We are a design studio based in Milan devoted to create impact and value. Since 2001 we take care of all the creative aspects for a client list of individuals, brands, institutions and NGOs.
We design everything from businesses to brands to products, from books to bowls to boxes. And a lot more beyond. Our multi-disciplinary experience and expertise covers both brand and product design disciplines so we can help you from initial concept to ultimate expression.
As designers we always build from the roots up. Our process is clear and simple: understand and define a clear vision for the project; explore the visual and conceptual roots of the idea; translate these roots into an authentic social and cultural experience.
We embrace and provoke new ways of thinking and doing in order to help you navigate through rapidly changing competitive environments, applying maximum creativity together with strategy to make each project a success.
Besides studio projects, CREOLO enjoys giving lectures and holding workshops at art & design academies here and there around the globe.
We offer services in:
- trend analysis and researches for new scenarios and concepts' development;
- product and industrial design;
- workshop for product, process and service innovation and training for capacity building;
- strategic design and total branding projects;
- design management and design consulting for new creative industries and start-ups;
- marketing strategies and integrated communication plans;
- art-direction and graphics BTL (corporate identity, catalogues, pubblications);
- adv campaigns and photo shooting services;
- web-design;
- web and social marketing;
- retail design, info-graphics and tools for retail communication;
- packaging, labelling and commercial illustrations/graphics;
- promotional installations and fair booth design;
- conception, coordination, management of events and exhibitions.
We develop made-to-measure innovative design solutions to boost what you have in mind.
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Da alcuni anni ho il piacere di conoscere e collaborare professionalmente con il designer Edoardo Perri.
Tra le altre cose, Edoardo è stato mio brillante allievo che ho avuto modo di invitare in diverse occasioni a progetti creativi da me curati o che ci hanno visto collaborare e scambiare visioni nel campo del design e delle arti applicate.
Durante questi anni di conoscenza ho avuto modo di apprezzare non solo la creatività di Edoardo ma anche la sua professionalità nel relazionarsi al committente e nel lavorare e portare a termine un dato compito, curando nei dettagli le diverse fasi del progetto ed in particolare essendo capace di motivare il team di collaboratori e colleghi, nel raggiungimento dei migliori risultati.
La stima e l’apprezzamento personale verso le sue capacità e l’affidabilità della sua professionalità, mi permette di raccomandare Edoardo ed il suo raffinato creativo approccio verso il prodotto, nonché le sue qualità di project leader, senza alcuna riserva [...]
[...] Whomade è un'azienda che fonda il proprio valore sulla rete che ha generato e che continuamente tesse per crescere, spiega il suo fondatore e direttore creativo Edoardo Perri. Pone la propria missione nel mezzo di una crisi in atto da tempo: quella di un settore, l'artigianto tradizionale, che da decenni soffre di un distacco con il mercato e, in alcuni casi, dello sfaldamento del contesto di riferimento su cui basava la costruzione del proprio valore.
Sfruttando questa impasse come un'occasione, Whomade sviluppa strategie proprie per trasformare il limite dell'artigianato in opportunità.
Consulente e produttore allo stesso tempo, progetta connessioni, fisiche e concettuali, attraverso le quali guida l'artigianato nell'implementazione del suo saper fare, per lo sviluppo di nuovi oggetti in linea con i mercati, mantenendo tuttavia vive le pulsioni che caratterizzano l'atto artigianale, diversamente da quello industriale.
"Gli autori dell'innovazione nella rete che va oltre la crisi"
published on "Il Sole 24 Ore, Nòva24, n.219"
He is the creative director of Italian design agency Whomade and founder of Todomundo Fair Design. Graduated in Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano (IT), he had sharpened his conceptual capabilities at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL), then teaching at the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), at the Creative Academy (IT) and at the NABA Academy in Milan (IT). Beside his activity as designer, lecturer and art-director, he is promoter of various researches and projects in the fields of the new creative industries and innovative crafts. Along the last ten years he had run creative workshops in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America, in collaboration with international NGO’s, National Governments and an extensive network of craftspeople and producers. He keeps imagining and designing for various Italian brands and he is always keen on addressing new cultural and social configurations to develop innovative solutions tuned to the evolutions of contemporaneity.
