Interview with Andrea Grosso

The reason I chose to become a designer is icted is because I want me to become my profession. I want to get a professional profile and credentials thanks to the awards that I could get by participating in the'Design Award Competition together with the great advertising that this guarantees, using it as a showcase and launching pad for my future career. I became a designer thanks to the teachings and support of the Human Museum Design Studio of Eng. Marco Naccarella, my mentor and a longtime friend. Together with our consultant Alex de Jong, they have always been close to me in the proceeding of my career and in my learning process, while that together we participated as assistants and consultants during the participation of Eng. Naccarella at the 2021/2022 edition with her hypercar intrigue. Becoming a designer for me was like a process of natural evolution. It is like when your design style evolves by always learning new techniques and styles by mixing them together, it was like this for me. Switching from 2D to 3D art was like giving a third dimension to things that I already made in two dimensions, like when a newborn learn to walk, a completely natural process for me. Certainly the thought that with my design and my ideas I can influence the world and the future of people for the best is a definitely motivational factor for me, but what motivates me most in the realization of my projects and in pursuing this career is certainly the opportunity to create, to give life to unique and useful creations, which can undoubtedly make the future for the community better and prosperous.

The first fundamental point of the design process is the idea. From the general concept, all of all having a solid base is essential to create something unique and above all useful and usable. Secondly the second most important thing is research. Learning and armed with adequate knowledge for the realization of a project, to make it adequate for current regulations and international standards so that it is credible, feasible and exploitable is also essential in my work process. Finally there are the choice of the name and colors. A product must have a unique appearance and a name that is intuitive, easy to understand and remember and that can be a representative of the basic concept that the project/product wants to represent, together with a color that makes it unique and that gives it character And personality. For me, these are the three most important aspects of my creative process. With this question you invite me to a wedding! There is always something of mine in all my projects. Whether they are experiences, memories, emotions or any other element I always try to insert something that always represents my style in my every project. For example, keeping faith with my vintage soul linked to the 80s/90, for Heroybus I used a livery that draws its origins from that of old trusted philaibus of the 80s that served the sections of my city. I always try to put some of my identity in my projects, both because I feel proud of my origins and because my land has given me memories and priceless emotions both personally and landscape speaking. When I make a design often I create pencil sketches on any surface on which he can draw, this to mark and remember any idea and solution to which my mind thinks and then apply it during the design phase, perhaps re -adapting and improving it. Certainly, however, the main tool I use is 3D modeling through the Rhinoceros program, which gives me a wider spectrum on the three -dimensionality of the objects and consciousness of the dimensions of the masses with which it is dealing with, giving me the greatest awareness of the volumes and useful spaces for the evolution of the project. Unfortunately I don't have the chances of creating mock-ups and physical models of my projects, but it would be really exciting to do it. For the moment to carry out all the necessary tests I only use the 3D rendering via Keyshot 4. Every time I start a new project, after establishing the basic idea and the functionality that the final product must have continued with an intensive study session on the various themes and topics that that particular project will have to deal with, examining and exploring new technologies e solutions to make what I have in mind to make as current and innovative as possible.

The most diverse. I can experience all a wide range of emotions during a project, from joy to sadness, disappointment and excitement for the final result. It depends closely on the moment and the circumstances in which I am during the design phase. Certainly for me the most exciting phase of a project is the transition to 3D rendering. Seeing your creation that magically comes to life and becomes something approachable to reality is a unique feeling and makes it really proud after so many hours spent working and committing. Obviously the thing that makes me most happy with the design process is to create. Every single piece that goes to its place and that makes the project progress is a small piece of extra happiness, a slight curvature more than my lips that in the end will then translate into a large smile once the project is finished. What makes me most satisfied is undoubtedly to see the finished project and to finally be able to show it to people, this gratifies me with all the efforts made making real what I have dreamed of creating. The pleasure that I feel in making real what a project is undoubtedly the confirmation that my efforts are translating into concrete results for my maturation and for my affirmation in the world of design. Knowing that what a project can be seen and commented on by other people excites me and gratifies very much since I hope that my projects can one day create something unique and special able to excite those who will use it.

This question is very interesting for me. As I mentioned previously I started as a designer, illustrator and cartoonist. This previous experience of mine made me the man who are now artistic intermines, allowing me to draw on a previous artistic background and a knowledge of colors and shapes already basically good to then be able to apply to the world of 3D design. I can also mention at least two other experiences not related to the design that have certainly helped me in my training path as a designer. The first was to have had the opportunity to live the carpenter's work firsthand. Working and seeing my father work on construction sites, witnessing his studying the drawings of architects and learning from these for osmosis has certainly formed in me a automatic and unconscious understanding of the spaces, giving me a larger prospect of both the use of materials for the Interior Design that for the realization of projects that integrate aspects of this design sector. A quality, if I can define it as such, that it was precisely extremely useful to me precisely in my latest projects, finalizing the environments of the First Aid Pod and the Kitchen Pod of my modular bus, furnished by me and carried out as the first and real automotive work Interior Design. Secondly, I can say that my experience in local public transport as an installer technician was the second most important experience that, sanctioned my qualification as an expert in telematic applied to transport, gave me all the basic notions on the automotive sector in the public transport sector which were the backbone of my current research and design. In this sense I have to thank Eng. Alessandro Sasso della Columbia Group S.r.l. For having been at the time one of my most inspired teachers, capable of transmitting myself with his direct and without turns of words the passion for the public transport sector by rubber and rail together with a good dose of love for vintage. And how not to mention Eng. Naccarella? He is and will always remain my mentor, the roots from which every project of mine draws form and inspiration, the foundations in reinforced concrete from which the skyscraper of my experience has started and from which it is growing slowly after slowing to reach the sky of success.

