Alessandro Barbieri is a Milan-based Creative Director and co-founder with a decade of experience designing visionary digital experiences for fashion, design and cultural brands. He leads La Colonia to blend original storytelling with the latest visual technologies, delivering visual identities, campaigns and commerce-driven websites for clients like Prada, Off-White™ and A-COLD-WALL*. Equally comfortable sketching brand tone as he is tweaking code, he has hands-on experience in front-end and i18n improvements—contributing fixes to react-i18next to ensure robust server-side translation loading. His background in industrial and graphic design, plus stints at agencies and experimental studios, gives him a rare mix of editorial taste, technical fluency and product-first thinking. Known for challenging trends in unexpected ways, he builds digital work that reads as both cultural commentary and commercial craft.
10 years of coding experience
Certificate, Web Programming using Php., Certificate, Web Programming using Php. at City University London
Industrial Design, Graphic Design and Communication - Web Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design and Communication - Web Design at Università Iuav di Venezia
Scientific Diploma, Science, Scientific Diploma, Science at Corradini
Short Course, Typography, Short Course, Typography at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
Internationalization for react done right. Using the i18next i18n ecosystem.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily focused on improving the internationalization (i18n) capabilities of the React-based application. Their contributions involved fixing issues with locale file loading on the server-side and addressing deeper-level translation problems. They also made adjustments to the `i18n` configuration and the `Trans` component to enhance i18n functionality. The commits indicate a focus on ensuring correct translation retrieval and integration within the Razzle SSR example application.
Contributions:6 releases, 14 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
cmsapigraphql-apinexusnodejs
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Alessandro Barbieri - Creative Director & Co-Founder