He was trained as designer at Politecnico di Milano and since 2000 he has developed and managed communication and art-direction projects for some of the best-known and appreciated creative agencies in Milan. After a Master in Design Management at Politecnico di Torino in 2004, he keeps working as project manager in projects of branding, retail design, strategic communication and marketing for Italian and international prominent companies and brands. In 2007 he founds the design studio Whomade, in which he manages the strategic direction and is responsible for the communication. Since 20111, he is permanent design teacher at the NABA Academy in Milan.
Holding a double-degree in Finance and Credit and International Business and Economics at Pavia University, she has grown professional expertise in innovation and performance management applied to the development of new businesses. As consultant and project manager she is collaborating with start-ups, business incubators and agencies, supporting projects in the analysis and the planning of the business development. Since 2015, she collaborates with CREOLO drafting and implementing growth strategies for the management of incremental and radical design-driven innovation.
Design of displaying system and merchandising catalog to promote tourism in the territory of Valle Camonica
Cliente / client: Comunità Montana di Valle Camonica
Anno / year: 2013
Luogo / place: Breno / Italy
Partners: Distretto Culturale di Valle Camonica, Unesco Valle Camonica, Consorzio turistico Valle Camonica
Creazione del marchio ufficiale per l'artigianato di Valle Camonica per la promozione del territorio e dei suoi saperi attraverso prodotti e comunicazione culturale.
Cliente / client: Comunità Montana di Valle Camonica
Anno / year: 2011-13
Luogo / place: Breno / Italy
Partners: Distretto Culturale di Valle Camonica, Unesco Valle Camonica, Falegnameria Agostini, Carpenterie Ducom, Museo della Stampa di Artogne, Qcinque, Forneria Salvetti
Like vintage shirt collars, the diamond choker embraces a slender throat to create a very regal air. The unexplored shape of the oval is rediscovered with new and poetic prospects.
A contemporary collection of furnishing accessories that gives new meaning to classic forms and figures.
Cliente / client: Crestani Ceramiche
Anno / year: 2012
Luogo / place: Marostica / Italy
From the traditional iron processing as typical in Camonica Valley, Whomade develops with Uberto Gnaro a series of objects inspired by the simple forms of buckets and pans belonging to the local rural culture. The roast chestnut pot is the symbolic mother element for all the collection: overturned, manipulated and transformed, it passes on the dominant gene to a numerous kind of objects, all dedicated to the contemporary home, able to directly give back an idea of a frugal, simple and reassuring world.
Cliente / client: Avant-craft by Whomade
Anno / year: 2011
Luogo / place: Bienno / Italy
Partners: Uberto Gnaro, LaR Design Supermarket
The project is an action Foodscapes reconstruction technique of the subject food waste, free from additives, preservatives, dyes, thickeners, concealers and artificial agents, where the essence of natural and biological substance of the food back to coincide then however regenerate. Foodscape is a shell created with food scraps. Has the shape of a seed and is suitable to contain dry foods. Designed to fit into the logic of natural cycles, once out of its use, can be dissolved in water and used to fertilize the soil. From seed to fruit, the fruit and the seed from the earth to the earth.
Cliente / client: Autoproduzione
Anno / year: 2013
Luogo / place: Milano / Italy
Partners: Michela Milani, Padiglione Italia
In a world dominated by images, what if reality would only be a surface? No more solid matters but archetypes of empty forms where objects lose consistency and images acquire substance.
SUPERFACE is provocatively the denial of content and a statement for an admittedly superficial kind of design whose dysfunctionality is a suggestion to rethink a new culture for the project and an authentic sense for the object.
Cliente / client: Autoproduzione
Anno / year: 2014
Luogo / place: Milano / Italy
Partners: Michela Milani, Ventura Project, Padiglione Italia
Tutoring and project management for the construction and installation of the projects by the students of the Creative Academy for Montblanc at Fuorisalone del Mobile. Art direction for the production of the designs realized by 5 masters and artists of paper, and installation set-up within the Montblanc boutique on Via Montenapoleone, Milano.
