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Limbo is a graphic design and art direction practice established in 1995 by Mauro Carichini and Stefano Domizi. The studio’s focus and developments shift continually from one area of communications to another: from corporate identity to catalogues, to typefaces and publishing and on to posters and logos.

How did the studio Limbo start out and how has its work developed to the present day?
Limbo came about as a shared practice when we were both still working as freelances. We tackled projects of all kinds together and over the years built up an identity as a practice, even though we have each also kept our own individual activities going in parallel, as they still enable us to bring new energies into our everyday work. In addition, the practice is an open structure that involves other designers in certain more complex undertakings.
We explore every facet of the creative process: our work is the result of our passionate interest in visual communications and our consolidated professional background.

In which areas of visual communication does your practice specialise? What are your work’s distinctive traits?
Publishing plays a leading role in the economics of our work: we have completed projects and curated the art direction for several publishers. That being said, though, we work in several different fields: corporate identity, typeface design, exhibition design, packaging and web design.
We are extremely focused on contents and develop our projects by removing the details that clutter up the communication. We allow plenty of space for typography as a means of expression and communication. We tackle all the materials – text and iconography – as information input and not as decoration. We like to apply our playful streak to research and experimentation whenever possible.

How is your approach to design diversified on the basis of the idioms and media used and the contents you want to communicate?
Our approach does not change. What changes is the idiom: it changes to suit the support that we choose each time to cater for the client’s contents and requirements, trying to make maximum use of its technical properties.

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