CIDI is a community of unique and diverse backgrounds aiming at one goal: becoming a great designer. CIDI graduates are those who were trained to be open-minded and ready to inspire the change and innovation living around them.

Among the key features the distinguish CIDI diploma programs are:

• Italian Curriculum, European Professor
• No Required Background and Age Limit
• Practical Focus
• Convenient Schedule
• International Opportunity
• Pre-class Orientation

Apart from the read-and-remember and see-and-draw scheme using in most Thailand educational system, CIDI purposefully explore the creativity-based curriculum from Italy . While basic skills e.g. drawing, measuring, sketching, or sewing are trained, individual creativity and inspiration are encouraged to be discovered. CIDI European faculties who have extensive experience of teaching and working in renowned designer houses and companies capture such inspirations and shape them into realistic, rich works.

To open door to those who have strong will and rich inspiration but limited educational and professional background in design, CIDI features the curriculum that non-background can start their design career from scratch while design professional can update their skills with new perspective from Italian approach. We are proud to experience a highly successful graduates trained from the one who once cannot even draw a line correctly.

Another factor prohibiting those who could be a successful designer to become one is that he or she is afraid of his or her own age. There is no age qualification here at CIDI. No matter who you are, a fresh graduate from high school, an undergraduate student, a first jobbers, an executive, a producer, an interior designer, a fashion designer, a stylist, or a marketer; you can be benefit from CIDI integrated curriculum and become a designer at your will.

Design could be useless if it cannot be built into buildings, products, costumes, or collections. While emphasizing inspiration, CIDI curriculum never forsake necessary skills and knowledge needed to transfer design to actual piece of works. Throughout 2 years in CIDI, students will be trained extensively in technical skills until they are comfortable and familiar with bringing their own design into the market.

Understanding needs of those who are enthusiastic in design but have to work during weekday or weekend, CIDI offer two schedules of choices. CIDI student can choose to study either on Monday and Tuesday or Saturday and Sunday. Regular classes run from 9.30-17.00 hrs or twelve hours per week.

In addition to international curriculum and faculty, CIDI offers truly international experience in various aspects. Our students themselves come from around the countries like Sweden, Malaysia, and Brazil, only enriching the class by bringing their diverse point of views. This one of its kind experience only expands learning experience to the global reach. Even more important, CIDI has continued our crown jewel of offering two international scholarships every year for CIDI graduates, who are qualified in terms of their talents and design potentials, to further their design study in Florence, Italy.

To prepare students from diverse educational and professional background to be ready for the first semester, CIDI launches an orientation camp for all newcomers. This is far more than a typical few days for team-building exercises. Students will be assessed, monitored, and changed during three days in the attractive surroundings. Those skills like leadership and teamworking will be implanted as they are necessary to thrive in real environment of working.

CIDI Orientation Camp 2006

For those who basics of design are concerned, CIDI recommends to allocate your time for the basic drawing course, which will focus on your basic drawing skills. This is a great opportunity to jump start in your diploma program.