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Course leader
Domus Academy Master in Design
Jan 2013 - Present (11 years 8 months)
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Co-director master en design intérieur de véhicules UHA ensisa Mulhouse
Domus Academy
Mar 2011 - Present (13 years 6 months)
Together with the UHA (university de Haute Alsace), the CCI (Chamber of Commerce and Industry) of Mulhouse SUD ALSACE and DA (Domus Academy in Milan), it's a course dedicated to the interior design of vehicle been in Mulhouse. The technical side is taught by UHA ensisa, while the creative side concerning soft qualities is endorsed by Domus Academy. The presence of companies contributes to a mix aimed to form a new generation of designers.
For more information
http://www.serfa.fr/master_design/index.html
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designer
disopra
Jan 2003 - Present (21 years 8 months)
Since 2003, under the name disopra (www.disopra.com) together with Arch. Federica Galbusieri, we are providing an outsourcing activity ranging from design innovation to project research and architecture.
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Design Consultant
1995 - Present (29 years)
Working for Domus Academy since 1995, leading coordinating the master in design course, the car design and mobility course, participating to several research seminar and collaborating with the DARC Domus Academy Research Center. As a visiting professor, hodling workshops travelling abroad in different Universities in Cina, France, India, Taiwan, Thailand.
Worked as a project leader for the 2009 final master project with the students of the master in design dealing with energy saving and domotics for the french/german company :hager group.
As well for the 2010 final master project with 10 students of the master in design around topics such as electric car cabling, secondary cabling system and interface design items.
Also contributed to the launch of the first Master in Transport in Interior design delivered by the Université de Haute Alsace in Mulhouse, as co-director of Domus Academy contribution.
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Director
Master in Car and Transportation Design Domus Academy
Sep 2011 - Dec 2012 (1 year 3 months)
http://www.domusacademy.com/site/home/master-programs/car-design/intro.html
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Professor
Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Toulouse
Jan 2010 - Jul 2012 (2 years 6 months)
Theory and History of Design
advising and tutoring student's projects
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designer
Cerri & Associati
Sep 2003 - Dec 2011 (8 years 3 months)
with Pier Luigi Cerri developing the following:
for domodinamica (Bologna)
A P T A elastic chair
C U B I C A
for Riva 1920 (Cantu):
Oak Table made out of venetian briccole
for desalto:
- Yuko chair: injection moulding in aluminium
http://www.desalto.it/english/seatings0.asp?ID=58
- Mac table:
http://www.desalto.it/english/tables0.asp?ID=64
Also in charge of developing projects in furniture design, lighting design
For Ntv (Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori) involved between 2007 and 2009 in the definiton of the interior design of the new AGV high speed trains, together with Eliana Lorena (team csd www.team-csd.com) in charge of the colors finishing and materials. My consultancy has been also to define the upholstering of the seats with Poltrona Frau and to design some parts of the seating system in conjunction with Alstom/Compin and Italdesign Giugiaro.
The corporate and graphic design has been designed by Pierluigi Cerri and Roberto Libanori and is in part visible at:
http://www.ntvspa.it/it/galleriaimmagini/12/24/2/O/NTV
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consultant
Gino Finizio Design Management
Jan 2005 - Dec 2006 (1 year 11 months)
. layout of the book architecture&mobility, ed. Skira(Milan)
. layout and editing of the book design&marketing ed. Eska (Paris)
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consultant
creapolis
2003 - 2004 (1 year)
Under the supervision of Arch. Maurizio Favetta I have developped with Arch. Federica Galbusieri an interior design project for the Tamatete Art Gallery in Rome
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designer
isao Hosoe Design
2000 - 2004 (4 years)
By Isao Hosoe I have coordinated and developpped different projects:
- an office operative system for BIF Borneo International Furniture (Soth Korea)
- a car wash system for Ceccato (Vicenza)
- a rotative switch for Palazzoli (Brescia)
- a research on material for Fiat Advanced design
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graphic designer
Castelli Design MIlano
Mar 1999 - Jul 2001 (2 years 4 months)
with Clino trini Castelli I have coordinated in Triniteam the development of the promotion tools for the launch of the Living and Light plugs (bTicino) series in Germany. For Legrand we developed a design metaproject approach and tools to be used by the company.
I also worked in the graphic design of the "Transitive design" book published by Electa and for other projects for bTicino.
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Consultant
DOMUS ACADEMY Research Center
1995 - 1999 (4 years)
my role as Tutor of Master in Design has also have been to create a "bridge" between the educational activity and that of the DARC DOMUS ACADEMY Research amd Consulting, concerning the folow-up of seminars with companies such as Alessi, CASIO, Dockers, JcDecaux, Samsung, SoftBank, Sunstar, TinyLove and different public and private institutions.
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designer
Andrea Branzi
Apr 1991 - Jan 1993 (1 year 9 months)
with Andrea Branzi I have developped design projects for Alessi, lamps for Design Gallery,door knobs for Olivari, furniture for Zanotta, Kartell.
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interior design
Dante Benini&Ingex
Jan 1990 - Mar 1991 (1 year 2 months)
executive drawings for:
- Restaurant Da Cesarina NYC
- Erreuno shop in Florence
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apprenticeship
Bernini spa
Mar 1988 - Jul 1989 (1 year 4 months)
I was learning that designing furniture is not such an easy thing. Beppi Fiori was there and told me: "you, french guy why don't you learn how to cook instead?" He worked a long time for Giò Ponti before. This experience in Bernini has been for me has been such a nice time and Iearn a lot going around this old factory ful of prototypes of the '70s of Gaetano Pesce, Fabio Lenci. Joe Colombo...I met there Achille Castiglioni
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Internship
Simon Gavina Paradiso terrestre
Jul 1985 - Aug 1985 (1 month)
The internship in the technical office during July 1985 in Simon factory was a way to discover the roots of italian design. This company was developing in the '60 the Cesca chair of Marcel Breuer and worked with many artist architects of the time. Thanks to this experience I decided to go on collaborating with furniture companies and dedicate my efforts to develop my skills in this field.