Maria Gabriella Astolfo was born in 1986 in a little town not far from Venice. After obtaining her Diploma at a Liceo Linguistico (foreign languages high school), she studied Industrial Design at IUAV University of Venice. She gained her first degree with a thesis project about a book for children, and is now in her first year at IUAV’s Visual and Multimedia Design graduate programme. In 2007 she did a 3-month internship with a design studio near Treviso, north-east Italy, focusing on communication and graphic design.
Silvia Basso, born in Italy in 1985, took her first degree at the Academy of Fine Arts, Florence. She collaborated in Fabbrica Europa, a festival of theatre, music, and art in Florence, and in 2007 participated in Outside Project, a study programme at the Outside Experimental Art Centre, Belgrade. She is now in her first year at IUAV University of Venice’s Visual and Multimedia Design graduate programme.
basso[dot]silvia1[at]gmail[dot]com
Laura Bordin took her first degree in Visual and Performing Arts at IUAV University of Venice, where her a thesis concerned Tim Stark and David Mamet’s Riflessioni sulla recitazione [Reflections on Acting]. In 2007 she also took four Visual Communcation courses on IUAV’s Industrial Design programme, and is now in her final year of IUAV’s Visual and Multimedia Design graduate programme. Her main current interests are events organization and associated graphics, and in 2007 she co-organized Teach Me 4, Venice’s Festival of Visual Communication. In the summer of 2008, as a member of Random Clapping, a group of IUAV interaction design students, she presented Audio-Visual Connections, a project she designed with Davide Cocchi, Benito Condemi de Felice and Pamela Moscarda, at the MediaMediterranea exhibition in Pola, Croatia.
laurabordin[at]gmail[dot]com
Silvia Boscolo was born in Italy in 1985. She obtained her Diploma at Venice’s Liceo Artistico (arts high school) before studying urban planning for a year. She then studied Industrial Design at IUAV University of Venice, where she gained her first degree, and is now in her first year of IUAV’s Visual and Multimedia Design graduate programme. In 2007, during a 3-month internship, she collaborated with the Municipality of Treviso on restyling their website.
silvia[dot]boscolo[at]live[dot]it
Giuseppe Burdo was born in Terlizzi, near Bari, in 1985. After gaining a Diploma in Electronics and Telecommunications, he moved to Ferrara University to study Communication Technologies, gaining his undergraduate degree with an experimental thesis on haptic interaction in virtual environments. Meanwhile he worked in Milan as a multimedia content manager for a communication agency and in Lucca as product designer for Sca Hygiene Products. He now lives in Venice, in his first year of IUAV University’s Visual and Multimedia Design graduate programme.
giuseppe[dot]burdo[at]gmail[dot]com
Lorenzo Cercelletta, born in Italy in 1984, gained his Industrial Design BA at La Sapienza University of Rome and spent the last trimester as an Erasmus student at Lahti Polytechnic, Finland. Returning to Italy, he undertook a training period in Picchio Spa to realize an experimental video-thesis, ‘Bios’, supervised by the video artist Fabio Massimo Iaquone, and graduated with a Distinction and Specialization in Visual and Multimedia Communication. He then enrolled at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication, London, winning a Postgraduate Bursary and getting his MA in Interactive Digital Media with a Distinction (IDM MA). He is presently attending the Visual and Multimedia Design graduate programme at IUAV University of Venice.
Giuseppe Cosmai, born in Bari in 1982, has lived in Venice since 2001. He took his first degree in Industrial Design at IUAV University of Venice in 2004, then studied Architectural Sciences there until 2006. He is now in his final year of IUAV University of Venice’s Visual and Multimedia Design graduate programme. He was an intern at Visual Comunicazione, Venice, and consumer consultant at Vodafone Italia, Padua. He now freelances in web development, audio/video management and interaction design projects.
c0ke[at]extractum[dot]net www.extractum.net/c0ke
Claudia De Angelis was born in Civitavecchia (Rome) in 1982, and studied Industrial Design at La Sapienza University of Rome. During this period she did a two-month internship at Picchio Spa, a factory that produces car prototypes, to which she returned a year later to complete her thesis, an interactive advertisment as part of a new advertising strategy for Picchio. She is currently in her final year of the Visual and Multimedia Design graduate programme at IUAV University of Venice.
Valeria Donati graduated in Industrial Design from La Sapienza University of Rome in 2007. She moved to Venice to study Visual and Multimedia Design at IUAV University, where she became passionate about interaction design, in which she is currently specializing. She was an intern as graphic designer at Studio Ruggieri Poggi and collaborated with Factory La Sapienza Design in Rome. Valeria also attended Universidade Lusiada in Lisbon as an exchange student. She won the Adobe Achievement Awards in the mobile category (with Maria Tasca and Valentina Venza), New York, 2008. She keeps up-to-date about new media, and aims to improve the quality of her work by exploring new techniques and visual styles.
