Designs

Hacker Attack pinball retro gaming initiative by Antonio Rossi

Retro gaming initiative to learn incident response activity by Antonio Rossi

2019
HACKER ATTACK

I introduced gamification on the topic of cybersecurity by restoring and converting an old electromechanical pinball machine. In this mi idea and realization, the ball represents the cyber threat that enters the playing field, which represents the corporate network, through various inputs labeled e-mail, USB devices, mobile apps, cloud, suppliers, etc. The ball will inevitably fall (data breach) following the cyber kill chain; the slingshot (which represents the automated detection and response capabilities) will reject the threat. The bumpers make the attack pattern unpredictable by representing the lateral movements of the attacker. The player is ideally the incident responder who, through the flipper bat, rejects the cyber threat, the ball, away from the data breach (out hole) by engaging other teams to support the management of the incident by increasing the score. The player who holds the ball the longest in play wins. The insider threat as well as the zero-day vulnerabilities are represented by the out lanes where it is very difficult to prevent the ball from ending up in it, just like in the real management of a security incident.

Lighting incision on plexiglass with my design to celebrate 70 years of Leonardo design and incision by Antonio Rossi

2018
My personal tribute to Leonardo's company: 70 years since foundation

The concept of the design is centered on the new name of the company: Leonardo. So I reproduced the machines designed by the Italian genius of the 500 and how those projects and intuitions, centuries later, were produced by the Italian company that bears his name. However, I have designed a specially crafted version of the "Vitruvian's man" on the right side: I introduce the wheel of gear as the symbol of man's ingenuity. The sections of the circumference bear signs representing the Fibonacci sequence and the sequence of prime numbers. This section of the drawing is completed by Leonardo's quotation: "knowledge is the daughter of experience". Furthermore, the whole drawing expresses the golden ratio of the segment as well as the division of the two scenes represented in the relationship between width and height. In the lower part of the design, I represented the evolution of the company logo and name from the date of foundation. The design is laser-printed on a plexiglass frame and mounted on a wood base with an integrated led strip so all the artwork became a lamp when it is powered on.

2017-18
ART ATTACK!

During my job experience, in every role and position, I have supported activities and projects creating something new, and disruptive with a low-cost budget, effort, and time. For example, to improve cyber security awareness I create a self-made bi-pyramid design by me with a cybersecurity message on each face to get a correct posture at the desktop! Practical and maker approaches are applied to abstract concepts to update our mindset against cyber threats and information security risks. The gadget was assembled during my training course to better involve attendees according to my idea of training and teaching. Another example is my cover of the "the answer's book" by Carol Bolt. This idea was designed by me to make irony about managing some cybersecurity issues in training classrooms. A creative and disruptive approach to teaching and sharing experiences focusing on epic fails and mistakes! The joke is: make a question about a decision to assume about cyber security countermeasures, browse randomly the book's page without see and when you are ready, stop browsing and read something like this: "Yes", "No", "try again", "keep it" and so on :-)

Italian civilization building ROME Lego design by Antonio Rossi

2016
MY LEGO DESIGNS

My Lego design about the Italian Civilization Building placed in Rome, EUR neighbor: cultural marketing initiative to promote Italian rationalism architecture. Other my Lego creations are exposed in the Pontine Marshes Museum in Pontinia and earned an award as best practices to promote history, and involve people in discovering architecture to create aware citizens.
More details are available here at Archilovers web site.

2014
"Lightness"

"It is true that software cannot exercise its powers of lightness except through the weight of hardware. But it is software that gives the orders, acting on the outside world and on machines that exist only as functions of the software and evolve so that they can work out ever more complex programs.", Italo Calvino said in American lessons in 1984. According to this thinking, in 2014 I create, "print", a Carrara marble sculpture using a heavy numerical control machine uploading a digital logo file about the High Tech Special Unit (GAT) of the Italian Economical and Financial Police where I served for 16 years. The artifact is my tribute to this incredible job experience currently exposed in the GAT headquarters and reflects how software controls the heavy machine with cutters and chisels starting from an intangible digital file, transforming a raw marble piece into a 3D sculpture. I added a dedication to my colleagues, collaborators, and commanders.

