Elisa Altan
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via Risorgimento 37,
Treviso (TV), Italy
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I'm Elisa, a graphic designer, art director and color explorer based in Treviso, Italy. I specialize in visual identity and editorial design, approaching each project as an opportunity to build a visual language that's both expressive and functional.
My path here wasn't linear, and I like it that way. I studied painting at art school, then fashion design, then communication and publishing at ISIA Urbino — with time spent between Paris and Switzerland along the way. Each step left something I still use: painting gave me a feel for colour and rhythm, fashion taught me how to construct a visual world, publishing taught me how content becomes structure.
My visual language is rooted in experimentation, but it always comes back to two fixed points: typography and colour. I use them as tools to express identity and tell stories. Typography, for me, isn't just a container for words — I like it to illustrate, to carry a narrative of its own. Colour, for me, is never a trend: it's research and psychology.
Fun fact: in Italy, my surname reminds everyone of La Pimpa, the iconic polka-dotted dog by Altan. Coincidence? Not really. Bright colours and quirky patterns have been my thing ever since.
My mission is to give visual form to the stories of companies and realities who have the courage to experiment, to do things differently.
That matters more to me than the sector: I've worked across furniture design, fashion, culture and food&wine, but what I'm really looking for is that attitude.
Freelancing since 2019, I collaborate with clients in Italy and abroad. Depending on the project, I build and coordinate a tailored team of trusted professionals — developers, copywriters, illustrators, photographers, 3D artists.
Brand, Visual identity
Editorial design
Illustration
Motion graphic
Packaging design
Pattern design
+ Emphaty and sense of humor
IUAV Venezia
MA in Communication, Design and Publishing
ISIA Urbino
1. We start with a call, to understand what you're really looking for. Then I send a short questionnaire, it helps me get past the obvious and into what actually matters to you.
2. From there, I do my own research. I don't come back with a set of options for you to pick from, I come back with a direction: visual index that are already my interpretation of your brief, a point of view, not a menu.
3. We test it, refine it together, and keep going until it's right.
The relationship matters as much as the outcome, I want you to trust the process, not just approve the result.
If that sounds good, let's talk!
graphic designer: Cecilia Cappelli, Lucia del Zotto, Silvia Blazina, Elena Mariotto
photographer: Manuel Gatto, Carlo Banfi
illustrator: Francesca Rizzato
copy: Marco Vezzaro
brand strategist: Giulia Mandalà
web designer: Irene Sgarro
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