I’m a Digital Designer from Italy, working within the net design trade since 2006. Through the years, I’ve collaborated with small, medium, and enormous companies throughout northern Italy, primarily between Verona and Bologna. In 2021, I made a decision to go impartial. Right this moment, I work globally with each purchasers and companies, mixing meticulous UI practices with daring, unconventional creative instructions.
Right here’s a choice of some latest work I’ve launched.
Featured Work
Stravagario
Stravagar.io is a unique tackle a portfolio. As a substitute of grouping screens by challenge, I made a decision to group them randomly by yr. And as a substitute of the same old about web page flexing all of the awards, I added a hidden web page the place I share a bit about what sparked my ardour for design and what continues to affect the best way I work. The underwater, dreamy atmosphere does the remainder.
De Maldè – Canvas Chronicles
Canvas Chronicles is a journey into De Maldè’s work, his first on-line retrospective. The problem was to stability the artworks with a dynamic UI: to make the expertise satisfying whereas retaining the deal with the content material, not the container. I wished to verify the design didn’t comply with present developments, however quite felt like one thing which may have been elegant 5 years in the past, and hopefully nonetheless might be 5 years from now.
The expertise brings Giannantonio’s artwork to life, expressing an eclectic and timeless aesthetic.
Floema
Floema is a jewellery model, totally handmade by Valentina Caprini, a goldsmith and artist primarily based in Florence. Every Floema piece is elegant and distinctive, created utilizing a refined goldsmithing method referred to as silver filigree.
By way of the location, I wished to convey the sense of magnificence and lightness that defines Valentina’s creations. That’s why I designed the “floating gallery”, with ascending textual content as a substitute of horizontal, and used mild, smooth typography all through.
Zaltor the Oracle
This was tremendous enjoyable. It was the tip of 2023 — ChatGPT had been out for a couple of yr, and we wished to experiment with the API to create one thing simple to make use of and enjoyable. I began with the thought of CHAD GPT, a Gigachad 3D duplicate 🗿 (which finally become Giga Duck) that might reply your questions within the chaddest manner attainable.
Right here’s the primary prototype… OMG, it was so dangerous. Oh my. Thank God Nicolas (Bouvet, my inventive dev associate) satisfied me to drop that horrible thought 🤦🤣
So we iterated on it, quite a bit. Ultimately, we got here up with an concept that introduced collectively all the weather of a fortune teller recreation: the fortune teller machine, the magician, the crystal ball… and tons of customized animations and micro interactions.
There’s the rune typing animation, the feather customized cursor, the sound button with actual time visualizations primarily based on the music, the attention contained in the sphere that follows your cursor, the halo round Zaltor, the textual content smoke impact, and all of the procedural magic Nicolas added to the expertise.
We actually packed a variety of results into it and explored immediate engineering alongside the best way.
Kaide
Kaide is a inventive endeavour by Matti Kaira and Aarni Hildén, two pals with a shared curiosity in society and tradition, and a ardour for each journalistic and creative expression. The whole web site and its results are centered round their intensive video manufacturing, starting from documentaries to podcast movies.
Silvia Sguotti
Silvia is an artwork director and a hyper-talented illustrator primarily based in Bologna. We labored collectively for a yr and bonded immediately. For her portfolio, I wished to evoke the sensation of a contemporary brochure — particularly on the homepage, which makes use of horizontal scrolling, layered sections that act like brochure pages, and a menu that works like a e-book’s mud jacket.
Filippo Martinelli
Filippo is an unimaginable 3D artist and 2D/3D animator, and a good friend of mine. This web site was an experiment I created utilizing Webflow together with a variety of customized code. It’s easy, but as vibrant and joyful as Filippo’s persona.
Patrappa
I began drawing these foolish comics only for enjoyable, proper earlier than and throughout the pandemic lockdown. It ended up turning into one in all my first impartial tasks, launched in 2021.
Aspect Tasks
Sure, I like them! Aspect tasks are the true moments the place you get to check your self. Listed below are two ideas I care deeply about and would like to convey to life in the end. One is an interactive challenge associated to the world of dance — breakdance, on this case. How spectacular would that be?
This one is about partaking with well-known portrait work, bringing them to life by means of animation and playful interplay utilizing AI.
That is additionally an open name to all inventive builders: who needs to convey these tasks to life? We’re undoubtedly going to have some enjoyable collectively! 🤝
My Design Philosophy
I don’t have a strict philosophy in the case of design. I’ve seen this subject evolve through the years, and I’ve developed with it. Adapting to alter is a part of our nature.
On the similar time, there are particular points I discover unchanging, issues deeply linked to who I’m, how I face challenges, and the way I method downside fixing. Two of those have turn into core to the best way I work. Right here they’re.
Precrastinate
I’m an enormous fan of what I might name precrastination — anticipating what you’re going to do sooner or later and never losing time. This in all probability comes from my upbringing; each my mom and father have been tireless employees. I’m not saying it’s at all times the correct method, nevertheless it offers you the prospect to experiment throughout your free time as a substitute of doomscrolling by means of different individuals’s work.
When you might have an thought, strive designing it. Even when it’s not helpful proper now, it may be for a future challenge. It helps you keep prepared for the following task. No less than, that’s what works for me.
I’m undoubtedly not making the Planet a greater place one web site per day
That may sound annoying or cynically constructed, however as soon as I let go of all of the misconceptions and mystifications round our job, I felt really free — free to play, free to make errors, and finally free to create that web site I considered whereas having a shower 😀
Ultimate Ideas
Hope you preferred my tasks up to now! I at all times hope they converse for themselves and carry a little bit of the fervour I put into each. Ardour is key — much more so on this job — and if I can share my two cents after virtually 20 years, it’s this: it’s all about the way you method the work.
So… play, play, play. Learn. Go discover a place the place you are feeling higher. Take heed to the identical music 1000 occasions. Commit your self. Sweat. Punch your punching bag. Be obsessive about issues others think about futile, as a result of you may extract actual, relentless vitality from what you’re keen on.
Then lock your self in your studio room (in my case) or head to your job, focus solely in your work, and discover pleasure in what you’re doing.
Get pleasure from your self!
Be happy to succeed in out to me on LinkedIn, and in case you have a second, take a look at my implausible stickers and pins, designed particularly on your laptop computer or jacket! 😄
Cheers!
