Christoph Radl, born in Switzerland, an Austrian citizen, moved to Milan in 1977. After the design school he started working with the famous Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass in 1980. Together with Sottsass Associati he founded in 1984 Italian communication, a creative and avant-garde advertising agency. In 1993 he founded a small creative agency in Art Direction, Communication and Graphic Design in Milan that works mainly for customers in the fashion, design, publishing and contemporary art sectors. Since 2014 Christoph has been creative director of Cabana, a magazine he founded with Martina Mondadori.