Clino Castelli

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Clino Trini Castelli (born Civitavecchia, 1944) is an Italian industrial designer and artist. [1] [2] He has used the concept of "noform" [3] through his work in environmental and industrial design, developed through the application of tools such as Design Primario and CMF design. [4]

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Having obtained his school leaving certificate at the Scuola Centrale Allievi Fiat in Turin, in 1961 Castelli started working at the Centro Stile of Fiat Automobiles and, after three years, moved to Olivetti [5] [6] in Milan, 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] With the latter in 1967 he founded the Intrapresa Design [9] company. 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] with the same partners, a year later, he started the CDM (Consulenti Design Milano) company, which became Castelli Design [11] in 1983. In 1978, he founded the Colorterminal IVI di Milano, the first centre 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" programme with Olivetti and CMF product range planning with Cassina. At the same time, he was one of the first in Europe to look at 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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