After the high school I’ve immediately felt the pressure to choose something to study, without knowing first what I really liked and wanted. I started the university and I got lost. I left it three months later and I started to work in a bar, where I grew a lot.
I believe that everything happens for a reason: a colleague spoke to me about some Graphic Design courses. This is how I got to discover this beautiful world. I started a Multimedia Techniques’ course. The class next to mine was the Graphic Design one. I began to sneak into some lessons because that’s what I was really feeling an attraction to. Those courses gave me the opportunity to work for a little business company, creating magazines about my territory (a wonderful place called Friuli Venezia Giulia). I’ve loved to make them.
After one year working I had everything I needed to: a car, some money to travel, time for my personal projects… but something was missing. That work was not making me a good Graphic Designer, I was just doing the same thing over and over again.
I’ve felt the urge to change. At the IUAV open day I’ve met a girl that spoke to me about her experience as an Au Pair in the United States (Do you remember? everything happens for a reason). In the next days I started my application and three months later I was in Connecticut, living the American dream.
America has been such an important step for my developement. One year later I came back home, started to think what I wanted to do. Something was still missing, I needed to find my way. I started working in a restaurant. It was just time passing by anonymously, since a day a recruiter called me. Three months after being back home I’ve reached the Netherlands.
I started to work in a restaurant in Amsterdam, I’ve found a house, good friends, opened a Health Insurance and a Citizen Service Number. Same story again, working everyday but feeling empty in my deepest. After a year I decided to go back home. I wanted to enjoy my family and to finally make a decision for my life: I started my Graphic Design studies.