about - Fortuna

+fortuna is a visual design studio focussed
on graphic and visual design.
The studio develops solutions for publishing,
visual orientation systems, visual identity
for public institutions, cultural and
commercial productions, corporate identity,
web and information design.
Working in the design field and dealing with
many different clients, +fortuna has had
the chance to improve the territorial identity
through a meticulous and colorful design.
Mainly engaged for developing exhibition
design projects, since 2008 +fortuna has
followed the identity of the Glasstress road
show exhibition (www.glasstress.org),
an ambitious contemporary art project which
combines art, design, architecture and music.
In these years the studio has curated the
staging and the outfitting for several road
show locations around the world (Venice,
Riga, Stockholm, New York and Beirut).
Among the latest projects which worth
mentioning, the visual identity system for:
Nato a Venezia (curated by Peter Noever
at Palazzo Loredan) in the frame of the
54. Biennale d’arte di Venezia; the retrospective
exhibition of Bertil Vallien / Nine Rooms during
the 13. Mostra internazionale di architettura
di Venezia; and Within Light / Inside Glass,
an exhibition set up between Venice
and Lisbon.
Studio collaborators
Studio main clients
Peppe Clemente, Gloria Zanotti,
Asia Valencic, Scilla Mantovani,
Marco Covi, Marco d’Avanzo,
Federico Conti Picamus,
Isabella Zegna, Elisabetta Cassin,
Andrea Penisto.
Axo light, La Biennale di Venezia, Associazione fuori_vista, Berengo
studio, Camera di Commercio di Treviso, Comune di Venezia, Collier
& Dobson England, Demont Group (Venezia Mestre), Fondazione
San Servolo, Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Venezia), Galleria Miejska
Arsenal (Poznan), HypoGroup, Alpe Adria Bank, MAD Museumof Arts
and Design (New York), MiBAC - Direzione Regionale per i Beni Culturali
e Paesaggistici del Veneto, Museo di arte contemporanea di Cosenza,
MMKK Museum Moderner Kunst Kaernten (Klagenfurt), Palazzo
Franchetti Ca’ d’oro (Venezia), Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici
e per il Paesaggio del Veneto Orientale, La Spaziale (Bologna),
Star Crystal Art Gallery (Taipei), Svensk Form (Stoccolma),
Venice Project Gallery (Venezia and San Francisco), Università Iuav
di Venezia, VIU Venice Intarnational University.
+fortuna studio
visual design
piazza della valle 2
34124 trieste
t +39 040 3229927
t +39 347 1087502
[email protected]
www.piufortuna.it
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“a meticulous and colorful design”
Paola Fortuna was born in
Trieste around forty years
ago, where she now lives
and works. Her childhood
in the “city of madness”
profoundly influenced her
way of observing the world.
In 1999 in she established
the facchinetti+fortuna studio
in Venice. In 2010 she went
back to Trieste where she
founded the +fortuna studio,
a space of experimentation
and design.
She graduated at the
Università Iuav di Venezia
and began her carrier
as a visual communication
designer widening her working
skills and experiences with
Pierpaolo Vetta (Tassinari
Vetta studio, Trieste)
and Gianluigi Pescolderung
(Tapiro, Venice).
She now combines her
professional and research
activities, collaborating
with the Università Iuav di
Venezia since 2003. She is a
member of the research unit
Nuove Frontiere del Design
for which she made several
works, last among which is the
multimedia publication “Musei
e superamento delle barriere
percettive.
Gloria Zanotti was born in
San Marino in 1981. After
the degree in architecture,
she took a MA in visual
communication, focusing
on wayfinding design.
communication” course held
by Gianluigi Pescolderung.
In 2010 she won the first
graphic prize of the
“94th Artist Collective
of Bevilacqua La Masa”.
For several years she has
worked as teaching assistant
at Iuav University in Venice,
in the “Design and visual
She is still interested
in exploring new sides
andborders of visual
communication.
Asia Valencic was born
in Trieste in 1991.
After her studies concerning
architecture and interior
design at the local art school,
she start attending the Isia of
Urbino, where she learns how
to deal with graphic design
and visual communication.
Il caso delle Gallerie
dell’Accademia di Venezia”
that won the Grand Prix in
2011, the first prize in the
“IIID Award” international
competition.
Currently she is engaged
as main professor at
the Università Iuav di
Venezia - claDis department
of Industrial design, teaching
basic design for visual
communication. From
2005 to 2010 she has been
professor for the FSE course
of photography and visual
culture at the architecture
department of the Università
Iuav di Venezia.
After her graduation in 2014,
she undertakes an internship
at vud, working as woodworker.
Currently she collaborates
with +fortuna and works
at Iuav University of Venice
as assistant professor for
the “Basic design for Visual
communication” course held
by Paola Fortuna.
Nato a Venezia
Collateral event of the 54th International
Art exhibition of Venice
client Venice Projects
in collaboration with studio cheste
Glasstress 2011
Glasstress Gotika 2015
Collateral event of the 54th International
Art exhibition of Venice
client Berengo Studio
In collaboration with studio cheste
Collateral event of the 56th International
Art exhibition of Venice
client Berengo Studio e Fondazione Berengo
The State Hermitage Museum, San Pietroburgo;
exhibition identity
exhibition identity
exhibition identity and catalogue
University Iuav of Venice
Department of design
for complex environments,
course of Basic design
teaching activity
Within light / inside glass
You + Me = YUME
client Tafáruci design
design, editorial concept and catalogue
client Vicarte, Department of Science and
Technology of the new University of Lisbon
road show exhibition between
Venice and Lisbon
exhibition identity and catalogue
Glasstress New York
Mad, Museum of Arts and Design,
New York, Skira press
Glasstress in the world
exhibition identity and catalogue
Berengo Centre for Contemporary
Art and Glass, Millesgården Museum,
Stoccolma, Beirut Exhibition Center, Libano
Musei e superamento
delle barriere percettive.
client Ministero per i Beni
e le Attività Culturali
in collaboration with Attività per l’Unità
di ricerca Iuav Nuove frontiere del design
visual identity and publication
design and editorial concept
Bertil Vallien / Nine Rooms
Collateral event of the 13th International Architecture
exhibition of Venice
client Svensk Form / Berengo studio
exhibition identity and catalogue
Artworks / Lightecture
for Lorenzo Truant, Art director Axo Light
artwork, visual identity and catalogue