Olga Salvoni

Olga Salvoni is a passionate designer working as a consultant specialized in CMF (color, material and finish) design.

Always traveling, Olga had the opportunity to share her vision and knowledge with a wide range of clients, from product to interior design, from education to fashion.

Graduated from LABA Brescia in 2008, she moved to Milan and worked for Francesca Valan Studio.

In 2012 she co-founded the studio IOOI’ in Milan providing transversal design services.

In 2019 she set up her own design studio, offering a large variety of services reflecting her background and skills.

In 2023 Olga gave a TEDx talk on Color perception.

Olga works as a teacher for LABA in Brescia, IED and Poli.Design in Milan.

Philosophy

Driven by curiosity, Olga adopts a scientific approach to enhance the sensorial and functional experiences embedded in every design project.

Olga firmly believes that each product has its own story to tell and that color, material and finish (CMF) are the proper languages to deliver the message.

The systematic and continuous investigation of the current trends and state-of-the-art, it is synthesized into reasonable forecasts. Embedded into products, this allows to preserve their identity, while keeping their accent and speaking the same language customers can understand.

Rigorousness, obsession over details and the emphasis on balance constitute the leitmotiv of Olga’s portfolio.

Skills

  • Analysis and synthesis | Projects are broken down to their constituents to build a solution
  • Innovation | Knowledge and vision are shared to innovate and get the best out of your products
  • Meticulousness | Obsessed about details, from material to finish, from gloss level to finish
  • Knowledge | Color systems (Munsell, NCS, Pantone), traditional and innovative materials and finishes, industrial workflow from prototyping to engineering
  • Feasibility | Ideas are translated into industrially feasible products
  • Transversality | A boundaryless vision, lending solutions from other fields
  • Transferability | We know how to transfer knowledge, whether it is color lab for kids or an industrial workshop