Product Design
Matteo Ercole
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26 y.o. Minimalist
More me Italian, based in Milan, graduated industrial designer, Bachelor degree in Polytechnic of Turin and Master degree in Polytechnic of Milan. Sport lover, I play basketball since I was 5, so I’m used to work side by side with other people. I’m relaxed, sympathetic and intuitive aptitude, in love with minimalism and simplicity in products. People think I’m a Hipster, but I like to see me as a vintage passionate. Beard included.
Worked with
Design Gang Turin 2018
Studio Fabio Novembre Milan 2019
Mr Smith Studio Milan 2020-21
My story Designed for
2015
2020
2018
2021
Featured in
2019 2020
2019
2019
Tools Excel
PowerPoint
Hate
Blen
AutoCAD
Creo
Ok Rhinoceros KeyShot
Photoshop
Illustrator InDesign
Procreate
nder
Lightroom
Premiere
Love
Adobe XD
After Effects Fusion360 Shapr3D
Beginner
Stick Group: Michela Burzio Michal Kolberg Andrea Tortone
Stick is an electric Last Mile Vehicle, inspired from the foldable bike designed by Richard Sapper in 1988, one of the first attempts to find a solution to the traffic of the city. Stick is a intravehicular trasportation, complementary to other means of transportation like car, bus or train. Easy to open and close with simple movements, once compacted it occupies minimal space.
2017
Stick, 2017
Zoombike, 1988
RUBBEREVIVE
Rubberevive Group: Michela Burzio Michal Kolberg
Rubberevive is a project for the recovery of rubber, as a special refusal, from national typographies. Each product, made from this material, is unique and unrepeatable for the appearance created by its use. Neb and Rose are two containers assembled with rubber, flexible for size or shape respectively. The Beret lamp can change aspects as needed, while Seamlines is a lamps line in which the electric cable function is as constitutive material and as decoration.
2017
Concept
Damaged sheet
10%
99% New sheet
90%
Provider
1 sheet = 100€ Formats 35x50 cm 50x70 cm 70x100 cm 100x140 cm
Usurated sheet
1% Damaged sheet
Selling Books/Magazines
Life cycle - 1.000.000 prints
Disposal
RUBBEREVIVE
Process
Neb
Neb is a simple container, with a shape suited to office environment inside or outside home. Closed in the two extremities it reminds the profile of a beak, hence the name Neb. Available in three sizes, it can be stored in one within the other taking advantage of the space. The reduced dimensions allow the product to be washed comfortably, as the composition of the material can accommodate all kinds of substances.
Rose
Rose is a double function container with soft and polymorphic profile that recalls a nature rose form. In the closed configuration, pockets are created, which may contain organic material, such as plants or flowers. Thanks to some buttons, it’s possible to change the basic shape creating a more capacious multi-purpose container. Rose is intended for a private home or an office area.
Seamlines
Seamlines is a lamps family that exploits the electric cable in order to close the lampshades shape. Three suspension lamps, Conic, Teepee and Arrow, are made from various basic shapes such as square or ellipse, closed to different cones, creating three types of light beams based on changing needs. The cable is made of fabric and matches the different departure sheet colors.
Beret
Beret is a suspension lamp in exaggerated shapes. It has three different configurations made from a single circular form. The open configuration defines a sort of hat, allowing the sheet to freely occupy the space asymmetrically. If the sheet is semi wrapped, with the special button, it creates a particular shade directing the light sideways. Wrapping the sheet tightly, it creates a long cylinder narrow-beam that can be combined with other similar products creating a suggestive atmosphere environment.
Breath Group: Alice Dian Jacopo Fusi Andrea Leccardi Alessio Righi Jiaxing Wang
Usually light is associated with a positive phenomenon, but its true power is that in some situations it contrasts with the common good meaning: a midday sun is unbearable and too strong, a direct light source must be covered and usually it’s difficult to look directly due to glare; Breath comes directly from this duality. The cube is constantly waiting, and when one of the two buttons is pressed it wakes up, hitting the observer with an annoying flashing, matched by an equally annoying buzz. The instinct of the user is to press the button again to make the cube stop, but surprisingly this leads the cube to intensify the annoying effect, increasing frequency and intensity, to further force the observer’s state of stress. Every subsequent attempt is useless, stress increases, the only way to make it stop is hidden in the name: Breath, “Take a breath”, “Wait a moment”; the cube stops autonomously after being left alone for ten seconds, teaching the value of patience and cold blood.
