Erica Volpini PORTFOLIO updated: November 2014
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5555Curriculum Vitae: 555 Personal informations 6 55Education 7 55Workshops 8 55Seminars 955 Conferences 11 5Stages 1355 Graphic design 83 55Illustrations 111 55Photography 13155Exhibitions 14355Workshops
CURRICULUM VITAE Personal informations
Erica Volpini 02/02/1991 Katendrechtse Lagedijk 198 A, 3081ZE Rotterdam The Netherlands
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+31 615223115 volpinierica@gmail.com
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Erica Volpini @EriVolpe volpipiccole Erica Volpini erica.volpini ericavolpini.tumblr.com
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Education
September 2014 - ongoing Two years Master Education in Arts, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. October 2010 - July 2013 Three-year Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design and Visual Communication at the ISIA (Higher Institute for Artistic Industries), in Urbino, Italy, with a final thesis valutation of 109/110 and “Dignity of publication.” September 2005 - June 2010 High school diploma at the Liceo Classico, Institute of Higher Secondary Education, “G. Nolfi”, in Fano, Italy, with a final valutation of 91/100.
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Visualize invisible concepts, biology and physics through images, with Monica Zoppè and Leonardo Romei (ISIA Urbino, Italy), 2014. Frame by frame, with Mariangela Malvaso and Luca Caimmi, (Disegni Diversi, Fano, Italy), 2013. Lost in Bolo, with Bolo Paper (Fruit Exhibition, Bologna, Italy), 2013. A day about infographic, with Michael Stoll (ISIA Urbino, Italy), 2012. Designer update, with Erik van Blokland (ISIA Urbino, Italy), 2012. Procedures for basic design, the programming logic applied to teaching, with Lorenzo Bravi (ISIA Urbino, Italy), 2011. Color theory, with Narciso Silvestrin (ISIA Urbino, Italy), 2011.
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Seminar professionalizing, with Andrea Rudelli (ISIA Urbino, Italy), 2013. Scientific communication in transformation, with Peppe Liberti (ISIA Urbino, Italy), 2012. The large plate, with Antonio Perazzi (ISIA Urbino, Italy), 2012.
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Urbino Walk in progress, with Various Authors. From Flatland to Spaceland, with Luca Rosati. The photograph, the true, the false, with Michele Smargiassi. The graphic design for publishing, with Various Authors. Yuri Norstein, with Yuri Norstein. Sinsemie, with Antonio Perri. Photography and representation of the society, with Franco Vaccari. Peter Behrens , graphic designer, with Sergio Polano. What is the meaning of life, with Peter Bil’ak. Look Think Design, with Richard Falcinelli. Fahrenheit 39, with Leonardo Sonnoli. About Graphic Design. History and Practice, by Richard Hollis. Four theses on writing. An integrated approach to syntax , entax and sinsemia, with Antonio Perri. Skolos + Wedell Joost Grootens, Skolos with Nancy and Thomas Wedell and Joost Grootens. Design of the communication policy and institutional environment. An integrated approach to design and memetic strategies for the development of political and/or institutional storytelling, with Eugenio Di Iorio and Alessandro Tartaglia.
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June 2014 - August 2014 Intern at Koudijs buro voor ontwerpen, Geurdenhof 89, 5345Ba, Oss, The Netherlands, Graphic Design and Visual Communication. July 2012 - September 2012 Intern at Iabadabadu SRL, via Toniolo, 39/a 61032 Fano PU, Italy, Graphic Design & Communication. March 2014 - May 2014 Official Designer and Illustrator at the workshop of illustration and editorial design “Books of other cultures”, Primary school “Collodi”, Fano.
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GRAPHIC DESIGN Canovaccio
Canovaccio -the thesis project for Academic Diploma Degree in Graphic Design and Visual Communication at the ISIA in Urbino- is a proposal to improve the effectiveness of the theatrical script. I clarified some key issues of theater semiotics that are useful working with theatrical script, that is a specific communicative artifact; and then I designed a new structure from the point of view of information architecture, taking into account the “sinsemic� methodology. Links
http://issuu.com/ericapuntinovolpini/docs/volpini_erica http://issuu.com/ericapuntinovolpini/docs/tutta_la_tesi_sfogliabile_singole
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Final thesis project Leonardo Romei ISIA Urbino 2013
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ISIA Mask
Using the programming language of Processing, I’ve designed a “mask” that can interact with the user using his voice and others environmental sounds (music, chatter, noise...), with particular sensitivity to variations in volume and intensity. Workshop with Lorenzo Bravi. Links
http://vimeo.com/19930449 http://www.lorenzobravi.com/projects/workshop-isia/
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Basic design workshop Nunzia Coco and Lorenzo Bravi ISIA Urbino 2010
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The stapler
Production of a video from an everyday object. After a detailed study of the object, of its parts and shapes, I realized axonometries, useful for the video’s realization. Project realized in collaboration with Laura Biancardi and Gianluca Monaco. Links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBlsz096Bf4
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Tools and methods of the representation Marco Ferrari ISIA Urbino 2011
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Mmm!
