Independent Design Professional
Rome Area, Italy
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- Reasearcher at Copida at “La Sapienza” University of Rome
- Member at Commissione per la revisione della legge sul diritto d’autore
- Multimodal designer (Self-employed)
- Founder at Free hardware foundation
- Project manager at Frontiere Digitali
- Professor at Istituto Europeo di Design
- Art director/Information designer at Ipernico - servizi editoriali e progetti grafici
- Past
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- Information designer and web design consultant at Jumblies Srl
- Communication designer at Creative Commons Italia
- Communication designer at due_pavese
- Interaction designer at Lallaria
- Graphic designer at Jumblies srl
- Free knowledge Professor at Istituto Europeo di Design
- Basic Design Professor at Iuav - Università di architettura di Venezia
- Plot writer, game designer and graphic designer at Genocide Team
- Graphic and interface designer at alesco internet intranet solutions
- Education
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- Politecnico di Milano
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Lorenzo De Tomasi’s Summary
Innovative interface development.
Semantic web applications development (Xml+Xforms+Rdf+Microformats).
Particular attention to accessibility and usability.
Information graphics and scientific illustrations.
Corporate images (logotypes and their applications like leaflets, posters, cards etc.).
Book design.
Lorenzo De Tomasi’s Specialties:
Freelance communication designer.
Focus on information architecture, information design and interaction design.
Experience in xml, xhtml, xforms, microformats, Css, Wysiwyg, usability and accessibility.
Experience in teaching (basic design, copyright and free knowledge) in several Italian universities.
Experience in graphic design (corporate images, marks and logotypes, publishing)
Lorenzo De Tomasi’s Experience
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Reasearcher at Copida
“La Sapienza” University of Rome
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
January 2008 — Present (8 months)
Multidisciplinary research group on copyleft/copyright and creativity at Communication sciences faculty at “La Sapienza” University in Rome.
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Member
Commissione per la revisione della legge sul diritto d’autore
(Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Government Relations industry)
October 2007 — Present (11 months)
I represent the Frontiere Digitali network < http://www.frontieredigitali.net > in one of the two commissions about Italian copyright law, created by the Comitato Consultivo permanente per il diritto d’autore. We fight for a better and equal copyright, representing emerging authors, users of copyrighted works, Internet users and associations about free knowledge.
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Multimodal designer
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)
May 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
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Founder
Free hardware foundation
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2006 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Founder and member of Free hardware foundation, for a free culture society based on knowledge diffusion, against trusted computing, digital restrictions management (drm), patents on software, restrictive copyright policies…
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Project manager
Frontiere Digitali
(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)
January 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)
We have founded a network of associations and persons for digital freedoms, commons, copyleft, collaboration etc. and against restrictive copyright, drm etc. We are working on different projects and campaigns.
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Professor
Istituto Europeo di Design
(Graphic Design industry)
2005 — Present (3 years)
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Art director/Information designer
Ipernico - servizi editoriali e progetti grafici
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)
October 2004 — Present (3 years 11 months)
As founder and art director of Ipernico, a company specialized in graphic design and editing, I have designed web interfaces, books layouts and corporate images, directing two other designers and coordinating the work with the editors.
I have made projects for Dante Alighieri, Euromovements.info, Italian Senator Beatrice Magnolfi, L’espresso publishing group etc. -
Information designer and web design consultant
Jumblies Srl
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
September 2001 — October 2005 (4 years 2 months)
Interaction design and e-learning: interactive lesson about Nahuatl - the Aztec language.
Graphic design: book covers and illustrations for Carocci (publisher).
Information design: graphs for Cnr brochure.
Web design: Restyling of 'Biblioteca Italiana' web site. -
Communication designer
Creative Commons Italia
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Judiciary industry)
June 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 8 months)
I have collaborated with Creative Commons Italia project (iCommons Italy) as communication consultant. I have mantained the website for about one year. I write and publish articles about copyright, free knowledge and commons.
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Communication designer
due_pavese
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Graphic Design industry)
October 2004 — November 2004 (2 months)
As communication design consultant I have designed and/or realized some calendars (Filas), agendas (Sky, Senato della Repubblica Italiana), newsletters (Filas), annual reports (Vodafone, Filas), brochures (Trambus, Biblioteche di Roma)
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Interaction designer
Lallaria
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2003 — October 2004 (1 year)
Cd-rom ETI Compendium (Interface design, Information design, usability), restyling of Municipio II di Roma website (Web design and development, Information architecture, accessibility), cd-rom Forum PA 2004 for Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze (Interface design), Restyling of Comune di Ischia website (Information design), Fondazione Varrone website (Web design and development), Restyling of Lallaria website (development and accessibility).
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Graphic designer
Jumblies srl
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
September 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 2 months)
I have started working as stagist and I have become a consultant about information design and web projects.
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Free knowledge Professor
Istituto Europeo di Design
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)
May 2004 — June 2004 (2 months)
Lessons about copyright, free knowledge, Creative Commons licenses, free software, free works. Proposals for a new copyright economy.
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Basic Design Professor
Iuav - Università di architettura di Venezia
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)
March 2004 — April 2004 (2 months)
I have helped Professor Giovanni Anceschi, a famous international designer, in his lessons about basic design, evaluating student’s works.
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Plot writer, game designer and graphic designer
Genocide Team
(Computer Games industry)
November 1999 — March 2001 (1 year 5 months)
We have founded an open source community to create a 2d anime rpg game.
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Graphic and interface designer
alesco internet intranet solutions
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 1999 — January 2000 (1 year 1 month)
As web design consultant I have realized the interfaces for several sites.
Lorenzo De Tomasi’s Education
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Politecnico di Milano
95/100, Communication Design, 1995 — 2003
Additional Information
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Lorenzo De Tomasi’s Interests:
Literature, cinema, comics, drawing, history, slowfood, new technologies
Lorenzo De Tomasi’s Groups:
Frontiere Digitali, Creative Commons Italy (Community), Free hardware foundation, Euromovements, NetLeft
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Open Knowledge Foundation
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