# Michele Graffieti

> Lead Product and Information Designer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michele

Michele Graffieti is a product and information designer based in New York City.
He graduated from School of Design at Politecnico of Milan, Italy, with a MS in Communication Design and his areas of expertise include UX/UI, Information Design and Data Visualization.
He is one of the founding members of DensityDesign, a research lab in Milan, where he practiced for 4 years, specializing in the visual representation of complex phenomena and developing experience in meaning-making design and visual storytelling.
In 2013 he moved to NYC and has been a consultant and lead designer for various startups, working on digital products and user centric experiences from the pitch phase to full design and launch.
He is currently Lead Designer for Scatter (scatter.nyc) a production studio in Brooklyn, NY that is defining the emerging language of volumetric filmmaking.

Among many others, Michele's work has been honored at SIGGRAPH 2009, Expo Milano 2015, Italia150, Maker Faire Europe and featured on Netflix’s 'Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj' and in publications such as Domus, Wired Magazine, Information Graphics (Taschen), Data Flow 2 (Gestalten) and Leonardo Journal (MIT Press). On 2011 he has been an international visitor at Stanford University.
Besides visual arts and cinema, his interests span from technology to sensory ethnography and food culture. Focusing on innovation and being in an interdisciplinary environment is what drives him the most in his daily life.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product and Information Designer @ Self-Employed
Jan 2014 – Present | Greater New York City Area
Product and information design consultant for the arts and the tech industry

### Information Designer @ Self-Employed
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Milan Area, Italy

### UX/UI Design Lead @ NYC Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States

### Design Lead @ Scatter
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater New York City Area
Scatter is expanding the boundaries of human expression. Our mission is to define the emerging language of volumetric filmmaking. We do this through creating vivid immersive films, inventing volumetric capture tools, and fostering creative community. We're proud to direct and curate quintessential volumetric films and to be the leader in democratizing the means for their creation.

### Teacher @ POLI.design - Consorzio del Politecnico di Milano
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Visual Explorations (High Education Course at POLI.design)

### Visiting Researcher @ Stanford University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Stanford, CA
Visiting Research at the Stanford Humanities Center (SHC), within the Mapping the Republic of Letters project.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ DensityDesign Research Lab
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011

### Creative Art Director @ Writing Academic English
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
www.citymurmur.org

### Interaction Designer @ Corriere della Sera
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Milan Area, Italy


## Education
### Master's degree in Communication Design
Politecnico di Milano

### Bachelor's degree in Communication Design
Politecnico di Milano

### Diploma Scientifico
Liceo Scientifico "G. Spezia"


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/graphieti
- Website: http://www.graphieti.com

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Source: https://flows.cv/michele
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Last updated: 2026-02-23