Clino Castelli Explained

Clino Trini Castelli (born in Civitavecchia, 1944) is an Italian industrial designer and artist.[1] [2] He has used the concept of "noform"[3] throughout his work in environmental and industrial design, developed through the application of tools such as Design Primario and CMF design.[4]

Career

After obtaining his school leaving certificate at the Scuola Centrale Allievi Fiat in Turin in 1961, Castelli started working at the Centro Stile of Fiat Automobiles. After three years, he moved to Olivetti[5] [6] in Milan, working in the studio of Ettore Sottsass.[7] At the same time, he was part of the growing Arte Povera movement in Turin, comparing himself with artists like Michelangelo Pistoletto,[8] Piero Gilardi and Alighiero Boetti. In Milan, he worked in fashion, meeting Nanni Strada[9] and Elio Fiorucci. In 1967, he founded the Intrapresa Design company with Fiorucci.

From 1969 to 1973, he devised the Red Books, the first manuals developed in the "metaproject" format, which led to the creation of Olivetti's corporate identity programme. In 1973, with Andrea Branzi and Massimo Morozzi, he created the Centro Design Montefibre.[10] A year later, he started the CDM (Consulenti Design Milano) company with the same partners, which became[11] in 1983. In 1978, he founded the Colorterminal IVI di Milano, the first center to use the new RGB technologies and CMF design, and four years later, he formed Gruppo Colorscape for urban planning.

Throughout the 1980s, he worked with Louis Vuitton and Vitra in Europe, Herman Miller in the United States, and Mitsubishi in Japan. During this period, he re-established his partnership with Fiat, which led to the creation in 1985 of the Centro di Qualistica Fiat, the "Qualistic Compendium" program with Olivetti, and CMF product range planning with Cassina. He was also one of the first in Europe to explore the concept of domotics, or home automation, developed with Bticino, Legrand, and Somfy.

During the 1990s, he started new design ventures in Japan with Hitachi, Toli, and Itoki.[12] In parallel with this, he taught design at the Politecnico di Milano and the Domus Academy, of which he was one of the founders in 1983. From 1994 to 2005, he wrote articles on design culture for the magazine Interni. In 2000, he founded the Qualistic Lab, a division of Castelli Design that developed new instruments for the emotional positioning of images and products.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.castellidesign.it/hall/pdf/CV_Castelli_medium_EN.pdf
  2. Web site: Castelli Designport – Hall. castellidesign.it.
  3. Guido Musante, Mater Materia 2, on: Interni n. 649, Milan: Mondadori, 2015, pp. 62–65
  4. Web site: D. Donegani, E. Pacenti (edited by), Lost in Translation, Domus Academy, 2012. 11 April 2012 .
  5. Marco Vinelli, Ma la bella «sessantottina» non stregò. Ettore Sottsass e la Valentine, Uomini&Oggetti, Corriere della Sera, 15 giugno 2013, pag. 43
  6. Web site: 1969. Olivetti formes et recherche, una mostra internazionale . 1969. Olivetti forms and research, an international exhibition . 2024-03-15 . camera.to.
  7. Web site: 2016-09-13 . Il design di Clino Trini Castelli a Villa Grismondi Finardi . 2024-03-15 . www.ecodibergamo.it . it.
  8. Book: Golan, Romy . Romy Golan . Flashback, Eclipse: The Political Imaginary of Italian Art in the 1960s . Fall 2012 . . MIT Press Journal . 102–127 . 49.
  9. Paola Colaiacomo (a cura di), Fatto in Italia: la cultura del made in Italy (1960–2000), Meltemi editore, Roma, 2006, p. 54
  10. Web site: Caggiano . Stefano . 2017-03-17 . The new design primario . 2024-03-18 . Interni Magazine . en-US.
  11. Official Website Castelli Design www.castellidesign.com
  12. Web site: ITOKI's History – Corporate info – English – itoki. itoki.jp. 26 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402105221/http://www.itoki.jp/english/corporate/history.html. 2 April 2015. dead.
  13. Web site: FIBERMATCHING 25 SYSTEM . 2024-06-29 . ADI Design Museum . en-US.
  14. Web site: POLITUBULAR DRESS . 2024-07-24 . ADI Design Museum . en-US.
  15. Web site: Enterprise Server EP8000 Series Server Beitragsdetails iF ONLINE EXHIBITION. exhibition.ifdesign.de. 2015-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402165016/http://exhibition.ifdesign.de/entrydetails_en.html?beitrag_id=31003. 2 April 2015. dead.
  16. Web site: Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Disk array system Beitragsdetails iF ONLINE EXHIBITION. exhibition.ifdesign.de. 2015-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092652/http://exhibition.ifdesign.de/entrydetails_en.html?beitrag_id=68991. 2 April 2015. dead.
  17. Web site: Olivetti. Servizio di Corporate Image. Sistemi di identificazione (Red Books) da Hans Von Klier, Clino Trini Castelli, Perry A. King: (1971) . 2024-03-15 . www.abebooks.it . it.
  18. Web site: Olivetti as the mirror of the evolution of Italian design . 2024-03-19 . www.domusweb.it . en-gb.

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