ABOUT US
“We work
in the most beautiful
place in the world”
OUR PASSIONS
Hangar Twist
We speak in black and white, but we use all their colours nuances.
In Hangar Design Group people are project oriented, and they learn to share with each other their creativity skills. In Hangar Design Group ideas are used to build a brand vision and a consistent global approach to hold our customers’ DNA properly. In Hangar Design Group the principle of territoriality cannot be applied. World is our territory and into the world we bring the brand values of the companies that entrust us. We have a story, but we care more about the future. Because the future is always right.
“Please make a great design”
“Please change the way I see my world”
WE CREATE IDEAS
About Us
Hangar Design Group was founded in 1980. Since its establishment, the agency has balanced a steadfast commitment to design quality, creative ability and efficient delivery on different grounds, including retail spaces, new products, brand identities, communication tools, exhibition spaces, and digital environments.
Hangar Design Group considers important every single aspect of a brand, from the smallest graphic detail to the large-scale application.
Thanks to the multiple skills of a widely diverse network of collaborators, the agency creates impactful and significant brands, founded on the idea that design as strategic tool is closely related to all the corporate communications activities.
Hangar Design Group is today an international network with more that 80 clients in 15 countries, with a staff of almost 50 among brand strategists, designers, architects, digital experts and content managers. It operates in Italy, Europe, America and Asia.
Alberto Bovo Founder
Sandro Manente Founder
YEAR BY YEAR
Timeline
Having a story is what really matters.
Without a story there is no opportunity to express yourself.
Alberto Bovo and Sandro Manente start their creative adventure. After their architecture degree in IUAV in Venice, they began to apply architectural coherence and rigor to design and visual arts.
After extensive restoration works, two old hangars, on the road that connects Venice to Treviso, are restored to full working order. Here the creative studio establishes its headquarters and this is the place where ideas for the future are created.
The time has come for Hangar Design Group to make its appearance in the capital of design. Hangar Milan is established and the studio sets up a client base on a national scale. The Milan office is the connection hub for a new network of international collaborations.
The inevitable encounter with the culture of the American city takes place overlooking the United States from a new office in the Flatiron Building. The American experience impacts on the entire group, opening the door, in the following years, to a key market.
Far East cannot stop growing. Hangar Design Group opens a company in Shanghai, the gateway to Asia. The agency has now a real global network.
The project of the mobile home “Sunset” wins the ADI Compasso d’Oro Award. The most important prize for design seals a professional career spanning thirty years.
Asia here we are
A new office in the French Concession and a long-term partnership with the Taiwanese ceramic brand ACERA mark the company’s consolidation in the Asian market.
The volume "Hangar Design Group Compendium" has been published on the fortieth anniversary of its founding. It is a synthesis of the work carried out over four decades which provides a rigorous and complete account of the studio's design philosophy.
Alberto Bovo
ACCOLADES
"...passion and curiosity have always led us on the path of creativity so as to cross the history of design…"
Awards
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2021
Etichetta d’Oro
Vinitaly Design Award
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2020
Honorable Mention
International ADI Compasso d’Oro
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2019
Product Design
Red Dot Award
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2019
Etichetta d’Oro
Vinitaly Design Award
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2018
Streetwise Collection
Chicago Good Design Award
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2017
Gold medal
European Product Design Awards
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2016
Best of Category (Lighting)
Archiproducts Design Awards
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2016
Best of the Best
Red Dot Product Design Award
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2015
Product Design Selection for the first
International ADI Compasso d’Oro
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2015
China Awards
Fondazione Italia Cina
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2014
Product design
Muuuz International Awards
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2013
Special mention for the best design
Premio OMI
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2012
Special “coordinated image” prize
International Packaging Competition Vinitaly
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2011
Mobile home project
ADI Compasso d’Oro
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2011
Exhibition design, Dubai
Intersec Stand Design Award
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2010
Italia degli Innovatori Award
Expo Shanghai
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2010
Package design
Red Dot Design Award
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2008
Questione di etichetta
Bruno Mosnel
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2007
Office system
Lidex NeoCon Toronto
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2006
Logo design
Eulda Awards
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2004
Packaging for homeware products
Adi Index
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2003
Brand Logo
Pinacoteca di Brera
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2002
Un Marchio per Venezia
City of Venice
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2002
Italian Web awards
Lectures/Academia
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2021
Conversation
Politecnico di Milano
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2020
Invited Speaker
Tongji University Shanghai
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2019
Conversation
“Ō Tempo di” Festival, Rome
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2018
Invited Speaker
Identità Golose Milano 2018
