Dario Gagliardini, born in Milan. PhD in architecture from the Polytechnic University of the same city. Registered architect, a position that allows him to experience some significant projects for the hotel company CIGA and Catterpillar Italia. He is dedicated to designing products and their communication as a visual designer and art director, expanding his contribution to some companies as a design manager. At the same time, as a journalist, he collaborates as a graphic designer and art director with prestigious design and architecture magazines such as Ottagono and all those published by Design Diffusion Edizioni (ddn, Ofx, Design Management, Casa D, etc.).

In addition to being the cultural director of the architecture magazine Riabita, published by Rima Editrice, he is the editor and director of the magazines Style and Places published by Fiera Milano Editore. The experience gained as a professor in the Master in Design Management at the Polytechnic of Milan allows him to continue as a lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Industrial Design course at the Polytechnic of Milan. These positions do not prevent him from continuing to design successful products.