1998-2015

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SIMON GAVINA

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During the first years after graduation I had the honor to meet Dino Gavina, considered one of the father of Italian Design.

He wanted me to design for Simon Gavina where I had the chance to make beds and sofas for one of the craziest Italian design company and we ate a lot of terrible onion soup together.

INTERACTIVE AND SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITIONS

From the ’90 I have always been involved in the designing and development of interactive and hands-on scientific exhibitions, working for Museums, Foundations and Private Companies and being one of the first to bring this approach to Italy. Like the itinerant exhibition Science or Magic? which is a tale of illusions and magic perception. Mathland delas with puzzles and games, and then an exhibition on Knots, on Mathematical Games. The Marconi Museum in Villa Griffone, Guglielmo Marconi’s house that hosts a series of accurate reconstructions of scientific equipment placed in differente “islands” dedicated to some milestones ranging from the History of Electricity, precursors of the history of Radio, to maritime applications of Marconi’s invention. The Children Museum at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. The Pediathric Unit in Thiene where I brought animals in an Hospital. During Bergamo Scienza children and Adults could play with the funny scientific experiments of Phineas and Ferb, the two cartoon characters of Disney Channel. In Bologna the big exhibiton for the centenary of the Nobel Prize to Guglielmo Marconi, the father of radio communications. Reconstructiuons of the Marconi Company, a huge sculpture, metaphor of the transatlantic leap, and the Tree of Communications with Hertz and Maxwell as roots, Wireless Telegraphy as trunk and many monitors as its fruits: from mobile phone to radar, from Wii remote control to television.

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MOBILI IN CARTONE CARDBOARD FURNITURE

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Sometimes Autoproduction is the best way! In 2009 I founded Mobili in Cartone (Cardboard Furniture). Cardboard Furniture is a perfect solution for low-cost and low-impact fairs, exhibitions, shops and showrooms. Triple cardboard is a very light material, easy to transport and assemble, ecological because completely recyclable.

Today, after 3 years of activity, Mobili in Cartone is now one of the only Italian industrial production companies of entirely recycled and recyclable furniture and we are building a branch in China.

I designed all the 19 products of the catalog, today the company is expanding its portfolio with products designed by other designers.

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MOBILI IN CARTONE CARDBOARD FURNITURE

How can you build fairs, events, temporary shops and showrooms avoiding great waste of material? We have a very simple solution that today is affordable by everyone: it’s CARDBOARD

ECOLOGICAL RECYCLED RECYCLABLE LIGHT CHEAP

Our furniture will arrive via carrier in 15 days from order, flat and pre-folded, ready to assemble. Triple cardboard can be customized with prespaced, digital prints, Poliplat® panels with pins, or suspended frames with Nylon® wire and clips. Mobili in Cartone is the first italian company to sell via web a series of products entirely realized with 80% recycled and 100% recyclable cardboard. When you buy Cardboard Furniture you have done something good for you planet and be in peace with yourself and the others.

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CICLIPEDE SMART & SOCIAL BIKES

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In 2013 I founded Ciclipede. Ciclipede is a startup company that will produce the first Smart & Social bike on the market. The bicycle is designed to be fold and fit in the car trunk, carried on public transport or stored at home. Thanks to their Gps and 3g functionality Ciclipede bicycles can go social and can be geotagged everywhere like a smartphone. With the dedicated web app the owners of Ciclipede can find other owners in the neighborhood, keep track of their routes or create online events or competitions.

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I designed Urban furnishing and products for many italian Urban design companies, one of them is Modo. The collaboration has begun in 1997 and I designed for them more than 70 products that are today the core business of the company.

MODO

For the Milano Design Week 2011 I was called with 6 internationally renowned designers (Antonio Citterio, Gabriele Pezzini, Matali Crasset, Stefano Giovannoni, Tobia Repossi, James Irvine) to interpret the Children Bill of Rights. I designed a skill game called Do Not Loose the Thread. Suitable for children with disabilities, the game represents the right to “use hands”. It is now in Modo’s catalog and fills the warehouse as Arcas, a bicycle rack.

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Elios is a funny urban chair with the shape of a pill, Pisolo (Adi Design Index in 2006) is a sleepy egg shaped bollard that can mount solar cell powered light to be seen in the night and Phad, a simple stainless bollard that has changed the landscape of many cities and the mood of many passers by.

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MODO

I designed more than 20 benches and urban seats, here’s some of them: Decà, Etere, and Arcadia with the Dedalo bicycle rack in background.

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THE SCIENCE PARK

The Science Park is a series of outdoor games or exhibits that are coming from my experience to design interactive and hands-on exhibitions. The Science Park is produced and sold by Modo and consists of more than 30 products that I all designed and patented. Among the devices of the Science Park, the Rotating Discs, with their Hypnotic illusions, a Spinner to pirouette as an ice - skater, and the Tree of Vision that shows how man has implemented his sight: a microscope to see infinitely small, a telescope for the infinitely far an a periscope to overcome obstacles. The Science Park was nominated for Compasso d’Oro in 2004.

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High Ears to listen to sounds at different heights, a Rotating Swinger to defeat gravity, the Pan Organ selects frequencies according to the length of the barrels; placing your ear on the tubes you can hear different sounds.

THE SCIENCE PARK

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Hand Battery measures your electromagnetic file and maybe your superpowers. With Air Voices if you push air through the whistles you can make a concert. Focalized Voices to communicate and get familiar with the sound waves.

