About us

Adriano Design studio has been founded by Davide and Gabriele Adriano brothers. It was established in 1997 and has worked in collaboration with prominent companies at home and worldwide such as Foppapedretti, Scavolini, Olivetti, OGTM, Centro Ricerche FIAT, Bemis and Melitta.

Graduated in Architecture and active as professors at the Turin Politecnico and Guest Professors at some prestigious Universities, both national and international, they have been awarded a number of acknowledgements among which the prestigious Compasso d’Oro ADI in 2014 and 2022 (the Golden Compass of ADI), IF Product Design Award,  2011 and 2013 Design Plus award,  Designpreis Deutschland, the Good Design Award, the International Design Competition in Osaka, the Koizumi Award. Further to that they have been given the honorable mention at the XXI and XXIII Compasso d’Oro ADI.

Their design range is wide and encompasses a manifold variety of different products, which they are able to lend a new twist, from the farmer tractor Multifarmer up to the ‘Rotola’ castors, and going through the ‘re-invention’ of the football table with Teckell, not to mention the famous ceramic stoves “Stack Stoves”.

Their multidisciplinary approach to design brings them to work as global consultants for companies not only engaged in in creation of new products, but also interested in a general “re-start” involving design, communication, marketing and brand strategy.

“Design every thing and always take up the challenge: every single thing can be forever re-designed in a different and better way”. This is what Davide and Gabriele tell about their ability of breaking rules and “re-shuffling” cards progressing towards a never ending evolution.

In 2011 and in the honor of 20th anniversary of “Salone Satellite di Milano”, they have been invited to tell the story of their most representative woks of design. Their “Manifesto”, a reflection on contemporary, ethical, responsible and sustainable design was inked in this period.

Thanks to their flexible way of working, they have been able to work with various client profiles, from multinational corporates to small and medium businesses firms looking for innovation, and successfully planned and launched several startups which are now grown to be international business realities. It has been thanks to this project philosophy that they have been received by the most prestigious museums worldwide, among which the Triennale Design Museum and the Chicago Athenaeum.

manifesto

Research and Innovation are the foundations of our design philosophy. Over 50 patents granted worldwide and numerous international design awards won by our products are a testimony to that.

Only in 2014 Adriano Design has received the prestigious German iF Design Award for Pura kitchen hood designed for the Brazilian CINEX, the American Good Design Awards, and the Compasso d’Oro ADI, unquestionably the most important design award in the world for Takaje’s system of food conservation under vacuum for Tre Spade and the honourable mention of the same award for ceramic stoves designed for La Castellamonte.

In 2011 and in the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Salone Satellite di Milano, we have been invited to recount our most symbolic works to the public. We formulated our manifesto, a reflection of contemporary, ethical, responsible and sustainable Design.

Let’s cut out such words whose Meaning has been deprived of its nature, has been corrupted and altered: Innovation, Design and Style have no longer a meaning and represent neither anything nor anybody

Let’s find in Research the tools enabling us to put the Unknowns whose Solution we are looking for in order.

Let’s solve a Problem through a tangible and objective Result.

Let’s believe in the Ethic Project: pursuing the Ethic Path means Designing in Full Awareness

Let’s claim that the Project is the equation enabling us to get to the Product

Let’s trust Aesthetics, Logic and Functionality

Let’s maintain eco-friendliness by means of Virtuous Behaviours aroused by the product

Let’s build Affection for objects, not Indifference towards them.

Let’s accept the Social Responsibility in our Job

Let’s choose the future, as the Present has already gone by.

Awards and recognitions:

2024

ADI Design Index – NETO for Elite

2022

Winner Compasso d’Oro ADI  – Ordine Induction Hob for FABITA ADI Design Index – RIZER for Elite

2021

ADI Design Index – Storm Profili for CMA Macchine per Caffè

2020

ADI Design Index  – TUO interactive bike trainer for Elite
ADI Design Index – LEDALUX inspection lamp for ZECA
ADI Design Index – ORDINE induction cooking hob for Fabita 

Good Design Awards Winner  – TUO interactive bike trainer for Elite
Good Design Awards Winner – LEDALUX inspection lamp for ZECA
Good Design Awards Winner – ORDINE induction cooking hob for Fabita 
Good Design Awards Winner – FUORIPISTA  fitness bike for Elite

2019

German Design Award 2019 Special Mention – Hybrid for CMA-Astoria
German Design Award 2019 Winner – Storm speciality professional coffee machine for CMA-Astoria
German Design Award 2019 Winner – Pura Kitchen Hood for CINEX

2018

German Design Award 2019 nominee – Hybrid Atomatic professional coffee machine for CMA-Astoria

German Design Award 2019 nominee – Storm speciality professional coffee machine for CMA-Astoria

German Design Award 2019 nominee – Pura Kitchen Hood for CINEX

Good Design Awards Winner – Tempesta speciality professional coffee machine (Storm for America)  for CMA-Astoria