Cliente / client: Creative Academy - Montblanc
Anno / year: 2012
Luogo / place: Milano / Italy
Partners: Gruppo Richemont, Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d'Arte, Caterina Crepax, Luisa Canovi, Cristina Balbiano, Piera Nocentini, Angela Simone, Licia Negri
In the same way that the weather shapes pebbles to create unusual shapes and luminous waves. A bright collection of vases and bowls, with oval holes that create contrasts of light and shade to enhance the shapes and warm reflections of our precious possessions.
The deepness of space married to fleeting functionality.
Cliente / client: Crestani Ceramiche
Anno / year: 2012
Luogo / place: Marostica / Italy
Tutoring and project management for the construction and installation of the projects of the students of the Creative Academy for VCA at Fuorisalone del Mobile . Art direction for the production of projects made from 3 workshops in Milan, and installation within the VCA boutique on Via Verri.
Cliente / client: Creative Academy - Van Cleef & Arpels
Anno / year: 2013
Luogo / place: Milano / Italy
Partners: Gruppo Richemont, Fondazione Cologni dei Mastieri d'Arte, Caterina Crepax, Fiori di Latta, One-off
Project in collaboration with Noemi Satta / territory, culture, identity, to create a circuit and organization of creative initiatives for the promotion of excellence in shoe manufacturing district in Parabiago.
Cliente / client: Comune di Parabiago
Anno / year: 2011
Luogo / place: Milano / Italy
Partners: Noemi Satta, Myriam Sabolla, Nicola d'Angelo
Concept for an equipped wall cabinet, fully collapsible, with Marchiò Carpentery, special mention in the competition for the Mobile di Saluzzo.
Cliente / client: Saluzzo wooden furniture district
Anno / year: 2012
Luogo / place: Saluzzo / Italy
Partners: Ugo la Pietra, Falegnameria Marchiò, Saluzzo Arreda
Strategic branding, visual identity creation, design of printed materials and website for a new and innovative stroller design for a start-up Venetian, a spin-off of the market leader in machines for bending pipes. Creation of the naming, logo, corporate image edi product, creation of product brochures, packaging, labeling and website.
Cliente / client: Wip
Anno / year: 2005-09
Luogo / place: Bassano del Grappa / Italy
Partners: Pedrazzoli IBP
Design of coordinated image, marketing strategy, graphic design of the main tools of communication and promotion, creation of the website for the historic Milanese tailoring who has been awarded the prestigious "Golden Scissors".
Cliente / client: Sartoria Rofena
Anno / year: 2012
Luogo / place: Milano / Italy
Partners: Artis Eccellenza Artigiana, Regione Lombardia, MilanoStraordinaria
Fractal collection products are developed in collaboration with Luca Brenna's young Lombard craft reality. He works iron and mainly applies his art to custom made stairs and architectural elements. The collection is planned to give personality to the classic semi-processed iron rod that fills the laboratory and the forge as facility support element. With Fractal series we wanted to make the rod protagonist, studying for it the most delicate and at the same time solid equilibrium between aesthetic shape and construction technique: the fractal. WHOMADE Fractals become therefore mobile, aerial, exploded objects, built with extreme simplicity in a nevertheless tangled space system.
Cliente / client: Avant-craft by Whomade
Anno / year: 2010
Luogo / place: Arese / Italy
Partners: Luca Brenna
Design development project for capacity building, process innovation training and worskshop in product design in collaboration with Colombian manufacturing companies for the development of new design collections of home accessories in oxidized iron.
Cliente / client: AltraQualità
Anno / year: 2007
Luogo / place: Bogotà, Colombia
Partners: Todomundo Fair Design
Innovative design project in the fields of products, services and communication working with craft businesses in Trentino for the exchange and transfer of skills between traditional companies and designers.
Cliente / client: Ceii Trentino, Poli.design
Anno / year: 2011
Luogo / place: Trento / Italy
Partners: Santoni Vetri, Trentino Sviluppo, Politecnico di Milano
Strategic design, creation of the brand and visual identity of one of the youngest Murano glassmakers. Logo design, coordinated image of the brand manual, and warranty certificates invitations and art direction for the store and exhibition stands.
Cliente / client: Simone Cenedese
Anno / year: 2011
Luogo / place: Murano / Italy
Strategic set-up and implementation of the development plan for the Tajik handicraft sector. Total branding, visual identity and graphic design of the main communication tools (logo, catalog, labels, etc..) for new Tajikistan craft brand.
