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EDUCATION
• Scientific High School, Udine.
• Undergraduate degree in Industrial Design (Product and Graphic Design), IUAV University of Venice.
• Graduate degree in Visual and Multimedia Communication, specializing in Interaction Design, IUAV University of Venice.
EXPERIENCE
• My graduate thesis project, Typographr, is an application enabling graphic designers to search for fonts visually.
• I am one of the contributors and developers of Random Clapping, IUAV’s Interaction Design student website.
• I worked for 6 months as blogger for designerblog.it, Italy’s main design blog.
• I was a teaching assistant in a 3-month undergraduate studio course in Visual Communication.
• I worked in the production team and as press agent for the first and second Teach Me, IUAV’s graphic design festival, in collaboration with Studio Camuffo, Venice and IUAV’s Faculty of Design and Arts.
• Over the past few years I have attended several international workshops in graphic and product design, and in 2007 won a Study Abroad program in association with New York University.
• My strengths are in problem analysis and graphics. I am interested in a multitasking/multidisciplinary job.
• I can work in a team but am also experienced in working alone. I have good managing skills, achieved while coordinating several people under me.
• I am experienced in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. I can do simple animations in Flash, and have good skills in hand-crafting prototypes in different materials such as paper, wood, and fabric.
LANGUAGES
Mother tongue: Italian. I am fluent in English, and have school-level French.
PORTFOLIO
Here are links to some of my projects:
Aequilibrium [with Marco Zamarato]
An interactive installation for Venice’s Rialto fish market about the fragile balance between humans and the Venetian lagoon. [more]
Flag [with Marco Zamarato]
A mobile application that lets visitors decide which are the most interesting pavilions in the Venice Biennale of Art and helps those in a hurry to decide which to visit. [more]
Modern Woman
A magazine parody about interaction design, oriented towards women. [more here, 'publications' page]
My website
Selected portfolio and resume online. [more]