100 idee per crescere

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This book is a manifesto: a selection of the most important ideas on health and parenting for girls and boys made by Uppa, publisher specialized on themes related to parents and children.
Texts combine with bright pantone colours in a clear layout that allow Italian and English texts to be in the same page, easily recognizable thanks to their positioning and to titles’ color.

Published by Uppa
Layout: Francesca Grillo

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Artusi

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With its 790 recipes, Artusi is the most famous book on Italian cuisine, the one from which all the great chefs draw inspiration. This special edition, conceived for the 200th anniversary of the author's birth, highlights its modernity through the exceptional introductory words by Massimo Bottura.

Book published by Giunti Editore

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Quadri della natura

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Alexander Von Humboldt was an explorer and a thinker who defined nature as a global network in which everything is intertwined.

Quadri della natura, after 210 years since its first publication in 1808, is a great classic of scientific literature; even today it represents a model of narrative ability, precision in details, wonderful figurative descriptions of places and animals.

Publisher: Codice Edizioni


Michele Pellegrino - Una parabola fotografica

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The photographic exhibition is about Michele Pellegrino's work and has the particularity of being introduced by Cesare Pavese quotes. These texts are focused on a symbolic vision of human existence, common theme in Pellegrino's work. 
The graphic project focuses on this literary juxtapposition and takes visual inspiration from Italian editorial masterpieces: Bruno Munari squares (designed for Einaudi, Pavese’s publisher) and Simoncini Garamond are rearranged in a grid that seems both an editorial layout and a photographic frame.
The project highlights the thematic sections, giving visual relevance to the literary quotes that introduce the pictures. 

July 19 - September 30, 2018
Complesso monumentale di San Francesco, Cuneo 
Curated by Vincenzo Biffi Gentili and promoted by Fondazione CRC


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Ascolto for Italianism 2018

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I've been selected to visualize one of the key words for Sandro Cappelletto's speech at 'Le parole della musica italiana' during Italianism creative conference in Napoli. The artwork represents the word "ascolto" in a geometric and abstract way.
Special thanks to Renato Fontana, Italianism founder. 

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Come si dice pattern in italiano?

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A selection of some emerging visual artists finds its home in Milan during Design Week, in a project by Italianism (Renato Fontana) and Lago. Come si dice pattern in italiano? is an exhibition that dresses two locations with a selection of 41 patterns.
I've been asked together with Francesca Infantino to design one of the four special artworks dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci, in response to LAGO’s invitation to look beyond, drawing inspiration from the insatiable curiosity of the genius himself. And here's our Flying Man, inspired by the flight and the studies Leonardo did on the parachute.

 

In the same exhibition all the artworks designed for Italianism's Pattern Matters will become wallpapers and flyers to pick up freely. So come and take home my Patternittico, too. 
Find them all at Appartamento Lago and Casa Lago during Milano Design Week 2018, in Brera District.


Ricette per Philips Pasta maker

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A small book with recipes and useful tips to make the most of the Philips Pasta maker, preparing in a few minutes fresh and flavorful pasta of any kind, with iconic illustrations that make the shaping disks easy to use.

Published by Slow Food Editore; sold together with Philips Pasta maker.

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