This competition is allowed to young Italians and foreigners. Istituto Europeo di Design rewards the creative talents of young people aged between 18 and 25 years admitted with a three-year courses completely free in its schools of Design, Fashion, Visual Arts and Communication.

There are four design ideas to be developed, one for each school. ” My country” is the theme of this competition. Ideas and objects to represents or characterize the participants country and their country life

The projects and images selected will be published on the site www.creativediary.net and that can be rated and commented by visitors. Candidates will be able to check the rating of the public and read the opinions about their creativity.

The deadline for submitting projects is April 1, 2009.

www.creativediary.net

IED once again proves a training institute attentive to new trends, and able to move using new communication channels. To cheer the iPod generation up, video contents are also available in podcasting.
Thanks to the Internet creatives of the future can enjoy high visibility, proving their talent and showing the competence acquired along their training course.

The aim is, in fact, adding value to students’ ingenuity and potential through the publication of their work. In these terms, IED.TV can be regarded as an online portfolio, following the project gallery already available for surfing on the official IED website.
This TV  is the most immediate way of getting to know IED activities: the platform allows to look up in an archive containing audio-video material produced in occasion of courses, special projects, workshops, events and seminars organised by the Institute campuses.

IED.TV can be explored setting a channel of interest – Fashion, Design, Visual arts and Communication- a IED campus or key words. It allows the preview of videos in full screen and high quality.

These eight project ( six individual and two pairs) have been chosen to represent the best of IED Moda, by a jury presided by Franca Sozzani, Director of Vogue Italia and the Scientific Director of IED Moda Lab.

The selected young stylist will see their collection produced by leading firms in the sector (Mariella Burani Fashion Group, Cesare Paciotti S.p.A., Valentino Fashion Group, Moschillo – Falber S.r.L., Ittierre S.p.A., Pal Zileri Gruppo Forall, Sapaf 1954).

The winers will trea the catwalk, by displaying a collection of about a dozen outfits at the third edition of My Own Show, which present an international competition open to students from all IED campuses.

Winers: Riccardo Toccaceli | Monia Salvini | Mattia Rinaldo | Andrea Manzano Navarro | Alberto Dalla Colletta
Veronica Panati | Stefano Sberze | Irene Barra | Vito Colacurcio | Salvatore Piccione

The Event: Saturday 20^th September 2008
8:30 PM
Teatro IED Moda Lab, Via Pompeo Leoni 3, Milan

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