Caterina Ardizzon

Illustration | Graphic Design | Theatre | Co-Design

Rome, Latium, Italy

About

I deal with graphic design, visual art and theater. I think in images and I return my way of seeing the world by translating it through the design and creation of theater shows. I travel often to follow different projects and I carry on the freelance graphics business wherever I am. I have my studio-house in Rome. I'm graduated in Product Design at Politecnico di Milano and I gained MSc in Sustainable Product Design at Bournemouth University (UK). After I became a participatory process facilitator in the social field, gaining significant experience in cohousing projects. I trained as an actress at the CCI Policardia Teatro directed by actors from the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris (Peter Brook) and I collaborate in a variety of theater projects; in 2019 I made my debut with the show (one-woman show) “Il Mercante di Parole”, of which I'm playwriter and performer.

Experience

  • Freelance (Freelance · 10 yrs 7 mos)
    • Graphic Designer, Visual Artist, Illustrator - area: Visual communication
      Jan 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 7 mos

      2025 | Graphic Design (web design, catalog layout, price lists, photo retouching) | Eola srl, Formello (Rome) 2024 – ongoing | Visual Artist, Graphic Designer (web design, motion graphics), Author and Voice | Gincana Music, Rome 2024 | Graphic Design (product catalog, photo retouching) | La Gallina Matta srl, Rome 2021 | Illustrator, Graphic Designer (logo, cover design) | Altyerre, Music Project, Il tempo del sogno, Turin 2021 | Illustrator, Graphic Designer (layout, cover design) | Filosofavole, Picture Book, Fabbrica dei Segni, Milan 2020–2022 | Illustrator | Fundraising Campaigns Slumgirls, Alice for Children Onlus, Milan 2019 | Graphic Designer (print and web communication), Back Office and Front Office | WhiteRiver Srl, Florence 2017–2019 | Community Designer, Graphic Designer (project visual identity, print and web communication) | Cohousing.it, Milan 2014–2016 | Community Designer, Graphic Designer (event visual identity, presentations) | HousingLab, Milan 2016–2019 | Graphic Designer (print communication, brochure layout) | Pisacane Arte, Art Gallery, Milan 2016 | Community Designer, Graphic Designer (print and web communication) | Net for Neet Project, ANCI Call, Novara

    • Visual Artist, Illustrator and Graphic Designer - area: publishing
      May 2019 - Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      2022 | Paco e altri animali, Vj Edizioni, Milano | Children's story book • Illustrator 2021 | Avventure Filofavolose, La Fabbrica dei Segni Editore, Milano | Picture book for children • Illustrator and graphic designer

    • Author, actress and visual artist - area: theatre, music, independent projects
      Sep 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

      GINCANA MUSIC Gincana is a musical project for which I am the lyricist, vocalist, and I take care of the visual identity. https://www.gincana.fun/ NUMERO 1, dramaturgy • Author Theatrical adaptation of the novel City by A. Baricco, who granted me the rights to the performance OSSA, Nigredo show with visual art and live electronic music • Co-director, visual artist, illustrator, lighting design IL MERCANTE DI PAROLE | storytelling show • Author and performer IL VIAGGIO DEL MERCANTE DI PAROLE | kamishibai show • Author and performer

  • Planning and conducting workshops - area: theater and manual arts at Self-employed
    Sep 2017 - Aug 2021 · 4 yrs

    2021 | Rockability, theater and music workshops for children from family homes in the Cascia area. 14-18 years old 2019 | IIncontro a Babele, theater workshops with a focus on language, aimed at young Italians and foreigners, Treviso. 18+ 2017-2019 | Creaf, Creaf, Children's Theater Academy, Milan. 6-10 years 2017 | L’Airone Associazione, theater and manual workshops, Milan. 3-10 years

  • Participatory planning manager, graphic designer - area: cohousing at cohousing.it
    Sep 2017 - May 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Design and management of co-design meetings for two cohousing projects. • Research and planning of participatory process for a third long-term project. • Corporate image restyling, website graphic design, creation of web and print communication material, brochure layout, design and creation of logos and visual identity of company projects.

  • Participatory planning manager, graphic designer - area: collaborative living at HousingLab Milano
    Sep 2014 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Design and implementation of the Collaborative Living Fair edition 1 and 2 • Team member (first edition): research and connection of various realities related to collaborative living in Italy; coordinated image creation; logistics; fair set-up on site; volunteers managing; support for all the on-site activities. • Manager of the cultural program (2nd edition): guest selection, panel organization, communication, manager on site. • Co-design meetings for Cohousing Base Gaia, Milan.

  • Workshop leader - area: social design at NABA _ Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano
    Jan 2016 - Sep 2016 · 9 mos

    Classroom lessons and field work for the development of a collaborative service created within the social housing complex in the first suburb of Milan.