What I have in store for my future I still can't know (laughs), what I am sure is that after the design for Peace I intend to participate in the 2022/2023 edition of the'Design Award Competition I already have purchased a digital ticket. I am anxious to establish myself, to make myself known by the community and to demonstrate my qualities to my colleagues with whom I would like to establish a dialogue and compare myself perhaps, to discuss the future and prospects. I certainly want to emerge and get noticed. In my database I have a series of at least a dozen projects that are only waiting to be made, among these there are, to name a few a hybrid supercar, a completely hydrogen hypercar, a hybrid motorcycle and an electric city car inspired by use Citizen here in the Sanremese hinterland. However, I also have many others in my crucible of ideas, remain tuned and you could see some of them that I will perhaps use as a portfolio to advertise me (laughs).

Never give up. Be flexible and respect the experience of colleagues. It may happen that you may think that your idea is good, but never have the daring to overestimate yourself, learn to observe yourself from other points of view, with other eyes, critical eyes. Only in this way can a young designer hope to learn and grow. You have to have an open mind and be fluid, flexible, capable of adapting to any situation and solution, good or bad that it is, to extract the maximum possible potential. This was what I implicitly my teacher taught me. The words of him will verbally: “Nobody will ever care about your emotions, of how much you care about a project, how much love and passion you put on it. You must be judge and jury of yourself and you must be as cruel and rational as possible with your work, only in this way can you hope to create something unique and special, something that transcends yourself and that can transmit what you, once Strong, you will be able to be able to put in your work. "

You have to learn to think out of the box. They are all capable of copying others, to be successful designer you have to create something that others have never created, or something that will use differently used concepts to make something unique and special anyway. You have to have open and flexible mantle, to be able to range on various fields and combine different associates and never get tired of experimenting, looking for and studying.

I start by saying that I never find my work activity boring, however I can find drying to redo certain processes due to software or hardware problems that smoke my saves by forcing me to redo hours and hours of work, but except that this That I like more than my work sessions is undoubtedly to apply concepts and notions learned during research. It always gives a certain satisfaction to achieve something unique through study and subsequent practical application, so I would say that during my days at work the creative process is always the thing I like most, in its application phase. In the morning after drinking the classic coffee I put myself at work until lunchtime and then I take a short break to eat something light and drink another coffee before leaving me at work. Sometimes it happens that my work sessions last more or less depending on my personal commitments during the day, but I still work at least from 6 to 8 hours a day, but I can get to work even 12 or 14 hours consecutively if I am during the expiry phase. I know it is not healthy, but sometimes when you are alone, there are sacrifices that must be made if you want to get to success with your own strength.

I start with the assumption that I do not follow the trends of the world of design. I can also find stimulating to have or associate a theme to follow for a project. I don't like the idea that a trend limits my creative and conceptual ability, but so the world goes. Remember when I was talking about flexibility and adaptability? I was talking about this concept. Unfortunately in the world there are trends and willingly or nolenti must be followed the flow of trends to be able to remain on the ridge of the wave. However, what makes the world of design special is that you can always choose how to do it. Trends can be distorted, reinterpreted and altered according to new ideas and concepts applicable to them to make them increasingly innovative and special. This is what makes the world of design so attractive to me and this is the reason that it gives me strength every time I have faced with some tendency that I don't like but that I have to forcefully follow. Without a doubt I would prefer to carry out projects that come from my personal inspiration, but when this is not possible I can always find ideas and meeting points to create useful compromises for the continuation of work. The inspiration can literally come out of anything, whether it is an emotion, a memory or even a trivial landscape that I observe on the street while I pass through the city streets. You have to know how to grasp the fleeting moment.

When the finished product responds effectively to the request that the market has made the creation of that particular product essential. A design is good, for me, when it is useful and exploitable. It must be synergy between the pleasantness of the forms, the chromatic appreciation and the actual exploitability of a certain product, it must be harmony between these concepts, all equally important, in order to be able to achieve what I personally devinent as a good design. What at first glance I observe a design is the overall form of the object, the first thing that the eye observes in an object is the shape, and later they are the strongest colors to be captured by the gaze, so I would say shape And color first of all. However, I think that going too much with their own ideas is wrong, in the sense of filling something of too many functionality makes the object either too difficult to make, either too confused its primary use or even confused for those who use it to understand what the his primary function. The key of good design is simple and functional.

Surely I can say that sometimes I realize that I have better in the course of work that it can be done, but it is not always possible to be able to apply them. In my specific case for a mere question of time and for the hardware component. I would have had many more solutions to implement, equipment to be inserted and details to be achieved if only I had had the time necessary to make them and the appropriate hardware to make me stay in the time useful for their realization. At a certain point, when work planning arrives at the final rendering phase, no changes to the project can no longer be made and therefore momentarily I close it to complete the presentation phase, however leaving the various files aside in order to be able to be reworked and re -proposed Subsequently, I never close doors that can lead me to new successes.

For the moment it is the Angros B01 Heroybus, the modular bus that I chose to bring for the Design for Peace competition. I have never designed so many things, so much different from each other in such a short time. In less than two months it is like having carried out 5 different projects that had to interact and connect perfectly together in a synergistic and perfect way. It was certainly an exciting period of my career as a designer and a wonderful experience for me as an artist. Heroybus was conceived as a normal citybus that has the peculiarity of being modular. This is to make it a machine capable of responding not only to the different requests of the local public transport market, making it capable of serving both narrow city roads and long interurban roads, but also making it a machine capable of equipping itself with several pods to face emergencies At the level of armed conflicts or natural disasters that can endanger the civilian population. I designed Heroybus thinking of the population in Ukraine, the difficulties for refugees in having to survive and be transported from one city to another without shelter, food and medical care. Heroybus was born as a gesture of love for all those people who, in need of help, need a hero who gives them the hope of a better, sustainable and peaceful future. I think it is my greatest job because it is made up of so many parts and details that I find it difficult to list and represent them all within a 40 -page report without spoving, it is really a huge project, full of possible upgrades and additions, possible Full electric engines, hydrogen and I thought it could also be a very solid base to make it a trolleybus. Heroybus is truly one of my biggest projects. What makes Heroybus special is without a doubt its modular connection system. With a simple double action, one of the components can be hooked or unhooking in a few minutes, effectively creating multiple configurations suitable for any request by the customer for more or less passenger transport capacity and to obtain support in terms of first aid or canteen service, All assisted by increased load rooms and emergency structures capable of supporting the population on the run and supporting it for several days of travel. The main challenges that distinguished this project were above all structural and physical. Designing a bus in full puller configuration with frontal motor was not easy in compliance with current regulations and excess with an adequate dose of courage I have sacred redistribute masses and weights to hit the center of gravity of the machine adequately so that not to lay all the weight only on the front axis. To do this, I exploited the substantial weight of the coupling system that makes the rear structure rigid enough to ensure the solidity of the junction and in this way I have on the weight increase in the front, also exploiting the use of suspensions equipped with self-tank to always keep the vehicle on on level with the ground.