Scuktura stemma GaT GdF by Antonio Rossi

2012
Logo MAP (Museo Agro Pontino) created with Lego by me

This is my Lego MoC (My Own Creation) about the logo of the Museo Agro Pontino (MAP): the museum in my town, Pontinia where I donate old newspapers (national and international) and photos about the foundation of the town in 1934. The MoC reflects the color scheme of the original logo and exactly reproduces the letter and the shape of the letters only with original and traditional bricks.

2010
HOME OFFICE DESIGN

Mosaic like a pixel: this is my personal "geek" creation on my desk (2011). Built with best in class tiles manufacturer in Italy, SICIS, I have created the avenger's videogame scene, some icons like email, pointer, and other my passion: Fibonacci series and math.

2008
MY FAVURITE COMICS

This is my tribute to Martin Mystere comic edited by Sergio Bonelli and created by Alfredo Castelli and Giancarlo Alessandrini. Martin Mystère character is an art historian, archaeologist, anthropologist, adventurer, writer, journalist, and collector of unusual objects. Martin Mystère investigates unusual artifacts and impossible stories, collecting evidence and facing an opposite crew known as "Man in Black" who wants to cover the history. One of the symbols that Martin Mystere finds during his adventures is this iconic representation of Atlantis: a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias. So I created the same symbol above the vault of the arch in my house, made of travertine marble. This is a quote from my favorite comic: I feel very close to this character for the posture he assumes in analyzing incomprehensible phenomena. Martin Mystère evaluates all the evidence, even the most "mysterious", resisting prejudice, leaving an open mind, and being ready to accept new ideas and theories with prudence and respect. This is an attitude that every analyst should have, especially in IT security, where the unknown and the impossible can be on the agenda when the most sophisticated and up-to-date security technologies are evaded and finding the trajectory of the attack becomes an operation that, before the technicalities, must overcome the prejudice and the axiom of “It is not possible” by taking refuge in more convenient and understandable justifications that often distance us from reality and responsibility: the latter is a virtue of Martin Mystere.

bas-relief of Martin Mystere Atlantis sign

2004
TILE OF PYTHAGORAS

I made this huge tile using 4 right triangles and a square made of yellow and red marble. It is my tribute to Pythagoras' theorem and to his story: it is thought that Pythagoras had the intuition of the relationship between the area of the squares built on the legs of a triangle and the one that has the hypotenuse on its side when observing a floor . So I created this tile that summarizes the theorem in an unusual and less known but mathematically correct way. This design of mine is embedded in the floor of my home studio and represents my passion for geometry, code, nature, history, and design to tell a story.

2001
LAMP DESIGN FOR MY BABY ROOM

I used the plotter to print the vector image of the clouds on sticky paper. Then I attached the sticker to the wooden surface that I had shaped in the same shape using an industrial cutting machine providing the same vector file. For the lights of the clouds, I used the Christmas tree lights, while for the coating of the hand-shaped balsa wood to create the thickness where to insert the light power supply. The lights represent some constellations.

Lamp design for my baby room by Antonio Rossi

CREST 72 corso Novegno II Guardia di Finanza Scuola Ispettori by Antonio Rossi

1997
MY HERALDRY COAT OF ARMS FOR THE ITALIAN MILITARY SCHOOL

This is my design for the heraldic coat of arms of 72 Novegno II: the training course for inspectors of the Italian economic and financial police. The coat of arms is divided into four parts representing the city of Cuneo, the mountain called Novegno: the scene of an epic battle between the Guardia di Finanza and the Austrian army during the First World War. The coat of arms was used for the 2 year duration of the course and adorned the uniform of the students of the military school. For me it was a great privilege to design this coat of arms which was chosen by the commander of the military school and worn by all the officers.

2019HACKER ATTACK

2018My personal tribute to Leonardo's company: 70 years since foundation

2017-18ART ATTACK!

2016MY LEGO DESIGNS

2014"Lightness"

2012Logo MAP (Museo Agro Pontino) created with Lego by me

2010HOME OFFICE DESIGN

2008MY FAVURITE COMICS

2004TILE OF PYTHAGORAS

2001LAMP DESIGN FOR MY BABY ROOM

1997MY HERALDRY COAT OF ARMS FOR THE ITALIAN MILITARY SCHOOL