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Clino Trini Castelli (born in Civitavecchia, 1944) is an Italian industrial designer and artist. [1] [2] He has used the concept of "noform" [3] throughout his work in environmental and industrial design, developed through the application of tools such as Design Primario and CMF design. [4]
After obtaining his school leaving certificate at the Scuola Centrale Allievi Fiat in Turin in 1961, Castelli started working at the Centro Stile of Fiat Automobiles. After three years, he moved to Olivetti [5] [6] in Milan, working in the studio of Ettore Sottsass. [7] [8] At the same time, he was part of the growing Arte Povera movement in Turin, comparing himself with artists like Michelangelo Pistoletto, [7] Piero Gilardi and Alighiero Boetti. In Milan, he worked in fashion, meeting Nanni Strada [9] and Elio Fiorucci. [9] In 1967, he founded the Intrapresa Design [9] company with Fiorucci.
From 1969 to 1973, he devised the Red Books, the first manuals developed in the "metaproject" format, which led to the creation of Olivetti's corporate identity programme. In 1973, with Andrea Branzi and Massimo Morozzi, he created the Centro Design Montefibre. [10] A year later, he started the CDM (Consulenti Design Milano) company with the same partners, which became [11] in 1983. In 1978, he founded the Colorterminal IVI di Milano, the first center to use the new RGB technologies and CMF design, and four years later, he formed Gruppo Colorscape for urban planning.
Throughout the 1980s, he worked with Louis Vuitton and Vitra in Europe, Herman Miller in the United States, and Mitsubishi in Japan. During this period, he re-established his partnership with Fiat, which led to the creation in 1985 of the Centro di Qualistica Fiat, the "Qualistic Compendium" program with Olivetti, and CMF product range planning with Cassina. He was also one of the first in Europe to explore the concept of domotics, or home automation, developed with Bticino, Legrand, and Somfy.
During the 1990s, he started new design ventures in Japan with Hitachi, Toli, and Itoki. [12] In parallel with this, he taught design at the Politecnico di Milano and the Domus Academy, of which he was one of the founders in 1983. From 1994 to 2005, he wrote articles on design culture for the magazine Interni. In 2000, he founded the Qualistic Lab, a division of Castelli Design that developed new instruments for the emotional positioning[ clarification needed ] of images and products.
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Mario Bellini is an Italian architect and designer. After graduating from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1959, Bellini pursued a career as an architect, exhibition designer, product designer, and furniture designer during the Italian economic boom of the late 20th century. Bellini has received several accolades in a variety of design fields, including eight Compasso d'Oro awards and the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Triennale di Milano. In 2019, the Italian President of the Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Fico, awarded Bellini a career medal in recognition of his contributions to Italian architecture and design.
Bruno Munari was "one of the greatest actors of 20th-century art, design and graphics". He was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts in modernism, futurism, and concrete art, and in non-visual arts with his research on games, didactic method, movement, tactile learning, kinesthetic learning, and creativity. On the utility of art, Munari once said, "Art shall not be separated from life: things that are good to look at, and bad to be used, should not exist".
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Ugo Mulas was an Italian photographer noted for his portraits of artists and his street photography.
Marco Piva, Italian architect, interior designer and product designer, born on February 15, 1952, in Milan.
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Paolo Fossati was an Italian author, professor and art historian.
George James Sowden is a British designer and product developer based in Milan.
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