As much as I am a lover of the sacred monsters of the past like Bertone, Gandini and Giugiaro my dispassionate admiration goes to my master Marco Naccarella. He was the source of my passion and knowledge and this made it for me a source of constant epserienza and inspiration. I try not to think about the past, although the sacred monsters of the design of the past are a source of constant and priceless inspiration for me. What I believe is that you have to project yourself towards the future, without forgetting what we have been influenced in the past. Maintain one's identity by turning your gaze towards the future.

Surely my favorite city is Sanremo, my hometown. It seems trivial and obvious, but my Christmas and my Ligurian identity have had a profound impact on my world view. Being between the sea and the mountains he placed me in perfect balance between two worlds, giving me the opportunity to understand more, different worlds, cultures and systems, without ever placing limits. Music without a shadow of a doubt is a fundamental component of my every project, often, indeed almost always, I have some songs in my ears, better if of the good Sinthwave that relaxes me during the 3D modeling phase, but also not disdain classic music and the Good rock, as well as any other song that inspires me at that particular moment, I do not place myself gender limits in this sense. I think my Italian being does not influence my design too much, I always try to create things that are projected towards the wider possible socio-cultural panorama, it is certain that of the "Italian style" I want to maintain elegance, precision and quality, Pardary points of my national identity, although they have now become an almost natural part of my self -critical process so I don't do it much by much case (laughs). Now I am in my room, in my house, in front of my fixed computer to typing loudly on the keyboard, you know, I write extremely fast, so fast that when I type it looks like a writing machine (laughs). Like now I am filling up this interview while my cart PC has been grinding for hours to create one of the Heroybus renderings, my latest project. I think that good design is necessary for the progress of society because evolution brings change and change generates an intrinsic social dynamism such that the minds of people will be unconsciously led to be more flexible, malleable to the social change that history has Seen growing over the past twenty years and this process will be faster and faster, whereby a good design helps society to be more ready and capable of adapting better to the future.

I do not find particular difficulties in working in a group and I am quite malleable to be able to face both single projects and projects in collaboration with third parties. I certainly had previous group work experiences both before I join the Human Museum Design Studio group and I have always found positive interactions with all my work partners. Reliability and sincerity in the workplace are everything for me and I think the people with whom you work with them must be honest and strive together to achieve the results that the group wants to achieve, by committing all towards the same direction. An artist, architect and designer must essentially have two characteristics: dynamism and fantasy. Then obviously he needs to have a certain level of personality to be able to interface with the public, with customers, in order to sell their projects and expose them in a fluid and professional way, trying, with their own personal aura, to make your work shineRegarding my corporate culture, I can say that I firmly believe in dialogue and collaboration, in mutual confrontation and personal and group growth. These in my opinion are the essential factors to be successful as a company. For the moment the main challenges of my profession is to make me know and make me a reputation. Design is a selective world and where personal qualifications and affirmation is needed, through the validation of entities as the A'dseign Award Competition is; For this I am trying to do my best to have the necessary reputation to have credentials useful for my statement in this world. At work level I currently cover all the possible charges for myself, trying to start my career on your own, certain is that at the same time I am a business partner with the members of the Human Museum and therefore I would say that from my personal point of view I am responsible Of everything concerning me, while when I collaborate with the Ing.naccarella I am a collaborator with the functions of councilor and co-designer.

As a designer I have a strong sensitivity towards the progress of all society in my drawer. I can say that having relief people like Eng. Naccarella and morally extremely straight people like Alex de Jong my goal is to make the life of others better by creating ecologically sustainable projects, useful for society and exploitable in everyday life. Up to now I have always worked pro bono. Unfortunately in my current condition I cannot do otherwise to be able to afford to be visible and let me know. Obviously and at the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity given to me from the Design for Peace Contest, I intend to assert my voice regarding sensitive issues such as the consequences of armed conflicts such as the one in Ukraine and the effects that natural catastrophes can cause. My Heroybus project was carried out precisely in this sense, to give all those involved in such events a small light of hope through a design expressly conceived to make up for crises of this type. I am deeply in favor of the commitment to similar projects and it is my firm intention to participate further in any further humanitarian design project that I had the opportunity to meet on my way.

Since it is the very first time that I will try to respond by placing myself in the condition of hypothesizing any future advantages that I hope to obtain. What I think that the A'Design Award Competition has to offer is great visibility above all. All the greatest designers of the whole world participate in this prestigious competition and it is above all a great honor for me to be able to take part in it. Secondly, I believe that the prestige that is obtained by winning an Award is something that does not steadate, having in your references to have won any of the prizes issued by this prestigious competition elevates you against the normal designers by certifying the quality of your work and the My primary objective is precisely to obtain recognition, so as to obtain validation to what are currently my skills. Finally, I think that the community that revolves around this competition is undoubtedly an interesting panorama to obtain collaborations, exchanges of opinions and comparisons on the design and on its multiple applications, which I undoubtedly have interest and that I absolutely want to obtain perhaps comparing myself with others My colleagues present in the rest of the world and that could one day perhaps take an interest in my work. My career as a designer would definitely benefit from a qualitative boost from the certification obtained by receiving an Award, so I think that obtaining it is mainly confirmed by what are the qualities and skills of the designer who receives that particular prize, also giving him the confidence and the credibility necessary to believe more in one's skills as a designer. Design competitions are relevant and important because they help you do not even young designers and designers who are established to make themselves known and promote their projects and products, but they are also because they always place new limits to overcome as regards the future of projects and ideas that is Always something positive if you think of a future perspective as part of the design panorama. Evolution is always important and competitions help progress and push towards ever better design. Being designer of the day would be definitely incredible for me! A great satisfaction. I admit it, I would have been excited to become it for any reason, but I don't want to raise the bar of expectations, I want to remain humble and hopeful, however trying to do my best to emerge and get noticed and reach that goal one day.

