Simone Bonanni was born in Pordenone, Italy, in August 1989. He graduated from the IED Istituto Europeo di Design (Milan) in 2011 with a project awarded an Honorable Mention at the 23rd ADI Compasso D’oro Award (Targa Giovani). In 2012, he left Milan to join the Marcel Wanders team (Amsterdam, Netherlands), where he worked as a product designer and project leader for 3 years. Returning from the Netherlands in 2015, he founded Simone Bonanni Studio (SBS).
Since 2015, Simone Bonanni has been teaching Product Design at the IED Istituto Europeo di Design and the IED Master program in Milan.

SBS is currently working on projects for selected international brands such as Alessi, Moooi, MDF Italia, FIAM, Falper, Mingardo, and many others.