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After completing a diploma at the Istituto d’arte di Parma and studies in communication and design at the Università del Progetto di Reggio Emilia, Ilaria worked for two years in the university’s professional studio. Since 1993, she has devoted herself to freelance work, alternating between industrial design, graphic design and illustration. She designs objects and undertakes graphic design projects as well as following communications in the fields of organic agriculture and biodiversity. In her projects, her aim is to develop ideas that are fluid and essential; useful and conscious of the planet’s future; joyful and nomadic; curious about new forms of expression and ways of living. Companies she has worked for include: Barilla, Coop, Coin, Comfort Zone, Lavazza, Mandarina Duck, Nemo, Jacuzzi, United Pets, Azienda Agraria Sperimentale Stuard Exhibitions. She collaborated with Iachhetti for this project.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.