The ability to create, to bring something new and innovative to life, are the things that most inspired me to become a designer. I am an illustrator/mangaka as a hobby, and there is nothing better than bringing something artistic to life that takes on a realistic connotation for an art lover like me. So, without a shadow of a doubt, that is what motivates me more than anything else to pursue this path.

It was my free choice.

Everything that moves on wheels and not. I love to design vehicles of all sorts, but I love creation in general, so I am always open to new challenges.

I'm not exactly a design legend, not yet at least, even if I won last year. However, it would be nice to become one someday, make the difference realizing something physically useful. Let's play a little game: in this response I will write to myself right now imagining that I am a legend in the future. A little time travel, hoping to be successful. To today's self I would say, "I told you so. You had to believe it with all your heart."

A mind free from constraints, capable of bowing to the changing market rules without affecting its personal identity.

Its exploitability. A design is good if it is useful, if it is excellent in the way of the function for which it is designed.

Because there is always a way to take steps towards the future, towards innovation and renewal, to open the mind and make it dynamic, pushing to constant search and evolution.

I would like to design the furniture of my apartment, to design the rearrangement and reworking of the small countryside for agricultural use that I own on the outskirts of Sanremo. They would be small things that would make me really happy.

As Enzo Ferrari said: "The best Ferrari is the one that still has to be built" and I am of the same opinion about my work.

Being able to make what other people like, and I don't like something that I can like I know, it sounds like a tongue twister, but maintaining one's identity in a project, despite not liking the idea, the shapes or whatever details don't particularly stimulate us, is a great challenge for those who live by inspiration, energy and in a flow of passion. Knowing how to "force" and "convince" oneself during a work process is never easy, but I through the hard work of imprinting that my mentor has done on me have become quite flexible as time goes by and I quickly "get used" to changes. This greatly affects each of my projects, and I am now able to incorporate something I like within them each time. The adaptability is the key.

Engineer Marco Naccarella is my mentor. From him, I drew working methodologies, design approach, advice and inspiration, as well as a massive dose of aesthetic taste. Secondly, I could say that my most predominant sources of inspiration are Marcello Gandini, Nuccio Bertone and Giorgetto Giugiaro, as well as Mr. Horacio Pagani. I am a soul who belongs to the 1980s-90s, but the 1970s also arouse a lot of passion and love in me, so when you look at my design you know that somewhere, here and there, there will always be a fragment of the past reinterpreted in a futuristic or cyberpunk key that comes from that era (laughs).

I am in love with engineer Naccarella's Cerberus, for example. What I love most about that design is the old-new hybridization he managed to create in harmony with the overall style of his creation, incorporating retro and high-tech components at the same time, making it a unique design. There would be too many other designer's designs to mention, but I love the way they play with asymmetries, curves and materials, which I have studied, assimilated and reinterpreted in my own work.

Certainly at the moment my best project is represented by the Rascassa, that is the second big modular project I made. It has been quite some time since I completed the Nera Asimmetrica and I still have to publish other models of the Symmetry Project, but Rascassa Is now my priority project, pursued throughout the second half of the 2023 with the express purpose of participating in the 2023/2024 A'Design Award edition. What really makes the Rascassa so special is its modularity. A three-wheeler capable to be adjusted and optimized for every road use and customer, with a plethora of different customization options and a variable front wheelbase system to maximize and optimize the aerodynamic and fuel consumption. The Rascassa represents a step forward in my design philosophy, a challenge for myself to go even backwards in the past to take the best and bring those concepts into the future. This vehicle is a further step forward in my design style, with lines inspired by the F1 cars of the 50s simple but curvy and elegant, combined with new technologies and devices. The Rascassa is now my new business card.

Accepting criticism by trying, and it is a very difficult thing, to observe your work with the eyes of others. Understanding your mistakes, once you are convinced of the goodness of something it is never easy, but if you get on a table and you observe the thing from another point of view, you will discover new perspectives that will make you capable of "grasping the fleeting moment".

Probably the necrophorus. It seems strange to say, given my professional background, but with the low supply of jobs in my area it would have been the option that would have provided me with the economic support I needed to survive. Many people underestimate this profession, however, just because you are dealing with death does not mean that the work necessarily has to be sad or unpleasant. You can give a lot of serenity to people in need under these circumstances, and it is one of the nicest parts of being able to work in contact with people who are going to celebrate their loved ones.
This experience has not only enriched my person with a lot of humility, but it has also increased my level of inner sensitivity by allowing me to gain a broader spectrum view on human feelings, something essential, on a psychological level, to be able to pproject and produce a design capable of "touching" and "transmitting" emotions in the beholder. Every experience is teaching and schooling, treasuring and assimilating it is the secret to being better and more dynamic designers.

The design is free clay, we the hand to shape it.

Engineer Naccarella has been my heart and soul from the earliest moments. From the first poorly designed bolt, to the first ugly rim and up to my current creations.

I still don't consider myself a great designer, but I'm growing. But let's play the game from before and pretend I am (laughs). I think the criticism and the strength that engineer Naccarella gave me was crucial to be able to believe in my designs and to carry them out.

