Aldo Cibic

Place: Schio

Born: 1955

Biography:

Aldo Cibic is an internationally acclaimed Italian designer and architect. He was born in Schio, Italy in 1955. Cibic began his career at the studio of Ettore Sottsass in 1977. In 1980, he became a founding partner of the studio Sottsass & Associati. That same year, in collaboration with Sottsass, Cibic became a founding member of Memphis Group – a collective association dedicated to design and architecture. The Memphis group would remain active until 1987. Cibic's work with the Memphis Group led him to assume an experimental approach as his norm. In the late 1980s, Aldo began to reflect on a more personal concept of creativity, which inspired the launch of his first independent project. He presented his first self-produced collection, entitled 'Standard', to the public from his loft home in Milan in 1987, inaugurating a tradition of impromptu exhibitions. Cibic's research activity in the field of 'social innovation design' has developed through teaching in various schools of Design and Architecture. He is currently the founder of Cibicworkshop.