Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche

Rome ISIA is Italy's oldest institution in the field of industrial design. It was founded in 1965 as Industrial Design and Visual Communication Course for architects and engineers, and changed its name in 1973. It follows the European tradition of the Bauhaus and the Hochschule für Gestaltung of Ulm, grafting their metodologies onto Italian creative culture.Rome ISIA has received many prizes and acknowledgements, and is the only European institution to have won the Compasso D'Oro by Associazione per il Disegno Industriale ADI (Industrial Design Association) twice (1979 and 1987).Rome ISIA is a member of the Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Media and Design.

Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche

Rome ISIA is Italy's oldest institution in the field of industrial design. It was founded in 1965 as Industrial Design and Visual Communication Course for architects and engineers, and changed its name in 1973. It follows the European tradition of the Bauhaus and the Hochschule für Gestaltung of Ulm, grafting their metodologies onto Italian creative culture.Rome ISIA has received many prizes and acknowledgements, and is the only European institution to have won the Compasso D'Oro by Associazione per il Disegno Industriale ADI (Industrial Design Association) twice (1979 and 1987).Rome ISIA is a member of the Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Media and Design.