Still, I don't feel that I can call myself a master of design, because I feel that I still have a lot of room for improvement, but following the same guideline of the hypothetical concept, I can say that the most significant obstacles I have encountered have definitely been studying and having to force myself to follow certain trends by abandoning (in part) my personal artistic choices. I know that sooner or later I will be able to make a project entirely my own, without any market influence, dictate the trend or try, but for the time being I still have to grow, learn and strive to improve as much as I can to become a master in my near future.

With professionalism and precision. With commitment and courage. I, for one, submitted my work to a competition despite not having state-of-the-art equipment to be able to execute it at the highest level, yet I believe in my project, its ideas and solutions, and I believe that beyond these qualities, knowing the basic scenario, these concepts can be an important evaluation tool for those submitting to a competition, at least to determine not its quality, but undoubtedly its potential.

After presenting the ANGROS Formula T01 Rascassa at the A'Design Award 2023/2024 surely I plan to develop what I have been putting into work in progress during the past year and the beginning of this year.
I have in the pipeline a hybrid hypercar I have done following the World Endurance Championship principles. I am planning to pursue also the ANGROS Formula S03 project called "Quadriturbo" which reworks the structural concept of the incredible Cizeta V16T and reinterprets it in a modern and current key, but I will not say more about that, wait and see. I plan to amaze even more than with the Nera Asimmetrica or the Rascassa with this new Hypercar of mine. Also, finally, I have an incredible collaboration project in the works with my mentor, Engineer Naccarella, but I will not say anything about that, wait and see.

Make a truly salable product capable of entering in production. Of course, once I reach such an objective I would certainly not have to stop there, I would always put new goals to never stop my growth.

Anything. People expect something from those who can give them certainty, and I, not yet known, have only dreams to offer. Beware though, I have the perfect recipe to make those dreams come true and this not everyone possesses, it is called: Passion.

A responsible and aware design is the best way to create a better society, inspiring others to do better and pursue the path of innovation together with economic, environmental and functional sustainability. No category must remain excluded and this is the best way, in my opinion, to make users of a good design aware of the society in which we live and in which we could one day live. Ours is a great responsibility.

At this very moment I am particularly excited about my latest finished project, the Rascassa.

Everyone to a certain extent gave me satisfaction and these are the most diverse. I have always taken useful teachings both from my small and large successes and from my small and serious mistakes, because this has allowed me to learn, to speed up my creative process and to obtain greater familiarity and working methodology by increasingly and refining my skills.

I would like to see less restrictions from the point of view of trends. It is a little utopian to think of it, I realize it perfectly, but I am an incurable dreamer and unfortunately you will have to make the callus about it (laughs). I firmly believe that the best works are those expressed in the full freedom to interpret a theme, whatever it is. Freedom means making the mind free to get out of the usual predetermined schemes from the common mentality, by the laziness of the thought of the mass, going to touch unexplored territories and uncommon shapes that can communicate emotions and find effective usefulness in those who observe them and must take advantage of it I believe it with all my strength.

From what I have seen in recent years, a certain annoying ideological conformism has been created in my eyes, a sort of symmetrical uniformism that leads many designers to design all the same things. Don't misunderstand me, everyone can do what they wants, but I believe that the best works are the fruit of the passion of the individual, of what the artist puts in its work. If everyone had to design scooters forever, wouldn't it be a little boring? Who knows, maybe one day I would also could project a scooter, but I would do it so different from the usual that it would become literally unrecognizable from the others.

It depends on the type of project we are talking about and the complexity of it. There cannot be a standardized timing for all projects, it's a variable answer from project to project.

The project is always born by adding two basic ideas, two concepts. Then they are developed by a brainstorming process by adding and evaluating all the possible functionalities and services that can offer. Then we move on to the conceptualization phase, studying shapes, making pencil sketches and modeling a rough shape in 3D until reaching a overall shape that responds to the dynamics of the project, then we proceed to detail and structure the entire project adapting it to the requests and its technical specifications.

"Dynamic like water, but solid as granite".

I think both of them, although sadly I think it has been the second case for a few years now. It is all part, however, of a continuous cycle of events destined to repeat itself. One day a designer will come out with a brilliant idea that will revolutionize a certain sector and dictate what will be the trend of the moment and everyone will follow him by imitating him. It is already happening and all this is destined to repeat itself cyclically.

Technology is an integral part of all my projects, as much the one that I exploit to design as much the one that I create or exploit by designing. Of course, one day I could decide to create objects that do not use any type of multimedia or electronics, but for the moment I still prefer to make my bones in my reference field, my future has not yet been written, so I will never be afraid of the door to the sacred world of opportunities.

I currently have equipment that is certainly more performing than 8 months ago, I own a Ryzen 5700 X with 32 GB of ram and the fastest SSD on the market, which certainly allowed me to speed up and greatly improve my production process and the quality of my projects. One of the components that I am most proud of and which I would never be able to part with now is my monitor. It's really excellent, a 27 inch Samsung Space Monitor, purchased specifically to work with Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint for my passion as an illustrator, which however has proved to be essential in the realization of my 3D graphics projects. Unfortunately my video card is currently giving me quite a few problems, it is a Radeon RX 570 with 8 GB of RAM but I hope to replace it as soon as possible with a more updated and performing counterpart. The software I use is Rhinoceros 7 and Keyshot 11, which I use alongside Photoshop CC and Clip Studio Paint to make graphic changes on the final images in post production.

They have a fundamental importance in the realization of a good design. The visual impact is the first thing that affects those who observe and choose the right materials, the right colors and recreate the right environment is the first thing after the correct 3D modeling.

Everything. I love to talk about my projects, of all their aspects. There are also particularly fun anecdotes that can sometimes bring a little liveliness to these often serious and professional areas. Have you ever mounted an upside-down an automatic transmission? I did it without realizing it! I still have the photo of that magnificent disaster that i made that was so unique that I wanted to immortalize it (laughs).

The future.

