Hey, I'm Giacomo.
I am an Information Designer and fermentation enthusiast based between Berlin^DE and Bologna^IT.

Mainly, I am interested in exploring the intersection of technology, journalism, and culture, where I work on both commissioned and autonomous research projects. I also teach from time to time.

From design to programming, I explore the web with a focus on information structure and visualisation. My practice ranges between building web interfaces, designing tools and prototyping.

I co-founded Krisenstab, and I am currently building Vantage, while working at Airwars and metaLAB.

Occasionally, I teach at Weißensee Kunsthochschule.

Feel free to leave a drawing, write to me digitally print me a message or follow my feed.

You can also browse a selection of projects.

My work has been exhibited at: Het Nieuwe Instituut^NL, Van Abbemuseum^NL, Bureau Europa^NL, ADI Design Museum^IT, HKDI Gallery^HK, Le Gallerie Trento^IT, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik^DE, and featured on: GIJN^∿, ADI Design Index^∿, Slanted^∿, LINK^∿, and e-flux^∿.

The data in the graph comes from this spreadsheet. The images in this website use dither-dither.

Design Signals

This installation looks at the transformation of Romania’s chemical industry from socialist-era specialization to post-2000 fragmentation. Using international trade data from 1960 onward, each sectoris represented on a scatter plot graph in terms of its product complexity and export-import balance.

The resulting visualisations bring how industries shift across decades to life. While some advance toward greater complexity and strength, becoming a part of Romania’s export landscape, others regress orremain dependent on imports. A second layer of visualisation presents individual chemical products in a series of boxes.

Each column traces a sector and maps the destinations of its exports, situating specific trajectories within broader industrial patterns. More at the exhibition page.