Designing a 16 pages booklet, a webapp, a custom map and morphing gif that concerned only the people who took part in the project “Garden at ISIA” donating vegetables and seeds that we have planted. Group project with Laura Biancardi and Filippo Emiliani. The 16 pages booklets are of two types: a traditional one in A5 format and one in poster size A2 that becomes an A5 browsable booklet. The MMM webapp allows you to: manage the fruits of your garden through the boxes in “my section”, try and find the “vegetable that you need” in the section “I need” and where you want with the map; exchange fruits and vegetables with the other users in “the market” and, with the messages, you can know people for exchange vegetables, or for a dinner. Thinking about the people and vegetables, the idea of morphing seemed the most appropriate to relate personality and garden products. From morphing we have obtained two different applications: animated gifs for promoting the app “MMM” on the web (on sites, blogs, etc ...) and paper flipbook with integrated QR Code references to the blog, and then to the app. Links
http://mmmpersone.tumblr.com/
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Design’s methods, Iconography, Typography II Beppe Chia, Leonardo Romei, Luciano Perondi ISIA Urbino 2012
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Scientific Libraries
Identity project for the library of the “Center for Environmental Education” of the Province of Pesaro and Urbino. After had analyzed four scientific libraries of the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, I focused on the “Environmental Education Center Library”, examining aspects such as the Moon (and its phases), and the “Set theory” (the first and basic scientific language), drawing a base grid on which to build the four marks and the mark of the system accordingly. The brand appears to have a strong identity and dynamics, date precisely from materials derived from the grid and common to all but combined differently. Group project with Laura Biancardi, Filippo Emiliani and Asia Valencic.
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Graphic design Paolo Palma, Lorenzo Bravi ISIA Urbino 2013
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The colors of the shadow
Design and communication for the event “The colors of the shadow Stories of plant life” at the Botanical Garden of the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”. For the identity I focused on incisions in the trunks (which are done to check the growth of the tree); and also on the tranquility that the place, giving the opportunity to stay in the shade and green (as the title tells us event), even in summer. I then used the graphic sign of the “scratch/etching” in the oriental manner, communicating the Garden as a “zen” place, where you can walk calmly and where you can grant meditations and reflections, simoultaneously learning the mechanisms and the curiosity of the world plant. In addition, observing the Japanese characters, I created a communication system with icons that are derived from the combination of the signs in minimal scratch.
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Enviroments design Roberta manzotti ISIA Urbino 2013
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i colori dell’ombra storie di vita vegetale
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Snap
Snap is a pioneer in the fashion industry which uses capillary diffusion of the internet to sell clothes that produces but which are designed by the users themselves. The concept is to think Snap like a closet, the most personal thing, filled by users with “impossible� clothes, which are part of the communication of the company, and -the users themselves- create the dynamic identity. Links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlwutREFBbM
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Design Michel De Boer, Giuliano Chimenti ISIA Urbino 2013
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Mark’snap
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Merlino
Designed for “cats lovers”, the packaging is formed by 8 packs of 200 grams each, for a total of 1600 grams of product. Each pack, in addition to having different ingredients and tastes, is equipped with a “dosing device” with which it is possible to easily understand the amount of food to put in the cat’s bowl. The triangular shape is a practice proper dosage.
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Packaging Francesco Tacconi ISIA Urbino 2013
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Beenet
Study and design of a data visualization alternative to those existing in the Italian “Beenet” project, which deals with the monitoring of bees and hives in different areas of Italy. After a careful analysis of the data I made a poster with three different views and a “meter” that helps the user to understand the data.
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Interface design II Valentina Rachiele ISIA Urbino 2013
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Urbino in an hour
Realization of an infographic that will help to understand the distances from Urbino to reach in an hour different points by different vehicles and for different needs. Group project with Margherita Dell’Era and Marta Fioravanti during the workshop “A day about infographic” with Michael Stoll.
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Workshop Michael Stoll ISIA Urbino 2012
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Lost in Bolo
The independent publisher “BOLO Paper” organized -for the Festival of Independent Publishers “Fruit exhition”- a workshop where everyone was initially invited to get lost in Bologna taking pictures, then to rework them on an experimental basis and materical booklet. I followed the footprints of the people of Bologna in a rainy day, concentrating especially on the feet and on the rain.
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Workshop Bolo Paper Publisher (Marco Nicotra) 2013
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“Dare to compare” Opel event
Graphic design and identity of the Opel event “Dare to compare”.
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Internship Koudijs buro voor ontwerpen 2014
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ILLUSTRATION Salani cover
For its 150 years anniversary, the Salani publisher has launched a competition in which each participant was asked to create a new cover illustrated ofone of the ten largest children’s classics of the publisher. I chose the “Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly” by Luis Sepulveda, and the cover came finalist at the competition.