Eng. Naccarella. If I believe in Co-Design? I practice it! So I would say yes. Of course, it is never easy to combine several styles and ideologies, he is much more retro-style than me, for example, but I am also a vintage soul, only a few decades after the reference area of him (laughs). Despite this, the synergy that we find in ideas, solutions and work is so unique that sometimes one of the two of us thinks one thing and the other says it. It is a rare example of synergy of the soul you know, something that only the incurable romantic like us can have the bitter sweet privilege of being able to experiment, with all its pros and cons.

My mentor has shaped me in every aspect of my professional and artistic growth. Despite this, he left that my inspiration and my style would grow independently leaving me full creative freedom of choice, while putting myself stakes here and there like every gruff master with his pupils who love the most (laughs). I thank every moment of the patience and the will with he has followed every little great success and failure of mine, spending for me words that I have not even felt from my father's mouth. He is a piece of my family, an older brother who supported me and supports me in the dark periods of my life. He will never thank him enough for allowing me to spread my wings in this wonderful world made of freedom and dreams that can be realized thanks to the strength of our passion.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is the first title that comes to mind; As well as the famous Go Rin no Sho of the famous Miyamoto Musashi together with the contemporary reinterpretation of the Hagakure by Yukio Mishima. These three books are rare pearls in my collection and although the Art of War is a text made famous in the economic and corporate field, together with the other two volumes it had a strong influence for me in my general approach to work. The technique, the "tactic" used to face a project, follow the "flow" of one's emotions to chapter it as possible by letting itself be dragged by what is important at that moment, the essential to be taken. This makes my design what it is, a constant and strong search for perfection together with a powerful sensory and emotional transport, an essential factor for me to be able to extract maximum potential from all my work session.

Studying, trying and failing. Only by failures there is the answer that let be you closer to perfection. Only by making mistakes you can analyze, understand and then improve. I believe in the school of experience, in the virtue of the commitment and force generated by the successes, children of previous failures. There is no bigger emotion of succeeding in something in which it previously failed to raise morality, fill the heart and prepare for the next arduous challenges.

I think I would like to be able to talk to Mr. Enzo Ferrari. You know, sitting together on a simple wooden table, outside of a small bar in the suburbs in the 1950s drinking a good glass of red wine together, looking at the road and talking about the passion that made Ferrari the most famous car manufacturer in the world and maybe ask him for advice and opinions on my works.

I certainly think fame is something that on the one side gives me gratify but on the other it rests me. Having more and more people who affect your privacy is not something that I particularly like, but certainly having fame means having prestige and this is certainly something I want to get.

My favorite color is black, in all its nuances, I love how it makes shapes and structures stand out, wrapping them in the absence of color, enhancing those smallest details thanks to some stratagem or some metallic paint that gives those shades that reverberate thanks to the games of lights. My favorite place is the top of the old port of Sanremo. It is a place that is recurring in my childhood as in my adolescence, but also in adulthood as a place of deep reflection alone. The calm that is obtained by listening to the gurgling of the waves of the sea on the rocks is something that fills the soul and empties the mind, giving the peace of the soul. My favorite food is certainly salty pistachios. My favorite season is autumn. My favorite thing coffee, I didn't put it in food but I say it the same. And I have no brand I prefer. I don't like making preferences and I try to be as objective as possible in evaluating the quality and my interest in something.

Do you know that episode that I mentioned some questions before? Here you are. I was really very tired, I had just finished studying the functioning of an automatic bus transmission and I was so tired by the lack of sleep that my hands moved on the keyboard alone. I moved the grouped parts, I moved them , centered them and aligning them with each other to get the final drive train assembled to calculate the encumbrance of the masses... And finally I coupled the transmission to the flange that I had created as a dummy to have the total sizing of the masses of the Heroybus engine compartment. At that point, however, I looked at the thing that came out by different angles, as amazed as bewildered and I wondered: “But what is that hump that is above the transmission!?” It was the oil cup of the transmission that I had mounted on the contrary...!!! (laughs) Sometimes being a designer and not sleeping the right number of hours to try to respect the delivery times or the stages of a project makes bad jokes, Please, you don't do it! (laughs)

See what I create to come to life. Making steps forward, seeing that work progresses and does it in the right direction. Noting by myself or through positive constructive criticisms that my work proceeds well is the best thing to motivate my day.

No, not at all! (laughs) I had such a fragmented school path and a set of passions so varied in my life that I really could stay here to talk to you for whole hours. You know, I come from a very humble family environment. My father was a carpenter and my mother was a hairdresser before dedicating herself completely to the family under the constriction of my father. Both my parents came from very, very poor families, so they did not complete their studies paths, gaining only the elementary license, without completing middle schools, which however both faced one up to the first and the other until the second year. For my part I have been grown in an atmosphere of strong ignorance for which everything I assimilated and every concept that I did derived from my education and from the environments in which I grew up, while managing to have obtained the high school diploma and having specialized subsequently to obtain a fair competence. I would never have thought to become a designer one day, but you can never say in life, sometimes certain doors will open in front you and you don't even notice them, in this case someone held out an hand to me and I grabbed it with all my forces.

Realistically speaking I have no idea. I don't have a crystal sphere. However, I can think, as a sci-fi lover as i am, that humanity will finally understand the enormous damage that our planet is suffering from the continuous wars and senseless and selfish policies that the politicians of almost all the nations of the world continue to demonstrate and pursue. I hope for humanity a prosperous future, where the whole society will be more inclusive, careful and vigilant towards others, the weakest and the cateegories at risk, as well as for the environment. I would like to think that the man will build self-sufficient space colonies and explore the cosmos, but for the moment I leave the Sides and Mobile Suits to Gundam and to my dreams and why not, to the 3D world of Rhinoceros.

Each of mine design has its own soul, a beating heart that derives from a concept, an emotion or a memory. Each project that I realize or to in wich I take part in have a unique romanticism, different from project to project, in which I but a fragment of me in something that characterizes it. This makes my designs children of passion, efforts and ingenuity deriving from something real and tangible, something that can certainly exudate from the lines, from the shots and from the strength with i want my work to emerge from the screen to become reality in front of the eyes of those who look at it. I thank anyone who has had the heart to dwell in front of my job, hoping that my passion and my love for design has reached them.

