Mitch Paone is a partner and cre­at­ive direc­tor of New York & Geneva based cre­at­ive agency DIA Studio, which special­izes in cor­po­rate and cul­tural visual iden­tity sys­tems, graphic de­sign, and ty­po­graphy. DIA's sig­na­ture use of motion and gen­er­a­tive tools has led to major col­lab­or­a­tions with Apple, Balenciaga, A-Trak, Nike, Saint Laurent, Squarespace and many more.

Mitch lectures and leads work­shops at con­fer­ences and uni­ver­sities world­wide. Most no­tably, the Royal Acad­emy of Art, The Hague (KABK), Zurich Uni­ver­sity of the Arts (ZHdK), Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL), Pratt Institute and The School for Visual Arts in New York.

Recently Mitch has begun teaching per­ma­nently at Haute école d'art et de design - Genève in the Master of Media Design and Bach­elors of Visual Com­mu­nic­a­tion. At HEAD he will be im­ple­ment­ing DIA's creative process into the aca­demic cur­ricu­lum with a specific focus on motion and gen­er­a­tive tools in a graphic design context.

Mitch and DIA studio partner Meg Donohoe were recently inducted into AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale).

Beyond his work with DIA studio and aca­demic endeav­ors, Mitch Paone is also a jazz pianist, composer and type designer.