Shaker Design

Industrial designer. Started to cooperate with Research Center of Istituto Europeo di Design (1966-2000) as researcher and project leader company like Lego Futura, Gillette, Fiat, Sunstar, Oral-B, Lavazza, Bosh. Since 1999 to 2007 he works as consultant at Design Innovation studio, dealing with concept design and bionic research specifically destined to the projects developed with CRF (Centro Ricerche Fiat), Piaggio, tensoforma, Ariete. In 2008 he has founded with Monica Ferrigno the design consulting firm \"Ildoppiosegno\", developing research studies and projects for companies such as United Pets, Status, Bayer, NewHolland, Samsung, Piazza, iBarzaghi. He's a Professor at IED in Milan, Torino and Madrid, at IULM University, at Scuola Politecnica di Design, and he has lectured at Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón, Saragozza. He has participated to “Bioma”, an international symposium on bionics at Aveiro University. He collaboretes with Iacchetti for this product. Giulio Iacchetti, industrial designer since 1992, designs for many brands including Abet Laminati, Alessi, Danese, Elica, Foscarini, Globo Ceramiche, Jannelli&Volpi, Hastens, Magis, Meritalia, Moleskine, Pandora design. The distinctive characteristics of his work is the research and definition of new object typologies, like the Moscardino, the biodegradable spoon/fork designed with Matteo Ragni and for which, in 2001, he has been awarded with Compasso d’Oro. In 2009 he was awarded the prize for innovation – Premio dei Premi – by the President of the Italian Republic for the Coop Eureka project, which brought the design in the large-scale retail trade. In May 2009 the Triennale di Milano held a solo exhibition entitled “Giulio Iacchetti. Disobedient objects “. In November 2012 he launches Internoitaliano, the “factory network” made up of many craftsmen labs with whom he signs and produces furniture and accessories inspired by the italian way of living. He had also pursued his personal research project into new design topics such as the symbol of cross from which came the exhibition titled Cruciale held by the Diocesan Museum, Basilica di Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome and by Castello di Lombardia in Enna, Sicily.In 2014, he won his second Compasso d’Oro for the design of the manhole covers Sfera, designed with Matteo Ragni for Montini.