Koandesign.com
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Fondazione Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze
For about 4 months I was hired as lead photographer to digitize a huge collection of artistic masterpieces from a large amount of important painters (Giotto, Vasari, Lippi and Annigoni among the others).
Some of them were so large we had to take about 60~90 pictures to stitch and postprocess them in a second time in order to reach the desired quality. We also had to face problems with golden frames, cracked canvasses, different materials, embossings, etc. but we managed to solve them all brilliantly. And within the deadline!
Please note that new projects will be published very soon, along with the new website. Among them you'll find my works for JP Morgan, Campbell, Legg Mason, BNY Mellon...
In a nutshell
- • Strong concept development and graphic design ability
- • Excellent understanding of composition, colour, imagery, typography, SEO, usability and navigation
- • Strong working experience with Adobe softwares. Useful knowledge of other softwares and to code from scratch in non-WYSIWYG environment
- • More than 18 years of experience creating graphics, photos, user interfaces, stylesheets, colour schemes, templates and layouts for use in design, print and/or website projects
- • Experience providing art direction to a team of web designers and developers
- • Ability to self-manage projects and work within time deadlines
- • Team oriented, passionate and self-motivated!
- • Et enfin, three languages! Fantastico! (yes: English, French and Italian)
Proficiencies
- Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator/Freehand, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign
- HTML(up to 5), CSS(up to 3), jQuery
- Photography and image postprocessing
Courses
- Human-Computer Interaction
Stanford University | 85,8/100 with distinction - Gamification
University of Pennsylvania | 87,5/100 - Social Psychology
Wesleyan University | 93/100 with distinction - Learning Creative Learning
MIT | online course with no grading - Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies
University of Maryland | 83,7/100
Interests
- Graphic design, photography, computers, videogames, music, movies, art, cooking, internet surfing, travels, new stuff/gadgets and too many other things.
Experience
- 2012-now
KURTOSYS, London | Head of Design
Web design; Factsheets - 2001-2012
KOANDESIGN.COM | Freelance
Interface design; Brochures; Corporate Stationery; Prints; Photography; Web design - 2004-2011
ALFAWEB, Florence | Art Director, Designer, Photographer
Brochures; Logos; Corporate Stationery; Flash animations; Web design - 2001-2011
CENTRICA, Florence | Art Director, Designer, Photographer
Interface design; Brochures; Corporate Stationery; Prints; Photography; Web design - 2005-2008
ALLRIGHT, Galluzzo | Designer, Photographer
Art Director for Geomag;
CD-ROM, Web design - 2003-2004
SPAZIO, Florence | Art Director, Designer
Interface design; Logos; Web design - 2000-2001
WAYIN/KOMETE, Sesto F.no | Web Designer
Web design - 1998-1999
DADA, Florence | Web Designer, Web Developer
Web design - 1996-1997
CISPEL TOSCANA, Florence | Web Designer
Web design
Hire me
If you have a project or an idea in which you wish to get me involved for some creative work or co-work, if you wish to ask for a quote or even if you just want to say hello, then the best and the most comfortable way to do it is to contact me using the form below.
If it's for a work, please point out what goals do you set, what's the deadline and what budget do you have (if).
I'll do my best to get back to you in the next 24 hours with my availability so we can discuss the details.