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Illustration II Sandro Natalini ISIA Urbino 2012
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Down down
Illustrations for the publishing project of the illustrated book “Downdown”, mixed media.
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Illustration II Sandro Natalini ISIA Urbino 2012
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South Africa Youth Project
The illustrations used for the communication of the “Youth Project South Africa” are characterized by the sudden instinctive, material, original ink and ink, which refers to a something to build on, even a little “dirty”, but “human” and not “aseptic “and the color refers to the Earth South Africa. The membership cards are modular and can be combined: graphically placed side by side form a larger design (the symphony, the project made in collaboration).
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Personal project Urukundo Onlus 2013
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4.8.12
Illustrations drawn from instinctively, in a single afternoon of a single day in August in the hot city of Fano. The illustrations are all in one blog: 4.8.12
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http://4-8-12erica.tumblr.com/
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Ilaria & Luca
Illustrations and graphic design project for the wedding of two very best friends. Apllications on different items: invitations, menu cards, bottle gifts, etc.
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Personal project Ilaria Berloni & Luca Severini 2014
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Amnesty International at Giffoni Film Festival
Illustrations and layout for two pages of the magazine “Legality and the cinema� asked by Amnesty International Italy to the Studio Super Santos (based in Italy and owned by Alessandro Gurrieri, Gianluca Monaco and Francesco Scagliarini).
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Personal Project Studio Super Santos 2014
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PHOTOGRAPHY Double coffee
A “naive” reflection on the commercial role of coffee in the Western world, and its production. I asked colleagues to draw on a blank sheet of paper a simple sketch in which the characters had one or more coffee beans in them. I then used the off-camera technique. The negative effect made coffee beans even more interesting, because they’re usually recognized for their typical dark pigmentation; but in this case the coffee became white and rather more difficult to recognize, gaining in abstraction and becoming therefore symbolic.
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Photography I Paola Binannte ISIA Urbino 2010
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Monte Giove
The Hermitage of Camaldolese monks of Monte Giove has got something that only the Wabi-Sabi theory would well explain: “The presence of a strong natural component, and of imperfect things, unfinished and temporary, modest and unusual� Leonard Koren The subject, the little cell of a monk, is not in itself a sacred place (as it can be the church that dominates the architectural ensemble of the hermitage), but it requires the view with a solemnity almost disconcerting, disturbing . The overall symmetry oof the picture contribute to an alienating effect.
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Photography II Paolo Semprucci ISIA Urbino 2012
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The headlight
“The bicycle is a transcript of the energy balance, the exaltation of the momentum, the visible image of the wind. Tend to fly.� Cesare Angelini My old bike is made up of many parts, but the most magic has always been able to illuminate the road. The dynamo allows you to transform physical energy into electrical energy. Here, however, the headlight is off, technically, but its light pervades the picture anyway.
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Photography II Paolo Semprucci ISIA Urbino 2012
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Analogies
“Analogies� project consists of pictures describing my former everyday life in Fano and Urbino (Italy): the people I met and the places I lived in. Including differences and similarities.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/98098618@N04/ sets/72157636288279683/
Personal Project 2013 - in corso
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The house I live in
The topic “The House I Live In” launched by the Festival Various Designs has been approached from the point of view: each has developed its own vision of “home”, setting it within the Malatesta Fortress. The tone is ironic results, lightweight and fun, in line with the event. Link
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-c6Bi8qC8
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EXHIBITIONS Fano, Fano station
Interactive exhibition at the Malatesta Fortress (Fano, PU) of illustrations created in Fano and Fano. With the eyes of those who live permanently in the “City of Fortune� for a few months a year, but wants to rediscover its details, for the little things. All Fano (and others) were invited to participate and interact with the illustrations, having available prints and colors ... and his own vision of the city. I provided colored pencils and black pen. The interventions were many, varied, fun.
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Personal Project 2013
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I have a drink!
The Interactive exhibition of “Fano, Fano station” went to BardànBar for an happy our with a young artist of Fano (PU), Italy.
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Personal Project 2013
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WORKSHOPS “The history of Nian” Book on Chinese culture
Design an illustrated publishing project about multiculturalism and ecologic topics. After have read in a theatrical manner the chinese legend of the “Nian monster” to 3, 4 and 5 years old children, I’ve illustrated (with the children) the story with recycled materials (like coloured used paper) and with the purpose to let them know how to do a book.
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Workshop Primary school “Collodi”, Fano 2014
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“Bumba” Book on African culture
With a different group of children of the same school, I designed an illustrated a publishing project about multiculturalism and ecologic topics. In this case the history was the one of “Bumba” (written by Italian writer Roberto Piumini), and his adventure in bringing the water to his African village, learning and growing up in the meantime, while figuring out problems.
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Workshop Primary school “Collodi”, Fano 2014
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FONTS Lato, by ﾅ「kasz Dziedzic
Gentium Basic, by Victor Gaultney
Updated in November 2014, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.