I design brands, interfaces and the products they live in — work that doesn't just look right, it performs. Part designer, part operator: I run real businesses, so I design for the bottom line, not the moodboard.
Selected workSelf-initiated concepts & brand systems — where I get to set the brief and answer it without compromise.
● Real · Apple Developer Academy
UI / UX · iOS App
Case study
A real iOS app from the Apple Developer Academy — learn the physics behind every sport by playing with the real forces.
● Real · Founder · Live site
Web Design & Build · Founder
Live ↗
A design studio I co-founded — and the live website I designed and built for it. Brands, websites, products.
Identity · Hospitality
Case study
An identity concept for a Gulf-of-Naples boutique stay — the bay's blue, drawn as a single continuous line.

Packaging · Art Direction
Case study
A packaging concept for a limoncello brand built around the Amalfi lemon — craft over cartoon.
Design is business made visible.
In the gallery — where every brief starts.
I'm Francesco — a brand designer based in Napoli. I design identities part-time, with the focus of someone who does it full-heart.
By day I manage hospitality brands and short-term rental properties — pricing, positioning, the words and images that make a stranger choose this place over forty others. That's not a detour from design. It's the sharpest design education I could ask for.
Because I live on the operator's side of the table, I don't design for applause. I design for the metric — the booking, the click, the second glance on a shelf. A logo that wins an award but loses a customer has failed. I build the ones that do both.
Four ways I help brands look like they mean it.
Logos, marks, colour, the full system — and the rules that keep it alive after I hand it over.
→The look and feel of a campaign, a launch, a feed. I direct the image so the brand reads in a blink.
→Magazines, menus, decks, type systems. Structure and rhythm that make long-form a pleasure to read.
→Apps, websites and landing pages — UI/UX through to a finished, shippable build. Designed to convert, not just to charm.
→(04) — Let's make something
f.tessitore97@libero.itGot a brand that deserves better? I take on a few freelance projects at a time. Tell me what you're building.