Simone Favarin aka Phate is a digital designer and web trend setter. He first met graphics and the Internet in high school. That was like being struck by lightning. During school years he participated several competitions including Japan Design Foundation Osaka where he was one of the finalists. If something is innovative and interactive then Phate will work on it and will exploit the limits. He's a creative eclectic interested in going beyond pure web, exploring new fields: he's been curator of Neja's CD cover design and for a collection of Miles Davis for Universal Music and a matte-painter designer for Arturo Brachetti. Now he is a consultant for the web image of Luca Bono and a web trend blogger on Style.it for the influential magazine Glamour. For Phate it is important that his work is alive and communicates emotions. If a work, object or image, is not able to express anything, then it is as if it is dead.
He have been working for several years at Domino, interaction agency for whom he has completed important works, such as Juventus.com (not current online) where he designed different sections of the site. He also have been working on pianetadonna.com with Banzai Media.
His goal? Continue to be immersed in the world of the web, explore and discover developments and trends and be part of the process. Phate is absolutely convinced that the future lies there.
Awards 2008 Webby Awards Honores per Juventus.com 2008 W3 Awards for Juventus.com 2008 Silver Awards for actionaid.it 2008 Special Star graphic design Mitour Alfaromeo 2008 Special Star soundtrack La voce del Mister 2008 IKA Awards for origin.iveco.com 2008 IKA Awards for actionaidvillage.it 2009 IKA Awards + Davey Awards: alfaromeo@goodwood "Best Mobile App" 2010 Honorable Mentions at thecssawards.com: www.lucabono.com 2011 IKA awards: http://www.mitoenergymachine.com/
Age
29
Hometown
Turin (Torino, Italy)
Country
Italy
Occupation
Web Designer/ Creative Web Strategist — Blogger on http://www.simonefavarin.com/ CEO of http://www.needful-things.it/ Columnist on http://fanpage.it/simone-favarin Columnist on Glamour http://glamgeek.style.it/category/needful-things/
Interests
Internet, Networking, Multimedia, Music, Design, Grafik design