Illustration (created using the symbols taken from the phonetic alphabet) for a publication about Typography and Language.
Phonemes
Illustration (created using the symbols taken from the phonetic alphabet) for a publication about Typography and Language.
The Shock Doctrine
Project: re-design a book- jacket for "the Shock doctrine" by Naomi Klein.
The book analyzed the way in which dramatic events such as wars, calamities, economical crisis ecc .. are used by governments and corporations to manipulate masses.
The idea is to represent how people (the dots in the front cover) are moved to act by events and media in an apparently chaotic way.
In reality this chaos is the result of an underneath cynical and rational master plan set by the ruling powers.
Unfortunately the pictures are not too good! :(
Use condom
I'm working on a series of images that promote the use of protections.
I believe that taking position against some of our common social myths (among them: catholic dogmas and naive superficiality - "it's not gonna happen to me"-) is necessary nowadays.
We need to destroy all this myths that are merely based on ignorance and superstitious believes.
There's no superheroes and there's no mystical supernatural power that can protect us from HIV. It's our duty to take care of our society and all its member, especially the ones that cannot do it on their own (Africa is a good example I guess ... - by the way really disappointing the public reaction to the speech taken by the Pope during his last visit there!- )
The use of condoms is not accepted by a religion that prefer, in my opinion, let people die (and also give birth to babies that are going to face the same destiny) rather than help who is dramatically in need of help. The Vatican claims that abstaining from sex is the solution.
Virgin Mary is a symbol of love and pity ... she got pregnant by god's will. She's never had sex.
We can believe this ancient tale or not, however in both cases we all must realized that has nothing to do with reality. I think there are issue that can be faced only going back down to earth, with common sense and effective solutions.
Short & Sweet
Profile: unusual media
This 3 images are taken from a series of about 30 pictures.
The project was about breaking the boundaries of figurative drawing.
The profile of the girl is made of tape on a transparent PVC board.
The processes involved the use of my computer screen as the only sources of light. The background of each image, in fact, is a picture or a video open (full size) on my mac.
The PVC board placed between the camera and the computer plays with transparency and blurs part of the typography in the back.
Moreover the effect of the light hitting the different layers of tape gives to the all composition interesting shades and gradients of colors.
COLORS+KAOS+LOVE
Postcards experiment! How do I explain people myself ??!! Where to start ??!!
Colors+Kaos+Love ...
Bookcovers
Project: use mark making, materials and textures to produce meaningful images for a range of book jackets design.
Corporate ID
Project: design a corporate identity for EUREKA! -a modern furniture/products retailers where you can buy the essential stuff you never knew you needed- .
Selection of stationary: letterhead, business card, compliment slip, card, price labels
Pattern detail.
Selection of stationary: letterhead, business card, compliment slip, card, price labels
Pattern detail.
Wapping Project
Winter 2007, exhibition commissioned by The Wapping Project in behalf of Veuve Clicquot. The aim of the pictures I took was to show the essence of each installation and at the same time the legacy with the extraordinary surrounding.
ABOVE: "Blossom", 2007. It has been used in several occasion to represent The Wapping Project identity.
BELOW: spread from "Cool Brands" (2008), an insight of some of Britain's coolest brands.
Outside the box
Project: design a typeface inspired from an "interesting object". Object: a syringe. The design tries to reproduce the microscope slide used in hospital to analyzed blood samples.
Prelude of my Final Major Project (ABC Diploma 2008)
I’m sitting in the Hall of my flat, trying to write down my proposal. Oh well, if I can call it a hall ... if I can call it a flat.
Here it is! Another five centimeters long black beetle. It’s running desperately trying to hide itself underneath the “carpet” of shoes covering the floor next to me.My hand is itching to capture the event. ”Where is my camera when I need it??!!”. Oh yeah ... we were robbed 2 days before xmas. Merry, merry xmas. And happy new year! Eviction notice for you! I remember now ...
I missed so many shots since I moved in here: situations, grotesque parodies or daily lifestyle. “HOME SWEET HOME” or prison; about us ... we HUMAN BEING. Pics, pics, pics ... enquiry in the squatters’ world. OBJECTIVE?! I don’t know where my research is going to lead me, what I will get from it, but, for what I am, what I believe in, I think I won’ t be able to hide my emotions, feelings and own opinion. I cannot shut down my brain, it makes me alive, living the world I am in. Photography is a perfect recording medium ... a matter of seconds, unique sensations.
