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contacts Nicolò Ceccarelli Nicolò Ceccarelli is Senior Researcher in Industrial Design at the Alghero School of Architecture where, from the beginning del 2007, he has moved from the Facoltà del Design of Milano. Always keeping at the center of his interest the relationship between design and digital media, over the last years he has developed work on digital modeling and rendering, visual prototyping, virtual reality, interactive multimedia, cultural heritage. He has taught computer graphics in several univesities (Milano, Ferrara, Alghero). More recently he has focus his research on computer animation. After having published, with Daniele Bigi, the book 'Animazione 3D. Storia, tecniche, produzione (Mondadori Informatica, 2004), Nicolò Ceccarelli has Started a series of educational and research activities on animation.     Anna Largiu Anna Largiu collaborates with the Faculty of Architecture in Alghero within the Master and Back program funded by the Sardinian Regional Government. After graduating in Fashion Design at School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano she studied Fashion Management at SDA Bocconi. Her working method is focused on research and experimentation with materials, and interaction between  traditional techniques and innovative technologies. As a freelance she has collaborated with several Milanese luxury brands as an apparel Product Manager,  and as a jewel and textile designer for Yacht, Contract, Home, and Underwear Collections. She recently founded an eco-design studio providing consultancy on product-service system design, brand advisory, strategic design, integrated communication and event management.     Luciana Nattivi Luciana Nattivi holds a degree in Arts, which she received form the Accademia di Belle Arti of Bologna, in 2004. In 2005 she was awarded with a scholarship “Overseas Bologna” for the Saint Charles Academy of the Universidad autonoma de Mexico, in Mexico City, where she moved to live, study and work as free-lance for many companies, as set designer, video maker, costume designer, painter.. She lived in Mexico until 2008. After winning, in 2008 a scholarship within the 'Master & back “ program form Regione autonoma della Sardegna, she moved to Barcelone, where she is about to discuss her PhD dissertation in scenic art at the Univesidad Autonoma de Barcelona. All such international experiences gave her an excellent knowledge and understanding of different techniques and materials so that she can currently include in her artistic and technical profile painting and sculpting with acrylic, poster paint, glaze, airbrush, as well as the production of chalk and resin moulds, welding, creating and drawing storyboards, as well as weaving or welding tissues.     Marco Testoni Marco Testoni is in charge of our video unit: shooting, editing, post-production. He has a degree in Arts from the Sassari Art Academy and has follwed courses about flimmaking from the New York Film Academy. Pver the last years Marco has benn involved in many video and animation projects, commercials, music videos from local bands, experimenting with a variety of techniques and obtaining mentions and acknowledgments     Carlo Turri Carlo Turri holds a degree in Industrial Design from the Facoltà del Design, Milano. He graduated with a thesis work on the dissemination of geometry via visual means; the project was structured as a series of shorts, developed with motion graphics.  He is interested in visual communication. Carlo has worked as a free lance in Milan, participating to editing video, digital animation, and motion graphics projects. Thanks to a Scholarship from the Europan Project Leonardo, in 2005 Carlo Turri spent four months on the East of the Aegean Sea to produce an educational animated short on sea ecosystems. Over the last year she has collaborated to teaching and research activities at the  Facoltà del Design, Milano. Since 2007 he is P.h.D. Candidate at the School of Architecture of Alghero, where he is conducting a research on techniques, tools, and production methods in the field of animation, with particolar emphasis on the connections between animation, communication design and new media.     Alessio Unali Alessio Unali received his Art Diploma at the College of Art in Sassari, continued his studies in Barcelona at IDEC – Universitat Pompeu Fabra where he confonted with the potential offered combining audio and video within interactive contests such as the internet and art installations. He completed his studies in Barcelona with a project, still in progress, which visualizes brain data through a graphic projection controlled by a computer mouse.

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