Design for shaping innovative business models
Designing the future through innovation.
We conceive and help generate service concepts, systems, and products that offer solutions to the real needs of society and users, with a strong focus on environmental sustainability and circular processes. We assist startups and new ventures in defining and structuring innovative value propositions and business models, leveraging design thinking and creative process methodologies. We love challenges and believe that design can play a decisive role in uncovering and creating innovative solutions across every field and sector.
Wellmade: the community of well-made lovers
An innovative web platform, which later also became an app, allowing people to discover the best Italian artisans, learn about their work and review their products and services.
Client: Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d'Arte
Partners: Michelangelo Foundation
Coffeefrom: from coffee for coffee
Coffeefrom is the innovative bio-based material created from recycled coffee grounds and a blend of biopolymers, produced in Italy in every phase. A project born together with the collaboration of the Politecnico di Milano and companies operating in the bioplastic molding supply chain.
Client: Il Giardinone cooperative society
Partners: Politecnico di Milano
Segno Artigiano: a collective territorial brand
An official brand for Valle Camonica craftsmanship that unites the intentions of a network of excellent local businesses with the aim of promoting and representing their territory through common products and projects of cultural communication.
Client: Comunità Montana di Valle Camonica
Partners: Distretto Culturale di Valle Camonica, Unesco Valle Camonica, Fondazione Cariplo
Greentree caffè: the chain of organic coffee shops
In the Slovak Republic, from an Italian entrepreneurial project, a chain of coffee shops born with a green imprint that offer organic and quality products made in Italy.
Client: Greentree
Archivio Italiano: l'unione fa la storia
Ideatioan and creation of the project ARCHIVIO ITALIANO: a communication and storytelling project dedicated to Italian design. It is an innovative content format that rediscovers and celebrates illustrious stories about products, projects, designers, entrepreneurs, and manufacturing companies in Italy. ARCHIVIO ITALIANO is an annual publication, a large digital archive, and a distribution plan for cultural content on social media and through events.
Client: Whomade
Millemetri: the scissors brand at 1000 meters above sea level
In the historic manufacturing district of Premana in Lecco, a new design-driven brand of 100% Made in Italy professional scissors is born.
Client: Dofet
Partners: Gabriella Vittori Design
Milleforma: the soft nature of things
A startup creating decorative, sound-absorbing panels for contemporary spaces using natural cellulose fiber.
Client: Manifatture Macchine Soffici
Partners: Politecnico di Milano
Dergano Officine Creative: the neighborhood's creative circuit
D.O.C. is a network of creative workshops in Milan's Dergano district, created to promote and showcase manufacturing ateliers to the public, open up new market opportunities, and at the same time enhance the quality of life in the area.
Client: Associazione D.O.C.
Partners: Amico Charly, Best Up, Terre di Mezzo
Tajiki Handicraft: designing the development of a manufacturing sector
A strategic development project for the traditional Tajik handicraft sector, featuring a new brand, catalog, and digital platform for the local business network.
Client: Cesvi
Partners: Unione Europea, Central Asia Invest, AltraQualità
Degusto: deliciously Italian
Branding and coordinated packaging line created to market the excellence of Made in Italy food and wine across the Middle East and Central Asia.
Client: Degusto
WIP: a stroll with design
From a leading company in tube bending machinery comes a new spin-off: a brand dedicated to design-driven products that utilize and highlight the special processing and applications of bent tubes.
Client: Wip
Partners: Pedrazzoli spa, Politecnico di Torino, Pitti Uomo
Manifattura Milano: the unprecedented Milanese location
A greenhouse on the outskirts of Milan decides to transform itself and use its scenic green spaces to become—alongside the sale of flowers and plants—an event venue.
Client: Serra Lorenzini
Partners: Ennevolte
Fiori di Latta: a flower is forever
Based on an idea by Gherardo Frassa, a brand that involves designers and artists to design and produce metal flowers and small series of poetic, visually scented objects.
Client: Frassa Associati
Equolink: a fair trade network
Equolink is a socio-economic project and an umbrella brand for several companies operating in the fair trade food sector.
Client: AltraQualità
Central Asian Handicraft: on the silk road
A cooperation and development project aimed at creating a digital platform to boost local entrepreneurship related to artisanal manufacturing and strengthen the values and identity of Central Asian countries.
Cliente: Cesvi
Partners: Unione Europea, Central Asia Invest, AltraQualità, NASMB, BBC
From manufacturer to brand: Simone Cenedese
The passing of the torch from a Murano furnace to a product and service brand by young master glassblower Simone Cenedese.
Client: Simone Cenedese
Partners: Consorzio Promovetro Murano
A new catering concept at the service of the territory
From the farm of the same name, producer of fine indigenous olive oil, comes the desire to create a catering service to showcase and taste local products, first and foremost the olive oil.
Cliente: La tavola del Carmine
Partners: Azienda del Carmine
Accessories for the Infobar Au phone launch
A study of tech accessories for the launch of the innovative Infobar phone by KDDI.
Client: Au by KDDI
Partners: Matteo Ragni Studio
The Lake Orta adventure park Le Pigne
The Lago d’Orta Adventure Park Le Pigne is completely immersed in nature, designed with total respect for the ecosystem and the environment.
Client: Le Pigne
Partners: Geoneer, Gabriella Vittori
Natural dyeing by Arte e Natura
The brainchild of Daniele Delfino, this artisanal workshop creates natural textiles, hand-dyed and decorated using colors extracted from plants.
Client: Arte e Natura
Partners: D.O.C. Dergano Officine Creative
