Corrado Cotignano

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Corrado is a senior industrial designer who previously worked at Target Srl, an Italian company manufacturing display stands, also managing the company's Indian subsidiary start-up. Prior to Target, Corrado was an independent designer who has spent almost five years in India, working with many companies: he was leading the Mumbai office of DPSA+D (De Ponte Architects, an architecture firm based in Milan), the Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce helping in designing and managing exhibitions, publications and more. He went to Mumbai as a Product design lecturer, teaching students at Raffles Design International Mumbai (a Singapore based college).

Before leaving for the Indian adventure, he was again an independent designer working at architecture firms in Rome doing interior design and developing bespoke furniture, or leading web design teams for Italian institutions such as the Council of Architects, Italian Geographical Society, Ministry of Education.

He was also working at the University of Rome TRE, as a researcher involved in EU-funded research projects in Architecture.

He had three internships in vehicle design companies as such as Fiat Centro Stile, Honda R&D Europe and Alfa Romeo Advanced Design, where he developed design concepts, full scale mock-ups, product development (from market research, target customer definition, early concept generation, platform selection, competitive analysis) and presentations.

Corrado holds a bachelor's in industrial design from University of Rome “La Sapienza” and a master's in Transportation Interface Design from IED-Istituto Europeo di Design.