BFA in Communications Design
Pratt Institute, '20

Production Associate
VICE YouTube and VICE on HBO, '12-14

Founder and Designer
Sprout, a location-based public chat tool.


Roberto Farruggio is a Sicilian-American artist born in 1988. He is a sound and graphic designer, photographer, filmmaker, and writer. More about him here.

Roberto's music is on Soundcloud and Bandcamp.

View a selection of his photography here.

Here are the tweets and Instagram. Sometimes muses about design on dev.to.

Join his Discord community here.

Complete CV and portfolio PDF available upon request.

Please email [email protected]
Mixtape °1
"Casting his net far and wide, from feeling instrumental hip-hop onto mind-expanding downtempo, via webs of lushly textured electronics and spacious,...
Emulation EP
𝐸𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐸𝑃 now up on Soundcloud/Bandcamp! Cover art by Neil Kryszak Emulation EP (Demo) by Roberto Fa
Selected Ambient Works
Alum of the millennium’s digi-busy turn, Sicilian-American, DC-raised sound explorer Roberto Farruggio, AKA Roberto Fa, is your very idea of an undefinable profile a...
Reflections
A collection of photographs taken at some of Washington’s most renowned historical buildings, 'Warped Reflections’ by Roberto Farruggio invites us to see thr...
Iris
Iris Apfel and Francesca Rappaport met through their work in design and instantly became life-long friends, both having a strong fashion sense....
Tess
An editorial I shot and retouched for Harper's Bazaar Turkey, September 2011
Middle East Exploration
Various documentary photography taken while traveling across Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, and Turkey.
Selected Portraits
Selected portraits of various people and friends. Notable portraits include: David Lynch, Ed Fella, Clint Mansell, Terence Koh, Chelsea Manning, Rudy...
Miles
Miles makes a weekend trip to Brooklyn.
Police brutality
View PDF art booklet of a collaboration with NYC Shut It Down: The Grand Central Crew
Ed Fella Interview
A recorded interview with graphic artist Ed Fella discussing his approach to design as both a student and professor. Fella begins with a reflection on a...
Canyon
Photograph of the Grand Canyon, 2010. Image was featured on the front page of WeTransfer in 2012. This is my first photography NFT minted on Zora.
DLF.TV
A portrait I took when volunteering for the David Lynch Foundation.
il Canale
Food photography of select dishes from il Canale, an Italian restaurant in Georgetown, Washington D.C.
Florencia
Florencia is a spontaneous video project I produced with Milano based filmmaker, Pietro Cocco. The short was featured on The House of Peroni and The Art of...
Mumbai Exploration °1
Mumbai Exploration °2
Mumbai Exploration °3
Mumbai Exploration °4
Mumbai Exploration °5
Mumbai Exploration °6
Darshan
Darshan is a mythological based photography project that I was involved with thanks to my ambitious friend and photographer, Manjari Sharma. After the successful...
unison
Unison is an audio scrobbler for friends. Stay in touch by sharing music you are listening to directly and privately. Unison syncs to Spotify, Apple Music,...
sprout
Sprout Chat is a messaging tool for quickly communicating with people nearby. Sprout Chat lets you create and join a chat in any location of the map. With...
the new natural
The New Natural is my first book design that includes research informed by The Naturalist Design Manifesto. The book features writings by me and other UI...
Collage Experiment
In the spirit of remix culture, this is a collage experiment using only found images from the public domain, focusing on 19th century art paintings.
Encrypt / Decrypt
Poster mock-up of a social exhibition space dedicated to learning and sharing data encryption methods. Welcome to a multi-platform privacy revolution - the...
dv01
Front-end development mockups for dv01, a fintech company that streamlines marketplace and consumer lending data, providing insight into loans from Prosper,...
Google Earth Textures
Tavola
Tavola is the UberEats of homecooking. You can now enjoy dining by a personal chef with a kitchen in your area. With Tavola, you can open up a restaurant from your...
mercato
mercato is the first informational grocery shopping application that combines health, environment, and community feedback data. The offline grocery store is now...
Natural World Interfaces
In a world of arbitrary design decisions it's time to refocus and embrace the natural world. This is a manifesto about the direction in which the aesthetics and...