Cliente / client: Cesvi
Anno / year: 2012-15
Luogo / place: Dushanbe / Tajikistan
Partners: European Union, Central Asia Invest, AltraQualità, NASMB
Conception, art-direction and coordination of the event that has organized various sale-exhibitions of craft and design within the Serra Lorenzini in Milan.
Cliente / client: Serra Lorenzini
Anno / year: 2010-12
Luogo / place: Milano / Italy
Partners: Arteinfiera
Concept, design and engineering of an innovative stroller for WIP. Ultra-compact and lightweight, the model is covered by international patents.
Cliente / client: Wip srl
Anno / year: 2006
Luogo / place: Bassano del Grappa / Italy
Partners: Pedrazzoli spa, Politecnico di Torino, Pitti Uomo
Winning project at Mini Design Award for the interpretation of the theme of water from the point of view of protection and savings related to individual consumption.
Cliente / client: Mini Design Award
Anno / year: 2008
Luogo / place: Roma / Italy
Partners: Triennale di Milano, ADI design, BMW Italia
Project for the development and promotion of Nanto stone, in collaboration with local governmental organizations and the manufacturing companies of the mining district and the local stone manufacturing companies.
Cliente / client: Distretto della Pietra di Nanto
Anno / year: 2006
Luogo / place: Vicenza / Italy
Partners: Ugo la Pietra, Grassi Pietre
Creating a circuit of creative workshops in the district of Milan Dergano. Strategic and art-design, total branding, visual identity, alternative tourist itineraries, website design. Art-direction, coordination and organization of a promotional event to raise awareness and promote the ateliers with an event at the Milan design week.
Cliente / client: D.O.C. Dergano Officine Creative
Anno / year: 2009-11
Luogo / place: Milano / Italy
Partners: Best-up, Fondazione Pistoletto, Cantiere Bovisa
Strategic branding, visual identity creation, design of printed materials and website for a new and innovative stroller design for a start-up Venetian, a spin-off of the market leader in machines for bending pipes. Creation of the naming, logo, corporate image edi product, creation of product brochures, packaging, labeling and website.
Cliente / client: Wip
Anno / year: 2005-09
Luogo / place: Bassano del Grappa / Italy
Partners: Pedrazzoli IBP
A new concept of interactive mirror that manages to control light, colors, scents and music.
A range of options and customization allows BOREALIS to be declined in different shapes and collections. A patented project that is launched with an impressive catalog of natural forms of lakes, borrowed from nature and landscapes of Trentino.
Cliente / client: Santoni Vetri
Anno / year: 2010
Luogo / place: Trento / Italy
Partners: Ceii Trentino, Politecnico di Milano
Eggy is a multifunctional complement of furniture designed to organize and to make easier the family sharing of the bathroom. Consisting of a mirror and an equipped shelf, Eggy allows to store the toothbrushes of each component of a family, to preserve them and to get them recognizable by personal wooden “caps”. The kit is designed to hang towels, simply put soap and toothpaste in place and organize all the necessary accessories for the daily toilette practices.
Cliente / client: Whomade
Anno / year: 2015
Luogo / place: Milano / Italy
Partners: Regione Lombardia, Filippo Pugliatti
Operative partner in the program for the promotion and the development of the national crafts of Tajikistan carried out by by CESVI and co-financed by the European Community. Design workshop and marketing seminar with different local craftspeople in the fields of textiles, leather and semi-precious stones.
Cliente / client: Cesvi
Anno / year: 2012-14
Luogo / place: Dushanbe / Tajikistan
Partners: European Union, Central Asia Invest, AltraQualità, UCT, NASMB
Project of international cooperation in the Pamirs, sponsored by GIZ and coordinated by CESVI for the development of a local entrepreneurial activity related to the processing and marketing of jewelery in semi-precious stones.
Cliente / client: GIZ
Anno / year: 2013-14
Luogo / place: Pamir / Tajikistan
Partners: Cesvi, AltraQualità, Twinkle of Pamir
Kumhara is a collection of decorative objects and multi-shaped containers, originated by a progressive formal simplification of texture and pattern directly borrowed from nature. From the figurative representation of natural elements, the objects of the collection starts experimenting a metaphorical language in new shapes and functions.
