Mario Scairato
He lives and works between Milan and Paestum, his hometown. He graduated in Industrial Design at the IUAV/ Università della Repubblica di San Marino in 2011. Since 2015 he has designed for some brands including Alessi, Internoitaliano and Moleskine. He has been art director of Paestum Experience since 2016, a branding project he founded that aims to promote and communicate the city of Capaccio Paestum
Alessandro Stabile
Originally from Milan, he is one of the ten “Top Young Italian Industrial Designers” selected by the Italian Cultural Institute in New York in 2013. In 2011 he founded his design studio specialising in product design and artistic direction. In 2016 two of his ideas won the first and the second prizes of the “Young&Design” Award, as the best projects of Milan Design Week from an under 35. He designs for different brands such as Moleskine, Alessi, Ferrero Nutella.
The concept of balance between opposites derived from Japanese philosophy has prompted the designers to choose the name IKI – another palindrome – which means “simple, sophisticated, spontaneous”.