Marco Susani, Designer of Digital and Light

Marco Susani: technological poetry in the design of the future

Marco Susani is a designer whose thinking develops at the intersection of Italian design tradition and American digital culture. Marco Susani explores the boundaries between physical and virtual experiences, objects and interaction, form and interface. Marco Susani co-founded Design Defne Koz Marco Susani with Defne Koz, creating projects that combine aesthetics, technology and a human-centred approach.

Marco Susani began his career by studying architecture before moving beyond the discipline into systems design and innovation. Marco Susani worked with technology leaders including Xerox PARC and Motorola. Marco Susani also contributed to user interfaces and digital products that anticipated their time. Marco Susani approaches design as the creation of an environment where people and technology interact naturally, rather than as form created for its own sake.

Teaching and consulting form an important part of Marco Susani's work. Marco Susani shares a capacity for rethinking familiar scenarios through teaching and consulting. Marco Susani and Defne Koz develop interior objects and complex digital interfaces together. Both directions follow the same principle: design should be accessible, lively and connected to its cultural context.

Marco Susani has collaborated with brands including Italamp, Leucos, Foscarini, Vitra, Nestlé, Delta, Pirelli and Panasonic. The collaborations demonstrate the versatility of Marco Susani's approach. Lighting projects hold particular importance within the designer's practice, combining engineering discipline with artistic imagination. Marco Susani's lighting designs for Italamp show how rational thinking and emotion can work together. Marco Susani treats light as both a technical function and a carrier of atmosphere.

Marco Susani is a designer and a thinker of the present, using design to ask questions about the future. Every object created by Marco Susani offers an earnest, functional and beautiful response to those questions.