My name is Manfredi Pumo and I was born in 1986 in Palermo, Italy.
I gained my first degree in Industrial Design at the University of Palermo in 2011. Since 2012 I have been attending the Master’s in Design (Visual and Multimedia Communication) at Iuav University of Venice.
I do graphic design, web design, interaction design, branding and some illustration.
I work with Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Processing, WordPress, CSS, HTML, PHP and JS.
Website – pumo.mp
Email – manfredi@pumo.mp
Phone – +39 3338537729
EDUCATION
- Iuav University of Venice, master in Visual and Multimedia Design, Interaction Design programme. (2012-…)
- University of Palermo, undergraduate degree in Industrial Design. (2006-2010)
WORKSHOPS
- February 2012 – Introduction to Arduino, Iuav, held by Alessandro Contini, HowDo.
- October 2012 – Creative coding and Processing, Iuav, held by Steffen Klaue.
TOOLS
- Web: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP
- Graphic: Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)
- 3D: Cinema4D
- Interactive: Processing, Arduino
AWARDS
- Winner of the H-ACK WINE event sponsored by H-Farm Ventures
STRENGTHS
- Strong inclination for teamwork
- Ability to visualize ideas and to abstract interactions
LANGUAGES
- Italian: mother tongue.
- English: proficient in reading, writing and speaking (IELTS 8)
PORTFOLIO
A selection of projects developed at the IUAV IxD lab and during my degree program:
FEARLESS
Venice would not be Venice without its narrow calli (streets), wide campi (squares) and swarms of tourists all year round. What makes it unique, however, can also be a limitation for those who live in the city – for a short or a long term – and suffer from a spatial phobia: agoraphobia (fear of wide spaces), claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces) and enochlophobia (fear of crowds).
Fearless is our solution to the problem: a smartphone application that allows such people to improve their relationship with space and to interact with the city without any limitation. Its approach is experimental, not curative, and is based on progressive desensitization: during the therapy, phases of relaxation are alternated with videos and sounds that bring users in contact with their fears, staying at home or outdoors.
More about Fearless on the Iuav IxD website.
KIIK
Kiik is an installation consisting of two swings, a computer, and a pair of speakers.
A vertical compartment attached to the seat of the swing contains an RFID tag with a link to the Kiik app. After installing the app onto your smartphone, you sit on a swing and place your phone in the compartment. As you swing, the system uses the phone’s inbuilt accelerometer to measure the peaks of each oscillation, and broadcasts corresponding sounds from nearby speakers.
With a person on each swing the sounds become reverberant but, if their swinging is not in sync, discordant. Only when the peaks coincide do the sounds harmonise.
More about Kiik on the Iuav IxD website.