THE SCIENCE PARK

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In 2008 I designed a series of outdoor exercise machines for gymnastics and muscle toning. It is the Health Park produced by Modo, the only example of this kind produced, conceived and produced in Italy.

The products that I designed during the years for them are used by landscape designers all over Europe.

MODO

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Narciso is an outdoor gazebo designed for Il Ceppo together with other products that are still on the market

From the collaboration with Fima came the idea to create a metal joint to avoid the massive use of welding in outdoor playgrounds, and to simplify assembly, transport and maintenance. It allows infinite possibilities of modular aggregation and now…. they are happy.

FIMAIL CEPPO

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These sofas are Next, Tex and Flo. Next has adjustable seat and armrest, and accessories. Next is still the only product of this kind that allows the wall positioning thanks to the sliding seats. They all have been produced in thousands of pieces and still on the market… and Flo smiles.

GIMS

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CASPRINIA modular table that can be disassembled and becomes flat and a nordic inspiration chair made by a curved iron rod.

Both products are designed for Casprini and currently on the market.

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An ordinary day Coca Cola arrives and invites us to a competition to redesign the new Autogrill Bottle. We talk about ecology, island of trash floating in the Atlantic Ocean and recyclable materials. Today the Coca Cola bottle is made of aluminium.

COCA COLA

A few years ago I patented a single-use disposable container for alcoholic beverages and its cooling system.

VENTI154

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A corner for Nestlé Nescafé and a packaging system realized for Kiko Milano.

NESCAFE’ KIKO MILANO

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Concept for a kitchen designed with Poli.Design (of Politecnico di Milano) for Matsushita - Panasonic. From this concept they derived a product fro the Japanese market. A Concept for a system of stoves and kitchen called Igneo - the Transportable Fire.

PANASONIC

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Mod is a very simple lamp produced by Contardi that can vary the height and position of the bulb to meet interior designer manias.

Gongolo is a cardboard rocking cardboard horse produced and distributed by Orangorilla and sold in stores such as De Padova and High Tech.

ORANGORILLACONTARDI

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FIAT 500

At the end of the 90’s, with Studiomonti, I was part of the team for the design of Technogym Fitness machines, today one of the most reputable companies in that field.

I designed the stickers for the Fiat 500… of course 500 stickers

TECHNOGYM

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One of my best client was Carlsberg, but I never seen a beer can with them, just wine bottles for their distribution channel in hotels and restaurants.

For some years I’ve been designing the packs, the image and the bottles for Cliven, a manufacturer of cosmetics, make-ups and items for personal hygiene. They have been one of the leading Italian chemical companies since 1958.

CLIVENCARLSBERG

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BIG CAKE I FUORI DEL SALONE

In 2011, after years of aware absence, I go back to the Milan Design Week with an event sponsored and created by ZonaUno and entirely build with Carboard Furniture.

It is called Big Cake a container of life, creativity and freedom of expression held in the space of the Jahier Foundation. Several thousands curious visitors showed up during the week.

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CITY DESIGN

Layout for the new Tamoil fuel areas. Arcas bicycle rack and Lilla, a fountain where also your dog can drink.

TAMOIL

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The pouch of Cangu, can carry a baby smartphone and recharge it and has been sold in Autogrill for some years.

Bluetooth Speakers and portable Audio for Kerry Audio and Others.

CANGU AUDIO

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Baijiu Bottle for Pearl Red Spirits and Wines.

Bluetooth Speakers and portable Audio for Kerry Audio.

PEARL RED AUDIO

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Bluetooth Speaker Lamp for Relaxment in various sizes.

This product won the Modern Interior Decoration Award for best design in China and the Silver Medal at the A'Design Award for Digital and Electronic Devices Design.

CANGU RELAXMENT

ROUTERS ASIA CLOUD

Wifi Routers designed with Sgl for Asia Cloud, one of them is covered with bamboo and has a handle that can be used to position

the object in different situations.

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ROUTERS ZTE

Wifi Routers designed with Sgl for ZTE: a glossy pebble that looks like a sculpture and a router hidden in a table or wall clock for the office market.

Both the products won the Modern Interior Decoration Award for best design in China.

EARPHONES

These earphones have been designed with Sgl for Hi Sound Audio, they have the best technology on the market with a Dynamic Driver and a Balanced Armed one.

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TEA SET

A Massager with sucking cup for women designed for Haan, a Korean Company with a huge market in the US, and a Tea Set for Rayuo both with Sgl.

A Usb Key that works as a memory booster and charger for iOS based products.

MASSAGER

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USB KEY

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CEILING FANIPHONE WALLET

A Wallet with Battery Pack for the iPhone designed for Relexement and a series of Ceiling Fans with foam wings and aluminum wings developed with Sgl.

FINGERPHONEKID SMARTWATCH AND AUDIO

Smartwatch with Gps and App designed for kids, a famous Bluetooth Speaker with rubber cover and a strange product called Fingerphone that completely redesign the way we use our mobile phones.

I designed Web Apps and Touch Screen Applications for banks, exhibitions and Museums, T-Play, T-Meteo and T-Document systems realized with Auriga Group for Italian private Television Networks

INTERACTION

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Yes, with my company ZonaUno (now owned by Keymove) we did a lot of boring Websites and Social Network stuff…

WEB

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