Officina is a personal research project, a digital space documenting the analog time I spend reading and learning about design practice, from philosophy and design history to today's challenges. Inside it, the reader can find inputs regarding design initiatives, books, exhibitions or talks, and my ideas and conclusions. I try to keep all my written words AI-free, since it is exactly the time I put (inefficiently) into writing that represents the purpose of this project.
The texts on the website are written in my mother tongue: Italian.
This repository was created in February 2026 and it has been updated periodically ever since. The name of the repository is inspired by my working space ("Officina" means "workshop" or "garage" in Italian) and the idea was fueled by reading Silvio Lorusso: What Design Can't Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion, Eindhoven, Set Margins', 2023.
css/style.css - Main stylesheet
fonts/ - Typography used in the website
images/ - Images used in the website
banco.html - Page with texts
index.html - Homepage
info.html - Information about me and the project
Officina is a personal website made with Figma and ChatGPT. The choises regarding usability, layout and color iterations are documented inside the Figma file below.
Immediately after the first prompt asking for information about building a website, I realised I couldn't properly understand future LLM inputs regarding layout and spacing for Officina without personally understanding how the website would look.
My intention was to keep everything as simple as possible to give full attention to the content. Once the layout and some details were defined, I used Figma to go back and forth with VS Code. Many adjustments and decisions were made directly by looking at CSS and Live Server, but I am confident that I kept the design intention very close to the original Figma file.
As typeface, Officina uses Ronzino by Collletttivo: Gorlero, L., & Pio Mazzaferro, A. (2023). Workhorse (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. https://github.com/luigigorlero/workhorse
Officina is licensed under the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.