EDUCATION & WORK

2005-present:
MA Industrial Design, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London;

2003-2005:
Worked for Faurecia Interior Systems, R&D and Design Team in Germany. Automotive interior design projects involving construction design, and styling of a range of interior elements. In house Innovation elements on door panels and middle consoles, and projects for Audi, Porsche, VW, Skoda, Seat, Jaguar, Mercedes, Smart, Ford, and Opel-Vauxall.

1999-2003:
BS'c (Hons) Product Design, Brunel University, West London; 2001-2002 a one year work experience at Faurecia Interiors Systems;

 

LANGUAGES

Italian mother tongue, proficient in English and German.

 

EXPERIENCES

2007: Organised and built with classmates the MAID show at the Innovation center, CSM London as well as the Art School stand at Salone Satellite Milan.

2005-2007: Worked with claystation.org at designersblock during the Salone Del Mobile, Milan, and the London design week. The ‘Mychair’ project was a mass participation event encouraging normally passive design audiences into active participation and promoting the idea that anyone can be a designer. The "Mychair" project than evolved into "design a bag", in collaboration with Porter International.

2006: Project with Tetley Tea (UK) to find new and intriguing tea rituals for the British market.

2006: Collaboration project with Nokia to design a near-future mobile communication device: outcome included a rapid-prototyped fused deposition model. Results were exhibited at Air Gallery, London.

 

SHOWS

MA Industrial design degree show, Innovation Center CSM, London, June 2007.
Salone Satellite, as part of a collective called Art School, Milan, April 2007.
Nokia future of mobile design, Air Gallery, June 2006.
Connections, Lethaby Gallery, London, February 2006.

 

SKILLS
Experienced in ALIAS Auto Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Macromedia Flash (basic), Macromedia Dreamweaver and all Microsoft Office applications.

Rapid prototyping FDM, Z-Corp 3D Printer, Mould making, and hand made models/prototypes.