valeria[at]corricorri[dot]net www.corricorri.net
Alessandra Ferragina (1985) After attending a secondary school with an emphasis on the sciences she realised she was looking for creative studies. She gained her first degree in Industrial Design at the University of Genoa and did a graphics internship at Neutrostudio, Genoa, while developing her thesis on communication and the design of a corporate identity. Now she’s in her first year at IUAV University of Venice’s Visual and Multimedia Communication graduate programme, specialising in interaction design. She always enjoys applying herself to new areas. alenike[at]libero[dot].it
Alessandro Filippi was born in Venice in 1983, attended high school there, and in 2007 took his first degree, in Visual Arts and Theatre, at IUAV University of Venice. He is now in the first year of IUAV’s Visual and Multimedia Design graduate programme. For many years interested in graphic and interaction design he has since 2001 designed and implemented websites for companies and art projects in XHTML, CSS and Flash ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0; he uses 3D Studio MAX and V-Ray for photo-realistic rendering, and is familiar with Adobe’s Design Suite CS3 and Audition. Through his hobby, digital photography, he has developed expertise in reflex cameras and raw image formats, and his interest in electronic music has involved him in mastering and mixing for local groups. He was twice a finalist in the Samsung Young Design Award, coming 10th in 2007 and 3rd in 2008.
alefilippi83[at]alice[dot]it
Alberto Granaiola was born in 1980 at Schio (near Vicenza) where he worked as an architectural surveyor for three years. He then moved to Venice to take his undergraduate degree in Visual Arts and Theatre at IUAV University of Venice, and is now in his final year of IUAV University of Venice’s Visual and Multimedia Communication graduate programme. In 2005 he worked at IUAV’s Design Research Department, developing a graphic interface which used panoramic photographs for the Virtual Tour of Venice’s Fenice Opera House, Venice. In 2006 he worked on a photographic service with panoramic virtual reality at Schio’s Civic Theatre in Schio. He is now working with Studio Print, Vicenza, to build and render 3D virtual architectures for Studio Boehm, Milan.
Roberto Milazzi was born in Padua and in 2005 gained his graduate degree in Architecture at IUAV University of Venice with his thesis The Physical Navigation of the Infosphere: The Rimini Trade Fair. An early internet enthusiast, in 1995 he wrote with Andrea Visentini the chapter on HTML in one of the first Italian books on the subject, Corrado Petrucco’s Internet, guida per i comuni mortali [The Internet: A Guide for Ordinary Mortals] and in 2000 was a founding member of the Italian chapter of ISOC, the Internet Society. As a founding member of ZonAnomala, a cultural association sponsored by IUAV, he took part in the urban exploration of Venice’s mainland, MS3_H24, illustrated in the catalogue of the 2001 Venice Biennale. He has also written articles and reviews for italian computer magazines CG and Applicando, and in English for Caedroia, the journal of mazes and labyrinths.
After a five years as a freelance graphic designer and a two-year working experience in the administrative staff (admissions) of IUAV’s undergraduate programme in Geographical Information Systems he is now in his final year at IUAV’s Visual and Multimedia Design graduate programme, specialising in interaction design. In 2007 he was a finalist in the ideas competition Inheriting the Past: Tradition, Translation, Betrayal, Innovation promoted by the Fondazione Cini, Venice. His interests span from anthropology and iconology to ICT and e-learning. He enjoys exploring and storytelling. milazzi[at]gmail[dot]com
Alberto Moro was born in Treviso, near Venice, in 1981. He took his first degree in Information Engineering at Padua University of Padua with a thesis which realized a web portal to recognize vowels using text-to-speech and voice recognition technologies. His interest in web design began in 2004, when he started to collaborate with a web agency near Treviso and learnt XHTML, CSS, PHP, SQL and Flash. He loves playing music of all kinds, in Italy and abroad. He is now in his first year of IUAV University of Venice’s Visual and Multimedia Design graduate programme. He has worked for TSW srl in Treviso and now works as a freelance graphic designer and web programming.
Erika Rossi, born in Italy in 1986, obtained her Diploma at the Institute of Arts in Ferrara. She then studied Industrial Design at IUAV University of Venice, gaining her first degree in 2008, and is now in her first year of IUAV’s Visual and Multimedia Design graduate programme, specialising in interaction design. In 2007 she attended a three-month internship in the communication agency Mollusco e Balena in Bologna, and continues to collaborate with this studio on graphic projects such as logos, brochures, and website graphics. Her main interests are illustration, new media, graphic and web design.
lonza86[at]libero[dot]it
Maria Chiara Toncich was born Italy in 1982. She studied Painting and New Art Technologies at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, and as an Erasmus student at the Berlin’s University of the Arts (UDK).
chiaratoncich[at]gmail[dot]com, www.emsiti.net.
Valentina Venza was born in 1984 in Brescia where she studied art in high school. Her interest in web design began in 1999 when she built her first website (www.ellione.it), learning HTML, PHP and some Flash ActionScript. She graduated in Communication Design at the Politecnico di Milano in 2007. She now works at WorkOnWeb, a graphic studio in Brescia, as a graphic designer and web programmer. She won the Adobe Achievement Awards in the mobile category (with Valeria Donati and Maria Tasca), New York, 2008.
Kui Wang was born in Nanjing, China in 1984. He gained his undergraduate degree in Industrial Design at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is now in his final year of IUAV University of Venice’s Product Design graduate programme.
marskui[at]gmail[dot]com