Michele Graffieti is a NYC-based interdisciplinary designer and visual artist, with a MSc in Communication Design, a background in theater and a brief experience as elected council member. His art practice operates as a meaning-making process of visualization of phenomena, namely the heterogeneous whole of stories, events, connections, places, processes of evolution and characters that create the persistent context through which we understand data and information. Besides visual arts and cinema, his interests span from technology to sensory ethnography and food culture.

While pursuing his degree at the School of Design of the Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) Michele has been a founding member and researcher at DensityDesign. Following several lectures and academic presentations, on 2011 he was invited to Stanford University as international visitor, to contribute to the Mapping the Republic of Letters project.

In his freelance practice Michele has worked primarily as a product and information design lead: his focus is on projects that promote a vision of a more equitable future, in which complex requirements turn into simple and accessible experiences. In 2018 he was part of the team responsible for the design bible behind the first season of Netflix’s Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, combining motion gfx and interactive data visualization. Among others, his work has been honored in several exhibitions around the world such as SIGGRAPH 2009, Expo Milano 2015, Italia150, Maker Faire Europe and featured in publications such as Domus, Wired, Information Graphics (Taschen), Data Flow 2 (Gestalten), Leonardo Journal (MIT Press), The Outpost and Visual Complexity (Princeton Architectural Press).

Recently Michele has been part of the team behind the alpha version of mycity.nyc.gov launched by the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation, a Mayoral agency tasked to deliver the City's digital services. Prior to that he has led the design efforts in the new media space, designing a volumetric capture tool and contributing to virtual reality film productions that received accolades from the most prestigious film festivals such as Sundance and Tribeca.