Who is ORA-ÏTO ?
Despite his deceptively exotic-sounding name, he is not Japanese, but French. ORA-ÏTO is the self-taught designer with an interest in everything, who had just turned 20 when, in 1998, he created the first-ever virtual brand. With the brilliant forcefulness of a lightning-bolt, the iconoclastic artist won a name for himself world-wide by pirating the leading brands. Like a born-again Andy Warhol, he parodied the consumer society, using branded objects with emblematic designs.
His virtual prototypes rapidly pervaded the media, and were soon exhibited in contemporary-art galleries and museums… Projected to the fore on the international scene, he was then engaged on a multiplicity of assignments in collaboration with the most prestigious names, including L'Oréal, Vogue magazine, Heineken, Adidas, Kenzo, the AIR Group, Honda, Guerlain, Swatch and Nike.
Supported by a keen-brained team of specialists in architecture, graphics and communication, he designs both mass-market products in all areas, and luxury products; he produces Internet sites and animation films; he designs spaces to be lived in, and both public and private commercial spaces.
His specialism? As it happens, to be unconfined by specialisation! As a multi-specialist, he looks with an ever-new eye on the universe that confronts him. Using boldly-irreverent ideas to overturn the established codes, these unprecedented, and therefore media-grabbing, creations have made Ora-Ïto the most sought-after designer of his generation.
More about ORA-ÏTO ?
ORA-ÏTO is the youngest designer ever to have been | In 2003, he put the finishing touches to the Cab. place du |
included in the exclusive, jealously-guarded catalogue of the | Palais Royal in Paris, the largest Parisian club to which he |
Capellini contemporary-furniture specialist publishing house. | set his signature with the graphic identity, architecture, |
The ora-ito.com website visited by over 200 000 visitors a | furniture and decors. |
month was the first website and the second digital work | In 2004, in more than 20 countries, ORA-ÏTO launched the 3 |
acquired for the collection of the French National | perfume for Adidas, a men's and women's fragrance that has |
Contemporary Art Centre. | already received 5 international product-design and |
The winner in 2001 of an award from Dazed & Confused | packaging-innovation awards. |
magazine, in 2002 ORA-ÏTO received the best packaging | For the world's most prestigious interior lighting name, |
Oscar for his Heineken aluminium can distributed throughout | Artemide, he designed a collection of lamps that won much |
the world today. | acclaim at the Milan furniture fair in 2004. |