Clino Trini Castelli

After graduating school in Turin in 1961, Castelli started working at the design center of Fiat Automobiles. After three years, he moved to Olivetti in Milan, where he worked in the studio of Ettore Sottsass. At the same time, he was part of the growing Arte Povera movement in Turin, alongside artists like Michelangelo Pistoletto, Piero Gilardi and Alighiero Boetti. In Milan, he worked in fashion, meeting Nanni Strada and Elio Fiorucci. In 1967, he founded Intrapresa Design with Fiorucci. From 1969 to 1973, he devised the Red Books, the first manuals developed in the "metaproject" format, which led to the creation of Olivetti's corporate identity programme. In 1973, with Andrea Branzi and Massimo Morozzi, he started the Centro Design Montefibre. A year later, he founded the CDM (Consulenti Design Milano) company with the same partners. In 1978, he founded the Colorterminal IVI di Milano, the first center to use RGB color technologies and CMF design, and four years later, he formed Gruppo Colorscape for urban planning. Throughout the 1980s, he worked with Louis Vuitton and Vitra in Europe, Herman Miller in the United States, and Mitsubishi in Japan. During this period, he re-established his partnership with Fiat, which led to the creation in 1985 of the Centro di Qualistica Fiat, the "Qualistic Compendium" program with Olivetti, and CMF product range planning with Cassina. He was also one of the first in Europe to explore the concept of home automation, in collaboration with Bticino, Legrand, and Somfy. During the 1990s, he started new design ventures in Japan with Hitachi, Toli, and Itoki. At the same time, he taught design at the Politecnico di Milano and the Domus Academy, of which he was one of the founders in 1983. From 1994 to 2005, he wrote articles on design culture for the magazine Interni. In 2000, he founded the Qualistic Lab, a division of Castelli Design that developed new instruments for the emotional positioning of images and products.

Clino Trini Castelli is recorded with the occupation designer. Recorded as a citizen of Italy. Established in Library of Congress under n96031654.