which has undergone several metamorphoses through the ages; I represent her nowadays.
My collection is attractive and dangerous thanks to the shiny but sharp stones. When the viewer comes in touch with the wearer, attracted by the jewelry, can hurt himself as the mermaid does with the enchanted man. When the jewelry is worn, the body mutates, it becomes half animal and half human. The design is inspired by Ernest Haeckel’s illustrations to simulate the microorganisms with which my hybrid being is constantly covered, almost encrusted, under the water.
I used the 3D printer, a symbol of today’s technology. The project is made using plastic and resin that were subsequently lacquered and decorated with Cubic Zirconia.
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Piece: Cupola, 2023
Silver
10 x 12 cm
Photo by: Nicola Selim Babaoglu
From series: In search for new perspectives
Ear cuff
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Earrings: Dystopian Flowers, 2023
Aluminium cans and silver.
Photo by: Gaia Dallera
From series: Dystopian Flowers Collection
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Necklace: #5 The investigator, 2022
Sterling silver, brushed finishing.
Photo by: Martina Vittoria Oberti
From series: Bones of my Being
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Bracelet: Unearthing, 2022
Sterling silver.
Photo by: Salvatore Luca Fruttaldo
From series: Biophilia Awakening
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Set: Hunted Landscape Collection, 2020
Oxidized silver, bicarbonate sodium, corn starch, color pigment.
Photo by: Laura Maggiore
From series: Hunted Landscape
Necklaces and brooches.
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Necklace: Nigredo, 2020
Semirefractory clay, glaze, acrylic paint, cotton thread.
Photo by: Fabio Bruno, Lorenzo Gerli
From series: Femina Malefica
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Set: God Save Gen Z Collection, 2022
Brass, epoxy bicomponent cold enamel.
Necklace, earrings, bracelets and rings.
Photo by: Veronica Carcano
From series: God Save Gen Z
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Necklace: Shrinking, 2022
Sterling silver.
Photo by: Alessia Zhang, Zhen Chonghan
From series: Disappearing Salt Lake
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Set: Across the Dimension, a Journey to Eddie’s World Collection, 2022
Anodized titanium, opal.
Photo by: Martina Vittoria Oberti
From series: Across the Dimension, a Journey to Eddie’s World
Earrings, ring and bracelet.
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Ring: Vertigo, 2021
White Volterra’s alabaster, rhodium plated silver.
6.2 x 3.2 x 0.6 cm
Photo by: Alessandra De Feudis
From series: NOW.HERE.VOID
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Necklace: Suspense, 2019
Borosilicate glass, yellow gold-plated silver chain.
37 x 7.5 x 1.5 cm
Photo by: Federica Vuolo
From series: Quietivo
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Estimated price: 832 €
Ring: Real? Unreal?, 2019
Black rhodium plated silver, Plexiglas.
7.1 x 1.4 cm
From series: Look at You
Still life photo by Claudio Morelli; The piece on body photo by Martina Marzella.
Mirror retains a powerful ability to directly engage people.
Some take advantage of the reflective properties to explore, fragment, ask questions of perception, to create and distort space and environment, or allow people to contemplate themselves in their own reflections.
Look At You is about the involvement of human perception through the use of the sight.
People so often see their image reflected in the mirror but not always what we see in a surface reflected the reality of the things. The appearance is deceiving and in our reality, nothing is as it seems.
Mirror retains a powerful ability to directly engage people.
Some take advantage of the reflective properties to explore, fragment, ask questions of perception, to create and distort space and environment, or allow people to contemplate themselves in their own reflections.
Look At You is about the involvement of human perception through the use of the sight.
People so often see their image reflected in the mirror but not always what we see in a surface reflected the reality of the things. The appearance is deceiving and in our reality, nothing is as it seems.
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Piece: Untitled, 2019
Ear Cuff: oxidated silver, brass, steel.
Brooch: silver, brass, patina, oxidation.
Ear cuff: 5.5 x 3 x 1.2 cm; Brooch: 6.8 x 1.5 x 1.6 cm
From series: Becoming one with the woods
Still life photo by Claudio Morelli; The piece on body photo by Christian Varrone.
The collection is about the relation between human being and the forest. While you are in a woods, all your senses perceive the power of nature: you can see the effect of the light passing through the leaves, hear the sound of the living creatures, smell the perfume of the plants. People are wrapped up by nature and become part of it.
The collection is about the relation between human being and the forest. While you are in a woods, all your senses perceive the power of nature: you can see the effect of the light passing through the leaves, hear the sound of the living creatures, smell the perfume of the plants. People are wrapped up by nature and become part of it.
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'Oriental Techniques from a new perspective', a workshop by Stefano Marchetti given to the Jewelry Design students in March 2021. The workshop has been launched with a public lecture at ADI Design Museum in Milan, a space dedicated to the history of Italian Design.
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Five jewellers reveal their creative paths in a video project produced by IED Milan in collaboration with VO+ Magazine to promote the talent of a new wave of designers.
In this video, the student Mel Dario Oceane tells about her experience with the process of designing in her first academic year.
In this video, the student Mel Dario Oceane tells about her experience with the process of designing in her first academic year.
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Five jewellers reveal their creative paths in a video project produced by IED Milan in collaboration with VO+ Magazine to promote the talent of a new wave of designers.
In this video, the student Yuliia Komendat tells about her choice of studying jewellery design and her research on the usage of denim during her second academic year.
In this video, the student Yuliia Komendat tells about her choice of studying jewellery design and her research on the usage of denim during her second academic year.
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Five jewellers reveal their creative paths in a video project produced by IED Milan in collaboration with VO+ Magazine to promote the talent of a new wave of designers.
In this video, the student Haoyue Zhuang tells about her final project and what she learned along her study path.
In this video, the student Haoyue Zhuang tells about her final project and what she learned along her study path.
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- Management:
- Alberico Guerzoni
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