Martino D’Esposito

Our first teamwork as designers started by building tree houses and contraptions in our neighbourhood when we were kids. Afteron, we followed different scholarships leading to mechanics for one and decoration for the other, but still keeping in touch and being good friends all along. Later on, we quite randomly converged to the the same interest and fascination for product design having a good arts school nearby our home village on the lake of Geneva coast. This study experience gave us both the urge to be able to make a living out of our growing passion. After realising that our unlike roots could become our major skill, we quite naturally decided to open our design studio together in 2007, once we were settled in Lausanne, working part time as design and technology teachers in the same University we studied in: the ECAL school (University of Art of Lausanne) and the rest of our time designing products for several brands such as Ligne Roset, Cinna, Roche Bobois, Droog, Etain et Prestige amongst others. So here we are now at the age of 32, in a dream that became true : Two good old friends "completely complementary", inventing, drawing, imagining, constructing and designing things that we hope will bring some fun, pleasure and comfort to use for us as much as for others !

09 / The Independent Design Guide / Thames & Hudson
09 / New Talents / Aveditions
09 / Love Design / Daab Editions
09 / Swiss Design / Sun Color Publishing
08 / Design and the Elastic Mind / MoMA Editions
08 / Plastic / maomao Editions
08 / A Dream Come True / Beppe Finessi Cosmit
08 / La Marque Jeune / GoLM éditeurs
07 / &Fork / Phaidon
07 / ECAL A success Story in Art and Design / JRP Ringier
06 / Safe : Design Takes on Risk / MoMA Editions
06 / New Talent Design Annual / Graphis
06 / INOUT config.01 / MUDAC
06 / Robots Extraoridinaires / Futuroscope
05 / The I.D. Forty / I.D. Magazine
04 / Design Industriel / ECAL
04 / Le Livre des Inventions / Michel Lafon
02 / Inventeurs et Inventions / Michel Lafon

Lauréat Conc. Féd. de Design - Laureate Swiss Fed. Design Grant / 07
Prix - prize / Fondinco CVCI / 04
1er prix des écoles - 1st prize of schools / Salone Satellite / 01
Prix spécial du jury - Special prize / Ebel "Autour de la main" Award / 00
1er prix -1st prize / Arts Appliqués / Fine Arts Vevey / 98
1er prix - 1st prize / Two TimerTissot Award / 96

09 / New York / A Dream comes True - Cosmit / ICFF
09 / San Francisco / qb1 OZWE / Swissnex
09 / Milano / Love Design / Daab show
09 / Beijing/ Namoc / Earthquake Table
08 / Milano / Droog at Fonda. Antonio Mazzotta / A touch of Green
08 / Amsterdam / Droog at home / A touch of Green
08 / New York / MoMA / Design and the Elastic Mind
08 / Neuchâtel / Musée d'Ethnographie / La marque jeune
08 / Köln / IMM Köln / Double Jeu
08 / Lausanne / ELAC / Belle vue
08 / San Francisco / American Inst. of Architecture / Inout
08 / Milano / Centre culturel suisse / ECAL design
08 / Beyrouth / Alba / ECAL design
07 / Lausanne / Mudac / Lauréats du Concours Féd. de Design
07 / Milano / Salone Satellite / Double Jeu
07 / Hornu / Musée du Grand Hornu / Inout
07 / Wien / Design Week 2007 / Belle vue
07 / Milano / Salone Satellite / Inout
07 / Zürich / Neue Raüme / Inout
07 / Valencia / Mus. de las Ciencias Prín.Felipe / Swiss Design Now
07 / Genève / Musée d'Ethnographie / Scénario Catastrophe
06 / Barcelona / Sala Vinçon / Inout
06 / Saint-Etienne / Biennale de Design / Inout
06 / Lausanne / Mudac / Inout
06 / Essen / Entry 2006 Expo / Second Skin
06 / Guangzhou / Guandong Museum of Art / Swiss Design Now
06 / Wien / Design Forum / Swiss Design Now
06 / Beijing / Today Art Museum / Swiss Design Now
06 / Praha / Rudolfinum / Au doigt et à la Baguette / ECAL
05 / New York / MoMA / Safe : Design takes on Risk
05 / Shanghaï / MoCA / Swiss Design Now
05 / Paris / Centre Culturel Suisse / Signes Quotidiens
05 / Lausanne / Mudac / Au doigt et à la Baguette /ECAL
05 / Omegna / Fond. Museo Arti e Indus./ Au doigt et à la Baguette / ECAL
04 / Lausanne / Comptoir Suisse / ECAL
04 / London / Design Museum Tank / Au doigt et à la Baguette / ECAL
04 / Milano / Scala / Grand Hôtel de Milan / Au doigt et à la Baguette / ECAL
04 / Lièges / Maison des Métiers / Au doigt et à la Baguette / ECAL
04 / Dijon / Galerie Barnoud / Swiss Touch
03 / New York / Galerie Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert / Le botte-cul / ECAL
03 / Basel / Museum d'Histoire Naturelle / Erdbeben
03 / Amsterdam / Galerie Binnen / Le botte-cul / ECAL
03 / Biella / Studio Architettura e Design Bocchietto / Le botte-cul / ECAL
03 / Zürich / Museum für Gestaltung / From Sweden with Love
02 / Milano / Centre Culturel Suisse / Le botte-cul / ECAL
02 / London / Victoria & Albert Museum / Le botte-cul / ECAL
02 / Bruxelles-Courtray / Intérieur 02
02 / Saint-Etienne / Biennale du Design / Le botte-cul / ECAL
02 / Lausanne / Mudac / Le botte-cul / ECAL
02 / Paris / Centre Culturel Suisse / L'ECAL au Centre Culturel Suisse
01 / La Chaux-de-Fds / Villa Turque / Lauréats "Autour de la Main"
01 / Bruxelles Kortrijk / Transit / Things to come
01 / Milano / Salone Satellite / ECAL show