Career
Before Cacao Design, he was one of the founders of Inox Design, another well-known Milanese design firm, where he worked for ten years (1993–2003). Between 1997 and 2002 he also spent one or two months each year as a freelance Senior Designer for Baker Brand Communications (Santa Monica, California) and Mucca Design (New York). The first publishing project was launched in February 2006: Eulda, the European Logo Design Annual, which as of January ‘08 evolved into Wolda, the Worldwide Logo Design Annual.
His portfolio of work includes projects for AtisReal, Banca Intesa, Blinko, Casa Damiani, Central Bank Richard Ellis, Cushman & Wakefield, European Democrat Students Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Fontegrafica, GPAM Generali Properties Asset Management, JLL Jones Language Lasalle, Kellogg’s, Kiver, Mtv Networks, Nuna Lie, Sector Group, Sixty Group, Statuto, Unicr Group and many others
In October 2006, Mauro Pastore served on the jury for ReBrand 2007, an international design competition. The panel was composed of brand experts from around the world from Xerox, P&G, and Interbrand in addition to Cacao Design.