Best Design from Italy

Paul Robb 7
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World-leading high expert specialized in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design. Ultimate designer with time-proven, great design capabilities, 7-star, 2-omega designation in 2023. Among the very best in Italy.
  • Paul Robb is a Creative Director and Type designer with over 30 years of experience, and is a Professor of Graphic design at the University of Perugia, and a Professor on the MA Brand design course of the Academia of Perugia. Since 2000 he is Creative Director for Salt&Pepper an award-winning multidisciplinary contemporary graphic design studio focused on transforming brands and businesses. Expressiveness and authenticity are the basis of his work which is completed with a balanced fusion of creative design and technology. In 2020 he started S6 Foundry which develops creative fonts by designers for designers. Based in Italy they are an independent contemporary digital type foundry crafting retail typefaces for use in digital and print applications. His work has been exhibited throughout the world and his poster designs are held in permanent museum collections. He regularly collaborates with film directors, advertising agencies, institutions, and type designers around the world.
Florian Seidl 7
stars
World-leading high expert specialized in Home Appliances Design. Ultimate designer with time-proven, great design capabilities, 7-star, 2-omega designation in 2023. Among the very best in Italy.
  • Florian Seidl is an Austrian designer with several years of professional experience. Currently he is working as Lavazza's design manager at the Innovation Center in Turin and teaching at the Scuola Politecnica di Design (SPD) in Milan. Before that he was part of the design team that developed the Fiat 500 successfully into a whole range of different models and several other projects that can now be seen on the road. He has also done work for KTM and as freelancer for various other non-automotive brands. Always with a strong feeling for brand identity and the bigger picture beyond the project as a mere product.
MrSmith Studio 6
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World-leading expert specialized in Packaging Design. Excellent designer with time-proven, good design capabilities, 8-star, 3-omega designation in 2018. Among the very top in Italy.
Fabrizio Crisà 8
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World-leading highest expert specialized in Home Appliances Design. Transcendent designer with time-proven, prime design capabilities, 8-star, 3-omega designation in 2023. Best of the best in Italy.
  • Fabrizio Crisà is the Design Center Director at Elica. Born in 1973, he holds a Master’s degree in Industrial Design at La Sapienza University of Rome. In 2005 he joined Elica and he was soon appointed Design Centre Manager and it has been leading the design team, playing a key role in the innovation process of the products. Creativity and sense of aesthetics, research for innovation are the pillars of his work. The passion for beauty and technological innovation is what shapes his unique and distinctive objects. His products have been awarded with many design prizes, Compasso d’Oro included.
Kevin Chu 6
stars
World-leading expert specialized in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design. Excellent designer with time-proven, good design capabilities, 8-star, 3-omega designation in 2018. Among the very top in Italy.
Giuliano Ricciardi 6
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World-leading expert specialized in Furniture Design. Excellent designer with time-proven, good design capabilities, 8-star, 3-omega designation in 2022. Among the very top in Italy.
  • Giuliano Ricciardi approached design shortly after finishing high school practicing at a carpentry workshop of where he learned the basics and manual skills needed to wood work. This learning experience lasted 3 years, until he was noticed by the owner of an important Architect Studio in Taranto who offered Giuliano to join his team at KinoWorkshop,as a draftsman. these professional experiences inspired him to pursue Graduate Studies in Industrial Design. Oriented to the use of raw wood material, limiting the use of other materials as much as possible, he’s gradually extending the range of materials of interest to ceramics, metals and polymers, giving his concepts and products balance between technique and material.
Tobia Repossi 6
stars
World-leading expert specialized in Digital and Electronic Device Design. Excellent designer with time-proven, good design capabilities, 8-star, 3-omega designation in 2016. Among the very top in Italy.
  • Tobia Repossi is a designer with twenty years of experience in product design for furniture, electronic appliances and accessories. He has worked formajor Chinese market-leading companiesas well as European and American brands and for dozen of startups from China and Silicon Valley. His designs have been sold in Apple Stores and in other famous shops and have been selected for international awards.
Alessandro Luciani Designer 7
stars
World-leading high expert specialized in Interior Space and Exhibition Design. Ultimate designer with time-proven, great design capabilities, 7-star, 2-omega designation in 2013. Among the very best in Italy.
  • Certainly one of the most innovative Italian and international designers, creative, eclectic, multi-faceted, passionate about the Retail and Fashion world, with a holistic approach to the project and an Innovative, Futuristic, Anthropocentric vision, oriented to the involvement of emotions. Over 22 national and international retail design awards won in recent years. First Italian to win the ”Global POPAI Award“ in Las Vegas and for 2 times the ”International Store Design Awards“ Recently awarded in New York. His life is a continuous pollination by different contexts and experiences that sprout, flourish, fructify, explode to life. Before and after his studies he has cultivated many passions, from fashion to design, to car competitions, from music to motor sciences, from psychology to the psycho-physical preparation of astronauts. Stimuli with which he increasingly enriches his creative flair, combining it with the practicality and functionality typical of the Retail world. "Retail design is the expression of a long process, which starts from the analysis of consumers from market-related innovations and products in a specific historical context, from the analysis of competition to the concept and message that the brand wants to convey. Design harmonises and transforms all these elements and expresses their soul and value in their essence to create a strong emotional bond between the environment, product, customer and the brand " Fueled by a strong desire to go beyond ordinary boundaries, he brings into his projects a vision oriented to emotional involvement, to the well-being of people, anthropocentric and innovative. He is one of the authors of the book Retail Design and Marketing (FrancoAngeli publisher) and among the teachers of Poli.Design in Milan. Many publications on national and international magazines including VSMD, Retail Environments, Shop Style. Among the books: Retail Space "Small Stores" and Store Of The Year No. 21 (RSD USA). Some of his Innovative projects: Spazio Lenovo, Huawei Experience Store, Honor store, Pirelli Tire "The Tire of the Future", Dr. Fleming "The Pharmacy of the Future", New Balance Store, Pepsi Concept
Neom 6
stars
World-leading expert specialized in Packaging Design. Excellent designer with time-proven, good design capabilities, 8-star, 3-omega designation in 2018. Among the very top in Italy.
  • Stefano Dell'Orto is a truster. He trust in the light part of the human being. in the power of cooperation and open relation between professional, the best ways to get to creative flows. He believes in creativity as the peak of the human presence on this planet and communication as a tool for the expression of this elevated capacity. He created NEOM together with his partners to help Companies to express their difference, their uniqueness and Vision into the world.
Jiayi Lu 6
stars
World-leading expert specialized in Photography and Photo Manipulation Design. Excellent designer with time-proven, good design capabilities, 8-star, 3-omega designation in 2017. Among the very top in Italy.
Yu Hiraoka 6
stars
World-leading expert specialized in Furniture Design. Excellent designer with time-proven, good design capabilities, 8-star, 3-omega designation in 2016. Among the very top in Italy.
  • Yu Hiraoka is a designer based in Milan. Born in 1988. After studying design in Japan, UK, and Italy, he started his freelance design career in Milan in 2013. He has collaborated with several design studios in Italy, and worked on projects for companies in Italy, Germany, USA, China, and Japan through collaborations. His original specialty is industrial design, but he has expanded his capabilities through diverse professional projects, such as interior, graphic, and art direction.
SCARABEO CERAMICHE SRL 6
stars
World-leading expert specialized in Bathroom Furniture and Sanitary Ware Design. Excellent designer with time-proven, good design capabilities, 8-star, 3-omega designation in 2015. Among the very top in Italy.

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