Modern designer from Milan - Matteo Morelli

彼はミラノを拠点にしながらも、オンラインで世界各地のお客さんと、様々な場所にいながらしてコラボレーションしています。そんな彼は日本の美大（武蔵野美術大学）に留学、日本の教育を通して、自分の文化の強み弱み（特に弱み）を知る機会になったと言います。そして日本のデザインは、誰が作ったか表に出てこないないことが新鮮だったと言います。Matteoは2013年にBehanceで自身の作品を発表して以降、2年経たずしてフリーランスとして仕事を受けることが増え、Bechance appreciation awardで優勝したほか、2014 Young Illustrator Awardも受賞しています。インターネットの時代、恥ずかしがらず、理解されないこともあるかもしれませんが、すべてはよりよい作品づくりのため、世界中の人に自分の作品を見てもらうことが大事ではないでしょうか。

5 What did you learn from that experience?

I know it could sound weird but I learnt a lot of things about Western culture. Living in a total different environment, such as the Japanese one, helped me to figure out which are the strong and (especially) the weak points of my culture. Oh, and finally I learnt how to use chopsticks properly.

6 What's the difference between Japan and Italy?

In the design field, there is a fundamental difference. The thing I appreciated in Japanese culture is the ennobling of anonymous design. For Japanese, a design piece can be excellent even though it has no “signature”. That made me think also about its sense of community, a sense that you can feel even sharing the meals around a table and that is something Italy does not have. The first thing we learn is to try to be different from the others. In the Italian design, all high quality artwork have to be signed and author should be easily recognizable. That is why Italians, or Europeans in general can develop that many different styles, especially in graphics.

9 Do you have any tips for the young designers who start to open to the world?

My one piece of advice is to not to be shy and accept the challenge of the Internet era. Being online, being visisble to the whole world is very important right now. Having a great talent is not enough if nobody can see it. Don’t be too jealous of your work, even though the risk that somebody takes your ideas or your style is pretty high.

Somebody can even dislike or simply not understand your work. But that should not make you give up, it should simply motivate yourself to improve everyday.

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I met Matteo in first grade of university and we became very good friends. Sometimes we worked together at the school’s library. We shared information and opinions, he is like my teacher and brother. As I knew I was going to write some articles, the first thing I wanted to write about is Matteo and his works, even though we have only known each other for a short while. Through doing this interview with him, I can still learn something from him. I think the important thing of being an artist or art student is to upload information into your mind, see more and read more. For this purpose, introducing artists from around the world to readers is what I want to do. I hope you guys enjoy my article!

Photo Credits:
http://matteomorelli.net/
https://www.behance.net/matteo_morelli