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Fiamme 3 - Inferno 5 editore

Cover designed for Fiamme, a self-published fanzine by Inferno 5 Editore. World Wide Web was the selected theme for the 3rd issue.

A rainbow cover made of pixels was designed using the optical monospaced typeface Holt. The title is repeated all over the cover and a change of color was made in order to create a big three figure on the front.

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Tatanka Speaks

Posters in miniature designed to celebrate Tatanka Journal's presentation @ the Children's Book Fair in Bologna. Tatanka Journal is a self-published illustrated publication born in the 2017. Posters were printed in black and white and later freely coloured using blow-pens.

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Leave Left Left

A book made up with some natural prints collected over the years. Leaves and flowers prints and drawings combined with abstract ink shapes  all made with different techniques. The book is made up of many A4 folded sheets and it can be expanded and rearranged at any time becoming a sort of infinite herbal of prints.

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One Year

A visual representation of the seasonal change. The leaflet is made up of twelve folded sheets, each one corresponding to a month, from January to December. In fact the prints were initially created on the back of an old calendar. All the prints were made using etching inks on a styrofoam sheet and a certain amount of randomness and unpredictability.

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Calamaro sporco, spinaci e salsa col nero

A little flip-book telling the story of a young italian chef.

The book explains how the protagonist has been influenced by his art studies which led him to the develop a precise and personal view about cooking, keeping an approach he calls curatorial. Two media have been chosen to talk about his story and education: the interview and the video (frames). Both were made during a journey spent at the restaurant. The chef cooked a meal wearing a camera on his head. The lunch was followed by an interview and displayed on the cover and inside the book is in fact one of the courses he cooked.

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Calamaro sporco, spinaci e salsa col nero

A little flip-book telling the story of a young italian chef.

The book explains how the protagonist has been influenced by his art studies which led him to the develop a precise and personal view about cooking, keeping an approach he calls curatorial. Two media have been chosen to talk about his story and education: the  interview and the video (frames). Both were made during a journey spent at the restaurant. The chef cooked a meal wearing a camera on his head. The lunch was followed by an interview and displayed on the cover and inside the book is in fact one of the courses he cooked.

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Kaboom Clock Splash

Fermignano is a little town crossed by a river liying near the city of Urbino. A book/exhibit project was designed to celebrate the bicentenary of the town who became indipendent from the city of Urbino. Water is the main theme of the project.

In fact it was the Metauro River which enhanced the whole developement of the town during the years. The sound of water opens and closes a piece of music created for the occasion, an anthem revisiting the lost sounds of the past, reintroduced using onomatopeas. Inside of the book pictures and texts about the companies' stories were selected from the archive sources and then photographed under water. Some pages of the publication were also used in the little set-up. The exhibition took place in Fermignano, inside the Museum of architecture which stands just next to the River Metauro.

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Kaboom Clock Splash

Fermignano is a little town crossed by a river liying near the city of Urbino. A book/exhibit project was designed to celebrate the bicentenary of the town who became indipendent from the city of Urbino. Water is the main theme of the project.

In fact it was the Metauro River which enhanced the whole developement of the town during the years. The sound of water opens and closes a piece of music created for the occasion, an anthem revisiting the lost sounds of the past, reintroduced using onomatopeas. Inside of the book pictures and texts about the companies' stories were selected from the archive sources and then photographed under water. Some pages of the publication were also used in the little set-up. The exhibition took place in Fermignano, inside the Museum of architecture which stands just next to the River Metauro.

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Il Carattere della Città

A book that extends the research on italian signs began in the 2014 @ISIA Urbino. Fourth in the series of publications, the book investigates four italian cities: Fabriano, Rimini, Sassari and Udine. Conversely to the previos books, signs were photographed considering the context they belong to, clarifying the nature/personality of the city to all the people who never went there and creating a sort of strolling inside the book. Four chapters compose the publication, one for each city. Each chapter opens with a typographic composition, made of signletters, and an introductory text about the city. They are followed by a stroll of images and some brief descriptions on signs and the shops they belong to.

The typographic cover too was made chosing some sign-letters from these cities.

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Il Carattere della Città

A book that extends the research on italian signs began in the 2014 @ISIA Urbino. Fourth in the series of publications, the book investigates four italian cities: Fabriano, Rimini, Sassari and Udine. Conversely to the previos books, signs were photographed considering the context they belong to, clarifying the nature/personality of the city to all the people who never went there and creating a sort of strolling inside the book. Four chapters compose the publication, one for each city. Each chapter opens with a typographic composition, made of signletters, and an introductory text about the city. They are followed by a stroll of images and some brief descriptions on signs and the shops they belong to.

The typographic cover too was made chosing some sign-letters from these cities.

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Cappuccetto Rosso

A typographic interpretation of the popular fairy tale. The typo-characters coexhist on stage with lifelike elements and the typographic language involves text too creating funny pictures.

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Transposition based on: Le Petit Chaperon Rouge written by Charles Perrault in 1697.

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Twelve lonely vehicles and one pink dumpster

A car-park-book with very few images of four-weheled-vehicles. They are randomly parked on the inside. You have to leaf through the whole book to find them all.

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POPS / Jack Kerouac

A short collection of illustrated poems written by the american poet Jack Kerouac.

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Jack Kerouac (1922–1969)

American writer and poet. Founder of the Beat movement with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs at the beginning of the 50s. His establishing novel was "On the road" (1957).

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POPS / Jack Kerouac

A short collection of illustrated poems written by the american poet Jack Kerouac.

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Jack Kerouac (1922–1969)

American writer and poet. Founder of the Beat movement with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs at the beginning of the 50s. His establishing novel was "On the road" (1957).

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im-press-ioni

A memory card game featuring materials' textures. The project started as a research on materials' prints. Different subjects were used as matrices: fruit skin, metals, flora, paper as and then stenciled letters were made. Each letter matches the name of the subject and put together they create a full alpahabet and game.

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im-press-ioni

A memory card game featuring materials' textures. The project started as a research on materials' prints. Different subjects were used as matrices: fruit skin, metals, flora, paper as and then stenciled letters were made. Each letter matches the name of the subject and put together they create a full alpahabet and game.