Fabrice Panichi
date of birth: 22/04/1982 Pescara, ITALY
nationality: Italian

EDUCATION

10/2004-04/2008 Postgraduate in Visual and Multimedial Comunication, IUAV, Venice
This two years student plan was focused on the implementation of the main techniques of editorial, web and interaction design, the rest of the modules in computer graphics and animation, with an advanced theoretical background in history, philosophy and sociology of visual comunication. The main courses that I attended to are typography laboratory, editorial design lab, photography lab, cinema and television lab, interaction design lab, corporate identity lab and visual comunication. The final thesis had the title: “Auto-Focus. Automating the subject of focus” and was supervised by Wolfgang Scheppe. (107/110)

10/2001-10/2004 Academic Degree in Industrial Design, University of Camerino
This tree years course provided the general basis for the designer profession, the didactic plan was especially focused on learning the planning modality to face a project in all its aspects. The final thesis had the title: “ZigZag chair. Communication of the industrial design product. Graphic and identity of the project.” It was a project that had as main theme the creation of the Identity of the famous G.T. Rietveld ZigZag chair, from the logo to the manifesto, from the promo and history video to the packaging for the model.
All was supervised by Nicolò Sardo. (104/110)

1996-2001 Secondary school focusing on sciences (75/100)

COMPUTER SKILLS

. Operative Systems: MacOS and Windows
. Adobe Creative Suite
. Corel Painter, Corel Draw, Quark Xpress
. video editing and post production (Final Cut, After Effects)
. live video performance software (Modul8)
. Processing basics
. HTML, CSS

WORK AND EXPERIENCE

Actually internship in Art Direction - i&e Expressions, Paris, FRANCE

2/09 - 10/09 freelance - visual and graphic designer for GLASSBOX, Paris, FRANCE
Ideation and creation of a free typography accessible at glassbox.fr, originally conceived for the exhibition "Le Complexe de Rittberger". The typographic disign follow the logic of the exhibition and it's based on a re-reading of the Avicenne Foundation’s plans.

3/09 - 6/09 freelance - web graphic designer for Ruggieri & Nadalini Architects, Pescara, ITALY
Ideation and creation of the web site for the Architeture studio Ruggieri & Nadalini.
Graphic + programming work.

9/08 Third edition of the Workshop organised by G. Anceschi “New Basic Design: Hyperbasic”, Venice, ITALY
With the supervision of Antonio Belluscio I realized an interactive flash game working on the “Grammar Basics for recreational interaction”.

8/08 freelance - web and graphic works for amatorial kayak club "canottieri la Pescara", Pescara, ITALY
Concept and creation of graphic comunicative projects + website.

7/08 freelance - graphic designer for Studio FLY, Pescara, ITALY
Responsible for the creation of the concepts, graphic projects and print processes for covers of promo and documentay videos.

4/08 “Situazionist” workshop organised from S.A.L.E. Docks and Za!Revue, Venice, ITALY

3/08 freelance - graphic designer for Jungle Riot Dj Crew, Pescara, ITALY
Concept, photography, illustrations, graphic projects and print processes for posters and flyers.

1/07 International Workshop: L’Observatoire Européen de l’ Objet: 00.2, Bruxelles, BELGIUM

10/06 Migropolis project, with Wolfgang Scheppe, Venice, ITALY
Creation of the editorial project of the book Migropolis

9/06 Third edition of “Teach Me - Italian Graphic Festival”, Venice, ITALY

9/06 Workshop: Basic Design and the tradition of new, Venice, ITALY
Responsible for photography and video documentation.

1/06 FSE Course for the use of the Optical Bench, IUAV, Venice, ITALY

4/04 Internship as graphic designer at LDB Advertising, Bologna, ITALY

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

6/09 Exposition "Le Complexe de Rittberger", Paris, FRANCE
Modul_o typography exhibition.

9/08 Made in IUAV Exhibition, Venice, ITALY
Auto-Focus project was exposed on the occasion of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice.

9/08 Catalogue Made in IUAV
Publication of the Auto-Focus project within the catalog of Made in IUAV Exhibition.

4/08 Auto-Focus. Automating the subject of focus
AF project was printed in two thousand b/w copies, on recycled newspaper paper.

12/06 Za!Revue #3 - Automatic issue
Publication of two pages for the third number of the independent ghraphic magazine Za!Revue.

SKILLS

. Ability to analyze problems, find solutions and implement them
. Ability to work unsupervised and as part of a flexible team
. Good communication in public and good cooperation skills
. Advanced knowledge of different techniques of printing, photo-video editing and illustration

LANGUAGES

Italian: native
French: bilingual
English: good

INTERESTS AND PERSONAL INFO

. Photography, illustration, social graphic, street art, video installatitions and art, stop motion, stencil, typography, t-shirt design, info design, technology, computers
. Clean driving license for car

LEISURES

Frisbee, cinema, music, drawing, comics, hattrick

CHARACTER

Will to learn, strong curiosity, determination in achieving concrete results and “well done” things.