Hangar Design Group was founded in 1980.
Since its establishment, the agency has balanced a
steadfast commitment to design quality, creative ability
and efficient delivery on different grounds, including
retail spaces, new products, brand identities,
communication tools, exhibition spaces, and digital
environments.
Hangar Design Group considers important every
single aspect of a brand, from the smallest graphic
detail to the large-scale application. Thanks to the
multiple skills of a widely diverse network of
collaborators, the agency creates impactful and
significant brands, founded on the idea that design
as strategic tool is closely related to all the corporate
communications activities. Hangar Design Group is
today an international network with more that 80
clients in 15 countries, with a staff of almost 50 among
brand strategists, designers, architects, digital experts
and content managers. It operates in Italy, Europe,
America and Asia.
The particular ability to develop the project
adapting it to the needs of the production leads him
to important collaborations with leading companies
in the design sector with a considerable number
of projects, later merged into catalogs of design
products and museum exhibits in which some
significant archaeological museums such as Venosa,
Spoleto and Perugia, Florence, Reggio Calabria, etc
have been designed.
Graduated at the Polytechnic of Milan in
architectural restoration, he developed specific
competences in the sector of museum exhibits, in the
design of exhibitors, didactic apparatus and solutions
related to the lighting field. In recent years he has
studied in depth the research on the use of digital
technology in the museum field, which resulted in
the design of exhibition and multimedia spaces for
temporary exhibitions and permanent collections.
Starting from the themes of re-use and enhancement
of cultural heritage, he has developed expertise
in the design of furniture, accessories
and design objects, which brought along collaborations
with companies in the sector and the creation of the
self-production brand of "Vitruvio Design".
Luigi
Di Vito
Giovanni
Di Vito
With a degree in architecture from Florence,
he was at the forefront of movements such as Cavart,
Alchymia and Memphis during the years of radical
and experimental architecture. In 1987, after years
of studies, he designed Tolomeo for Artemide, the
table lamp with which he won his first Compasso d’Oro
award. It soon became the archetype of the lamp with
adjustable arms.
From 1988 to 2002 De Lucchi was at the
head of the Olivetti Design department for which
he designed laptops, monitors, printers, faxes
and computers.
He received his second Compasso d’oro in 2001
thanks to his design of the Olivetti Artjet 10 printer.
During his long career he developed experimental
projects for Compaq Computers, Philips, Siemens
and Vitra.
He designs buildings and exhibitions
for museums such as the Triennale in Milan, Palazzo
delle Esposizioni in Rome, Neues Museum in Berlin,
the “Cini” Foundation in Venice and the Gallerie d’Italia
in Piazza della Scala in Milan. In 1990 he set up a
Private Production, as part of which De Lucchi designs
products without being commissioned for them,
using handmade techniques and skills.
Michele
De Lucchi
Aldo Cibic was born in Schio, Vicenza, Italy
in 1955, and quickly developed a self-directed interest
in the world of design.
In 1981, as a partner in Sottsass Associati,
he was a founding member of Memphis, an artists’
collective that was to mark an epoch-making transition
in the universe of design and architecture. By vocation
and inclination an innovator, one who has never
favoured generic labels nor stylistic excesses, Cibic
adopted “experimentation as praxis”. In the late 1980s
he founded the Studio Cibic and launched “Standard”
(1991), his first self-produced collection. At the same
time he became a teacher at the Domus Academy and
set up research activities with various schools, while
developing his ideas around the “design of services”.
His projects, such as “The Solid Side” (1995) and
“New Stories New Design” (2002), fostered a dynamic
relationship between people and space and offered
a new mode of designing places based on social
interactions. He continued in this vein in subsequent
years with “Microrealities” (2004) and “Rethinking
Happiness” (2010). Both were presented at the Venice
Architecture Biennale, and both invent contemporary
narratives aimed at multiplying opportunities for
meetings, exchanges and sharing in community life.
In 1989 he founded the practice Cibic &
Partners and, in 2010, the Cibicworkshop, not only
a design studio but also a multidisciplinary research
centre, began to focus more heavily on alternative
sustainable project types aimed at enhancing whole
local areas and defining new cultural, emotional and
environmental awarenesses of public space. Aldo Cibic
teaches at the Politecnico di Milano, the IUAV, Venice,
and the Domus Academy; he is an honorary professor
at the Tongji University, Shanghai.
Aldo
Cibic
IMPRIMATUR — PAG 104
CUCITURE — PAG 110
MEDOC — PAG 28
QUADRONE — PAG 76
OBLIQUE — PAG 186
AZIMUT/H — PAG 128
LUX -STELLAR — PAG 136
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