Luta Bettonica / Mario Melocchi - Cini&Nils

Luta Bettonica, (Milan, 1968) is the President of Cini&Nils and the company's art director. She started working with him as a designer soon after taking her diploma. Franco Bettonica and Mario Melocchi were both her mentors and her first design clients. In 1998, she opened her own office in Milan with the architect Giancarlo Leone, Studio Bettonica Leone, where she works in design and architecture. Mario Melocchi (Parma, 1931 - Milan, 2013) was one of the first in Europe to devote his attentions to packaging design (in 1958), later gradually evolving to approach product design, where he eventually settled after meeting Franco Bettonica.