We are eight people working from a converted print workshop in Rome's Rome district. We design brand systems, build digital products, and develop learning platforms for clients who care about how things are made — and what is left behind.
Cavello Studio began in 2014 as a collaboration between two designers — two Italian designers — frustrated by the same conversations: more iterations, faster turnarounds, less consideration.
We opened in a single room above a bookshop on Piazzale Enrico Mattei with a simple thesis: that craft and commerce aren't at odds, and that a small studio can do exceptional work for ambitious clients if it's allowed to take its time.
Twelve years on, we are still on the same street — in a larger workshop now, with a small team and a longer reading list. In 2021 we launched our learning practice, building custom platforms for foundations, universities and L&D teams. It now accounts for nearly half of the studio's work.
We work with cultural institutions, founders, and product teams across Italy and across Europe. We still take on no more than twenty projects each year. We still write our own briefs.
Four convictions hold the practice together. They aren't rules so much as a shared vocabulary — the questions we ask before, during, and after every project.
The discipline of leaving things out is harder, and more valuable, than the impulse to add. Every element on the page should earn its place.
Before colour, before image, before motion — typography. A brand whose typographic system is sound can survive almost any other decision.
We work to a longer rhythm than most studios. We read briefs three times, prototype in paper, and present fewer directions with deeper conviction.
Education is one of the highest forms of design — every course is an interface between knowledge and a human being. We treat it that way.
Eight full-time members across design, code, learning, and writing — plus a rotating roster of trusted collaborators we have worked with for years.
