Born in Como in 1947, Carlo Forcolini had graduated at the Academy of fine arts of Brera in Milan in 1969. Since then, he has worked as designer and entrepreneur, participating in the founding of Alias and Nemo, which also held the positions of director General and director of art. From 1978 to 1984, the Forcolini lived in London, where Alias United Kingdom established and became Director of Artemide GB. Since 1983, he has participated in numerous exhibitions and international events in Madrid, Los Angeles, London, Hamburg, Cologne, Tokyo, Sydney, Santiago of the Chile, Oslo, etc. His most important exhibitions include I modi of the progetto (methods of design) in the Pignatelli Cortes Museum in Naples in 1987; Design Alias of Italy, in the Soviet Cultural Foundation in Moscow in 1989, and Creativitalia in Tokyo in 1990. You had personal standing in Milan in 1991 (imagining things), in Innsbruck in 1996 and in Toronto and Brussels in 1997.