Cliente / client: Saathi
Anno / year: 2006
Luogo / place: Bastar / India
Partners: DCH, Incredible India
Conception and implementation of a series of programs and workshops to develop products related to territory and carried out in collaboration with manufacturing companies from Valle Camonica.
Cliente / client: Comunità Montana di Valle Camonica
Anno / year: 2012-15
Luogo / place: Breno / Italy
Partners: Unesco Valle Camonica, Segno Artigiano
Conception and implementation of a series of programs and workshops to develop products related to territory and carried out in collaboration with manufacturing companies from Valle Camonica.
Cliente / client: Comunità Montana di Valle Camonica
Anno / year: 2012-15
Luogo / place: Breno / Italy
Partners: Unesco Valle Camonica, Segno Artigiano
Total branding, visual identity to the entire communication, a new chain of cafeterias living in Bratislava in the Slovak Republic. Strategic Study for brand positioning, naming and definition of the logo, brand manual and application of visual communication to institutional layout of a retail sales and consulting for interior design with the choice of location, furnishings and finishes, graphic uniforms, insignia and menu, merchandising, loyalty card, design and implementation of the website.
Cliente / client: Greetree caffè sarl
Anno / year: 2010
Luogo / place: Bratislava / Czech republic
Partners: Vittorio Ventura, Dana Hruba
Organization of events and exhibitions of the brand Avant-craft by Whomade for the story-telling of projects and artifacts of design and craftsmanship, telling who made them, from which territory and by which design culture.
Cliente / client: Avant-craft by Whomade
Anno / year: 2007-13
Luogo / place: Italy / Europe
Partners: Triennale di Milano, Salone del Mobile, Macef, Maison et Objet, Artinfiera, Circolo Sassetti, Comune di Venezia, Milano Libri, Università Cattolica di Milano, Sole24ore, etc...
Organizing and setting an exhibition with international guests to stage design works and metal craft within the prestigious T-Hotel in Cagliari.
Cliente / client: T-Hotel
Anno / year: 2009
Luogo / place: Cagliari / Italy
Partners: ADI Design, Vittorio Bruno, Cristiana Collu, Riccardo Dalisi, Dalia Gallico
Conception and implementation of a series of programs and workshops to develop products related to territory and carried out in collaboration with manufacturing companies from Valle Camonica.
Cliente / client: Comunità Montana di Valle Camonica
Anno / year: 2012-15
Luogo / place: Breno / Italy
Partners: Unesco Valle Camonica, Segno Artigiano
Product development project with the small Colombian entrepreneurial activity of Doña Rosa for the design of lines of handbags and fashion accessories in leather and canvas.
Cliente / client: AltraQualità
Anno / year: 2007
Luogo / place: Bogotà, Colombia
Partners: Todomundo Fair Design
Design development project for capacity building, process innovation training and worskshop in product design in collaboration with Colombian manufacturing companies for the development of new design collections of jewelry and fashion accessories in tropical seeds, orance peel, natural fibers.
Cliente / client: AltraQualità
Anno / year: 2007
Luogo / place: Bogotà, Colombia
Partners: Todomundo Fair Design
A 33 pieces limited collection of elegant Murano glass and enamelled metal vases. The blown glass vases made by Master glazier Simone Cenedese stand on a metal rod structure with swinging enamelled iron bars.
Cliente / client: Avant-craft by Whomade
Anno / year: 2009
Luogo / place: Milano-Murano / Italy
Partners: Simone Cenedese, Luca Brenna
New visual identity, graphic catalog, packaging design, realization of the website for the manufacturer of professional scissors in Premana district, Lecco.
Cliente / client: Kiepe
Anno / year: 2011-13
Luogo / place: Premana / Italy
Partners: Sistema Design Vittori
Logo design and graphics of the promotional material for the event for the families of the consortium of tourism in Trentino Dolomites.
Cliente / client: Consorzio turistico Dolomiti Paganella
Anno / year: 2012
Luogo / place: Trento / Italy
Partners: Regione Trentino
With the Machakos groups of sisal, papyrus and banana fiber weavers, integrated design development program and organization of workshops for the chain of Fairtrade producers of handicrafts in Kenya.
