IzType

Hometown: Milan

Based in: Milan

Iz-Type is a multidisciplinary studio which combines different design practices in an innovative way through the lens of an experimental approach. Studios’ creative practice spans a broad range of typologies including architecture, interior design and furniture design. The founder and the creative director, Idil Tonguc, located the company in Milan, after having an architecture education in New York and working at world-renowned architecture and design studios around the world. The diverse nature of her educational background and years of professional experiences in different countries merged with contemporary cultures, make up Iz-Type's interdisciplinary practice today.

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Question Icon What inspires you?

Architecture is something that still inspires me a lot. I think of my work as small pieces of architecture and my designs are composed like buildings – with elevations, hierarchy and mass.

Question Icon Describe your creative process.

My design process is a relic of my training as an architect and I switch quite freely between ruminating on the details and form of a piece, to sketching and thinking about logistics and sizes and construction, to scaled and measured drawings, to modelling and full scape prototyping. Since I also completed a doctorate program on Computational Architectural Design, I’m integrating all the advanced methods and techniques to the process of designing and prototyping my pieces.

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