Is there a particular personal or commissioned project that you would like to rekindle? E: We have a few personal projects that are not commissioned works that we would like to further explore. We designed a food storage container and had gotten to the point with prototypes. We studied how the production could work and the logistics behind, then we just got distracted by other things and had to put that project aside for a while. It seems to always be like that with self-powered assignments! M: For every project that we’ve done, I’ve always thought that it could be done in a different way. That said, you could keep on working on it forever without finding a real end. A good designer needs to recognise the end of a project. How relevant is climate change to your design ethos? E: Everything that surrounds us has a certain relevancy. I think it affects more the way we approach projects rather than the projects themselves. M: Everything that you feel in your life that changes you is an expression of what we are feeling too. We absorb and respond to all the things that we have around us. What makes good design? E: This is a hard question. I like it when an object, an interior, a space or a graphic is immediate. Great design is about immediacy. Simplicity is the type of thing you sometimes do not even notice because it is part of a bigger context. M: You notice straight away when something is done properly. Good design to me is when an entire process is able communicate itself and the concept behind.
In an era where information is fed to us at a faster pace, do you think that today’s generation is smarter in terms of critical thinking and aesthetic judgement? E: Nowadays we have eyes everywhere in the world. Let’s say I want to read the latest update in medicine, you can access information with a click. This does not necessarily mean we are smarter, and I highly doubt we are. Everything seems to be happening so quickly that sometimes I don’t even have the chance to finish an article, before I jump straight to something else. There is too much information running in my head that I don’t even take time to process them. Matteo and I are very critical when it comes down to our work and what we could learn about others. The information we consume definitely is a way to improve, to evolve it our way. M: We definitely have access to more information from all around world that before wasn’t possible, everything is almost on real time. Having more information doesn’t make us smarter, but it does change our way of working. You need to know how to use it as an instrument to learn something out of it.