2017

German Design Award 2018 nominee – QBSEE Eyewear

ADI Design Index – DUEACCA for Verum Italy

German Design Award 2018 winner – QBSEE Eyewear

2016

German Design Award 2017 nominee – DUEACCA for Verum Italy

ADI Ceramic Design Award – DUEACCA for Verum Italy

German Design Award 2017 winner – DUEACCA for Verum Italy

2015

iF PRODUCT DESIGN AWARD 2015 – PURA by CINEX

2014

WINNER COMPASSO D’ORO ADI 2014 – TAKAJE – TRE SPADE

MENZIONE D’ONORE COMPASSO D’ORO ADI – Stack Stoves – LA CASTELLAMONTE

WINNER GOOD DESIGN AWARDS 2014 – TAKAJE- TRE SPADE

2013

DESIGN PLUS 2013 powered by ISH – THERMOSTACK – LA CASTELLAMONTE

2012

NOMINEE DESIGNPREIS DEUTSCHLAND 2012 – ANGIOLINA RIVA

2011

SELEZIONE @ DESIGN INDEX ADI 2011 – STACK STOVES LA CASTELLAMONTE

SELEZIONE @ DESIGN INDEX ADI 2011 – TAKAJE TRE SPADE

DESIGN PLUS 2011 powered by ISH – STACK STOVES LA-CASTELLAMONTE

iF PRODUCT DESIGN AWARD 2011 – ANGIOLINA RIVA

iF PRODUCT DESIGN AWARD 2011 – BAJCA PROGIND

NOMINEE @ DESIGNPREIS DEUTSCHLAND 2011 – ROTOLA COLLECTION OGTM

2012

GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2010 – ANGIOLINA RIVA

2009

iF Product Design Award – Rotola Collection for OGTM Good Design Award – Rotola Collection for OGTM Menzione Speciale Premio Dino Gavina – Rotola Collection for OGTM M-Technology Award – Rotola Collection for OGTM Selezione Triennale Design Museum – Rotola Collection for OGTM

2008

Segnalazione XXI Compasso d’Oro ADI – Rotola Collection for OGTMC

2007

ID Magazine – 53rd Annual Design Review – Rotola Collection for OGTM
Mini Design Award, 3rd – Sentieri Urbani

2005

Menzione Speciale ScavoliniKitchens Workshop DE-SIGN-LAB – EVA for Scavolini

ADI Design Index – Rotola Collection for OGTM

 

2005

Menzione Speciale Premio Young and Design – Puzzle for MetalMobil

3° PREMIO YOUNG & DESIGN 2005 – SEDIOLINA FOPPAPEDRETTI

2004

SELEZIONE @ PREMIO GRANDESIGN 2004 – DINO FOPPAPEDRETTI

ADI DESIGN INDEX 2004 – DINO FOPPAPEDRETTI PREMIO SPECIALE TIZIANA

MASCHERONI @ PREMIO YOUNG & DESIGN 2004 –MIZZICA! FOPPAPEDRETTI

2002

MENZIONE SPECIALE @ PREMIO YOUNG & DESIGN 2002 – POPI FOPPAPEDRETTI

PREMIO SPECIALE TIZIANA MASCHERONI @ PREMIO YOUNG & DESIGN 2002 – MOLLINO ACCORNERO

2001

MEDAGLIA D’ARGENTO, PREMIO AGRI TECHNICA 2001 PER L’INNOVAZIONE TECNICA, ANNOVER – MULTIFARMER MERLO

MENZIONE SPECIALE PREMIO YOUNG & DESIGN 2001 –DINO FOPPAPEDRETTI

1° PREMIO E MENZIONE SPECIALE PREMIO ‘DESIGN CAFÉ’ – DESIGN, CONCORSO DI IDEE EPAT 2001 – SIBILLA CMA

SEGNALAZIONE PREMIO ‘DESIGN CAFÉ’ – INTERNI, CONCORSO DI IDEE EPAT 2001 – ALLERY CAFFÈ DESIGN

1997

SELEZIONE ED ESPOSIZIONE @ 14TH EDIZIONE BIENNALE GIOVANI ARTISTI DELL’EUROPA E DEL MEDITERRANEO 1997

1996

3°PREMIO @ CONCORSO GIAPPONESE 9 TH KOIZUMI INTERNATIONAL LIGHTING DESIGN COMPETITION 1996

MENZIONE SPECIALE @ MISSING THINGS – INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION – IDEAS FOR THE PASSENGERS OF BUS AND TRAM’ HANNOVER 1996 3°

PREMIO @ 3° EDIZIONE PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE COSMOPACK 1996

1995

MENZIONE E PUBBLICAZIONE @ 2° EDIZIONE PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE COSMOPACK 1995

HONORABLE MENTION @ INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION OSAKA 1995

1994

2° PREMIO @ 1° EDIZIONE PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE COSMOPACK 1994

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Research is the starting point for anything we develop at Adriano Design, a necessary tool to analyse the history of a product, to study the evolution of technology and identify technical solutions which make products, always new, different and ready to write the future.

This design methodology has allowed Adriano Design to have the paternity of more than 60 patents valid throughout the world on behalf of its clients, to defend the value contained in each innovative project.

Our team:

Roberta Novelli
Senior Designer
Salim Mottaghi
Senior Designer
Andrea Sanna
Senior Designer

We are proud of the work we do and the results we achieve. Our clients trust us to deliver high-quality designs that meet their needs and exceed their expectations. Our design studio benefits from a group of valued professionals with diverse backgrounds, each with their own sophistication and mind set, and yet with a  great team spirit.

This diversity allows us to approach projects from multiple angles and perspectives, leading to more creative and innovative solutions. Our team members come from different cultures and have different experiences, curious and tenacious in their work, which allows us to better understand our clients’ needs and create designs that are innovative, forward thinking and tailored to their specific requirements.

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