PORT FOLIO

02 / ABOUT ME

RICCARDO
GENTILE

I’m Riccardo Gentile, an Italian designer with a background in product design and a strong connection to art, photography, architecture and, above all, water.

The ocean has influenced the way I see things for as long as I can remember. Since I was three years old, some of my clearest memories have been connected to water—the smell of salt, the light reflecting across its surface, and the sense of clarity I’ve always felt when I’m in it. That relationship still finds its way into my work today. I’m drawn to flow, movement, changing colors and the contrast between raw and organic and precise and engineered.

Surfing, travel and the different environments and cultures I’ve experienced continue to shape how I think about form, texture, atmosphere and color. I combine photography with illustration, physical materials with digital processes, and structured forms with more fluid and experimental visual languages. I don’t want every project to look the same; I want the idea and feeling behind each project to determine what it becomes.

My background is in product design, but I work across graphic design, digital art, photography, spatial design and visual experimentation. I use Procreate, Photoshop, AutoCAD and SketchUp, alongside HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

This portfolio is also part of that experimentation. I designed and coded it myself—from its typography and layout to its holographic language, movement and interactive elements—treating the portfolio itself as another piece of the work rather than simply a place to display it.