Davide Di Teodoro
"Back at the time, I was that kid who used to play football and buy Vogue at the same time. I wasn’t fascinated by the clothes themselves but at the imagery of those glossy spreads, and I realized later that such non-verbal form of communication was my first encounter with the creative industry."
"Once I finished high school, I left my hometown and enrolled into a design university in Milan. Since that moment I studied, lived and practiced first in Milan and then in London where I explored the industry much deeper, questioning it in relation to my persona until the point in which a definition of it has become my primary concern."
"My parents were very supportive. It wasn’t about the creative industry though. Living in a very different yet far context, they have no idea whatsoever of what I actually do or studied. They never have and probably never will. Nevertheless, they have always been extremely supportive and passionated about it. For them it’s more about me being satisfied with what I do than working in the creative industry. They would be supportive whatever I would do, as long as it would make me happy. I guess that’s what love is about."
"I got an MA in Communication Design at Central Saint Martins in London and a very broad bachelor at Politecnico di Milano where I studied design as a whole. It was a product design course but I studied many subjects such as product and graphic design, as well as anthropology, design history, math and business management. I have also always being investigating contemporary art on the side, which it has had a great influence on my work."
"I’m 24 years old and just finished my MA, so I’ve mainly being into an academic context so far. But at the same time I’ve always being collaborating and doing self-initiated projects, so I’ve been working for about 5 years. I think that’s how working in the creative industry feels like nowadays. I collaborate with BRAVÒ for almost two years now and I feel great about it!"
"I have, and I’ve had, many influences which represent different aspects of the creative industry and of my persona. I’m into design as well as I’m into art, photography, fashion, cinema, music, philosophy, sociology and technology. Within my creative process I try and merge all these fields and come up with solutions which are hybrids, solutions which destabilize you in such a way that wants to make you think: well, what the hell is going on here?"
"In the future I want to be doing anything that I’m not doing yet. That would mean that I grew up and re-invented myself again. I’m always in the seek of doing something I’ve never done before: it’s part of the creative process. Most of all, I still want to be excited and enthusiastic of doing what I do, whatever that will be."