Born and raised in Venice Italy, Matteo Vianello is a Creative and Design leader who has led an extraordinary and varied life channeling his curiosity and expressing his rich creative talent in building brands, launching products, and designing high-performing teams, from design companies to global ads agencies to silicon valley start-ups.

Key discussion points:

• Matteo discusses the impact of growing up surrounded by art in Venice
• The expectations his parents placed on him to be happy
• His Father’s impact on his worldview and his creative identity
• Matteo discusses curiosity and the generative nature of creativity
• We discuss his traditional early education and his Math focused secondary education
• How he entered graphic design via a connection with David Carson
• Matteo discusses his growing interest in graphic design
• Hustling his way into Fabrica Benettons in-house design agency
• The serendipitous experiences resulting from opening all doors
• Matteo discusses Benetton's creative output under Olivero Toscani
• The changing nature of creativity
• The strategic competency of design
• The curse of competency
• The synergistic impact on inhouse creative departments
• The need for more design thinking to solve world-scale challenges
• The evolution of agencies and agility
• His new agency Squero
• His answers to the quick-fire questions

Social Links

Linkedin

Squero Studio

Instagram

Art site

Links in show

Raygun

Wired

Tadao Ando

Bruno Munari

Gilla Dorfles

Minjin Lee Pachinko

Oliviero Toscani

Tony Fadell

Dina Lovinsky

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