SQUATTING ... Giving a bite (a taste) of it
Here it is! Another five centimeters long black beetle. It’s running desperately trying to hide itself underneath the “carpet” of shoes covering the floor next to me.My hand is itching to capture the event. ”Where is my camera when I need it??!!”. Oh yeah ... we were robbed 2 days before xmas. Merry, merry xmas. And happy new year! Eviction notice for you! I remember now ...
I missed so many shots since I moved in here: situations, grotesque parodies or daily lifestyle. “HOME SWEET HOME” or prison; about us ... we HUMAN BEING. Pics, pics, pics ... enquiry in the squatters’ world. OBJECTIVE?! I don’t know where my research is going to lead me, what I will get from it, but, for what I am, what I believe in, I think I won’ t be able to hide my emotions, feelings and own opinion. I cannot shut down my brain, it makes me alive, living the world I am in. Photography is a perfect recording medium ... a matter of seconds, unique sensations.
SQUATTING ... Giving a bite (a taste) of it
Final Major Project Outcome.
“SQUATTING” was the first title I gave to my FMP. That was the starting point of my project/research too. “EVICTED IDENTITY” was the final title I gave to my FMP. That was the main theme I explored. Two words that can briefly describe all my work. I started my research from my personal condition of squatter. I took pictures to report evidence of my last five months life: my squat, its location and the surrounding area ( Brick Lane and Shoreditch ).
When the bailiff came to evict us from 1 Frostic Walk I found myself homeless. Luckily I have got plenty of friends I have never been really on a street … however in that moment I reconsidered my project and its aim. Evicted identity… Because with the loss of every single material thing ( house, money, clean clothes, goods…. ) some people lost also their identity. Walking on the street, you can hear: “spare change; please?!”… no face…no name…a shadow and a weak voice as background only. Evicted from our society, alone ... FORGOTTEN!
“Violence against women”, “children abuse”, “drugs and alcohol addiction” and “homeless”. All this category analyzed different aspect of our society., that we mostly ignore … MATTER of indifference! That is way I think they can all be classified as “evicted identity”; however I chose to stick as much as possible to my original project.
AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ON HOMELESS.
I didn’t want to present them in a pathetic way…trying to sympathised with them…I think that, in general, it s not about pity but about understanding … to work on our society to make life better for everyone. We all deserve it.
I choose to catch people attention in a different way, maybe irritating them, but still making them thinking. Starting from a carton box, that is the closest association to the word “house” for an homeless person, I designed an cut-out home that can be distributed on the street as “a effective homesickness relief”. There’s no need to remark the irony in this statement.
And if you can consider a carton box a house … it can be possible to give away for free flat-pack boxes/houses that can be recycled from homeless to homeless.
I looked carefully at IKEA’s ads’ layout, being IKEA the most famous cheap design furniture seller in Europe and probably all over the world. It’s easy: you go to the store, buy some cheap “stuff” , bring it home and built it up. Or in this case … you take a carton box, unfolded it, put on the pavement and … here it is your brand new home!!! Irony again.
When the bailiff came to evict us from 1 Frostic Walk I found myself homeless. Luckily I have got plenty of friends I have never been really on a street … however in that moment I reconsidered my project and its aim. Evicted identity… Because with the loss of every single material thing ( house, money, clean clothes, goods…. ) some people lost also their identity. Walking on the street, you can hear: “spare change; please?!”… no face…no name…a shadow and a weak voice as background only. Evicted from our society, alone ... FORGOTTEN!
“Violence against women”, “children abuse”, “drugs and alcohol addiction” and “homeless”. All this category analyzed different aspect of our society., that we mostly ignore … MATTER of indifference! That is way I think they can all be classified as “evicted identity”; however I chose to stick as much as possible to my original project.
AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ON HOMELESS.
I didn’t want to present them in a pathetic way…trying to sympathised with them…I think that, in general, it s not about pity but about understanding … to work on our society to make life better for everyone. We all deserve it.
I choose to catch people attention in a different way, maybe irritating them, but still making them thinking. Starting from a carton box, that is the closest association to the word “house” for an homeless person, I designed an cut-out home that can be distributed on the street as “a effective homesickness relief”. There’s no need to remark the irony in this statement.
And if you can consider a carton box a house … it can be possible to give away for free flat-pack boxes/houses that can be recycled from homeless to homeless.
I looked carefully at IKEA’s ads’ layout, being IKEA the most famous cheap design furniture seller in Europe and probably all over the world. It’s easy: you go to the store, buy some cheap “stuff” , bring it home and built it up. Or in this case … you take a carton box, unfolded it, put on the pavement and … here it is your brand new home!!! Irony again.
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