A live backstage

finally in my mail box… the Cyrano De Bergerac book i recently illustrated for Eli under the wise art direction of Daniele Garbuglia.

Insignia

designer Neville Brody

design date  1989

publisher  Linotype

The Mirage by Matt Ruff, is a mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East.

for this upside-down re-vision of the recent history Wired.it called me to visualize an article titled “Three things to know of Matt Ruff”

the 2013 calendar Chicks&Types is finally printed, want a bite?

take a tour through these images or buy it here.

LETTERE D’AMORE

this friday, dec the 14th, save the date if you’r interested in an astonishing trip through music, poetry, illustration and typography.

we put together a crew of superstars to make a lectio magistralis at IED florence (European Institute of Design)for the end of the year.

free entry, free drinks, and show guaranteed, specs here

CHICKS&TYPES Volume 2 is ready, printing house already booked, paper choosen (it will be a desk calendar for the year 2013, btw)

preorder with free shipping are available on the shop page.

what else? ask me anything if you want to know more about the whole project.

she is… still has no name. the font is clear though. dont you recognize the famous Insignia?

happy thanksgiving boys and girls, message brought to you through the TalkTo team as well!

lady Rossana, gently getting off the coach

september has gone, the lady of the month, the red bomb head Yves with proper vision of elegance presents the famous Rockwell.

as Jeanette is used to say since we begun 2 months ago a stimulating collaboration: with every girl comes a tune.

above you can listen it, and you can see Yves (hey, here for the huge size).

this is a wallpaper for ipad retina, you can choose from this and other sizes along with another design on poolga website.

download for free and enjoy!

if you like you can dig around the whole synchro swim pattern here.

i’ve always been in love with the Sauna font family, since when i bought one of my first books Read Naked, back in the time. in my ongoing project Ladies&Types i’m trying to show some of the most influential and elegant contemporary types and it’s such a pleasure when it happens i drop a line to the designers and they’are just nice and excited by my explorations. so if you like Agathe, the sauna lady, don’t forget to go and see all the fantastic stuff the Underware guys designed in the past few years.

Hi Jen… thank you for showing us the J straight from the Archer font family by Hoefler & Frere-Jones.

For the interested ones, take a look to the whole Chicks&Types on going project. it’s about illustration. it’s about typography as well.

going to illustrate the Cyrano De Bergerac by Rostand. i’m super thrilled by it!

from september 3 to 27 i’ll be showing this (above you can see part 1 of a double big big big illustration) at PUF, along with several awesome illustrators, artist and designer.

the original piece will be 78,7” wide and 51,2” tall. huge.