Davide Pagliardini was born on 9 May 1989 in San Marino, where he lived until adulthood. From 2004 to 2008 he studied at the Istituto d’Arte di Urbino (ISA), graduating in Advertising Graphics and Photography. There, he developed a keen interest in graphic design, animation, and illustration.
From 2009 to 2011 he attended NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) in Milan, graduating with top honors in Graphic Design and Art Direction while deepening his passion for visual communication.

In 2011 he began his professional career at TheMadBox as a Junior Art Director, graphic designer, and 3-D generalist, overseeing projects from conception through post-production: posters, advertising campaigns for web, print, and video; 3-D modeling and rendering; interior design; and product design.

From 2012 to 2013 he worked as a freelancer (www.davidepagliardini.com) and, together with Orazio Marino, co-founded the studio Trinocle, specialized in motion design, animation, and illustration. He collaborates with agencies such as Hagakure, TheMadBox, The Good Company, FastenSeatBelt, Kume, and Saatchi & Saatchi on projects for clients including Puma, Samsung, Activia, Unilever, the Palladio Museum, Collater.al, the IAA, and many others.

In 2013 he embarked on teaching, running the “Quick Production Technique” workshop together with Andrea Musa for third-year Graphic Design & Art Direction students, with the goal of integrating 3D animation and live-action footage.

In 2014 and 2015 he continued as a freelancer, developing visual projects for companies and Italian music-industry artists, and overseeing both music videos and the stage design for Fedez’s summer tour. He teaches Motion Design at NABA and collaborates with the University of San Marino as an assistant lecturer in various digital-animation workshops. Together with Federica Oronti, he curates the travelling exhibition CTL, featuring internationally renowned Italian designers and followed by numerous hand-lettering workshops.

Since 2016 he has been living again in San Marino, where he co-founded Uovo Lab with Davide Farabegoli, who had already launched the space as a photo- and video-production studio; it thus became an all-round creative studio, noted for the craftsmanship behind its projects. In 2025, Uovo Lab celebrates ten years of activity.
Also in 2016, he began collaborating with NID in Perugia, where he teaches Graphic Design, Lettering, and Motion Design.
Since 2017 he has been selected annually for the Autori di Immagini Annual Awards. Several of his works have been published in books such as Skate, Surf & Art (Carolina Amell), Motion Graphics (Sendpoints Publishing), and Scripted (Sandu Publishing).

In 2018 the Broken Boards project was published in the book SkateArt (Romain Hurdequint, Circle d’Art Editions), featured on blogs such as Collater.al and The Daily Board, and exhibited in shows including Skateboards Confluence (Milan), European Custom Board Collective Show #2 (France), and Urban Escape (Consadori Gallery, Milan).
In 2019 he produced his first series of postage stamps for San Marino’s Philatelic Office, which was selected for the Illustri Annual.

In 2020 he taught courses at Florence’s Accademia Cappiello and won his first Communication Arts Typography Annual award for his postage-stamp project—an honour he would go on to receive in the following years, up to 2025, when he became a judge for the competition.

In 2023 he won his first TDC Award (Type Directors Club) for the lettering used in MasterChef Italia’s communications—a distinction he will earn again in 2024 for the cover of the book Il caso del castello chiuso (De Agostini).

In 2025 he organized and directed BUONENOVE, a city-wide event across San Marino that brought together nine artists—himself included—to create public murals as an act of urban regeneration and a stand for “hands-on visual design,” countering the growing digital and non-human drift in visual creation.