2019
Breath internally has a completely removable loft structure; in the lower part we find the 12 V battery and the switch to close the circuit. On the upper part there are a Bradboard, 4 transistors, a buzzer and 6 G4 4000K LEDs onnected to an Arduino UNO which regulates the flickering and repetition of the buzzer sound based on the impulse emitted by two buttons on the upper face of the cube.
Willy air purifier for kids
Willy is an air purifier for children designed in response to the new reality we are living. He is able to control the quality of the air inside an environment, to react to changes in domestic pollution and to adapt to different times of the day, and to do it independently. The kid does not perceive this complexity, which operates independently, while the parent can keep the parameters under control and have a complete picture of the quality of the home environment. In addition to the purification side, Willy is also able to develop an empathic relationship with the kid, reacting to the movements around him as to represent an outlet for his social needs for moments in which they are confined within the domestic walls.
2021
I have identified the perfect intersection: the choice of details and the strategic positioning of them are able to create anthropomorphic results and generate extremely empathetic objects. In this case, more than the choice of a specific element, it is a wise game of proportions and balances between the size of the shapes, colors, distance between the key points.
Air filtration Willy uses a HEPA H13 technology, capable of filtering most of the common allergens present in the home: dust, harmful gases and improving the quality of the home air, reaching filtration levels up to 99,95%. With this method it is possible to filter particles with a minimum size of 0.3 μm.
Interaction Thanks to two microphones positioned in correspondence of the eyes, Willy is able to perceive the sounds around him and also to place them in space. In fact, the position of the sensors simulates the functioning of the human ear, measuring the different intensity of the sound and identifying the origin of the source at 360°. This, combined with the electric motor present at the base of the head, leads Willy to turn his attention directly to what he considers the source of sound in the room, which is often represented by the child moving all around. This therefore allows physical interaction, much more meaningful for the child than that with a display or with simple buttons.
Packaging
Communication
SuperNormal
SuperNormal Concept
What happens when some of the most famous chairs in the history of design meet today’s streetwear brands? Now you have an answer SuperNormal is a concept collection of some of the most famous chair in the history of design, mixed and reinterpreted with the guidelines of modern streetwear brands. The idea comes from the reverential fear with which young designers study the works of the masters of the past, considering them sacred and untouchable; on the contrary instead I believe we need to be brave enough to change, adapt and absorb their ideas, merging with modern trends and making everything more appealing for a contemporary audience, often composed of non-experts.
2019
Härd Group: Christian Abbott Francesco Memo Niccolò Nardi
Härd is a small system that allows those who are not at home for long periods to feel a little closer to their loved ones, taking a piece of the home fireplace with them and recreating the warmth of home wherever you are in the world. For this concept we based on the Design for wellbeing method, starting from a positive experience to be recreated instead of a problem to be solved; this results in a greater consideration of the human side and the user’s emotions. The user who’s going abroad just needs to take one half of the fire with himconnect it with his usual videocalling device (phone, laptop, tablet,...); during a call, Härd will show a pulsating light and it will become warm, to recreate the home warmth.
2020
Being such an intimate object for the user, the shape has a great importance: we have chosen to start from the shape of the flame, the heart and the hug, condensing them into an object divided into two complementary but not identical parts.
Oxic Logo: Ilaria Pavone
Härd is a small system that allows those who are not at home for long periods to feel a little closer to their loved ones, taking a piece of the home fireplace with them and recreating the warmth of home wherever you are in the world. The user who’s going abroad just needs to take one half of the fire with himconnect it with his usual videocalling device (phone, laptop, tablet,...); during a call, Härd will show a pulsating light and it will become warm, to recreate the home warmth.
2020
And that was me.
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Behance
2021