Angela Morelli graduated in Engineering at the Milan Polytechnic in 2000, and there she also earned a Master’s Degree in Industrial Design. Soon after graduating she worked in Milan in Isao Hosoe’s design study, a highly international environment which, in 2005, prompted her to move to London. There she pursued further education along an even more focused path: a two-year Master’s degree in Communication Design at Central St Martins, and then further specialisation in Information Design. Today Angela is Associate Lecturer in Information Design at St Martins.

In addition to teaching and following her projects, she also holds several international meetings and conferences, and she is part of the information process about the world water crisis. She got involved in this issue during her thesis research in St Martins, as her work was called “The Global Water Footprint of Humanity”, based on a Unesco and Twente (Netherlands) University research. The Study aims at portraying the water footprint of 132 countries and at identifying, via diagrams, pictures, images and words, which is the real impact of water consumption at global level. The key word for her becomes “virtual water”: the word, invented by Professor Tony Allan to identify the volume of fresh water used to make a given product.

Angela’s project was awarded the prize “INDEX AIGA Aspen Design Challenge” in 2009 and in the same year an instant book about it was published and then distributed during the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

This year she has been entered by the World Economic Forum into the list of 192 “Young Global Leaders 2012”. Presently she is working in Norway where she cooperates with the Oslo Knowledge Center staff to a project funded by the EU whose purpose is improving communication in scientific information, both for doctors and patients.

Her personal story is a description of the Information Design environment and underlines the importance this discipline has in restructuring available data so that they are immediately available to their intended targets.