Designer Today

Italy: Design_kit is a new initiative to Designerblog, a series of interviews, which aims to create a geography of the landscape of the young Italian design, highlighting what are the icons of reference of the new generation and directions taken by the new creativity. The beauty of this map is that it autogenererà. Each interview will in fact the name of his successor.

The guest today is the eclectic and tireless Product Designer Valerio Sommella, residing here a little ease somewhat, invited by Sandro Meneghello and Marco Paolelli of Studio MeneghelloPaolelli.

Describe who you are, what are you doing and how you like it. I Valerio Sommella, Product Designer graduated from the Milan Polytechnic in 2004. In recent years I had the good fortune to work with two of the most influential international designers. The first is Stefano Giovannoni, which for almost three years I was able to design products for companies like Magis, Alessi, Oregon Scientific, Docomo-Nec, then ranging from Furniture Design all’oggettistica up to ‘Hi-Tech design, to get my current collaboration with the study by Marcel Wanders, for which I followed, for example, the last event Poliform at the Salone del Mobile 08. From January this year I must also add to my resume the profession as an entrepreneur, together with a partner I founded Aquabrik Inc., a company that produces modular water system that I designed in 2004, distributed today in Italy and several European countries. It would be interesting to talk more about this project inspired by the shape and functionality of the famous Lego bricks of modular, but if you are interested I refer you to the site and the blog as additional sources of information.