Formafantasma is a research-based design studio founded by Italian designers Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin. Their official studio profile describes the practice as investigating the ecological, historical, political, and social forces shaping design today, while working across product design, spatial design, strategic planning, and consultancy. The studio operates from Milan and Rotterdam and has built a reputation for bringing rigorous cultural research into objects and environments with exceptional formal restraint.
Rather than treating design as a purely aesthetic exercise, Formafantasma has consistently used it as a tool for inquiry. Projects such as Botanica, Ore Streams, and Cambio examine plastics, electronic waste, and the extraction and distribution of wood, showing how the studio connects material experimentation with broader environmental and political questions. At the same time, its work maintains a calm and highly refined visual language, allowing critical content and elegant form to coexist. For your catalog, this is best treated as a studio profile rather than an individual designer entry.
