Short bio

After his MA and BA degrees at ISIA Urbino (grade cum laude), Gianluca Camillini worked several years for international design agencies and clients.
Since 2013 he works as a researcher and aggregate professor at the Design Faculty of the Free University of Bolzano, focusing his attention on typographic experimentations and editorial practices from the artistic avant-gardes to the digital contemporary days. Concurrently, he obtained his PhD in typography and graphic communication at the University of Reading (UK).
From 2015 to 2018, he worked as council member and director of the education department of AIAP—Italian Association for Communication Design.
In 2018, Gianluca Camillini has been elected co-director of Progetto grafico, international graphic design magazine.

Main Research Areas

Typography, branding, graphic and book design, typographical and editorial experimentations from artistic avant-garde movements to the contemporary ages