Pushkar Nagwekar
Co-Founder
Having studied Fashion and IT at National Institute of Fashion technology, India. Pushkar Nagwekar spent good amount of time working as a designer first in advertising agency and then as freelancer.
In 2004, He along with Kinjal Vora designed and implemented a textile design and print making software to help textile designers. This experience convinced him that artists and designers have an important role to play in creating ubiquitous computers and information technologies .
He joined Interaction design Institute Ivrea + Domus, milan in 2006, where he was awarded a masters degree in Interaction design. In 2007 Pushkar spent 3 months in puducherry - former french colony in south east india to get his certificate as Human factors specialist and later on moved to Mumbai to practice as Human Factors specialist with HFI, India. where he also took workshops on Physical computing and Interaction design. He also worked with a well known architect in Vadodara as a technical advisor.
In 2008 Pushkar was awarded a scholarship from FABRICA, Benetton’s communication research centre and applied creativity laboratory, a talent incubator, a studio of sorts in which young, modern artists-experimenters come from all over the world to develop innovative projects and explore new directions in myriad avenues of communication, art and design.
Prior to joining FABRICA Pushkar along with Kinjal also worked with renowned artist Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh for the Retrospective exhibition of Binode Bihari, which was exhibited in National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. They also worked on other projects which was exhibited in Bern, switzerland, and now traveling world.
Giulio Munari
Co-Founder
Giulio studied graphic advertising from G Valle Institute in Padova, Italy. with throughout distinction. After which he relocated to Milan where he was working as a freelance designer in advertising agency and also teaching graphic design at a school.
He also owns a degree in Sciences of Technology and multimedia from University of Udine,Italy. during his studies at University he mastered the art of post production workflow in a particular way of compositing systems and 3D animations. later after his degree he went on to join bluemotion company, an agency of postproduction for spot and TV commercials. Here he was taking care of animations and compositions for the commercials and was also directing the identity channel of Atlanta TV and production of the program for the channel.
In 2007 Giulio joined FABRICA, Benetton's communication research centre where he worked on post production for Benetton's spot and commercials in Video department. later in 2007 he earned a masters degree in "flame2008" a high end film and commercial compositing system in cideoprogetti s.r.l in Milan,Italy.
In 2008 he started directing the channel identity and production for programs on the channel for UCB-TV in FABRICA, UCB-TV is a centralised television network in all the Benetton stores around the globe. Recently he also started producing videos dedicated for the web.
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