In 2012, Martina Pappagallo wins a scholarship for NABA and moves to Milan. She graduates in 2015 and she has to decide how to present herself to the labour market; she is multifaceted, she is multitasking, and she hates to label herself. She introduces herself as a graphic, photographer, and illustrator, and over the years she shifts to animation. She works together with a number of professionals of the industry, in agencies, TV shows, and production companies, such as Xfactor and La Repubblica delle Donne. She is fond of research, pirate books, podcasts on Greek and Roman mythology.

Born in Russia in 1991 and holding her first degree in Economics, Ksenia’s interest in architecture and design brought her to Interior design Master course at NABA. During her studies, she started her practical design journey as exhibition designer with Triumph Gallery in Moscow. In just 3 years she realized more than 20 projects at state museums and cultural institutions such as the Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Multimedia Art Museum, the Manege Central Exhibition Hall in St. Petersburg and many others. One of her recent projects ‘Future Lab: Kinetic Art in Russia’ received the national art award ‘Innovation’ as ‘Project of the Year-2020’. Being a multidisciplinary designer, Ksenia works to achieve the synergy of architecture, spatial design, artistic & curatorial vision in her every project. She covers the full circle of production from concept design to implementation of exhibition projects at any level of complexity.

Simone Bozzelli was born in the province of Teramo. He moved to Milan and graduated at NABA in Media Design & Multimedia Art. He wrote and directed the short films Mio Fratello (2015) and Loris sta bene (2017). Since 2018, he has been studying direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where he directed Amateur (2019) and J'ador (2020), in competition at the 34th and 35th Venice International Film Critics Week, with J'ador awarded as best short film. In 2021, he directed the video clip I wanna be your slave by Maneskin. His latest short film Giochi is in competition at the 74th Locarno Film festival. He worked on "Latin America", the latest moovie by the Innocenzo brothers. He is currently working on his first feature film.

Graduated from the MA program Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies at NABA in 2016, he studied between Istanbul and Milan today Sarp Özer is a curator, writer, and producer. Özer lives in Turkey and works as Curator at AVTO, a cultural organization located in Istanbul. He is a contributor of publications by L’Internazionale, SALT, So-far, Arter, and Institute of Network Cultures. He also co-produces the Ahali Conversations, a podcast series inquiring on the future of cultural production hosted by artist Can Altay.

Guillermo Zambrano, born in Brasil, graduate in Product design, Class of 2015. He carried out his studies between Bogotà and Milan. Guilermo has more 11 years of international experience in Retail Architecture and project management for branch such as Reebok, Adidas, Cartier, Piaget, Jimmy Choo as well large scale projects such as New Doha int. Airport and Spanish Pavillon for Expo Shanghai 2020. Since 2019, Guillermo is Architect Store Development manager for Adidas in Dubai.

Charlie Moon is a director, influencer, and writer. In 2020, she graduated in Media Design & Multimedia Arts at NABA. Today, she has 350,000 followers on YouTube, 178,000 followers on Instagram, and over 390,000 followers on TikTok. In 2018, together with some NABA classmates, she founded the communication agency Colibri12. In 2019, she published her first novel, Dicono di Noi (About Us), the result of a long and difficult journey that led to self-discovery and to the courage of self-acceptance. In the same year, she published the short film based on her novel on YouTube, which has obtained almost 900,000 hits so far.

The young Italian artist studied scenography and stage design at NABA in Milan. During his studies, he increasingly found himself drawn to world of opera and theatre. He collaborated with stage designer Margherita Palli on the design for the “W – Women in Italian Design” exhibition, which was shown at the Triennale 2016 in Milan, and on the exhibition “Maria Callas in scena”, which showed some of the diva’s costumes, at the Milan Scala in 2017. Davide Boni has worked as a costume designer at the Milan Teatro dell’Arte, and at the Teatro Maggiore in Verbania. Since 2016 he has collaborated with Jacques Reynaud on the costumes for productions by Robert Wilson, including “EDDA” at the Det Norske Teatret in Oslo, “Turandot” at the Teatro Real in Madrid and “Otello” at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden.

Born and raised in Indonesia, she decided to challenge herself with a new experience and decided to study at NABA. Before graduating from the Master of Creative Advertising program, she already started working in the creative industry in Milan. Then she joined in one of the biggest global smartphone brands, OPPO, at their Italian branch as a designer specializing in ATL advertising.

Lorenzo Seghezzi is a young Milanese designer. In 2019, he graduates from the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan and in 2020, he is already present at Alta Roma. He creates tailor-made garments that are the result of continuous research focused on the body, on gender identity and on a fluid and free expression of oneself. His passion for fashion starts when he is a boy, after the need to create clothes that could act as an armour, as a shield against bullying and homophobia. He draws inspiration from the world, from the narratives and aesthetics of the LGBTQ+ and queer communities of which he is a member and activist. Through his works, Lorenzo Seghezzi tries to denounce the concepts of homophobia and machismo by tracing a new typology of vulnerable and at the same time incisive masculinity, which sources from the most diverse visual universes. In fact, in his collections, corsets, sartorial dresses and Victorian tailoring techniques emerge, as well as punk and drag influences.