The ANGROS Formula Design Studio was created to give an identity to my passion, and what I want to become my profession in the future. It all started at the end of 2021, when I began to approach the world of design with total self-sacrifice and dedication. From the first projects and drafts I wanted to create something unique and recognizable, which materialized in my logo, one A and a G stylized, which represent my name, with an F hidden within them which identifies the term “Formula”. Formula recalls almost an alchemical term, which symbolizes the form of design as much as its creation, structure and definition. Above all, however, F is the initial of my mother's name, “Francesca”, whose death has marked a rite of passage for me. For years now, it has had a profound meaning for me, and I chose to take her with me in this travel because she herself was passionate about cars, thus making sure that her omnipresent spirit in my logo accompanies me in every present and future work experience.

Innovation, utility and simplicity of use.

I have always been linked for better or for worse to the automotive field, so anything that has to do with public or private transport always attracts my attention. But it never disdains new challenges, the design does not put limits and not even I put myself, hugging with open heart every new challenge.

My favorite design does not yet exist, because there is always something new that attracts and captures my interest. Focusing on a single design would be regressive. Looking around, you can design worthy of note, and I want to focus solely on what the future has to offer me.

On behalf of my teacher, I co-participated in the realization of the hypercar Intrigo, which participated in the A'Design Award Competition in the year 2021/2022.

Copper is the material I know most without a shadow of a doubt. My training and my past work experiences have led me to know this material in its most varied forms and uses, especially in transportation.

At night, when the surrounding silence is total, and I can lock myself in my creative bubble to embrace the solitude that gives my work its maximum expansion potential.

The most diverse, as there is no single aspect on which I concentrate, on the contrary, I always consider a multiplicity of factors that influence the project based on the individual case, depending on the field of reference and especially the utility that a certain project must have.

Joy, excitement, enthusiasm and happiness. Creating is life and giving life to something new is always an exciting journey.

Satisfaction, as it is incomparable satisfaction that makes me proud of all the efforts and hours spent studying and carrying out the project I was working on.

Its usefulness. A project is successful when he answers the demand that the market needs, the expectations that users have in a specific field of application.

Its exploitability. A design is good if it is exploitable, useful and easily usable. It makes no sense to make something aesthetically pleasant if in the end it is not useful or easy to use for those who will then use it.

The responsibilities that a designer has in this sense are manifold, but all equally important. The designer builds the future, and building the future is already in itself the greatest responsibility of all.

Because design being a constantly evolving field, I cannot give a certain answer to this question, since the future has not yet been written. I could determine momentary trends, but the future is not trends, the future are the ideas that have not yet been born and that will change forever our way of living and approaching us to everyday life, I can only say that in each case will be an interesting journey.

This is the first time that I participated in an online design performance and I must admit that it is a great turning point for me. This showcase is an important stage where I can demonstrate my qualities and passion, my iron intention is to pursue this path in the world of design.

Everything that surrounds me can inspire me. Every single day at every single moment can make that spark that feeds in me that desire to take notes or make sketches to marry ideas to be translated later into useful forms and tools for my projects.

Simple, minimalist, but at the same time with a retro note derived from the style of the 80s/90s. I would call it a modern-retro style, but that would not be correct because I always try to evolve my style based on my continuous experiences. This style with clear and tendentially aggressive lines was born in me from the shapes of the cars of the great masters of the past, such as Giorgetto Giugiaro, Nuccio Bertone and Marcello Gandini, and lately the words of Horacio Pagani have been of immeasurable inspiration to me. In addition, by osmosis, I have also assimilated part of the concept and approach to design by greatly simplifying the complexity of my projects, thanks to the great experience of my master: engineer Marco Naccarella, the catalyst and moderator of all my experiences and a careful critic of all my projects.

I live currently in what is called the city of flowers, Sanremo, a splendid city of the ligurian riviera, famous for hosting the National Festival of the Italian song and as a historic stage of rally championships. I always think of the place where I was born and raised when I project my design, because the roads here are a mix of everything that can test a vehicle, and this helps me to understand the possibilities and exploitability in different conditions. Furthermore, having a temperate climate, mitigated by the presence of the sea to the south and protected by the mountains in the north, I can boast an enviable landscape wealth, which feeds my creativity exponentially.

Responding to their requests in the shortest possible time with maximum efficiency and professionalism, trying to integrate their requests with my professionalism in order to work in synergy and produce something unique and special.

Believe in their work. Believing in the work of a designer means looking at what the designer can do and give him the opportunity to try himself in the eyes of a company that can support and expand his qualities. Fixing itself on the standards does not make sense. The designer is an artist and as such a single picture can hide an unparalleled complexity and strength, we must try to trust the right design.

Usually it all starts from the association of minimum two ideas and then discuss, often with my mentor and our project consultant, of the usefulness and purposes that that particular project must have, subsequently to these issues begins a continuous brainstorming process that grows off away with the forms that the project assumes and that is gradually completing itself as the various design phases are completed.

A conical coffee cup, simple but of great capacity, black outside with the interior and some external graphics painted yellow. At first glance it looks like a trivial object, but the contrast between the black of the drink and the yellow inside always creates an additional sense of heat in me, and it always gives me the idea of ​​at what level my coffee is when I drink it. The color makes the difference by playing with the senses. Another coffee cup in the shape of a heart lacquered of red and blue externally and in white ceramic inside, with lots of handles also in the shape of a heart where the fingers are perfectly stuck in the two rounded parts of the heart that acts as a handle making the grip pleasant and comfortable. Another small brilliant idea given to me by my sweet half. The two chandeliers I have in the kitchen and in the dining room, consisting of two aluminum pipes folded in a crescent with arrangements with couples of two directable spotlights useful to create dynamic light points depending on their positioning. A shiny black hexagonal jewelry that my mother owned; Simple from the opening lid that contains a deck melody inside it. Inside it is covered in red velvet and contains a small mirror, also hexagonal, which reminds me very much of the shape of the traditional Chinese hexagonal windows. And finally, I would like to mention a glass vaporizer for vinegar. What makes him so special in my eyes is its elongated and curved neck to form a spiral that composes a source of greater grip for his hand and his ending in a chromed hood that harmonizes the shapes by revealing, once removed, the button that allows the vaporization of the seasoning.