Cliente / client: CTM-Altromercato
Anno / year: 2004
Luogo / place: Machakos / Kenya
Creation of the visual identity of the brand EQUOLINK as umbrella-brand of different companies that operate in the fair trade market. Implementation of guidelines for the application of the brand in major food packaging.
Cliente / client: Equolink
Anno / year: 2012
Luogo / place: Bologna / Italy
Partners: AltraQualità
New visual identity multinational company specialized in the production of steel strips. In collaboration with the designer Michela Milani, we realized istituzioanle brochure and product catalog, the 2013 and 2014 calendar printed on metal and paper, the design and implementation of the website.
Cliente / client: Inac SpA
Anno / year: 2013
Luogo / place: Lecco / Italy
Partners: Michela Milani
With the wood-workshops and wood carvers from Machakos, integrated design development program and organization of workshops for the chain of Fairtrade producers of handicrafts in Kenya.
Cliente / client: CTM-Altromercato
Anno / year: 2004
Luogo / place: Nairobi / Kenya
Designing the visual identity and the main communicationtools for the handicraft brand of Tajikistan: logo, label, photo-shooting, catalogue, promotional strategy, graphics for the launch event, social media channels development.
Cliente / client: Cesvi
Anno / year: 2012-15
Luogo / place: Dushanbe / Tajikistan
Partners: European Union, Central Asia Invest, AltraQualità, NASMB
Strategic and implementation plan for the creation of an extra-ordinary event location in Milan. Total branding, visual identity and art-direction of the location for the organization of events.
Cliente / client: Lorenzini
Anno / year: 2012
Luogo / place: Milano / Italy
Design of the line of wooden modular displays for presentation of the products of local crafts Vallecamonica in commercial distribution channels. Marketing Strategies for the positioning of the new brand and the design of the display system in the outlets of the tourist routes of Vallecamonica.
Cliente / client: Comunità Montana di Valle Camonica
Anno / year: 2013
Luogo / place: Breno / Italy
Partners: Distretto Culturale di Valle Camonica, Unesco Valle Camonica, Falegnameria Agostini, carpenteria Ducom, Museo della Stampa di Artogne, Qcinque, Forneria Salvetti
Within the slums of Kisumu and the "jua kali" craft district, integrated design development program and organization of workshops for the chain of Fairtrade producers of handicrafts in Kenya.
Cliente / client: CTM-Altromercato
Anno / year: 2004
Luogo / place: Kisumu / Kenya
For the historic firm of the Varese textile district, we have created a new corporate identity, designed the catalogue, the samples' book new layout and the institutional website.
Cliente / client: Tessitura Galmarini
Anno / year: 2012
Luogo / place: Varese / Italy
Partners: Artis Eccellenza Artigiana, Regione Lombardia
Creative direction, shooting and photographic exhibition of the ateliers and cfaftspeople belonging to the circuit of Dergano Officine Creative.
Cliente / client: Associazione D.O.C. Dergano Officine Creative
Anno / year: 2008-11
Luogo / place: Milano / Italy
Partners: Best-up
International design program and workshops of product development in the Indian region of Bastar, in collaboration with Saathi and groups of local producers. Dokra handcrafts refer to the homonymous technique of lost wax metal casting. In the Bastar region this technique is associated to the ‘Ghadwa’ community, which in the local etymology means: “to shape, create”. The collection reads anew the monolithic aspect of the single castings into an exploration of modular ornamental elements, starting from looking at the local heritage of figurative signs and symbols. Aluminum and brass are shaped into rings, bracelets, necklaces, pochette, but also containers and home decorative objects.
Cliente / client: Saathi
Anno / year: 2005
Luogo / place: Bastar / India
Partners: Todomundo Fair Design, Incredible India Program, DC Handicraft
International design program and workshops of product development in the Indian region of Bastar, in collaboration with Saathi and local iron forges.
Cliente / client: Saathi
Anno / year: 2005
Luogo / place: Bastar / India
Partners: Todomundo Fair Design, Incredible India Program, DC Handicraft
International design program and workshops of product development in the Indian region of Bastar, in collaboration with Saathi and groups of local ceramists.
Cliente / client: Saathi
Anno / year: 2005
Luogo / place: Bastar / India
Partners: Todomundo Fair Design, Incredible India Program, DC Handicraft