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2018
Invited Speaker
Packaging Première 2018
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2017
Invited Speaker
IED Venice
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2016
Adjunct Lecturer
Domus Academy, Milan
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2015
Invited Speaker
Ca’Foscari, Venice
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2015
Invited Speaker
Domus Academy, Milan
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2015
Lectio Magistralis
Design Department Tongji University, Shanghai
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2015
Invited Speaker
IUAV, Venice
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2014
Lecture
IUAV, Venice
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2014
Invited Speaker
Domus Academy, Milan
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2013
Invited Speaker
Tongji University Shanghai
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2013
Invited Speaker
NABA, Milan
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2012
Invited Speaker
Design Department, Politecnico Milan
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2010
Invited speaker
Facoltà di Economia, Padua
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2010
Lectio Magistralis
IULM, Milan
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2009
Invited Speaker
New York University, New York
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2009
Lectio Magistralis
Accademia di Comunicazione, Milano
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2008
Lectio Magistralis
IED, Milan
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2008
Lectio Magistralis
IULM, Feltre
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2007
Conversation
AIAP Annual Meeting Bari
Publishing
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2021
Hangar Design Group
Hangar Design Group. Compendium
Rizzoli
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2020
AA.VV.
ADI Compasso d’Oro Catalog
ADIper
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2019
Aldo Norsa
“Report 2019 on Italian Architecture”
Guamari
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2018
AA.VV.
100 Icon Architects
Interni Magazine
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2017
AA.VV.
Good Design Taipei
Good Design Association
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2016
AA.VV.
Design for Food and Nutrition
ADIper
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2012
AA.VV.
Il libro delle piccole case
Logos
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2011
AA.VV.
Prefab Houses
Booqs
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2011
AA.VV.
1000 x European Architecture
Braun
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2011
Philip Jodidio
Architecture Now! House 2
Taschen
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2011
Hangar Design Group
As I told you before, Ideas not Airships
Skira
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2011
“Moonriver”
1000 x European Architecture
Braun
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2010
Galindo Michelle
Prefab Houses
Braun Publishing
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2009
Hangar Design Group
Hangar Carnet
Marsilio
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2009
“Hangar Prefab”
Small Eco Houses Book
Loft
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2008
“Hangar Design Group Headquarters”
Atlas of Office Interiors
Rockport
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2008
“Suite Home”
New Small Houses
Taschen
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2007
Hangar Design Group
Tra design e delirio
Lupetti Editori
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2005
Maurizio Vitta (a cura di)
Letting Ideas take Flight Far volare le idee
Mondadori Electa
Media
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November 2021
“Italia geniale”
Padiglione Italia - Expo Dubai 2020
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September 2021
“Un trentennio a disegnare le vite degli altri”
Il Corriere della Sera
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September 2020
“Passione Seventies”
Marie Claire Maison
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October 2019
“Inside Design”
Elle Decor
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December 2018
"Sospensioni d’Autore”
Living
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April 2017
“Questione di dettagli”
Corriere della Sera
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January 2017
“Stanze multicolor”
Living
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May 2016
“Inside Design”
Elle Decor
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April 2016
“Progetti di integrazione”
Repubblica
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April 2016
“Attrazione reciproca”
Corriere della Sera
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April 2015
“Salone del Mobile 2015”
Wallpaper
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April 2016
“Best of Milan Design Week 2016”
yatzer.com
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April 2015
“Moda e Salone del Mobile 2015”
Vogue
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November 2015
“Futura”
D Casa
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November 2015
“Speciale luci”
Living Corriere
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March 2014
“Fuorisalone 2014, cosa vedremo”
vanityfair.it
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2013
“Hangar Design Group Travel Guide”
coolhunting.com
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2013
“The International Packaging Competition”
packagingoftheworld.com
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2012
“A flagship store in Taipei”
chinanews24.net
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2012
“An innovative modular system”
Abitare
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2012
“A modern mood for the contemporary city”
architizer.com
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December 2005
“Nell’Hangar volano i progetti”
L’Espresso
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December 2004
“Architecture and design: Italians in China”
larepubblica.it
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December 2004
“Hangar Design lands in Shanghai”
Il Sole 24 Ore
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HANGAR DESIGN GROUP HAS BEEN QUOTED IN THE PRESS OVER 14.000 TIMES