I get up early in the morning and get to work on my projects, I drink a coffee until lunchtime where I make a slight snack, drinking a second cup of coffee. In the afternoon, I resume working until evening. Often, during the night, thanks to the insomnia or the mass of ideas that move incessantly in my mind, I get up, and I work at night until the early hours of the morning, enjoying silence and peace granted me from the night and sweetamaro taste of the coffee that accompanies every creative moment of mine.

Be humble and never give up. It may seem obvious, but I live on my skin today these maxims that I made mine. When your projects are discarded, criticized, even destroyed at a functional level, it is always difficult to accept. But if there is a constructiveness in the criticisms received and there is love from those who teach you the art of design, there is no reason to surrender. I recommend to all young designers who have brilliant ideas to try and try, to create and create. An artist will never become famous just splashing badly on a canvas without a sense, there is a need for profound conscience, practice and study, of dedication and commitment, on every single front, to achieve their goals. For this reason, the word surrender must be banned from the vocabulary of any good designer.

Being a designer certainly gives the opportunity to create. Creating, giving life to something, anything, is undoubtedly the most exciting and illuminating thing that the world of design can offer, together with the passion for research. However, this often leads to isolation, to detachment from the social -looking because of the profound commitment that serves to complete projects and studies with competence and seriousness. If you do not have a special team to be able to divide the workload that a designer often face, the risk alone is to find themselves submerged by an excessive workload.

Simple and functional.

Ability to adapt, technical skills and fantasy.

As a 3D modeler I use Rhinoceros 7, and for rendering I use Keyshot 11. As of today I am in possession of a Ryzen 5700 x equipped with 32 GB of RAM, the only thing that limits my graphics development potential a lot is my video card, one of the next upgrades that I will surely address in time., but compared to the old core duo quad Q9550 with only 8GB of RAM that I owned before it is a substantial step forward that results in a wider range of possible results to express my capabilities to the fullest. As a screen I own a respectable 27-inch monitor (a Samsung Space Monitor) that I explicitly purchased to work with Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint (as a hobby I am also a cartoonist and illustrator), but its color rendition and dynamic tilt make it a now inseparable extension of my work for me. Often the use of Photoshop CC or CLIP Studio Paint allows me to edit and enhance my work in post-production, and I used to pin everything to OpenOffice text files and to the evergreen .txt files.

Once my teacher said, "you, you have to become time." These words have rooted in me, making me understand that, being alone in my ride against the gigantic windmill of the world of work, I can only be I and I only the ultimate limit that will determine my success in a company or not. So I always try to dedicate the maximum time possible to every design phase, also sacrificing aspects of my personal life to achieve my goals. Working alone imposes priorities and sacrifices, I have transformed my job into my passion and fun, so I don't get anything away and I get the best.

It depends. In my precarious experience, I had the opportunity to complete the project of my modular bus in exactly two months, but I managed to finish the conception of a project for a hybrid supercar even in less than a month. It all depends on the complexity of the concept that we set ourselves.

I always answer that I spent months of my life to commit myself only on this front, spending every moment of free time to study forms, concepts, ideas and train in the creation of shapes and structures. In the world, there is nothing that cannot be learned with the practice and help of someone capable of teaching you the job.

Definitely in my youth. I was the technical manager for the installation on trolley buses operating in Sanremo of a security, telecommunication, and central location system via GPS and GPRS connection. This system was able to geolocate the cars in the local public transport company's fleet by associating the location with any georeferenced advertisements. It was a task of responsibility and I felt valued both in my office and on the shop floor. Unfortunately, the project was then left in a state of total abandonment by the said agency which, no longer, saw me as a useful professional figure for the purpose. In fact, to this day, these vehicles still run with outdated and non-functioning monitors, equally dated systems and left in a state of total disrepair, which certainly does not benefit the publicity of our area and does not correspond to the immense potential it could really offer.

At the moment, I am searching for work. I try to build a professionalism through this showcase which is the A'Design, trying, thanks to the collaboration with my teacher, to show off my qualities to have access to a possible landscape of work in this field.

Working in the automotive sector is obviously my biggest dream. Both for formamentis and by personal attitude, I find myself extremely comfortable in the conception and design of innovative solutions and ideas that have the purpose of the most desperate features dedicated to vehicles on a wheel and rail. However, I do not preclude anything, I love to create, and I do not place limits of any kind.

Affirming myself in the world of design and making me a reputation are the first step in order to obtain validity and recognition to be able to access the world of work that this field offers. Having a recognition by the A' Design Award Competition would confer my person not only prestige, but competence and professionalism capable of acting as a business card in the world of work. I want to establish myself in this field with all my strength.

Both things. For better or for worse, we are always three to work. Being part of the Human Museum entourage as a designer and pupil of my teacher, the engineer Naccarella, he and I are always in contact and with us our consultant works: Alex de Jong, who participates in our creative process when we discuss Of any project we have in mind to carry out. Subsequently, there is a phase of profound dedication and creation that is entirely dedicated to the design and realization of 3D projects in which they are completely alone or, in part, assisted by the guidance of my teacher and by the advice of Alex who never forgets to warn me if something is not convincing.

At the moment I have several projects in the realization phase, but undoubtedly the project I most dedicated myself after the Nera Asimmetrica is my "Rascassa". A retro style three-wheeler with a modern reinterpretation of a Flex boxer engine, fully modular with a variable front axle wheelbase system.

Via Instagram, Facebook and by email. I publish my designs on social media but I have also opened a website. I have also a showcase even in the Art Station site.

I think the questions I answered are enough, but if there were others I would have replied willingly!