Carlo Forcolini
Italy
Born in Como in 1947 and graduated from Milan's Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1969. Since that year, carries out planning and business, participating in the foundation of Alias and Nemo, which was also Managing Director and Art director.
From 1978 to 1984 resides in London, where he founded the Alias UK and became Director dell'Artemide G.B. Since 1983 has participated in numerous exhibitions and international events in Madrid, Los Angeles, London, Hamburg, Cologne, Tokyo, Sydney, Santiago, Chile, etc. Oslo. Among the most important exhibitions in 1987, "The ways of the project" Pignatelli Cortes Museum of Naples in 1989 in Moscow "Alias Design from Italy, " staged at the Soviet Foundation of Culture in 1990 in Tokyo "Creativitalia. The personal Permanente in Milan in 1991 ("Imagining things"), in Innsbruck in 1996, in Toronto and Brussels in 1997.
He has conducted seminars in various schools and universities, including the prestigious "Graham Foundation" in Chicago. His designs are in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, in the Historical Collection of Italian design at the Milan Triennale. He designed furniture, lamps and objects for Amar, Artemide, Alias, Cassina, De Padova, Gervasoni, Joint, Nemo, Pomellato.
For Pomellato has also designed stores in Barcelona, Madrid, Antwerp, Taipei, Lisbon, Monaco, Singapore, Marbella, Cannes and Moscow. Since 1999 he coordinates the Forcolini.Lab, creative laboratory that operates in different areas of visual communication.
Among more recent works, graphic designs and layouts for the Triennial. Since December 2001, President of ADI, Association for Industrial Design. Lives and works in Milan.
Carlo Forcolini's products