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Matteo Ricci

Matteo leads our digital product engagements — bringing a decade of design-systems work at cultural and editorial clients.

At Oaler, Matteo leads client engagements from the first conversation through launch — often staying past handover to help teams internalise the system. The work is patient, opinionated, and quietly maintained; the kind of engagement where the eighteen-month follow-up matters as much as the launch week.

Before Oaler, a decade of practice across independent studios and cultural institutions across Europe and Asia. That range shows up in the work as a preference for restraint — a suspicion of anything that only reads well once.

Outside the studio, Matteo teaches occasional workshops, contributes to a slow-writing correspondence with two friends, and looks after a small collection of books that will probably never be finished.

In their own words
"The best product work reads like editorial. Someone chose every word, and someone else chose to leave a lot of them out."
Matteo Ricci · Studio conversation, spring 2025

Currently listening

  • Julianna BarwickHealing Is a Miracle
  • Nils FrahmMusic for Animals
  • CarolineCaroline

Currently reading

  • Kyo MaclearUnearthing
  • John BergerAbout Looking
  • Rebecca SolnitOrwell's Roses

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